FIRST STAR WORKSHOP

The first workshop of the STAR Institute took place on 15 September 2017 in ULiege Hautes-Fagnes Station (Mont Rigi).

09:30 - Welcome / Mini General Assembly of the STAR institute (D. Grodent)

Session 1: Stellar physics

Chairperson: A. Noels

• 09:50 - Asteroseismology + PLATO (M. Godart)
• 10:05 - NANESSE (S. Salmon)
• 10:15 - Massive stars + HRT, GAIA (L. Mahy)

10:30 - Coffee break

Session 2: Planetology and exoplanetology                       

Chairperson: J.-C. Gérard

• 11:00 - Solar system planets (I) (B. Bonfond)
• 11:15 - Solar system planets (II) (B. Palmaerts)
• 11:30 - Comets and little bodies of the solar system (E. Jehin)
• 11:45 - Exoplanetary transits: TRAPPIST, SPECULOOS (M. Gillon)

12:00 – Lunch and walk in Hautes-Fagnes. If appropriate weather: observation of the Sun with E. Jehin’s telescopes

Session 3: Instrumentation                                    

Chairperson: N. Grevesse

• 15:00 - Presentation of the different laboratories of CSL

1. M. Georges
2. E. Graas
3. J.-Y. Plesseria
4. K. Fleury
5. A. Orban
6. Y. Stockman

• 16:00 - Review Prodex projects (S. Habraken)
• 16:10 - Cubesats (R. Desselle)
• 16:20 - NIR ground-based instrumentation (C. Kintziger)
• 16:30 - Coronagraphy & Interferometry (D. Defrère)

Session 4: Cosmology

Chairperson: J. Cugnon 

• 16:40 - Cosmic rays and neutrinos (A. Bhattacharya)
• 16:50 - Einstein telescope (J.-R. Cudell)
• 17:00 - Dark matter (M. Laletin)
• 17:10 - Quasars, lenses (D. Sluse)