International School of Space Science

Space Astrometry For Astrophysics

FUNDAMENTAL ASTRONOMY AND STELLAR SURVEYS

Conceptual Foundations of the Standard Celestial Reference System and Frame

Lecturer: B. Bucciarelli (INAF, Italy)

The Gaia mission

Lecturer: J. de Bruijne (ESA, The Netherlands)

An overview of current spectroscopic surveys

Lecturer: S. BUDER (MPIA)

ASTRONOMICAL METHODOLOGIES

From astrometry to distances and velocities, using Bayesian inference

Lecturer: J. Rybizki (MPIA, Germany)

Data driven approaches to deriving astrophysical parameters and ages

Lecturer: A. Wheeler (Columbia)

Reconstructing the selection function of your sample

Lecturer: J. Rybizki (MPIA, Germany)

GALACTIC DYNAMICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE MILKY WAY

Dynamical modelling techniques

Lecturer: J. Hunt (Toronto University, Canada)

Non-equilibrium signatures of the merging history of the Galaxy

Lecturer: T. Antoja (IEEC-UB, Spain)

Weighing the Galaxy with Gaia

Lecturer: R. Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)

GLOBAL AND DIFFERENTIAL RELATIVISTIC ASTROMETRY

Some basics General Relativity for the beginner How to construct an astronomical reference system

Lecturer: C. Le Poncin-Lafitte (Obs. Paris, Syrte, France)

Global Astrometry in the Relativistic Context

Lecturer: A. Vecchiato (INAF, Italy)

Relativistic astrometric models in comparisons for Gaia

Lecturer: S. Bertone (GSFC/NASA, USA)

Differential Astrometry: Principles and Techniques

Lecturer: B. Bucciarelli (INAF, Italy)

Ray-tracing in Solar System How to solve the null geodesic equations

Lecturer: C. Le Poncin-Lafitte (Obs. Paris, Syrte, France)

CHEMO-KINEMATICS OF THE MILKY WAY

Galactic clusters resolved by Gaia

Lecturer: J. de Bruijne (ESA, The Netherlands)

The kinematics of the Galactic disc(s)

Lecturer: T. Antoja (IEEC-UB, Spain)

Unveiling the dynamical+chemical correlations in the Milky Way

Lecturer: M. Ness (Columbia University, USA)

The Galactic stellar halo

Lecturer: R. Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)

SCIENCE AND PEOPLE

The richness of diversity in the new exploration of the Universe

Lecturer: M. Branchesi (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)