| Tuesday, 1th December | |||
| 08:30 | 9:30 | Registration | |
| Session I. Galactic Surveys: Progress Status, Chair Grazina Tautvaisiene | |||
| 09:30 | 9:40 | Opening of the Conference | |
| 09:40 | 10:30 | Gaia-ESO Survey progress update | G. Gilmore & S. Randich |
| 10:30 | 11:10 | IT* Gaia Mission Status | T. Prusti |
| 11:10 | 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | 12:20 | IT* Mapping the Milky Way with the IPHAS, UVEX, and VPHAS+ surveys | A. Drew |
| 12:20 | 13:00 | IT* Overview of APOGEE results | C. A. Prieto |
| 13:00 | 14:30 | Lunch | |
| Session II. Galactic Halo, Discs, and Bulge, Chair Georges Kordopatis | |||
| 14:30 | 15:10 | IT* Comparing Dwarf Galaxy stellar abundances with those in the Milky Way Halo | E. Tolstoy |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Contribution of GC stars to the Milky Way halo: looking for second generation-like stars | A. Bragaglia |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Dynamical Models of the Stellar Halo | A. Williams |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | Chemical imprints of the Galctic disc formation | R. Ženovienė |
| 16:10 | 16:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:40 | 17:00 | Is the alpha-enhancement a synonymous of old age? The perspective of open clusters | L. Magrini |
| 17:00 | 17:20 | Metal-poor stars towards the Galactic bulge | A. Koch |
| 17:20 | 17:40 | The OCCASO Survey | L. Casamiquela |
| 17:40 | 18:00 | The New Milky Way Bar and Peanut Bulge | O. Gerhard |
| 18:00 | 18:20 | Kinematics, metallicity distributions and alpha element abundances in the Galactic bulge from GES iDR4 data | A. Rojas-Arriagada |
| 18:40 | 19:30 | Outreach programme at Planetarium | |
| 19:30 | Poster viewing and RECEPTION | ||
| Wednesday, 2th December | |||
| Session III. Chemodynamical modelling, Chair Andreas Korn | |||
| 09:30 | 10:10 | IT* Modelling of the Milky Way using massive stellar surveys | J. Binney |
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Abundance Ratios and the Chemodynamical Evolution of the Milky Way Disc | A. Just |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | The Milky Way disc formation and evolution from population synthesis | A.C. Robin |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Chemo-dynamical modelling of APOGEE | J. L. Sanders |
| 11:10 | 11:30 | Constraining the IMF with chemodynamical MW-models | J. Rybizki |
| 11:40 | Departure to the Vilnius University (VU) | ||
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch at VU | |
| 13:00 | 14:30 | Excursion at VU | |
| 14:30 | Departure to BestWestern | ||
| 15:00 | 16:30 | Parralel sessions WG10,11,12,14 (BestWestern) | |
| 15:00 | 19:00 | Workshop (BestWestern) | |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 | 19:00 | Internal GES meeting | |
| 19:00 | GES steering committee meeting | ||
| Thursday, 3rd December | |||
| Session IV. Kinematics and dynamics of stellar populations, Chair Antonella Vallenari | |||
| 10:00 | 10:40 | IT* N-body models of GES young clusters: a clue for understanding the cradle of stars | M. Mapelli |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | The mass-independent dynamics of stars in the young open cluster NGC 2516 | R.D. Jeffries |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Massive-star clusters in the GES | R. Blomme |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | The structure of Trumpler 14 and 16 in the Carina Nebula. | F.Damiani |
| 11:40 | 12:10 | Coffee break | |
| 12:10 | 12:30 | Structure and dynamics of the young cluster NGC 2264 | G.G. Sacco |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Looking for phase-space structures in star-forming regions: An MST-based methodology | M. González |
| 12:50 | 13:10 | Climbing the cosmic distance ladder with stellar twins | P. Jofre |
| 13:10 | 13:30 | A new dynamical framework of the Besancon galaxy model in the era of large spectroscopic surveys | J. G. Fernandez-Trincado |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Lunch | |
| Session V. Stellar evolution, Chair Rodolfo Smiljanic | |||
| 15:00 | 15:40 | IT* Models of red giants in the CoRoT asteroseismology fields combining asteroseismic and spectroscopic constraints | N. Lagarde |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Exploring the Chemical Evolution of Globular Clusters and their Stars | P. Gruyters |
| 16:00 | 16:20 | The peculiar globular cluster NGC 1851: high-resolution spectroscopy of 45 red giants | G. Tautvaišienė |
| 16:20 | 16:50 | Coffee break | |
| 16:50 | 17:30 | IT* Rotation and activity evolution of stars | A. Lanzafame |
| 17:30 | 17:50 | Lithium evolution from Pre-Main Sequence to the Spite plateau: an environmental solution to the cosmological lithium problem | X. Fu |
| 17:50 | 18:10 | Chromospherically active field stars | M. Zerjal |
| 19:00 | Departure for Conference Dinner | ||
| Friday, 4th December | |||
| Session VI. Analysis methods and technology, Chair Elena Franciosini | |||
| 09:30 | 10:10 | IT* Overview of ESO spectroscopic infrastructure development plans | L. Pasquini |
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Large surveys of Galactic populations with the new WEAVE facility | V. Hill |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | The Gaia-ESO Survey: the selection function of the Milky Way field stars | E. Stonkutė |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Filling in the Benchmark Gap: Metal-poor Gaia Benchmark stars | K. Hawkins |
| 11:10 | 11:40 | Coffee break | |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | How different radiative transfer codes can impact the determination of stellar atmospheric parameters? | S. Blanco-Cuaresma |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Diffuse Interstellar Bands: The Progress and Importance of the Gaia-ESO Survey | J. Kos |
| 12:20 | 12:40 | Exploring peculiar morphologies using t-SNE reduction of spectral information | G. Traven |
| 12:40 | 12:50 | Closing of the Conference | G. Tautvaišienė & Š. Mikolaitis |
| 14:00 | Guided walking tour in Vilnius (additional registration will be undertaken on Dec 1) | ||
| Wednesday, 2th December | |||
| Parallel sessions | |||
| WG10 meeting programme (preliminary) | |||
| 15:00 | 15:40 | Spectroscopic analysis of Giraffe FGK stars | A. Recio-Blanco |
| 15:40 | 16:30 | Discussion | |
| WG11 meeting programme (preliminary) | |||
| 15:00 | 15:40 | Ensemble measurements from iDR4 UVES data | A. Casey |
| 15:40 | 16:30 | Discussion | |
| 15:00 | 16:30 | WG12 meeting programme (preliminary) | |
| Discussion | |||
| 15:00 | 16:30 | WG14 meeting programme | |
| WG14 data analysis | |||
| Follow-up observations | |||
| Strange birds | |||
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