ESA/ESO Working Groups

Following an agreement to cooperate on science planning issues, the executives of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) Science Programme and representatives of their science advisory structures have met to share information and to identify potential synergies within their future projects. The agreement arose from their joint founding membership of EIROforum (http://www.eiroforum.org) and a recognition that, as pan-European organisations, they served essentially the same scientific community.

At a meeting at ESO in Garching during September 2003, it was agreed to establish a number of working groups that would be tasked to explore these synergies in important areas of mutual interest and to make recommendations to both organisations.

The following working groups have been established so far:

• Galactic Populations, Chemistry and Dynamics (chair: Catherine Turon, co-chair: Francesca Primas)
• Extrasolar Planets (chair: Michael Perryman, co-chair: Olivier Hainaut)
• The Herschel-ALMA Synergies (chair: Tom Wilson, co-chair: David Elbaz)
• Fundamental Cosmology (chair: John Peacock, co-chair: Peter Schneider)

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