CHEOPS Science Team Meeting #36 & CHEOPS/PLATO Synergy Meeting


CHEOPS Science Team Meeting

The CHEOPS Science Team Meeting will begin on Tuesday, 30 September 2025, around noon, and end on Thursday, 2 October 2025, around noon.

In the evening of Tuesday, 30 September 2025, Prof. Didier Queloz will give a public lecture, organized by the IWF at the Graz University of Technology. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The social dinner will take place on Wednesday, 1 October 2025, location TBD.

Contact: Luca Fossati


CHEOPS/PLATO Synergy Meeting

The CHEOPS/PLATO Synergy Meeting will begin on Thursday, 2 October 2025, after the end of the CHEOPS Science Team Meeting and end on Friday, 3 October 2025, in the early afternoon (exact time TBD).

Contact: Ludmila Carone

 

Program CHEOPS/PLATO Synergy Meeting

 

The agenda of both meetings will be announced closer to the meeting.

Both meetings will enable online attendance.

Eduroam and a guest WLAN are available.

 

Transport and Accomodation

The institute is located in the south of Graz and can be reached from the city center easily by public transport in about 20-25 minutes.
- tram 4 and bus 75
- tram 6 and bus 72

From the airport of Graz, the institute or hotels can be reached via both public transport (train/bus) or taxi (about € 30).

Graz is also reachable directly from Vienna airport in about 2.5 hours via bus or train.

Vienna and/or Graz are connected with several European countries (e.g. Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic) via night trains.

For those of you coming by car, free car parking space is available at the institute.

There is a number of hotels available in the center of Graz, please refer to your usual booking sources.
 

Public Transportation Planner for Graz

Graz Tourismus

 

Code of Conduct

All participants are requested to follow these guidelines:

  • All participants are expected to behave professionally and to be respectful – critique ideas not people.
  • All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience taking into account the many different backgrounds and perspectives of the participants.
  • Participants may share the contents of talks/slides via social media unless speakers have asked that specific details/slides not be shared. If participants wish to share photos of a speaker on social media, it is strongly recommended that they first get the speaker’s permission.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences does not tolerate unprofessional or inappropriate behaviour or statements. This includes but isn’t limited to: sustained disruption of talks, comments related to individual characteristics, background or identity, and photography or recording of an individual without consent.

Meeting organisers and chairs bear a particular responsibility in ensuring that the code of conduct is followed.

  • The Local Organising Committee members are designated as the contact points for all matters related to this code. Participants can report any violation of these guidelines to these designates in confidence.
  • Should a participant witness behaviour they suspect may be unprofessional or inappropriate, it is recommended that they approach the affected person as soon as possible to support and help them. The witness can encourage the affected person to report the unprofessional or inappropriate behaviour but should be guided by that person on their preferred course of action.
  • Anyone requested to stop inappropriate behaviour is expected to comply immediately. In serious cases, a participant may be asked to leave the event or, in the case of online participation, the removal of meeting credentials.
  • In the case where the unprofessional or inappropriate behaviour involves an IWF staff member, the Human Resources Department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences may be contacted for further guidance on the applicable policies and means of action.

Acknowledgments: This code of conduct has been adapted from the London Code of Conduct (by A. Pontzen and H. Peiris), which was derived from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse. To help track people's improvements and best practice, please retain this acknowledgement, and log your re-use or modification of this policy at: 
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