After the welcome speech from Mr Tim De Zeeuw, ESO Director General, the event was structured in two parts:
The project:
- “The EVALSO Project”, Mr Fernando Liello, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Project Coordinator, (presentation)
- “The EVALSO Communication Infrastructure”, Mr Giorgio Filippi, ESO, Project Manager, Ms Sandra Jaque, REUNA (presentation, video1, video2)
- Functional Demonstration with connection to ESO Paranal and ARUB-OCA Observatories
The positioning of EVALSO in the strategic vision of the participants:
- REUNA: Mr José Palacios, REUNA President
- ARUB: Mr Rolf Chini, Director of the Astronomy Institute of the Rühr-Bochüm University (presentation)
- ESO: Mr Massimo Tarenghi, ESO Represantative in Chile (presentation)
- European Commission: Mr Mario Campolargo, Director Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, EC
- Chile: Mr Fernando Schmidt Ariztía, Foreign Office Vice Minister, Chile
The recording of the event is available here.