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Welcome!

The 17th Gaia Science Alerts workshop and the ACME Time-Domain Workshop will take place in Frejus, France, and online 31 Aug - 4 Sep 2026

The main topics:

• Eleven Years of Gaia Science Alerts: overview, statistics and major discoveries.

• Lessons Learned from Alerts from Space: operational experience and alert detection pipelines.

• Future Space Transient Missions: SVOM, UltraSAT, PhotSAT, Einstein Probe, Roman, PLATO, Ariel.

• Preparing for the LSST Era: alert streams, brokers, filtering and follow-up coordination.

• Follow-up Infrastructure and Telescope Networks: robotic networks and global follow-up systems.

• BHTOM System: platform for coordinated follow-up and time-domain data management.

• Citizen Science and Amateur Astronomy: small telescope contributions and EASST observing campaigns.

• Alert Brokers and Machine Learning: real-time alert processing, classification and filtering.

• Multi-Messenger Astronomy: counterparts to gravitational waves, neutrinos and gamma-ray bursts.

• Solar System Alerts: detection and follow-up of asteroids, comets and moving objects.

• Rare and Exotic Transients: tidal disruption events, luminous red novae and other unusual phenomena.

• Legacy and Archival Science: long-term value of the Gaia Alerts dataset for variability and ML training.

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• Agenda

• Participants

• Logistical information

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Important dates

Early bird deadline: June 13, 2026

Registration deadline: July 7, 2026

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Workshop Organising Committee

Workshop Organising Committee:

• Łukasz Wyrzykowski (OAUW, NCBJ, EASST, Warsaw)
• Stephane Basa (LAM, Marseille)
• Michel Dennefeld (IAP, Paris)
• Fraser Gillan (NCBJ, Warsaw)
• Priscila Pessi (NCBJ, Warsaw)
• Simon Hodgkin (IoA, Cambridge)
• Justyna Olszewska (UAM, Poznan)

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or of the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The ACME project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101131928.

Send enquiries to gaia.alerts2026@gmail.com

Sponsors

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  ACME

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  BHTOM

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  University of Warsaw

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  NCBJ

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  LAM

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  REI