Although the name 'fundamental metallicity relation' (FMR) may sound a bit bombastic, it really represents a fundamental relation in the sense of revealing a...
The Future of High Performance Computing for Astrophysicists
With the advent of GPU accelerators the landscape of High Performance Computing has started to change rapidly. While this is in principle good news, the...
The future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy in the next decade
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one of the most successful and prolific projects in the history of Astronomy. In its fifth iteration SDSS-V (2020-2025)...
Gaia - the ESA cornerstone astrometric mission - was launched in December 2013, with the goal of censing the Milky Way population in a 6D space (positions and...
The Gaia-ESO Survey: an overview and first results
In this talk I present an overview of the structure, activity and goalsof the Gaia-ESO survey, a large public spectroscopic survey aimed at investigatingthe...