# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fredagskollokvium: Jarle Brinchmann, Director of Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 11:15 am
- **Event Description**: Title: 
«The European Southern Observatories – enabling science now, soon and in the future»

Abstract:
The European Southern Observatories (ESO) have been a cornerstone of European astronomy for more than five decades and is today the leading ground-based observatory on the planet. It manages the Paranal and La Silla observatories and is the European partner in the ALMA observatory, and in a few years the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will become operational also in the Paranal region.

In this talk, I will give a brief overview of where ESO is today, some examples of the high-impact science it now enables. I will then turn to look at the near future, with a particular emphasis on the 39m Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) which will be the worlds largest optical telescope by some margin when it is completed in 2030. I will report on the current status, instrumentation and the scientific aims. I will close with a look at the future beyond the ELT and ESO’s Expanding Horizons process which aims to identify the major ESO programme in the 2040s.

Image Credits: A. Trigo/ESO
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About the Speaker: Jarle Brinchmann is Director of Science of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). He manages all the scientific aspects of the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe
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Venue: Peisestua (room 304), Svein Rosselands hus (https://www.uio.no/om/finn-fram/omrader/blindern/bl26/)

**All are welcome to join!**

More upcoming seminars:
https://www.mn.uio.no/astro/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/gjesteforelesninger-seminarer/fredagskollokvium/2026/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oslo/fredagskollokvium-jarle-brinchmann-director-of-science-european-southern-observatory-eso/200029783430506
- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Oslo
- **state**: OS
- **country**: Norway
- **location**: Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo
- **lat**: 59.95008
- **long**: 10.73456
- **full address**: Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Sognsveien 77B, 0855 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, Norway

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Fredagskollokvium: Jarle Brinchmann, Director of Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO) being held?
  - **A:** Fredagskollokvium: Jarle Brinchmann, Director of Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO) takes place on Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 11:15 am to Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 11:15 am at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Sognsveien 77B, 0855 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, Norway.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Fredagskollokvium: Jarle Brinchmann, Director of Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO)?
  - **A:** Fredagskollokvium: Jarle Brinchmann, Director of Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO) is organized by Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

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