Cosmology and fundamental physics with current and future
ESO facilities
3rd Azores School on Observational Cosmology
5th Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences
27 August - 02 September 2017, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal

Lecturers
The final list of lecturers and the topics they will cover is as follows:

Elisabetta Caffau (Paris): BBN, Population III stars
Massimo Dall'Ora (Napoli): H0 and age of the universe, Cosmic distance ladder
Paulo Freire (Bonn): Strong gravity tests
Bruno Leibundgut (ESO): Supernovas as cosmology probes
Joe Liske (Hamburg): Galaxy evolution, Redshift drift
Carlos Martins (Porto): Theoretical context
Paolo Molaro (Trieste): Cosmology with Damped Lyman-alpha galaxies
Paolo Padovani (ESO): ESO facilities, The ELT
Laura Pentericci (Roma): End of dark ages, reionization
Matteo Viel (Trieste): IGM tomography & galaxy formation, Dark matter and neutrinos
John Webb (UNSW/Cambridge): Stability of fundamental constants

The hands-on tutorials will focus on the cycle of an ESO observation proposal, including observation preparation, proposal writing, and subsequent data analysis. The specific scientific topics covered will be announced soon.