The WST meetings

Upcoming

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EAS2026 SS024, 29 June - 3 July 2026, Lausanne, Switzerland

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UK WST Workshop, 14-16 December 2026, Cambridge, UK

Past meetings

French WST Workshop, 25–27 March 2026, Nice, France

A WST science meeting dedicated to the French community will be held in Nice

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Chilean WST Workshop, 15–16 December 2025, Santiago, Chile

A WST science meeting dedicated to the Chilean community held in Santiago

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SS7 @ EAS, 23 June 2025, Cork, Ireland

A dedicated Special Session to WST at the European Astronomical Meeting, Cork, Ireland

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Italian WST Workshop, 10-12 March 2025, Naples, Italy

A WST science meeting dedicated to the Italian community held at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte

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Face-to-face Science Meeting, 4-5 March 2025, ESO Garching, Germany

WST Technical Meeting, 15 December 2023, Cranberra, Australia

A technical meeting dedicated to WST at Mount Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia

For more information, please see the link below.

WST Science Meeting, 5-7 December 2023, Sydney, Australia

A science meeting dedicated to WST at Macquarie University in Sydney

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Science with the future WideField Spectroscopic Telescope, May 23-26 2023, Vienna

The first science meeting dedicated to the WST

Take a look at the conference abstract booklet and posters.

Internal meetings

Science online meeting, March 4-5 2026

GLAO Brainstorm Meeting, November 20 2025,  INAF OAA – Florence, Italy

Face-to-face Operations meeting, November 18-19 2025, INAF-IASF – Milan, Italy

Science Detector workshop, October 6–10 2025, Canberra, Australia

Face-to-face science meeting, October 1-2 2025,  EPFL – Lausanne, Switzerland

WST Telescope and Instruments Progress Meeting, June 16-20 2025, ESO Garching, Germany

Face-to-face Science Meeting, 4-5 March 2025, ESO Garching, Germany

WST First Busy Week, October  9-13 2023, Varenna, Italy

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Acronyms

TECHNICAL

WST: Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

FoV: Field-of-View

IFS: Integral Field Spectrograph

IFU: Integral Field Unit

MOS: Multi-Object Spectrograph

MOS-HR: High-resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph

MOS-LR: Low-resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph

ToO: Targets of Opportunity

INSTITUTES & UNIVERSITIES

AIP: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

ANU/Astralis: The Australian National University / Astralis

CRAL/CNRS: Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon / French National Centre for Scientific Research

EPFL: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

ESO: European Southern Observatory

IA/CAUP: Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences / Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto

IASF-MI/INAF: Institute for Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics of Milan / National Institute for Astrophysics

IP2I/CNRS: Institute of Physics of the Two Infinities of Lyon / French National Centre for Scientific Research

IRFU/CEA: Institute for Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

Lagrange/CNRS: Lagrange Laboratory / French National Centre for Scientific Research

LAM/CNRS: Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory / French National Centre for Scientific Research

MAQC/Astralis: Macquarie University / Astralis

NCAC: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

OAArcetri/INAF: Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OABrera/INAF:Brera Astronomical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OACapodimonte/INAF: Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OASBologna/INAF:Bologna Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science / National Institute for Astrophysics

UKRI: UK Research and Innovation

UNIBO: University of Bologna

UNIGRO/NOVA: University of Groningen / The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy

UNISYD: The University of Sydney

UNIVIE: University of Vienna

UWA: The University of Western Australia

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Acronyms

TECHNICAL

WST: Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope

FoV: Field-of-View

IFS: Integral Field Spectrograph

IFU: Integral Field Unit

MOS: Multi-Object Spectrograph

MOS-HR: High-resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph

MOS-LR: Low-resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph

ToO: Targets of Opportunity

INSTITUTES & UNIVERSITIES

AIP: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

ANU/Astralis: The Australian National University / Astralis

CRAL/CNRS: Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon / French National Centre for Scientific Research

EPFL: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

ESO: European Southern Observatory

IA/CAUP: Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences / Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto

IASF-MI/INAF: Institute for Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics of Milan / National Institute for Astrophysics

IP2I/CNRS: Institute of Physics of the Two Infinities of Lyon / French National Centre for Scientific Research

IRFU/CEA: Institute for Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

Lagrange/CNRS: Lagrange Laboratory / French National Centre for Scientific Research

LAM/CNRS: Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory / French National Centre for Scientific Research

MAQC/Astralis: Macquarie University / Astralis

NCAC: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

OAArcetri/INAF: Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OABrera/INAF:Brera Astronomical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OACapodimonte/INAF: Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory / National Institute for Astrophysics

OASBologna/INAF:Bologna Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science / National Institute for Astrophysics

UKRI: UK Research and Innovation

UNIBO: University of Bologna

UNIGRO/NOVA: University of Groningen / The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy

UNISYD: The University of Sydney

UNIVIE: University of Vienna

UWA: The University of Western Australia

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This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action under grant agreement no. 101183153 -WST.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.