The next PLATO Stellar Science Conference will be held at the University of Liège, in Liège, Belgium on 24-26 of August 2026, following the IAUS408.

The PLATO Stellar Science Conference 2026 is part of a series of meetings meant to bring together the community as a whole, to ensure that we have all the tools in hand to optimise the scientific return of the PLATO mission, and exploit its data to its fullest potential. Being the last PLATO Stellar Science Conference before launch, coming at an exciting time for the mission, this meeting will benefit from all ideas that the community may have to offer, and especially from the experience gathered thanks to CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS. Key topics to be discussed include:

• Stellar science goals within reach thanks to PLATO;
• Advances in the precise and accurate characterization of stars, as well as their internal properties;
• Recent improvements in the physical description of the stellar models (transport processes, chemical abundances, …) thanks to which PLATO data will be exploited;
• State of the art of data analysis techniques for PLATO, whether it be for asteroseismology or long-term variability of stellar light curves;
• Synergies with galactic archaeology, exoplanet characterisation, large spectroscopic surveys, etc.;
• And more!

Please save the date!

WHEN

From 24 to 25 August 2026.

WHERE 

• University of Liège (Belgium), Campus of Liège centre-ville, located at the heart of the Cité Ardente, place du 20-août

SHORT LINKS

• Meeting’s webpage
• Registration (opens from 15 Mar 2026 to 31 May 2026. No registration fees but participation is limited to 120 people)
• Venue

SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• Marc-Antoine Dupret
• Valérie Van Grootel
• Gaël Buldgen
• Rhita-Maria Ouazzani
• Kevin Belkacem
• Jordan Philidet
• Bill Chaplin
• Margarida Cunha
• Andrea Miglio
• Benoît Mosser
• Nuccio Lanza
• Thierry Morel
• Ana Palacios
• Jérôme Ballot

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• Marc-Antoine Dupret
• Valérie Van Grootel
• Gaël Buldgen