Report on the ''2017 ESO Calibration Workshop: The Second-Generation VLT Instruments and Friends''

The participants — from ESO Headquarters in Garching and from the Chile sites, from various institutes in Europe, from Gemini Observatory, Las Campanas Observatory, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC), the Center for Astronomy in Harvard, USA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, USA — listened to presentations grouped in sessions organised around a central theme. Most of the sessions included: (i) a talk describing an ESO instrument, its calibration plan and issues affecting the Alain Smette1 Florian Kerber1 Andreas Kaufer1