8m Users Group meeting - Wednesday Oct 10 2007
LOCATION: Oxford, Keble Road, Denys Wilkinson Building, OX1 3RH
How to find us
Minutes
The minutes of this meeting are available as PDF file.
Supportive Material
Guidelines for OPC panel chairs
Guidelines for ESO-OPC procedure with Large Programmes
Guidelines for writing OPC feedback comments
Agenda for the 18-20 October 2007 meeting of the AURA Oversight Council for
Gemini/Gemini Science Committee
ESO Users Commitee
Gemini Operations update
AGENDA:
10:00 Welcome + coffee
The UK 8m Users Group
- Role within
the community, and status in relation to e.g. STFC
- Membership:
core / open to all?
- Location and
timing of meetings
Gemini
- Report from
Gemini Operations (Ilona Soechting)
- Report from
Gemini Science Committee (Simon Morris)
ESO
- Report from
ESO OPC (Simon Morris)
- Report from
ESO Users Committee (Jacco van Loon)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Future
- 2nd generation
Gemini instrumentation
- 3rd generation
VLT/VLTI instrumentation
Non-8m telescopes
- ELT(s)
- smaller telescopes, including e.g. VISTA,
AAT, WHT
- other groundbased and spaceborne facilities
Any other business
Science highlights
Science goals and the STFC Roadmap
16:00 Closing