Wednesday, 24 June 2009 - Friday, 26 June 2009, start: Wednesday, 9:00
Room 408, 2nd floor, IRA Bologna

1) Status of the field (FJL, GB)
 Florencia and Gabriele volonteered to collect some information on the works
  appeared in the last three to five years on BALQSOs, mainly in the optical
  and radio regimes.
 If you have suggestions for papers the two of them should consider, especially
  at different wavelengths, send them a mail or - maybe better - introduce it
  directly at the meeting.

2) Overview and details on ITP results 
- measuring ionisation parameters from ITP-WHT (FJL)
- results from ITP-INT on absorber variation (CB on behalf of JH)
- collaboration with Nahum (CRB)

3) Status of other observing proposals (All)
 Please provide a brief overview of your BAL QSO related proposals

4) Summary of previous radio work, Ph.D. defence (FMM, KHM) 
 Francisco will present his Ph.D. defence talk during the IRA seminar on
  Friday, 2 pm, but could anticipate some of the results before.

5) Plans for Ph.D. (GB, KHM) 
 Gabriele could give an outline of his Ph.D. projects

6) Radio variability of BALQSOs, plans for postdoctoral fellowship (ES, KHM)
 Emma has started a project to look for radio variability in BALQSOs and will
  outline the project to be done during her postdoctoral fellowhip.
 
7) News on Charlie (GB, KHM, FJL)
 Summary of the work on Charlie

8) Publication plan (All)
Here some papers for refereed journals which I expect to be ready until end 
of next year.

Radio papers:

Montenegro et al. (2009): Spectral ageing analysis of the pilot sample
 data taken and analysed, contents almost ready (part of FMM's thesis)
Montenegro et al. (2009): VLBA results
 data taken and analysed, contents almost ready (part of FMM's thesis)
Bruni et al. (2009): Radio flux densities of the bright sample
 data partly taken (Effelsberg) or observations scheduled (VLA)
Salerno et al. (2009): Variability studies of the pilot sample
 data partly taken (VLA) or observations scheduled (Effelsberg,VLA)
Bruni et al. (2010): Spectral ageing analysis of the bright sample
 data partly taken (Effelsberg) or observations scheduled (VLA)
Bruni et al. (2010): VLBI observations of sources from the bright sample
 proposals under review

Optical papers:


9) Long-term plans (All)  
- Statistical aspects of BALQSO selection (RC)
- Optical luminosity function of radio quasars with 3.6 < z < 4.5 (RC)
- Selection of high-z quasars by means of automatic algorithms (RC)



10) Possibilities for external funding? (All)
- National Funding Schemes
- Marie Curie Actions
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Please send me any further suggestion prior to the meeting, so that we can
distribute an updated agenda. This would give everybody more time to think.