From naw@ing.iac.es Mon Mar 5 17:25:01 2001 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:07:59 +0000 (WET) From: Nicholas A Walton To: Instrumentation Working Group -- Gavin Dalton , Konrad Kuijken , Nicholas A Walton , Phil A. James , Ramon Garcia Lopez , Richard McMahon , Simon Green , Steve Rawlings , Tom Marsh , Vik Dhillon at Sheffield Subject: Agenda for Mon 12 March 2001 meeting Subject: Next IWG meeting: Mon 23 Oct 2000 - Updated Agenda Version 4 Mar 2001 Dear All, to remind you that the IWG is on Mon 12 Mar 2001, 10.00 - 17.00 at the Kapteyn Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Groningen. The RUG WWW site (www.astro.rug.nl) has a how to get there page at http://www.astro.rug.nl/Wegwijzer_english.html. When you get there (go to the 1st floor of the Zernike Gebouw) ask for Konrad Kuijken. The meeting will be in room 292 on the second floor, close to Konrad's room. An OHP and digital projector are available for use. Konrad, Richard, Ramon, Simon, Vik and myself are confirmed as attendees. Phil James will also be at the meeting, he being one of the new IWG members. Steve Rawlings and Tom Marsh will come onto the IWG in the Autumn of 2001, so I am copying this info to them as well for information. Key issues to discuss at this meeting will be the instrumentation suite at the WHT, especially in the light of the UK/ESO situation. Please note that the IWG minutes etc can be found on-line at http://zwolle.ing-slo.iac.es/IWG/Meetings/ Please look here for the minutes from last meeting and current action list. Hope to see you all next week. All the best, Nic ----------------- agenda is ------------------- IWG - Monday March 12 2001: (10.00-17.00) ------------------------------------------- Location: Kapteyn Institute Department of Astronomy University of Groningen, NL Members: Richard McMahon Chair rgm@ast.cam.ac.uk Simon Green S.F.Green@open.ac.uk Vik Dhillon Vik.Dhillon@sheffield.ac.uk Ramon Garcia Lopez rgl@ll.iac.es Gavin Dalton gbd@astro.ox.ac.uk Koen Kuijken kuijken@astro.rug.nl Phil James paj@astro.livjm.ac.uk (from 3/2001) Tom Marsh trm@astro.soton.ac.uk (from 10/2001) Steve Rawlings sr@astro.ox.ac.uk (from 10/2001) Nic Walton Secretary naw@ing.iac.es Proposed Agenda: 1. Introduction: welcome 2. Matters arising from meeting of Oct 23 2000: accept the minutes 2.1 Actions 3. Future Instrumentation needs for the ING 3.1 Instrument rationalisation - responding to the UK/ESO future 3.2 The need for IR capability at the WHT 3.3 The development of wide field spectroscopy 4. Community Input: addressing the best way to match the ING's strategic instrumentation development to community need. 5. Update on the AO instrumentation at the ING 5.1 NAOMI: results from the recent commissioning runs 5.2 OASIS: project now underway, commissioning at WHT planned for end 2002, offer to community from Semester 03A 5.3 Coronograph: design is now underway - update 5.4 MOSIAC and Rayleigh Lasers 6. Update on wide field spectroscopy 6.1 Small fibres for AF2: will be commissioned summer 2001 7. Operational Modes and Data Flow 7.1 Queue Scheduling for Adaptive Optics Observations 7.2 The ING Data Flow - quicklook and imaging pipelines now running on a Gigawulf cluster 7.3 RoboDIMM - realtime seeing and transparency data 8. Developing the JKT to support the study of Near Earth Objects as recommended in the recent UK Government report ( see http://www.nearearthobjects.co.uk/ ) 9. NL instrumentation developments of interest to the IWG [KK] 10. E instrumentation developments of interest to the IWG [RGL] 11. Any Other Business Appendix A: Current Action list online at: http://zwolle.ing-slo.iac.es/IWG/Meetings/Internal/iwg-3-2001/actions.3-2001 Appendix B: Draft Minutes of Last Meeting: Oxford, 23 Oct 2000 at: http://zwolle.ing-slo.iac.es/IWG/Meetings/Internal/iwg-10-2000/iwg.minutes.10-2000.txt -- ======================================================================== Dr N. A. Walton (ING Instrumentation Scientist) Tel: +34 922 405637 (mountain) Isaac Newton Group Tel: +34 922 425440 (sea level office) Apartado 321 FAX: +34 922 405646 (mountain - INT) 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma FAX: +34 922 425401 (sea level office) The Canary Islands, SPAIN WWW: http://zwolle.ing-slo.iac.es/ email: naw@ing.iac.es ========================================================================