Meeting to discuss EC FP7 funding for Optical and Infrared Astronomy: Joint Research Projects for technology development, Network activities and Trans-National Access to telescopes

 

Date: 22 and 23 June 2006

 

Venue: UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

 

 

Agenda

The meeting held at the UKATC Edinburgh over 22 - 23 June was chaired by Wilf Boland. A detailed Agenda can be found here.

Attendees

The list of the meeting attendees and their contact details is available here as Word doc: FP7 meeting attendees list

Presentations

The presentations given at the meeting are available below as PPT files (you can download them all as a ZIP file here):

OPTICON AIMS for FP7 - W Boland

Status and achievements of Opticon FP6 (+FP5) - G Gilmore

Research Infrastructures: Towards FP7 - M Carvalho-Dias

ESFRI and the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures - E Righi-Steele

Developing a Science Vision for European Astronomy - T de Zeeuw

Technology Roadmap for Optical and IR Astronomy - C Cunningham

A global approach to ELT instrument developments - J-G Cuby

Proposal for a European Adaptive Optics Program to be funded in the frame of FP7 - N Hubin

Fast detectors (for E-ELT AO) - P Feautrier

Interferometry: FP6 & FP7 - A Chelli/A Quirrenbach

High-Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) in FP7 - T Marsh

Solar Physics within OPTICON - O vd Luhe

Proposed Joint Research Activity: Technologies for Advanced Instrumentation - C Cunningham

New Materials and Processes for Astronomical Instrumentation - F Zerbi

Hardware Developments for Fast Control Systems - L Rodriguez

Lucky Aperture Synthesis: High Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy in the Visible - C Mackay

The Role of an Access Programme: Lessons for FP7 - B Nordstrom

OPTICON Telescope Access - R Rutten

Atmospheric Optics and Astronomy - Concepts, techniques and technologies - J Burgos

FP7 Networking Plans - J Davies

Enhancement  activity - M Dennefeld

Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe - L Gurvits

Euro-VO - A Lawrence

European Antarctic Astronomy Experience from ARENA - N Epchtein

EUROPLANET: Coordinated Ground-based and Spacecraft Observation activity - TH Oswald

 

 

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