OPTICON

Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy

Board Meeting 1-2 April 2004, Ghent, Belgium

Meeting Minutes

The presentations from the Board Meeting are available as PDF files:

  • EC FP6 OPTICON Contract Info (T Moschopoulous)
  • Joint Research Activities
  • JRA1: Adaptive Optics (N Hubin)

    JRA2: Fast Optical Detectors for AO (P Feautrier)

    JRA3: Fast Detectors for Astronomy (S Wagner)

    JRA4: Interferometry (A Chelli)

    JRA5: Smart Focal Planes (C Cunningham)

    JRA6: VPH Gratings (F Zerbi)

  • Networking Activites
  • N1: Management Report

    N2: ENO (J Burgos)

    N3: Structuring Activities

    • ELT Design Study Status Report (P Dierickx)
    • N3.1 ELT Project Science (I Hook)
    • N3.2 NUVA (A Castro de Gomez)
    • N3.5 Key Technologies (C Cunningham)

    N4: Synergy (J-L Puget/P Benvenuti)

    N5: Interferometry

    N6: Telescope Directors Network

    • N6.2 Trans-national Access Office (J Burgos)
    • N6.3 Enhancing Research

    OPTICON Home

    • Objectives
    • Contractors
    • Summary of Activities
    • Mid Term Review of Activities - September 2007
    • Management structure
    • Meetings and Conferences
    • People to contact
    • Downloads, logos, handouts
    • Claiming travel expenses
    • Original FP5 pages
    • OPTICON Publications
    • Presentations
    • EU FP6 and FP7 pages
    • Other FP6 links
    • OPTICON FAQs

    Networking Activities

    • Coordination of ENO Facilities
    • Structuring European Astronomy
    • Extremely Large Telescopes
    • Ultra-Violet Astronomy Network
    • High Time Resolution Astrophysics
    • Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
    • Key Technologies
    • Future Astronomical Software Environments
    • Synergy in Space-Ground Coordination
    • Interferometry Forum
    • Telescope Network

    Transnational Access

    • The OPTICON Access Programme

    Joint Research Activities

    • Second generation AO for 8-10m telecopes
    • Fast Optical Detectors for AO
    • Fast readout High Performance Optical Detectors
    • Integrating Optical Interferometry
    • Smart Focal Planes
    • Volume Phase Holographic Gratings

    The Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy (OPTICON) comprises 47 international contractors working together towards further integration of European astronomy. OPTICON is funded by the European Commissions 6th Framework programme under contract number RII3-Ct-2004-001566.