Meetings and Conferences

Here we have some key OPTICON meetings. Click on them to see copies of the Agenda, Minutes, etc. For historical 2004 to 2006 FP6 meetings please visit this page: Meetings 2004 to 2006.

 

Dates Activity Information/Agenda/Minutes
2009 (FP7)    
9 July 09 WP1 AO Systems Progress Meeting, Garching Meeting Agenda. Contact N Hubin
19 - 20 February 09 Neon/OPTICON, ESO-Garching Preliminary Agenda and Contacts
19 - 24 April 09 JENAM 2009, University of Hertfordshire, UK

JENAM website

OPTICON will present an overview of its FP6 achievements and its plans for FP7. Contact John Davies. See presentations (PPT and PDF format) here.

21 April 2009 Telescope Directors Forum at JENAM 2009, Herfordshire Contact John Davies
26 - 28 May 2009 European ELT : Workshop on the Design Reference Mission and Science Plan, ESO, Garching First Announcement
1-3 September 2009 AstroPhotonica Europa FP7 Kickoff workshop (FP7 WP3), Durham University

Contact: Dr Jeremy Allington-Smith

2008    
9 January 08 OPTICON Executive Meeting #9, Munich Minutes
10 - 11 March 08 EII (including NA5/JRA4) Meeting, CAUP, Porto Website: http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/euinterf/
17 June 08 Telescope Directors Splinter Meeting at the Astronet Roadmap conference, Liverpool. Notes from TDF meeting
23 - 28 June 08 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008 conference, Marseille SPIE website
1 - 2 July 08 "Towards the Next Generation of Astronomical IR Detectors" Workshop

Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Workshop Details

2 July 08 OPTICON Executive meeting #10, Paris Minutes
3 September 08 OPTICON Telescope Directors Forum, Schiphol, Amsterdam Minutes
8-12 September 2008 JENAM 2008, Vienna Workshop Details
10 - 11 November 08 OPTICON Board Meeting #6, Porto, Portugal Contact Suzanne Howard. Agenda. Minutes and Presentations
14 November N3.5 KTN meeting, Edinburgh Contact: Dave Melotte. See OPTICON Technology Roadmap Report.
4-5 December N3.5 KTN meeting, Italy Contact Adam woodcraft . Workshop Second Announcement
2007    
23 - 25 January 07 ASTRONET Symposium: A Science Vision for European Astronomy in the next 15 - 20 years Palais des Congrès, Futuroscope de Poitiers (France). Pre-registration by 5 December 2006 please. Further information can be found here.
5 - 6 February 2007 EII (including N5/JRA4) Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany Contact Uwe Graser
5 March 2007 OPTICON Executive Meeting #8, Venice, Italy Minutes
28 March 2007

OPTICON Smart Focal Plane Plans for FP7 Meeting, Leiden

Contact C Norrie
May 07 "Space Astronomy: the UV window to astrophysics" Conference, Madrid, Spain (dedicated to Dr. Willem Wamsteker) Contacts and meeting details available as Word document here
June 21 - 22 2007 N6.3 Enhancement Meeting. Bucharest Minutes
June 25-29 2007 Euro-VO Workshop on "How to Publish Data in the VO", ESAC, Villafranca http://esavo.esac.esa.int/EuroVOWorkshopJune2007/registration.html
20 -24 August 2007 JENAM Meting. Yerevan, Armenia http://www.aras.am/JENAM-2007/
20 -24 August 2007 Europlanet Meeting, Potsdam, Germany http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2007/index.html
10 - 11 September 2007 OPTICON Board Meeting #5 and Mid term review, Corfu See webpage
11-13 September 2007 HTRA Conference, ROE, Edinburgh

Contact Don Phelan

HTRA poster (JPG file) and http://www.htra.ie/

1 - 5 October 07

RADIONET Meeting: FROM PLANETS TO DARK ENERGY: The Modern Radio Universe, University of Manchester, UK

Webpage: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/mru2007/

Email enquires: mru2007 @ jb.man.ac.uk

3 October 07 Telescope Directors' Forum Meeting, Athens, Greece Contact John Davies. Minutes.
6 November 07 JRA2 FP6 meeting, ESO, Garching Agenda
7 November 07 OPTICON Detector JRA FP7 Preparation Meeting, ESO, Garching Agenda

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