OPTICON

Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy

Board Meeting #2, 11 - 12 October, Grenoble, France

Meeting Minutes

Click on the picture thumbnail to enlarge it.

G Gilmore addresses Board

The presentations and reports from the Board Meeting are available below as PPT and PDF files:

  • European Commission presentation - P Moschopoulos (PPT)
  • Coordinator's Report - G Gilmore (PPT)
  • Project Scientist's Presentation - J Davies (PPT)
    • Project Scientist's Report (PDF)
    • Project Scientist's Report Annex (PDF)

  • ELT Design Study presentation - G Monnet (PPT)
  • ILIAS presentation - J Seiradakis(PPT)
  • RadioNet (I3 for Radio Astronomy) presentation - A Gunn (PPT)
  • Access Programme Overview- J Davies (PDF)
  • Access Programme Report (PDF)
  • Access Programme Provision Results Oct 2004 (PDF)
  • Network 3.5 Key Technology presentation - C Cunningham (PPT)
  • JRA Reports (PDF)

    JRA1 report

    JRA2 report

    JRA3 report

    JRA4 report

    JRA5 report

    JRA6 report

    JRA6 Technical report

    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.