OPTICON
Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy
Horizon 2020
- VPHG Workshop - 16th June
- OPTICON RadioNet Pilot (ORP) website online
- OPTICON Horizon 2020 contract extended until 30 June 2021 due to COVID-19 delays
- OPTICON-RADIONET Pilot project approved and started on 1 March 2021
OPTICON H2020 Meetings & Events
Please refer to the table below for H2020 Meetings and Events.
| Dates | Activity | Information/Agenda/Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June-02 July 2021 | EAS Annual Meeting 2021 | Location: On-line |
| 19-26 June 2021 | Virtual OPTICON Archival School Using ESO and ALMA Data | Location: On-line Information: School Webpage |
| 16 June | Tailored Dispersing Elements for Astronomical Optical Spectrograph Workshop | Location: On-line Information: PDF Flyer [PDF/101 KB] |
| 26-29 April 2021 | Workshop on "The future of MOS technologies" as part of the Technology and Innovation WP, and in collaboration with CSIC. | Location: On-line |
| 31 March 2021 | 2-6pm GMT (3-7pm CET) | An online workshop on the "MCIFU: The Multi-Core fiber-fed Integral-Field Unit spectrograph" | Location: On-line Workshop Presentations (External link to Google Drive) |
| 18-22 January 2020 | 11th OPTICON Gaia Science Alerts workshop Event Recordings View the recorded talks, via YouTube, at the links below: Monday 18th Tuesday 19th Wednesday 20th Thursday 21st Friday 22nd |
Location: On-line |
| 5-9 October 2020 | School: High-Angular Resolution Observations from the ground: the hitchhiker’s guide to the PSF | Location: Observatoire Haute Provence Information: School Website Contact: Benoit Neichel |
| Postponed - date to be decided | ||
| 2nd OPTICON Instrumentation School | Location: INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milan, Italy Information: Instrumentation School Website | Application Form Contact: Heidi Korhonen |
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| 29 June - 3 July 2020 | EWASS meeting (held virtually) | Recorded OPTICON and Radionet presentations on training and TNA can be found at the following link: EWASS Talks |
| 22 June 2020, 11:00 (CEST) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 18 May | WP7 progress meeting. | Location: Converted to a zoom meeting hosted bt STFC Information: Closed Technical Meeting Contact: Andrea Bianco |
| 6 May | OPTICON Common TAC Meeting | Location: Held via STFC hosted Zoom conference |
| 20-24 April 2020 | Conference - The Sharpest Eyes on the Sky - A 2020 vision for high angular resolution astronomy | Location: University of Exeter |
| 25 March 2020, 16:00 (CET) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 15 January 2020, 11:00 (CET) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 4 December 2019 | WP1/10 Progress Meeting | Location: Observatoire de Paris Contact: Dr James Osborn |
| 26 November 2019 | Meeting with Radionet to discuss the H2020 pilot (Closed meeting, by invitation only.) | Location: ESO, Garching |
| 19-21 November 2019 | WP5 Additive Manufacturing face to face meeting | Location: IAC, Tenerife. |
| 30 October 2019 | Meeting with Radionet to discuss the H2020 pilot (Closed meeting, by invitation only.) | Location: Amsterdam |
| 29 October 2019 | Common TAC Meeting. (Closed meeting, by invitation only) | Location: Amsterdam |
| 28-30 October 2019 | WaveFront Sensing and Control in the VLT/ELT era | Location: Florence, Italy Info: WFS2019 |
| 27 September 2019, 14:00 (CEST) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 15-29 September 2019 | 2019 NEON Observing School and Hot Topic Conference | Location: Sophia, Bulgaria Information: NEON Observing School Details | Application Form | Hot Topics Conference Contact: Heidi Korhonen |
| 3 Julyl 2019, 11:00 (CEST) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 17-27 June 2019 | OPTICON and ERASMUS+ School Observational Astrophysics: from proposals to publication |
Location: Stará Lesná, Slovak Republic Information: School Details | Application Form Contact: Heidi Korhonen |
| 30-31 May 2019 | Telescope Directors Meeting Meeting Presentations |
Location: ESO, Garching Contact: Prof. G. Gilmore |
| 20-22 May 2019 | WP5 Progress meeting | Location:Konkoly Observatory, Budapest |
| 29-30 April 2019 | Common TAC meeting | Location: Palermo, Italy Contact: John Davies |
| 29 April 2019, 10:00 (CEST) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 25 February 2019, 11:00 (CET) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 20 February 2019 | WP7 Progress meeting | Location: Milan, Italy. Contact: Andrea Bianco |
| 11-12 February 2019 | WP1 and 10 (Adaptive Optics) | Location: Florence, Italy. Contact: Dr James Osborn |
| 12 December 2018, 14:00 (CET) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 27-29 November 2018 | AIM + FAME meetings | Location: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), France Contact: Dr Hermine Schnetler |
| 5-6 November 2018 | Board and Executive meetings Meeting Presentations |
Location: Heraklion, Crete Contact: Gudrun Peabody |
| 30 October 2018 | Common TAC meeting | Location: IAC, La Laguna, Tenerife Contact: John Davies |
| 17 October 2018 | Mid-term review meeting Read the report from this link: Review Report [PDF/125 KB] Meeting Presentations |
Location: Brussels, Belgium Contact: Gudrun Peabody |
| 8-10 October 2018 | 9th OPTICON Gaia Science Alerts Workshop | Location: Vipava, Slovenia Contact:
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| 4 October 2018 14:00 (CEST) | WP6 update telecon (zoom) (Closed Meeting) | Contact: Robert Harris |
| 13 September 2018 (All Day) | WP6 midpoint meeting (Closed Meeting) | Location: Edinburgh |
| 9-22 September 2018 | NEON Observing School 2018 | Location: Asiago, Italy Deadline for applications Friday April 6 |
| 9-14 July 2018 | 9th VLTI Summer School | Location: Lisbon, Portugal Info: http://www.european-interferometry.eu/training/2018-school |
| 25 May 2018 | FAME+ F2F Meeting (Closed Meeting) | Location: Leiden, NL Contact: Michiel Rodenhuis |
| 6-7 May 2018 | Common TAC (Closed Meeting) | Location: Aarhus Denmark Contact: John Davies |
| 17-19 April 2018 | WP5 Kick-off and progress meeting | Location: Eindhoven Contact: Hermine Schnetler |
| 19-23 March 2018 | Week of AO workshops. | Location: Durham UK Info: Workshop Week 2018 |
| 19-20 February 2018 | OPTICON Executive and Strategy Meeting (closed meeting) | Location: Budapest (Konkoly) Contact: Gudrun Peabody |
| 13-14 December 2017 | WP1 and WP10 Kick-off and progress meeting | Location: Paris Contact: Gerard Rousset
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| 6-8 December 2017 | Gaia Science Alerts Workshop 2017 | Location: Warsaw, Poland Info: https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/wikis/gsawgwiki/index.php/Workshop2017:main |
| November 2017 | FAME WP4 F2F | Location: LAM, Marseilles Contact: Michiel Rodenhuis |
| 25 October 2017 | WP14 Common TAC meeting (Closed Meeting) | Location: Konkoly Observatory, Budapest Contact: John Davies |
| 9-11 October 2017 | Workshop on dispersing elements | http://www.brera.inaf.it/DispersingElements2017/ |
| 2-3 October 2017 | Hi-5 kickoff meeting | Location: University of Liège, Belgium |
| 3-17 September 2017 | 2017 NEON Observing School | Location: La Palma, Spain |
| 3-12 July 2017 | WP12 Instrumentation school | Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: Info: http://opticon-schools.nbi.ku.dk/other-schools/instrumentation-school/ |
| 26-30 June 2017 | EWASS Prague | http://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2017/program.jsp |
| 22 May 2017 | Astrophotonics KO meeting | Bath, UK (closed meeting) |
| 04 May 2017 | WP14 Common TAC meeting | UK ATC Edinburgh, UK (closed meeting) John Davies |
| 20-21 April 2017 | WP5: Additive Astronomy Integrated-component Manufacturing (A2IM) Kick-off Meeting | Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh Contact: Hermine Schnetler |
| 10 March 2017 | Wp8,11 2017 European Interferometry Initiative meeting | ESO Garching |
| 20-21 Feb 2017 | WP4 FAME++ KO meeting | Leiden, NL Michiel Rodenhuis |