Telecon+2+notes

IAU 285 workshop telecon Fri 3 June 2011, 11am EDT

Participants: Bob Hanisch Elizabeth Griffin Nick Cross Pieter Degroote Jonas Debosscher Patricia Whitelock Michael Bode George Djorgovski Lars Bildsten Tom Vestrand Arne Henden David Schade Rob Seaman Roy Williams Carole Mundell Joan Centrella

Following general discussion about organizational aspects of the workshops, we agreed on the following points.

1) Workshop organizers will prepare a one-paragraph summary of the goals and proposed topics/structure for each workshop, to be sent to Bob and Elizabeth by 10 June 2011 (and/or posted to the IAU 285 Wiki site). These will be collated by Bob and Elizabeth and form an announcement that will be sent to registrants and pre-registrants as an update to the workshop agenda and to help workshop organizers identify people to contribute to their sessions.

Accompanying this paragraph should be a list of any schedule constraints for the workshop organizers (personal travel issues, for example) and a list of other workshops that you would like NOT to have running in parallel with your own.

2) Workshop organizers are encouraged to send their summary paragraphs directly to colleagues who they would like to participate, and to note to those colleagues that the early registration deadline is approaching (June 15).

3) Two opportunities for advertising arise this month at STScI: the wide field surveys workshop and a workshop on intermediate-luminosity red transients.

http://www.stsci.edu/resources/institute/conference/verywidefield http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/redtransients

4) A Wiki site has been set up and all are encouraged to use this for developing their agendas and schedules. I believe that everyone involved in workshop organization has now been sent an invitation to join the Wiki. You can also view the site and request membership from there.

http://iau285.wikispaces.com/