GSC-II 6th Annual Meeting Agenda

October 19-20 2000

CBBC, Stevensville, MD

Thursday 19th October

08:30 - 09:10     Welcome Refreshments

Introductory

09:10 - 09:15     Fraher                           Welcoming Remarks

09:15 - 10:00     McLean                         Project Overview

10:00 - 10.15     Lattanzi                         Science Overview

10:15 - 10:30     Greene                          Database Overview

10:30 - 11:00     Coffee Break

Production Management

11:00 - 11:20     Loomis/Sturch               Plate Processing Status

11:20 - 11:40     Morrison                        Plate Calibration Status

11:40 - 12:00     Wolfe                            Infrastructure – HSM/DB Backups/DSS

12:00 - 14:00     Lunch

13:30                Conference photo and     Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race

                                                            Schooner FAREWELL (Cpt.Meakes)

Astronomical Tasks

14:00 - 14:20     Morrison                        Astrometry

14:20 - 14:40     Garcia                           Photometry

14:40 - 15:10     Laidler                           Classification

15:10 - 15:30     Bucciarelli/Garcia           GSPC-II Status

15:30 - 16:00     Coffee Break

Quality Control

16:00 - 16:15     Lattanzi                         OATo Global QA

16:15 - 16:30     Lattanzi                         OATo QA

16:30 - 16:45     Mignani                         Astrometric tests

16:45 - 17:00     Discussion                    Additional QA tasks / implementation priorities

Management

17:00 - 17:30     McLean, Lattanzi, Greene, Takamiya, Wicenec – General discussion

19:00                Conference dinner at The Tavern on the Bay Restaurant

Friday 20th October

08:30 - 09:15     Welcome Refreshments

Telescope Operations

09:15 - 09:30     Greene                          Export Catalog and User Interface

09:30 - 09:45     Garcia/Spagna               Color Transformations

09:45 - 10:00     Spagna                         Guide Star Availability

10:00 - 10:15     Morrison                        NGST/Nexus operations

10:15 - 10:30     Sturch                           HST Bright Object Protection

10:30 - 11:00     Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:15     Takamiya                      GEMINI update

11:15 - 11:30     Wicenec                       VLT update

11:30 - 12:00     Discussion                    GSC-II Operational requirements

12:00 - 14:00     Lunch

Science Activities

14:00 - 14:20     White                            FIRST and GSC-II

14:20 - 14:40     Smart                           CRA science update

14:40 - 15:00     Smart                           Variable stars in GSC-II

15:00 - 15:30     Hawkins                        Open cluster Blanco 1

15:30 - 16:00     Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:15     Carollo                          High Proper Motion White Dwarf Candidates

16:15 - 16:30     Mignani                         ESO science projects using GSC-II

Summary

16:30 - 17:00     Jenkner                         Summary of status

                                                            Review action items

                                                            Identify problem areas