7th GSC-II Annual Meeting Agenda

October 22-23 2001

 

Day 1, Monday 22nd October

(Place: Vineyard Marchesi di Barolo, Barolo, Italy)

Meeting Photographs

 

Introductory

09:45 - 10:00     Ferrari                           Welcome from OATo/INAF

10:00 - 10:40     McLean                         Project Overview

10:40 - 10:45     Movie                           “The making of the GSC2” -
                                                            Caution - this is a 50MB zip file

10:45 - 11:15     Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:45     Greene                          Database overview

11:45 - 12.15     Lattanzi                         The GSC2.2 catalog

 

Public outreach

12:15 - 12:30     Smart                            Multimedia tour on the role of modern catalogs in 21st century astronomy -
                                                             Caution - this is a 250MB zip file

12:30 - 14:00     Lunch                          (including conference photo)

 

Astronomical Properties

14:00 - 14:20     Bucciarelli                     Astrometry

14:20 - 14:40     Garcia                           Photometry I: Calibrations

14:40 - 15:00     Spagna                         Photometry II: Accuracy

15:00 - 15:15     Laidler/White                 Classification Performance

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

15:30 - 16:00     Coffee Break

 

Telescope Operations

16:00 - 16:20     Garcia                           GEMINI update

16:20 - 16:40     Mignani                         VLT update

16:40 - 17:00     McLean                         HST/NGST update

 

17:00 – 18:00    Vineyard Tour

 

Introduction on science with the GSC2 catalog and material

18:00 – 18:30    One or more speakers will spend a total of 30 minutes to introduce the science topics addressed with GSC2 material (galactic structure, stellar associations, open clusters, kinematically selected peculiar stars – C dwarfs, halo WD’s – planetary nebulae, black holes, luminosity function of red stars, halo tracers - BHB stars and RR-Lyrae -, FIRST objects…)

18:30 – 19:00    Discussion

 

20:00 – 22:30    Conference dinner

 

Day 2, Tuesday 23rd October

(place:Torino Observatory)

 

 

Science Activities using GSC-II

09:30 – 09:55    Smart                            CRA science update

09:55 - 10:20     White                            FIRST/SDSS and GSC-II comparison

10:20 - 10:40     Carollo                          Halo White Dwarf Candidates

10:40 - 11:00     Drimmell                       Asymmetries in the galactic plane with the GSC2.2

 

11:00 - 11:30     Coffee Break

 

11:30 - 12:00     Mignani                         Review of ESO science projects using GSC-II

12:00 - 12:30     Spagna                         Galactic structure and kinematics

 

12:30 - 14:00     Lunch

 

Maintenance and Production Management

14:00 - 14:20     Rosenberg                     Plate Processing Status/DSS

14:20 - 14:40     Loomis                          GSC2.2 Maintenance and Plate Calibration Status

14:40 - 15:00     Pannunzio/Morbidelli      Catalog QA

15:00 - 15:30     Coffee Break

 

Production of GSC 2.3 (Group discussion)

15:30 - 16:45     Operational needs (requirements: NGST….),  content, review of problem areas (calibrations, quality control,….), resources, schedule,…maintenance issues

 

Summary

16:45 - 17:00     White                            Summary of status, Action items, Concluding remarks