WP3 kick-off meeting
From CONSTELLATION
The meeting will be held in the "Salle des conseils" on the second floor of the administration building at the ENS Lyon, on January 8-9, 2007. Attendees should go to the main entrance lobby at 46 Allée d'Italie, Lyon, for 9am on Tuesday January 8. Please bring a photo-ID in order to clear security.
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Programme aims and schedule
The kick-off meeting is our chance to examine the current state-of-play of VLMO research across the network and explore how we would like to proceed.
There are five key questions to address:
a) What observational data do we have?
b) What observational data are we already getting?
c) What theory are we doing?
which will inform:
d) What observational programmes would we like to do?
e) What theory do we want to do?
This is a chance to see where and in what we are currently providing information that is useful and/or complimentary and to see where we should avoid duplicating effort.
The agenda of the meeting will be:
8th January
0900-1200: A 5 minute introduction (no OHPs unless you *really* need them) by everybody explaining what they are doing and what they'd like to do as part of the network. (Tea break included)
1200-1400: Lunch.
1400-1700: Preparing a 'wish list' of what we would like to do, in particular what theorists would like the observers to do, and what observers would like the theorists to provide. Each node should nominate one or two people (e.g. one observer and one theorist) to describe their wants for 10 minutes (assuming 10 people = 3 hours including lots of time for discussion).
1700-1800: Working on the ideas in (2), a general discussion of possible network projects large and small. We will assign small working groups to each idea that meets with general approval (2 hours?).
9th January
0900-1030: Small group discussions in areas of mutual interest based on what has come up in the general discussion.
1030-1100: Tea break.
1100-1200: Small group discussions.
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1500: A summary session to bring together the main ideas/themes and set goals.
It might be useful if anybody has any big ideas (major theoretical projects, large/long-term observational programmes etc.) if they could provide a quick summary of the idea to be circulated before the meeting so we can all think about it.
Photographs from the kick-off meeting
A very small collection of photographs taken at the WP3 kick-off meeting held at the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, on January 8-9, 2008. The meeting was organised and hosted by Isabelle Baraffe.
Meeting participants
| Institution | Attendees |
| Exeter | Matthew Bate, Catia Cardoso, Rob King, Mark McCaughrean, Tim Naylor |
| Prague | Adam Ruzicka |
| Potsdam | Gwendolyn Meeus, Hans Zinnecker |
| Saclay | Philippe Andre, Sylvain Bontemps, Benoit Commercon, Timea Csengeri, Patrick Hennebelle, Anaelle Maury |
| Cardiff | Rhianne Attwood, Simon Goodwin, Dimtris Stamatellos, Ant Whitworth |
| Lyon | France Allard, Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, Alberic Joos de ter Beerst |
| Lisbon | |
| Tenerife/Madrid | David Barrado y Navascues, Eduardo Martin, Manuel Perger |
| INAF-Palermo/Arcetri | Ella Hopewell, Giusi Micela, Ana Sepulcre, Beate Stelzer |
| Grenoble | Jerome Bouvier, Andrew Burgess, Francois Menard, Estelle Moraux |
| Cambridge | Simon Hodgkin |
| St Andrews | Christiane Helling, Aleks Scholz |
Accommodation and Directions
Directions from the airport
From the Lyon-St. Exupéry airport, take the http://www.satobus.com/ shuttle to either the Part Dieu or Perrache train stations (gare de la Part Dieu or gare de Perrache).
From the Part Dieu train station, take the Vivier Merle exit. Once outside of the station take the underground line B in the direction of the Stade de Gerland. Get off the underground at the Debourg stop.
Hotels
Hotel IBIS rue Merieux:
http://fr.federal-hotel.com/hotel_hotel-restaurant-ibis-gerland-lyon_6227.htm
Pont Pasteur (more expensive):
http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/fr/ibi/0778/fiche_hotel.shtml
Or Hotel Moderne in Lyon center:
http://www.hotel-moderne-lyon.com/