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Distribution of Knowledge. A brief summary of some of our actions from the presentations and annual reports. John Davies, Anselmo Sosa and all the OTICON activity leaders. Formal Publications.
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Distribution of Knowledge A brief summary of some of our actions from the presentations and annual reports John Davies, Anselmo Sosa and all the OTICON activity leaders
Formal Publications Many papers from OPTICON sponsored activities have been presented at professional meetings and in Journals. The list includes: • Proc SPIE • Berlin Cosmic Frontiers Conference 2004 • Astronomy & Astrophysics • Proc ADASS • ASP Conference series • Mon Not Roy Astron Soc
Formal Publications (2) • ESLAB Symposium proceedings • IAU Colloquia (eg IAUC 200) • IAU Symposia (eg 232 Cape Town) • Proc Protostars and Planets V, Hawaii • New Astronomy Reviews • Pub Astron Soc Pacific • Comptes Rendus Physique • EAS publication Series
Other Publications EAS Newsletter ESO Messenger TNG newsletter
IPR: Patents and Licences • JRA -1 60 Actuator MDM (French patent) • JRA-2 will probably licence the OCam controller technology to ANDOR for commercial applications • JRA-5 Starpicker Planetary Positioning system (Patent pending)
International meetings • OPTICON has been present at every JENAM meeting since 2001. • We have given talks… JENAM 2005 Liege
International meetings JENAM 2005 Liege … and had stands with handouts and people to talk to. JENAM 2007, Yereven IAU GA, Prague
International Meetings The JRA-5 developed starpicker prototype was displayed at the SPIE Meeting, Orlando in the USA in 2005
OPTICON led conferences and workshops NUVA workshop, 2005, Madrid HTRA Meeting, Edinburgh, TODAY
more OPTICON led or co-sponsored conferences and workshops • ELT meeting Marseilles 2004 • Interferometry Workshop, Leige 2005 • Software ‘BoF’session at ADASS 2005 • ELT meeting, Florence 2005 • HTRA meeting, Galway, 2006 • ELT Conference Cape Town 2006 • UV Conference, Madrid 2007 • ELT meeting Marseilles 2007
Printed Deliverables Interferometry Roadmap UV astronomy Science plan ELT Book & Brochure
Interactions within the FP6 programme Formal liason with Active Participant in I3Net Collaboration with Regular contacts with ARENA, ASPERA, Europlanet
OPTICON on the WEB Home page with links to
Individual web pages External & Internal Communications
Solar JIS Website An innovative and useful tool for the solar physics community. DELIVERABLE
Technology Implementation KTN Roadmap informs work of JRAs Constant interchange between related activities eg JRA-1 & JRA-2 for AO and N3.1 & ELT DS & JRA-5 for ELT instrumentation
TNA Outreach (2) • Visits to national meetings (Poland, Austria, Hungary in addition to JENAMs) • OPTICON info on all telescope homepages • TNA handouts and posters • Mailshots to a large circulation list organised by access office
TNA Delivery by Country Nr. of users / Country Home institution January 2004 – December 2007 1090 astronomers
TNA: Its about People, not graphs "OPTICON gave me the unique opportunity to familiarize myself with the WHT telescope and the AF2/WYFFOS spectrograph. Without OPTICON I would not have been able to afford the cost of the trip. I wish all the young astronomers had the same funding opportunity as I did.“ Vallia Antoniou. University of Crete, Greece “The OPTICON Access Programme have enabled me to join the observations with a big solar telescope for the first time. I think that OPTICON Access Programme enables the younger scientist to support their own observation campaigns”.Jan Jurcak. Astronomical Institute. Czech Republic “The OPTICON support was fundamental since I would not have had any funds from my Institute and I could not have gone observing otherwise. The Access Office was very helpful and friendly providing me an excellent support. Sabina Sabatini. University of Wales, United Kingdom
Publicity Distribution of low cost promotional items
Organized Visits to the Canary Islands Astronomical Observatories OUTREACH NA2 TNG 2007 (ORM)
Observatories’ DVD Public Outreach CD and DVDs OUTREACH NA2