Gemini Users Meeting
30 Marzo 2009
Gemini is pleased to announce the 2009 Gemini Users Meeting that will be held at Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan, in conjunction with the Joint Subaru/Gemini Science Conference.
The main goal of the Users Meeting is to provide an opportunity for Gemini's community to provide feedback to the Observatory on both short-term operational issues and long-term strategic issues such as future instrumentation.
2009 Gemini Users Meeting Agenda
9:30 Welcome (Packham)
I Operations Status and Reports - Chair: TBD
9:35- Queue completion rates and Operational Efficiency (Jørgensen - 30+5)
10:10 - Dataflow Project (Labrie - 15+5)
10:30 - Gemini Publications: Productivity and Impact (Crabtree - 15+5)
10:50 -Break (20)
II Instrumentation / Adaptive Optics Updates - Chair: TBD
11:10 - Altair/LGS (Christou - 10+5)
11:25 - MCAO (Rigaut - (15+5)
11:45 - NICI (TBD - 10+5)
12:00 - GNIRS (Geballe - 10+5)
12:15 - FLAMINGOS-2 (Gomez - 15+5)
12:35-GMOS CCDs (TBD - 5+5)
III Open Discussion 1 - Chair: TBD
12:45 - Moderated Q&A/Discussion
13:25 - Lunch
IV Users Survey - Chair: TBD
15:00 - 2008 Users Survey (Crabtree - 30+5)
V Science Operations Long Range Plan - Chair: TBD
15:35 - Future Science Operations (Crabtree - 15+5)
15:55 - Break (20)
VI Science Long Range Plan - Chair: TBD
16:15 - Future Gemini Instrumentation (Jensen - 25+20)
VII Open Discussion 2 - Chair: TBD
17:00 - Moderated Q&A/Discussion
18:00 - End of Day
Organizing Committee
Chris Packam (University of Florida)- CHAIR
Ross McLure (Edinburgh University)
Scrott Croom (University of Sydney)
Chris Willott (National Research Council of Canada)
Dennis Crabtree (Gemini)