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ESO/ST-ECF Calibration Workshop Announcement



ESO / ST-ECF WORKSHOP ON
CALIBRATING AND UNDERSTANDING HST AND ESO INSTRUMENTS
EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY, GARCHING BEI MUNCHEN
25 - 28 APRIL, 1995

Please find below the preliminary programme of the workshop together
with registration and accommodation request forms which should be
completed and returned as soon as possible.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Tuesday, April 25

MIDAS Users Meeting

14:00   MIDAS Status Report                             P. Grosbol
15:00   Questions and Answers
15:30   Coffee
16:00 - 17:00   Demos

Wednesday, April 26

08:30 - 09:15   Registration
09:15   Welcome                                         R. Giacconi
09:20   Introduction                                    P. Benvenuti

Session 1 - The calibration of HST Instruments. A case study

09:30   Overview of HST Calibration                     E. Schreier
10:00   FOC                                             R. Jedrzejewski
10:30   WF/PC II                                        J. McKenty
11:00   Coffee Break
11:30   FOS - GHRS                                      J. Walsh
12:00   Astrometry and OTA performance                  R. Gilmozzi
12:30   Lunch
14:00   Predictive calibration strategies based on instrument S/W models -
        FOS as a case study                             M. Rosa
14:30   NIC/STIS                                        Ch. Blades
15:15   ACE                                             J. Crocker
15:30   Coffee Break
16:00   HST calibration and user support in historical perspective:
        lessons learned                                 E. Schreier
16:45   Round Table Discussion: "What can VLT learn from HST?"
17:30   Welcome Reception

Thursday, April 27

Session 2 - Current ESO Instruments

09:00   The role of the new ESO Instrument Division     G. Monnet
09:20   Monitoring and calibration at the telescope of the ESO CCD detectors
                                                        J. Beletic
09:40   EFOSC1                                          H. Schwarz
10:00   Spectropolarimetry with EFOSC1     S. di Serego Alighieri / J. Walsh
10:20   CASPEC and ECHELEC                              W. Verschueren
10:40   Calibration plan for EMMI                       A. Zijlstra
11:00   Coffee Break
10:20   Calibration and automation of the NTT active optics system
                                                    L. Noethe / Ph. Gitton
11:40   Acquisition, cleaning and calibrating of groundbased thermal IR data
                                                        H.-U. Kaeufl
12:00   IRSPEC - IRAC1-2                                R. Gredel
12:20   Observation preparation and data extraction for multiobject
        spectrographs                                   D. Minniti
12:40   Lunch

Session 3 - VLT Instruments

14:00   Calibration issues with the first generation VLT instruments
                                                        J.G. Cuby
14:20   Near IR calibration issues - ISAAC              J. Spyromilio
14:40   UVES                                    H. Hensberge / P. Ballester
15:00   Coffee Break
15:20   FORS                                            S. Moehler
15:40   Observing extended objects with chopping restrictions on 8m class
        telescopes in the thermal IR                    H.-U. Kaeufl
16:00   CONICA                                          TBD
16:20   Performance monitoring of VLT telescopes        TBD
16:40   VLTI calibration issues          O. von der Luehe / A. Quirrenbach

Friday, April 28

Session 4 - Other Astronomical Projects

09:00   WIYN                                            J. Percival
09:30   ISO                                             A. Moneti
10:00   DENIS                                           TBD
10:20   2dF                                             K. Taylor
10:40   ROSAT                                           TBD
11:00   Coffee Break
11:20   Gemini                                          M. Mountain
11:40   Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
                      S. di Serego Alighieri / F. Pasian / M. Pucillo
12:00   Contributed paper
12:30   Lunch

Session 5 - Software Environments

14:00   On-line MIDAS                                   K. Banse
14:20   MIDAS data organizer as a calibration tool      M. Peron
14:40   ESO Data Reduction CookBook                     R. Warmels
15:00   Coffee Break
15:20   VLT on-line data flow                           P. Grosbol
15:40   HST pipeline processing                         R. Hanisch
16:00   AIPS ++                                         TBD
16:20   Contributed papers
17:00   End of Workshop

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Registration Form

Please complete this section and return it as soon as possible
to the address given below.

[PLEASE PRINT]
LAST NAME:

FIRST NAME:
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DEPARTMENT:

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TELEPHONE:

FAX:

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I am interested in:

___  attending the Workshop

___  presenting the following paper(s) on (please attach an abstract):

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___  oral preferred    ___  poster preferred    ___  no preference




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Please COMPLETE and return this form by 3 MARCH, 1995, to:
European Southern Observatory
Britt Sjoeberg
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
Fax:    (+49 89) 320-23-62 / 320-06-480
Tel:    (+49 89) 320-060 / 320-06-291
E-mail: calconf@eso.org; bsjoeber@eso.org

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Accommodation Request Form

[PLEASE PRINT]
LAST NAME:

FIRST NAME:

INSTITUTE:

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TELEPHONE:

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ARRIVAL date:  __________________   DEPARTURE date:  ___________________

NOTE:  Rooms have been reserved in the hotels near ESO (i.e., in Garching,
13 km north of Munich). Prices (incl. breakfast) are DM 115-135 for a
single room, and DM 145-180 for a double room. All rooms are with shower or
bath. Bus transport between these hotels and the conference venue will
be provided on the days of the workshop. Please mark your preference:

I need a HOTEL RESERVATION:     SINGLE room  ___   DOUBLE room  ___
                                                   (to be shared with

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I shall make my OWN ARRANGEMENTS: ___

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DATE: ...................SIGNATURE: ........................................

Please COMPLETE and return this form as soon as possible to:

European Southern Observatory
Britt Sjoeberg
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
D-85748 Garching, Germany
Fax:    (+49 89) 320-23-62 / 320-06-480
Tel:    (+49 89) 320-060 / 320-06-291
E-mail: calconf@eso.org; bsjoeber@eso.org