The Conference will be hosted at CIEP (Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques). CIEP is a public institution of the French Education Ministry. It has longstanding expertise in hosting conferences, seminars and forums for French and international organisations active in education cooperation.
With its prestigious setting and extensive facilities located in the 18th-century former Royal Porcelain Works of Sèvres, just 10 minutes from Paris, CIEP can offer a complete range of packages (…)
The Gaia 2010 ELSA conference
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Local information
29 January 2010, by Catherine Turon -
Local organising committee
27 January 2010Yves Viala (Chair) Frédéric Arenou, Céline Delle Luche, Daniel Hestroffer, Nicolas Leclerc, Olga Martins, Frédéric Meynadier, Annick Oger, Mireille Petit, Sophie Rousset, Michael Weiler
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Grants
26 January 2010, by Catherine TuronThere are limited funds to support participants. Priority will be given to young scientists.
Applications should include the motivation to participate to the Symposium, an abstract of the proposed contribution or poster, a list of publications, and a detailed justification of the amount requested. Successful applicants will not have to pay any registration fee.
– Applications should be sent to Catherine Turon, Catherine.Turon - obspm.fr, before 15 March 2010.
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Registration fees
26 January 2010, by Catherine Turon[rouge]A receipt of registration fees and of accommodation expenses will be provided to each registered participant at the start of the Symposium. [/rouge]
(1) Registration fees, constant part: give free access to conference facilities, the abstract booklet, the welcome cocktail, the coffee breaks and lunches, the social dinner and conference proceedings. Early registration fees, until 16 April 2010: 180 € Late registration fees, until 18 May 2010: 220 €
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Scientific organising committee
26 January 2010, by Catherine TuronAnthony Brown, Leiden Observatory Ronald Drimmel, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Stefan Jordan, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut ARI/ZAH Mary Kontizas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Lennart Lindegren, Lund Observatory Thibaut Prod’homme, Leiden Observatory Paola Re Fiorentin, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (ELSA fellow for two years at the University Ljubljana) Daniel Risquez, Leiden Observatory Michael Weiler, Observatoire de Paris
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Topics
26 January 2010, by Catherine Turon1. ELSA and Gaia: context and status
* ELSA and Gaia
* General status of the mission (ESA).
* Status of the hardware, satellite and payload (ESA and industry).
2. Gaia modelling
* Simulation of the Gaia instrument and observations.
* Modelling the attitude of the satellite.
* The experience with Hipparcos.
3. Detectors in the space environment
* Radiation effects on Gaia CCDs. Testing and modelling.
* Detectors and radiation effects in the 2015 context.
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Posters
26 January 2010, by Catherine Turon– The posters (with a possibliy limited pdf resolution) are the following: Blomme et al.: Emission-line Stars and Early-type Stars with Gaia - Bourda et al.: Future radio reference frames and implications for the Gaia link Busso: The Photometric Gaia Processing Chen & Ko: Membership Identification of Globular Clusters Di Matteo et al.: The impact of minor mergers on the anisotropy of stellar orbits Gouda et al.: Series of JASMINE missions Hatsutori et al.: Performance evaluation of (…)
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Useful links
21 January 2010, by Catherine Turon– ELSA main site: http://www.astro.lu.se/ELSA
– Gaia at ESA: http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?p...
Previous ELSA meetings
– ELSA Kick-Off Meeting, Lund, 23-24 Nov 2006
– ELSA School on the Science of Gaia, Leiden, 19-28 Nov 2007.
Presentations
– ELSA Workshop on Software Engineering and Numerics, Barcelona 1-5 Sep 2008
– ELSA School on the Techniques of Gaia, (Heidelberg 28 Sep -2 Oct 2009
Transportation
– metro, RER, bus and tram: http://www.rat