[ASA] Australia-Subaru instrumentation workshop - details

[Matthew Colless]

Second Announcement

Australia-Subaru instrumentation workshop

10 August 2016, RSAA Common Room, Mount Stromlo

Representatives of the Subaru Observatory are visiting Australia for the AAL Board meeting on 11 August in order to discuss the potential for Australian partnership in Subaru.

As part of the discussions on that topic, the Subaru representatives would like to explore the ways in which Australia could engage with the Subaru instrumentation program. AAL is therefore organising a half-day workshop where Australian instrument scientists can meet with Prof. Nobuo Arimoto (Director, Subaru Telescope), Dr Ikuru Iwata (Associate Director, Subaru Telescope), and Dr Yosuke Minowa (Subaru Telescope AO scientist).

The workshop will be held at Mount Stromlo (in the RSAA Common Room) on Wednesday, 10 August, from 10am to 4pm. Remote video access to the workshop will be available - details to follow.

The goals of the workshop are:

  1.  to identify areas where Australia could potentially make significant in-kind contributions to Subaru instrumentation as part of a possible partnership arrangement;
  2.  to identify specific small developments that Australia and Subaru could potentially initiate immediately, in order to develop the possible in-kind contributions and increase mutual confidence in working together.

The agenda for the workshop is as follows:

  *   09:30-10:00 - Morning tea while people gather
  *   10:00-10:15 - Welcome and motivation (Colless/McAuley)
  *   10:15-11:00 - The Subaru instrumentation program (Arimoto/Iwata/Minowa)
  *   11:00-12:30 - Brief summaries of Australian instrumentation capabilities and relevance to Subaru (up to 5min from each participant; please send titles to Director.RSAA at anu.edu.au<mailto:Director.RSAA at anu.edu.au>)
  *   12:30-13:00 - Lunch (provided)
  *   13:00-14:45 - Open discussions on specific instruments and technologies of interest (see non-exhaustive list below)
  *   14:45-15:00 - Afternoon tea
  *   15:00-16:00 - Open discussion of potential initial projects for Australia-Subaru collaboration, and other ways forward

Some instruments and technologies that will be covered include:

  *   Subaru PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph)
  *   Subaru ULTIMATE (next-gen wide-field AO-fed NIR MOS)
  *   Subaru GLAO and LTAO systems
  *   Wide-field and IFU spectrographs
  *   Fibre positioning systems
  *   Adaptive optics systems
  *   VAMPIRES/SCExAO and nulling interferometry
  *   Optical and infrared detectors
  *   Astrophotonics and advanced technologies
  *   Software for instrument control and data analysis

In order to keep the workshop focussed, numbers will be limited. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email Director.RSAA at anu.edu.au<mailto:Director.RSAA at anu.edu.au> by Friday, 5 August.

Mark McAuley
Warrick Couch
Matthew Colless

Professor Matthew Colless <matthew.colless at anu.edu.au<mailto:matthew.colless at anu.edu.au>>
Director, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Work: +61-2-6125-0266 Mobile:+61-431-898-345

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