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Group/Contacts

  1. Bowler, Jo – SKA Program Development Office, University of Manchester, UK
  2. Colomer, Francisco – Observatorio Astronomico Nacional (OAN-IGN), Spain
  3. Cumming, Robert – Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
  4. Boekhorst, Femke – ASTRON, Netherlands
  5. Mack, Karl-Heinz – INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy
  6. O'Brien. Tim – Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, UK
  7. Pierce-Price, Douglas – European Southern Observatory, Germany
  8. Salome, Philippe – LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, France
  9. Theureau, Gilles – Paris-Nancay Observatory, France
  10. Varano, Stefania – INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy webcam
  11. Vogt, Corina – ASTRON, Netherlands
  12. Wyputta, Ulrike – Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Germany
  13. Yun, Kristine – JIVE, Netherlands
  14. Zanichelli, Alessandra – INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy

Meetings

Meeting 17-19 November 2010 at INAF/CNR in Bologna

Action Items


SMALL RADIO TELESCOPES

  • Make a list of what is there (how many telescopes, what interfaces, softwares, possible activities) P.Salome
  • Start to consider what activities we can do using those antennas (what observations, create sound, etc..) F.Colomer
  • Check if there is the opportunity of having students working on the scheduler and the interface. All
  • Reporting about ongoing fund search S Varano


RESOURCES

  • Flyer about European connections in Radio Astronomy R. Cumming
  • Information and images about radio telescopes/astronomy (create a Creative Commons Licence?) on RadioNet website C. Vogt
  • 4-5 minutes films about Radio Astronomy (history, how radio telescopes work, technology, frequencies, society benefit) J. Bowler, C. Vogt
  • Map of EVN radio telescopes K.Yun, S.Varano
  • VCs overview S.Varano
  • Material for teachers All
  • Networking schools from different countries (EU-HOU) All
  • Wiki page for sharing information C. Vogt –> OK
  • Calendar
  • Sharing postcards


BIG PROJECTS

  • Travelling exhibition about SKA
  • ALMA panels (now available)
  • Editable materials about international projects
  • LOFAR movie
  • Exchange ideas about how to advertise LOFAR


MISCELLANEA

  • Social networks (Facebook, lindedin)
  • connection between VCs (a European scaled astronomical path?)

Reports

S. Varano

  1. Fund raising. No success with the fund search for educational activities to be done with our Small Radio Telescope: the collaboration on this item is crucial.
  2. Map of EVN telescopes. We could, as a first step, publish here the links to our telescopes web cams, or a nice picture of the telescope (that could be used in case a web cam is not present). I put the link to the web cam pointing our telescope in Medicina close to my name in the group/contact list. Once we have collected the web cam links (or the images) we can put together a map similar to one of TNA telescopes within RadioNet this, in which every image is a thumbnail (or a miniature) of the web cam view.
    http://www.radionet-eu.org/sites/radionet-eu.org/files/cms/images/RadioNet_TNA_Aug10.jpg
    I will need Kristine Yun's help, in order to do it. I think we could put it on JIVE and/or RadioNet websites.
  3. VCs Overview. I am collecting a brief description of the VCs of radiotelescopes across Europe. I am using the pieces of text some of you sent me for the VC-Net proposal and the abstract to your presentations at the Outreach Workshop. I will send these descriptions to you for checking and updating.
  4. Material for teachers. As soon as the “Marcello Ceccarelli” Visitor Centre website will be ready, I will put there all our material for teachers. I invite you to put here the link to your material, so that I can check it and see what we can think about translating in english (what to we do about copyright?).
  5. Networking schools from different countries (EU-HOU). This is something really hard planning at this stage. I suggest that, for the moment, anytime one of us has contacts with a foreign group of students, he/she should get in contact with the person (or people) working in EPO of Radio Astronomy for that country, should it only be for his/her knowledge.

F.Boekhorst

- LOFAR movie: the LOFAR movie is almost finished, it only needs Dutch subtitles. It has become a documentary of about 50 minutes. The film will be shown at ASTRON in June and put on the ASTRON website when it is finished.


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