Plato PDAAS Meeting

PDAAS Meeting (4th Plato Data Center Meeting)

Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge: May 27-28 2010

Table of Contents


 News (updated: 20100520)

Please sign up for the dinner - see details below under 'Lunches and Dinner'

Agenda (Final: 20100527)

The purpose of the meeting is to specify PDAAS activities during the definition phase of PLATO, which must result in a written document to be submitted to ESA in May 2011. Main topics to be discussed: (1) database and system architecture, (2) data treatment algorithms, (3) exoplanet analysis system, and (4) stellar analysis system. The implementation schedule will be addressed too. The meeting will start with a mission update by Claude Catala (PI).

Time Who Title File
Thu 27 May 2010


12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-13.45 Claude Catala
 Introduction and Meeting Goals
13.45-13.50 Nicholas Walton
 Local Logistics
13.50-14.35
 Claude Catala
 Plato Consortium: Mission Update and Status
 [pdf]
14.35-15.15
 Laurent Gizon
 Plato: PDAAS - structure and status
 [pdf]
15.15-15.30
 Nicholas Walton
 PDAAS: activities required during Plato 'definition study phase'
[pdf]
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-16.30
 Raymond Burston
 PDAAS: System Architecture
 [pdf]
16.30-17.30
 Reza Samadi
 PDAAS: Data Treatment Algorithms, PDC activities in support of the SOC
 [pdf]
17.30-18.00
 Lead: Nicholas Walton
 Parallel session A: Exoplanet processing/ analysis
 [pdf]
17.30-18.00
 Lead: Patrick Boumier
 Parallel session B: Stellar physics processing/ analysis
 [pdf]
18.00
Close Day 1
19.45-22.30
Dinner @ The St. Johns Chop House
Please sign up by end of 25 May 2010 - use this Doodle page




Fri 28 May 2010


08.30-09..00
Coffee
09.00-11.00 Lead: Nicholas Walton
 Parallel session A: Exoplanet processing/ analysis
09.00-11.00
 Lead: Patrick Boumier
 Parallel session B: Stellar physics processing/ analysis
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
 Lead: Nicholas Walton
 Parallel session A: Exoplanet processing/ analysis (cont)
11.30-12.30
 Lead: Patrick Boumier
 Parallel session B: Stellar physics processing/ analysis (cont)
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-13.45
Feedback from Parallel session A: exoplanets
 [pdf]
13.45-14.00
Feedback from Parallel session B: stellar physics
 [pdf]
14.00-14.45
 Laurent Gizon
 Implementation Schedule, Next Steps, key meetings for PDAAS
 [pdf]
14.45-15.00
 Claude Catala
 Meeting Conclusions and Key Outcomes
15.00
Coffee and Close

Meeting Room Location

The meeting will take place in the Martin Ryle Meeting Room which is located in the Kavli Building of the IoA.

For the break out sessions - we'll use The Kavli meeting room and the Hoyle Committee Room - which group goes where being decided on the day depending on the sizes of the two groups.  

Attendees (29 in total)

The original Doodle poll is at http://www.doodle.com/8hgcqgex248hw7bz

Name Institute Country
 Comments
Jerome Ballot
 LATT, Toulouse
 France
Charles Beichman
 CalTech, Pasadena
 USA
Patrick Boumier
 IAS, CNRS, Orsay
 France
Alexis Brandeker
 Dept of Astronomy, Stockholm University
 Sweden
Raymond Burston
 MPS, Lindau
 Germany
Juan Cabrera
 DLR, Berlin
 Germany
Bruno Leonardo Canto Martins UFRN/DFTE, Rio Grande
 Brazil
Claude Catala
 Obs Paris
 France
Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus
 Denmark
David Ciardi CalTech, Pasadena USA
Riccardo Claudi
 INAF-OAPD, Padua
 Italy
Magali Deleuil
 LAM, Marseille
 France
Anders Erikson
 DLR, Berlin
 Germany
Malcolm Fridlund
 ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk
 The Netherlands
Rafael A. Garcia
 Service d'Astrophysique, IRFU/DSM/CEA Saclay
France
Laurent Gizon
 MPS, Lindau
 Germany
Simon Hodgkin
 IoA, Cambridge
 UK
Mike Irwin
 IoA, Cambridge UK
Christoffer Karoff
 University of Aarhus Denmark
Don Pollacco
 QUB
 UK
Pierre-Olivier Quirion
 Canadian Space Agency
 Canada
Heike Rauer
 DLR, Berlin
 Germany
Reza Samadi
 LEISA, Obs Paris, Meudon
 France
Nuno Santos
 CAUP
 Portugal
Salvo Scuderi
 INAF-OACT, Catania
 Italy
Sergio Sousa CAUP Portugal
Robert Szabo
 Konkoly
 Hungary
Nicholas Walton
 IoA, Cambridge UK
Richard West
 Univ of Leicester UK




APOLOGIES:
  
  
Cristina Afonso
 MPIA, Heidelberg
 Germany
Thierry Appourchaux
 IAS, CNRS, Orsay
 France
Manuel Guedel
 Univ of Vienna
 Austria
Mario Joao Monteiro CAUP
 Portugal
Klaus Strassmeier
 AIP
 Germany

Travel and Location

The meeting will be held at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

If you are travelling from the airports - I recommend pre-booking a taxi from one of the firms listed at http://www.cam.ac.uk/local/travel/taxis.html - i often use Blue Rose (bluerosecars@btinternet.com).

Information as to how to get to the IoA can be found at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IoA/about_ioa/contact/directions.php

Accommodation

It would be good if you could arrange your own accommodation if needed for this meeting.
The Cambridge tourist office has an extensive accommodation page. Cambridge hotels are also listed.

The University of Cambridge have preferential rates at The Arundel, De Vere University Arms, and the Royal Cambridge Hotel. When booking please mention that you are visiting the University of Cambridge. The discounts offered seem to vary depending on how busy the hotel in question is at the time.

Acommodation queries

If you have problems with booking accommodation for this meeting or obtaining the preferential rates, please could you let Judith Moss know (jm at ast.cam.ac.uk), she maybe able to help.

Lunches and Dinner

Complimentary lunches and coffee/ tea will be provided during the meeting.

Important If you have special dietary requirements, please send an email to Nicholas Walton (naw@ast.cam.ac.uk) - with subject line: PLATO 2010: Food Request - with your requirement (e.g. no nuts, vegan, no eggs, no diary etc). Please note that lunches will include a selection suitable for vegetarians.

Dinner Details

We will organise a dinner for the evening of the Thur 27 May 2010 - to be held at the St John's Chop House

It is located ( 21-24 Northampton Street, Cambridge CB3 0AD, Tel: 01223 353 110) ‎on the edge of the city centre - en route from the IoA into town - see the map

The cost will be £25 excluding drinks - your choice will be from this menu (this has vegetarian options).

Please sign up to indicate whether you will attend or not by end of 25 May 2010 - use this Doodle page

About Cambridge

We have provided a list of restaurants in Cambridge - please find this in reception. There is plenty of choice!

In terms of pubs - there is a list at http://www.cambridge-pubs.co.uk/ - the Castle on Castle Hill is the closest to the IoA.

Getting around Cambridge

  • Taxi stands are located at the railway station, bus station (Drummer Street) and Market Square in the city centre. The taxi stands are depicted with a white car on a blue square on the maps.
  • The bus station is located at Drummer Street.
  • The train station is located more than a mile to the south of the city centre. There is a regular bus service to Drummer Street bus station and the University West Site which is close to the Institute of Astronomy.
  • The IoA site is served by nearby buses, including the Uni 4 and Citi 4. Here is a map of local bus services, and timetables are available here.
  • There is a pleasant walk from the Institute of Astronomy to the city centre which takes about 30 minutes. This route is to cross Madingley Road, go down Clarke Maxwell Road, then take the Coton footpath to Adams Road, follow Adams Road, then Burrell's Walk, and finally down Garret Hostel Lane across the river into the centre of town.

Things to do in Cambridge: some suggestions:

Organising Committee

The meeting organisers are: Nicholas Walton (Cambridge) and Laurent Gizon (MPS, Lindau)