2^nd End of Year Network Workshop at JeNAM

The 2^nd end of year workshop will be held at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The RoPACS meeting will be in the afternoon on Wednesday 8^th September 2010 (room TBC). The meeting will be held in parallel with the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JeNAM) which runs from the 6^th to the 10^th of September. RoPACS members and affiliates will gather to discuss the scientific developments that have occurred during the first and second years of the network. The local organising committee consists of David Pinfield, Carlos del Burgo and Andre Moitinho.

The aim of the meeting will be to cover the following points:

• Review the scientific progress being made within the RoPACS network
• Discuss research being carried out by new network members
• Discuss the status of new initiatives that could benefit the RoPACS network

There will be a meeting of the partner leaders between 11 am and 12 pm on Wednesday the 8^th (room TBC).

A group of organisers (including several RoPACS people) are leading a JeNAM EAS symposium on the 6-7^th September. For more details follow the link below:

• From macro- to micro-stellar transits - European Astronomical Society S4 symposium

Materials in support of the end of year network workshop

• Meeting Agenda - Timetable of presentations

Presentations given at the end of year network workshop

The presentations listed below can be downloaded by clicking the relevant link

• Welcome - Dr David Pinfield
• Introduction - Paul Steele
• Increasing the accuracy of IR light curves - close to habitability? - Dimitris Mislis
• Overview of the WTS data - Gabor Kovacs
• Status update of the WTS candidates - Brigitta Sipocz
• The search of transits and WTS follow up at the IAC - Felipe Murgas
• Latest report for WTS release 1 and final results for the improvements on difference imaging analysis - Jesus Zandejas
• Spectroscopic observations of WTS planet-host candidates - Patricia Cruz
• First radial velocity curves of four G, K and M dwarfs - Michele Cappetta
• M dwarf variability and transits in the near infrared - Niall Goulding
• Transit fitting: Why, when and where to super-sample the transit model - Hannu Parviainen
• Characterisation and classification of variable stars in the WTS database - Hristo Stoev
• Spectral investigations of CM Dra - Max Kuznetsov
• Preparing for Cosmic Vision - James Frith
• Degenerate companions and extra-solar planets - Joana Gomes

Further information

Information that may be useful to attendees is listed below