Distribution of Knowledge

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Distribution of Knowledge
A brief summary of some of our actions from the
presentations and annual reports
John Davies, Anselmo Sosa and all the OTICON
activity leaders
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Formal Publications

• Many papers from OPTICON sponsored activities
  have been presented at professional meetings and
  in Journals. The list includes
• Proc SPIE
• Berlin Cosmic Frontiers Conference 2004
• Astronomy Astrophysics
• Proc ADASS
• ASP Conference series
• Mon Not Roy Astron Soc

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Formal Publications (2)

• ESLAB Symposium proceedings
• IAU Colloquia (eg IAUC 200)
• IAU Symposia (eg 232 Cape Town)
• Proc Protostars and Planets V, Hawaii
• New Astronomy Reviews
• Pub Astron Soc Pacific
• Comptes Rendus Physique
• EAS publication Series

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Other Publications

• EAS Newsletter
• ESO Messenger
• TNG newsletter

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IPR Patents and Licences

• JRA -1 60 Actuator MDM (French patent)
• JRA-2 will probably licence the OCam controller
  technology to ANDOR for commercial applications
• JRA-5 Starpicker Planetary Positioning system
  (Patent pending)

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International meetings

• OPTICON has been present at every JENAM meeting
  since 2001.
• We have given talks

JENAM 2005 Liege
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International meetings
JENAM 2005 Liege

• and had stands with handouts and people to
  talk to.

JENAM 2007, Yereven
IAU GA, Prague
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International Meetings
The JRA-5 developed starpicker prototype was
displayed at the SPIE Meeting, Orlando in the
USA in 2005
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OPTICON led conferences and workshops
NUVA workshop, 2005, Madrid
HTRA Meeting, Edinburgh, TODAY
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more OPTICON led or co-sponsored conferences and
workshops

• ELT meeting Marseilles 2004
• Interferometry Workshop, Leige 2005
• Software BoFsession at ADASS 2005
• ELT meeting, Florence 2005
• HTRA meeting, Galway, 2006
• ELT Conference Cape Town 2006
• UV Conference, Madrid 2007
• ELT meeting Marseilles 2007

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Printed Deliverables
Interferometry Roadmap
UV astronomy Science plan
ELT Book Brochure
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Interactions within the FP6 programme
Formal liason with
Active Participant in I3Net
Collaboration with
Regular contacts with ARENA, ASPERA, Europlanet
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OPTICON on the WEB
Home page with links to
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Individual web pages
External Internal Communications
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Solar JIS Website
An innovative and useful tool for the solar
physics community.
DELIVERABLE
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Technology Implementation
KTN Roadmap informs work of JRAs
Constant interchange between related
activities eg JRA-1 JRA-2 for AO and N3.1
ELT DS JRA-5 for ELT instrumentation
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TNA Outreach
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TNA Outreach (2)

• Visits to national meetings (Poland, Austria,
  Hungary in addition to JENAMs)
• OPTICON info on all telescope homepages
• TNA handouts and posters
• Mailshots to a large circulation list organised
  by access office

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TNA Delivery by Country
Nr. of users / Country Home institution
January 2004 December 2007
1090 astronomers
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TNA Its about People, not graphs
"OPTICON gave me the unique opportunity to
familiarize myself with the WHT telescope and the
AF2/WYFFOS spectrograph. Without OPTICON I would
not have been able to afford the cost of the
trip. I wish all the young astronomers had the
same funding opportunity as I did. Vallia
Antoniou. University of Crete, Greece
The OPTICON Access Programme have enabled me to
join the observations with a big solar telescope
for the first time. I think that OPTICON Access
Programme enables the younger scientist to
support their own observation campaigns.Jan
Jurcak. Astronomical Institute. Czech Republic
The OPTICON support was fundamental since I
would not have had any funds from my Institute
and I could not have gone observing otherwise.
The Access Office was very helpful and friendly
providing me an excellent support. Sabina
Sabatini. University of Wales, United Kingdom
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Publicity
Distribution of low cost promotional items
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Organized Visits to the Canary Islands
Astronomical Observatories
OUTREACH NA2
TNG 2007 (ORM)
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Touring exhibitions at the Canary Islands
airports
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NA2 Public Outreach Website
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Public Outreach CD and DVDs
OUTREACH NA2