It has been a long time, more than 5 years, since the last IRAM Users' Meeting was held in Grenoble in December 2003. Taking the opportunity of the IRAM 30 Years International Conference, the IRAM Scientific Advisory Committee has decided to organize a one full-day Users' Meeting on the day after the conference on October 1st 2009.
The sessions will take place at the IRAM headquarters, 300 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire, Saint-Martin d'Hères.
This Users' Meeting is intended to provide a forum for IRAM users to give feedback and suggestions to IRAM based on their experiences with the IRAM telescopes, software and services. Among the aspects to be covered are: overall science balance, 30m-Telescope and Plateau de Bure interferometer operations, observational strategies (service, pool, remote observing), software, archive policy, public outreach, ARC and other ALMA related issues, Radio Astronomy schools, future science with the IRAM instruments, etc.
It is planned to have short presentations from the users, 4 or 5 in
each category, followed by an open discussion. You are cordially
invited to propose one or more contributions by sending an abstract to
the Scientific Organizing Committee at the following e-mail address:
iram-users-meeting
oan.es.
Further information on the program will soon be available on the IRAM web pages (http://www.iram.fr/).