Provisional meeting programme

Edinburgh RAVE meeting

Friday and Saturday 18th-19th June 2004

Friday 18th June - 10:00am start
Welcome	Mike Read
Current status (observations and instrument)	Fred Watson
11:00 - Coffee
Update on prospects for RAVE (funding, northern extension etc)	Matthias Steinmetz
Report on DMG Strasbourg meeting	Matthias Steinmetz
12:45 - Lunch (canteen)
Raw data reduction under IRAF	Tomaz Zwitter
RAVE observing, Scheduling and QC	Rachel Moody
Which distance estimates for the RAVE stars?	Genevieve Parmentier
15:30 - Coffee
Discussion
17:00-17:30 Close
Saturday 19th June - 09:30am start
SDSS extension including SEGUE	Eva Grebel
Preliminary results on spectroscopic binaries	Arnaud Siebert, Tomaz Zwitter
Calculate template (Kurucz type) spectra under Linux	Urtzi Jauregi
11:00 - Coffee
Open Cluster Stars for RAVE Observations in Galactic Plane	Ralf Scholz
A RAVE database	Mike Read
Discussion
12:30 - Lunch (cold buffet)
Discussion
16:30-17:00 - close

Items for discussion

• what is our future observing strategy (in particular reg. 2nd order contamination)
• should we release the (contaminated) first year data
• which are good first science projects, i.e. papers that could accompany a first data releas (be it first or 2nd year data)
• 6dF instrumental needs for the program (both the instrument and the data reduction), and implications for AAOmega.