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NGSC and Gemini Meetings/Reviews/Workshops

NGSC-Attended and/or -Sponsored Meetings

• Presence at NOAO Booth #213 at the 213th AAS Meeting—Long Beach, CA, January 5-8, 2009
• Gemini Operations Working Group—La Serena, Chile, January 27-28, 2009
• Gemini International Time Allocation Committee—Tucson, AZ, Nov 24-25, 2008
• Presentation on “Opportunities for Astronomical Research Using the US System of Ground-based Optical and Infrared Telescopes” at the American Physical Society Joint Meeting—El Paso, TX, October 17-18, 2008; sponsors included the National Society of Hispanic Physicists and the National Society of Black Physicists
• Gemini Management Planning Retreat—Waikoloa, HI, Oct 9-10, 2008
• Gemini Science Committee—Hilo, HI, Oct 6-7, 2008
• US Gemini Science Advisory Committee—Tucson, AZ, October 1-2, 2008, along with US members of the Gemini Science Committee and Gemini Board
• WFMOS Galactic Archaeology Workshop—Tucson, AZ, Sept 4-5, 2008
• Gemini Operations Working Group and SCIOPS LRP—Tucson, AZ, July 29-31, 2008
• Presentations at Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT—Chicago, IL, June 15-18, 2008
• Presence at NOAO Booth at the 212th AAS Meeting—St. Louis, MO, June 1-5, 2008
• Gemini International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI, May 28-29, 2008
• Presentation at “A Glimpse into the Future of Astronomy”—Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 27-28, 2008
• “Cosmology Near and Far: Science with WFMOS,” a joint workshop of Subaru, Gemini, NOAO, and others—Waikoloa, HI, May 19-21, 2008
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Hilo, HI, January 30-31, 2008
• NOAO Booth #204 at the 211th AAS Meeting—Austin, TX, January 7-11, 2008
• International Time Allocation Committee—La Serena, Chile, November 27-28, 2007
• Presentations at the Conference on Astronomy with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics—Ringberg Castle, Germany, October 29-November 2, 2007
• Gemini Science Committee—La Serena, Chile, October 18-19, 2007
• Gemini Management Planning Retreat—Santiago, Chile, October 11-12, 2007
• US Gemini Science Advisory Committee—Tucson, AZ, October 8-9, 2007
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Melbourne, Australia, July 30-31, 2007
• Gemini Science 2007 Meeting, User’s Meeting, and Gemini/NGO Staff Meeting—Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, June 11-15, 2007
• International Time Allocation Committee—Honolulu, HI, April 31, 2007
• Gemini Science Committee—Tucson, AZ, April 23-24, 2007
• US Gemini Board and Gemini Science Committee—Chicago, IL, April 19, 2007
• Gemini Retreat—Miami, FL, February 19, 2007
• Gemini Operations Working Group—La Serena, Chile, January 30-31, 2007
• Booth #405 at the 209th AAS Meeting—Seattle, WA, January 6-10, 2007
• International Time Allocation Committee—La Serena, Chile, November 29-30, 2006
• Gemini Science Committee—Hilo, HI, October 25-26, 2006
• WFMOS Galactic Archaeology Workshop—Tucson, AZ, October 10-12, 2006
• US Gemini Science Advisory Committee—Tucson, AZ, October 4-5, 2006
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Victoria, Canada, August 3-4, 2006
• International Time Allocation Committee—Tucson, AZ, June 1-2, 2006
• Presentation on US Gemini Observing Opportunities at the Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists—San Jose, CA, February 17, 2006
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Hilo, HI, February 2-3, 2006
• Booth #504 at the 207th AAS Meeting—Washington, DC, January 8-12, 2006
• International Time Allocation Committee—Tucson, AZ and La Serena, Chile, December 1, 2005
• Gemini Staff/National Gemini Offices Staff Meeting—Tucson, AZ, November 29-30, 2005
• Gemini Science Committee—La Serena, Chile, October 12-13, 2005
• US Gemini Science Advisory Committee—Tucson, AZ, October 3-4, 2005
• Presentation on US Gemini Observing Opportunities—Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 13, 2005
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Oxford, UK, August 8-9, 2005
• International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI and La Serena, Chile, May 31, 2005
• Gemini Science Committee—Waikoloa, HI, April 21-22, 2005
• Gemini Operations Working Group—La Serena, Chile, February 7-8, 2005
• Booth #222 at the 205th AAS Meeting—San Diego, CA, January 9-13, 2005
• International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI and La Serena, Chile, November 29, 2004
• Gemini Science Committee—Waikoloa, HI, October 12-14, 2004
• Presentation on “8-m Class Telescopes and their Instrumentation” at the Local Area Workshop on Ground-Based Optical/IR Astronomy in the 21st Century—Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 8, 2004
• NGSC Retreat—Chapel Hill, NC, September 11-12, 2004
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Sydney, Australia, August 3-4, 2004
• International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI and La Serena, Chile, June 1, 2004
• National Gemini Offices Meeting—Victoria, Canada, May 27, 2004
• Gemini Science Conference 2004 —Vancouver, Canada, May 23-26, 2004
• Presentation on “Instrumentation in the System” at “Building the System from the Ground Up: 2nd Community Workshop on the Ground-Based Optical/IR System”—Alexandria, VA, May 13-14, 2004
• NGSC GNIRS Key Science Opportunity Webcast—Tucson, AZ, March 16, 2004
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Waikoloa, HI, February 5-6, 2004
• Booth #217 at the 203rd AAS Meeting—Atlanta, GA, January 5-8, 2004
• International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI and La Serena, Chile, December 1, 2003
• Gemini Science Committee—La Serena, Chile, October 13-14, 2003
• US Gemini Science Advisory Committee—Chapel Hill, NC, September 25-26, 2003
• NGSC Proposal and Instrumentation Webcast—Tucson, AZ, September 17, 2003
• Presentation on US Gemini Observing Opportunities—Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, September 12, 2003
• Gemini Operations Working Group—La Serena, Chile, August 11-13, 2003
• Gemini Next-Generation Instrumentation Workshop—Aspen, CO, June 27-28, 2003
• International Time Allocation Committee—Hilo, HI, June 9, 2003
• Future Instrumentation for the Gemini 8-m Telescopes: U.S. Perspective in 2003—Tempe, AZ, May 30-31, 2003
• Gemini Operations Working Group—Tucson, AZ, February 10, 2003
• KAOS (A Wide-Field MOS Concept for Gemini) Science Working Group Meeting—Hilo, HI and Tucson, AZ, January 23-24, 2003
• Booth #216 at the 201st AAS Meeting—Seattle, WA, January 5-9, 2003

NGSC Instrument Reviews

• NICI pre-Ship Acceptance Tests - Hilo, HI, September 18-22, 2006
• NGSC Quarterly Review of Near-IR Coronagraphic Imager (NICI)—Hilo, HI
  • 2006 - April 5, July 26
  • 2005 - December 13, August 18, May 6
  • 2004 - December 10, August 27, May 20, February 13
  • 2003 - November 7, August 6, May 1, January 15
• FLAMINGOS-2 pre-Ship Acceptance Tests - Gainesville, FL, December 15-18, 2008
• NGSC Quarterly Review of FLAMINGOS-2—Gainesville, FL
  • 2008 - January 30, May 7
  • 2007 - January 12, April 12, July 26, October 22
  • 2006 - March 6, June 21, October 10
  • 2005 - December 7, August 23, May 18, February 2
  • 2004 - October 25, July 8, April 2
  • 2003- December 12, August 22, January 30
• FLAMINGOS-2 Critical Design Review—Gainesville, FL, August 20-21, 2003
• NGSC Quarterly Review of GNIRS—Tucson, AZ, March 25, 2003

NGSC/Gemini/Partners Workshops

• NOAO Workshop on the Reduction of Gemini AO Data—Tucson, AZ, February 26-27, 2001
• MCAO Science Workshop—Santa Cruz, CA, October 23-25, 2000
• South American Operations Workshop: Science with Gemini—Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 8-10, 1997

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The NGSC represents U.S. scientific, technical, and instrumentation interests in the international community of the Gemini project. The NGSC is a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).

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