The following was posted to CCD-world: 25 September 2001 Dear IR and Optical Detector colleagues, We write to remind you that the workshop "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy" is reaching the final stages of planning before the formal announcement and call for papers. The workshop is scheduled for June 16-22, 2002 on the island of Hawaii. Workshop participants will stay at a lovely private school and we have scheduled the week to provide a good mix of talks, roundtables, poster sessions, informal discussion time and various interesting and fun activities. Besides the talks and more typical conference fare, we are planning a visit to the telescopes on Mauna Kea, an afternoon at the best snorkeling spot in Hawaii, and use of the school's sport facilities - tennis, football (soccer), swimming, basketball, hiking and horseback riding. We have received confirmation of attendance from nearly all leading manufacturers of optical and infrared detectors and nearly all major astronomical observatories have committed to sending their best and brightest people. We also encourage that your institutions send some of the next generation for the training and networking that this workshop will provide. We are finalizing the details of the schedule and cost and will soon have a Web site for detailed information and electronic registration. Since we will need to place deposits with several local companies months before the workshop, we will request early payment of fees. This workshop is being set up as a "zero cost center" with no profit being made by any organization, so we will be able to keep costs relatively low. Although the final cost has not yet been determined, we are expecting the cost for the complete 6 days, all activities, lodging, meals, proceedings and souvenirs included - will be about $750. We look forward to your participation and will be in touch within a month with the final details. Aloha from warm, sunny and peaceful Hawaii, Jim Beletic and Paola Amico ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- For your information, we attach portions of the original announcement of the workshop that was sent in June, 2001. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- ********************************************** Scientific Detectors for Astronomy June 16-22, 2002 Waimea, Hawaii Hosted by the world's major ground-based observatories and leading manufacturers of optical and infrared detectors Optical and infrared detectors - from UV to 20 microns Workshop format - formal talks, poster sessions, roundtables and large amount of time for informal discussions ********************************************** 28 June 2001 Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce a workshop entitled "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy" to be held in Hawaii in June, 2002. For any of you who enjoyed the "ESO CCD Workshops" in 1993, 1996 and 1999, you will recognize the format. This workshop will cover scientific detectors used by astronomy, in the wavelength range from the UV to 20 microns. We invite presentations on CCDs, CMOS, infrared detectors as well as more novel detectors such as STJs. Although concentration will be on detectors used at ground-based observatories, the workshop will also discuss detectors for space missions. The workshop will have formal presentation sessions as well as poster sessions. In addition, we will have roundtable discussions where participants are encouraged to "bare their souls" and discuss the real challenges faced in our work. (Recall the roundtable on detector contamination at the 1999 ESO workshop.) The greatest value of this type of workshop, however, is the informal interaction between participants, when we have time to get acquainted and discuss in small groups with colleagues. Thus, in addition to mealtime and coffee breaks, the workshop schedule will include "enforced social time" during which we will have receptions and various activities, including sports, a snorkeling trip and a tour of the telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea. I have contacted many of the world's leading observatories and have the commitment of the following institutions to co-sponsor this event: Canadian-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) European Southern Observatory (ESO) Gemini Observatory Institute for Astronomy (U. Hawaii) Lick Observatory National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO) Palomar Observatory Space Telescope Science Institute Subaru Telescope W.M. Keck Observatory Representatives of these organizations have been recruited for the scientific organizing committee. Other institutions are being contacted and are encouraged to participate. In addition, we are very pleased that some of the leaders in detector development have already committed their attendance, including: Richard Bredthauer Barry Burke (MIT/LL) Jim Janesick (from CMOS land) Paul Jorden / Peter Pool (Marconi) Mike Lesser (U. Arizona) Lothar Struder (Max Planck Semiconductor Laboratory) Kadri Vural (Rockwell) We are also confident that representatives will come from: Raytheon SITe LBNL Sarnoff Philips The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed to all conference participants. We may utilize the same publisher (Kluwer) that was used for the ESO CCD workshops, but this has not yet been decided. Paola Amico will join me again to organize the workshop and publish the proceedings, and we welcome the participation of a number of co-editors. The workshop will be held on the campus of the Hawaii Preparatory Academy (www.hpa.edu) in Waimea, Hawaii - the town which is the home of the Keck and CFHT headquarters. Waimea is at an altitude of 2500 feet (760 meters) and the weather is usually very good - cool and dry, although the wind can blow strong at times. HPA is located on a beautiful campus and has a great variety of facilities that will be open to use by workshop participants, including swimming pool, indoor tennis courts, basketball courts, football (soccer) fields, weight room and exercise equipment and computer center. The workshop participants will be housed in the dormitories of the school and all meals will be provided. The workshop will also provide roundtrip transportation from the Kona airport and transportation to all activities that are off-campus. There will be no need for anyone to rent an auto. Workshop participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, June 16 and are invited to an opening reception that evening where we can get reacquainted and exchange greetings before getting down to work on Monday. The workshop and associated activities will continue through Friday evening and participants will be expected to vacate the campus on Saturday, June 22. All costs for the workshop - workshop fee, lodging, meals, workshop proceedings, activities, etc. - will be included in one fee; expected cost is between $650 and $750. When compared to other professional conferences, this is the real deal. (Due to the need for us to give deposits to the venues, we will ask for workshop participants to pay their fee early in 2002.) So, please block out your schedule and reserve your 2002 travel funds for this event. I am excited to see many of my old friends again and I look forward to making new ones. Aloha, Jim Beletic Deputy Director Keck Observatory P.S. Note that the bi-annual SPIE telescope conference is scheduled for August 22-28, 2002 at the Waikaloa Hilton resort on the same island as the detector workshop. However, SPIE has decided to NOT hold a detector conference due to the conflict with our detector workshop. So, if you are into detectors, this detector workshop is the place to be in 2002! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- - -- CCD-world -- -- CCD-world is fully moderated. Send posts to CCD-world@astro.ku.dk Standard replies will go to the list; address personal replies manually. For more information, please go to: http://www.not.iac.es/CCD-world/