CORNISH Workshop April '07

The first CORNISH workshop was held mid April 2007 in order to bring together the team for the first time, and to review the initial data from the fledgeling pipeline. Where available, presentation slides have been linked below.


Wednesday 11th April

Slides

10:30 Welcome, Coffee & Tea
11:00 Melvin Hoare (Leeds) Introduction and observational strategy
11:30 Bill Cotton (NRAO) The OBIT reduction algorithms
12:00 Cormac Purcell (Manchester) The data reduction pipeline
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Cormac Purcell (Manchester) Source Catalogue, Properties, Completeness
14:00 Ed Churchwell (Wisconsin) Update on GLIMPSE, MIPSGAL and MAGPIS
14:30 Melvin Hoare (Leeds) IR counterparts in GLIMPSE and 20 cm counterparts
15:30 Break
16:00 Discussion on data products: requirements for the image tiles, source catalogue, artifacts, flags, other data products needed
17:00 Pub
19:00 Dinner at Indian Restuarant

Thursday 12th April

09:30 Stuart Lumsden (Leeds) Searching for YSOs - the RMS experience
10:00 James Urquhart (Leeds) UCHII regions in the RMS survey
10:30 Break
11:00 Discussion on UCHII population in CORNISH, future work
12:00 Phil Lucas (Hertfordshire) UKIDSS Near-IR survey
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Janet Drew (Imperial College London) IPHAS H-alpha survey
14:00 Rob Fender (Southampton) Non-thermal sources and LOFAR
14:30 Discussion on stellar counterparts in CORNISH eg HeAeBe stars, evolved OB stars, WR stars, active stars
15:30 Break
16:00 Jim Hinton (Leeds) HESS TeV gamma ray survey of the plane
16:30 Discussion on high-energy counterparts in CORNISH
17:00 Pub
19:00 Workshop Dinner at University House

Friday 13th April

09:30 Jagadheep Pandian (Bonn) The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey
10:00 Jimi Green (Manchester) The Methanol Maser Multi-beam Survey
10:30 Break
11:00 Toby Moore (Liverpool John Moores) JCMT Plane Survey with SCUBA-2
11:30 Bruce Swinyard (Rutherford Appelton Laboratory) HI-GAL: HERSCHEL galactic plane survey
12:00 Discussion on early stages of massive star formation
12:30 Pub Lunch
14:00 Wrap up discussion: next steps, follow-ups, publications, future surveys
15:30 End