Please distribute this to the members of your department. SECOND ARC 3.5-M INSTRUMENTATION AND SCIENCE WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 19, 20 1997 SUNSPOT VISITOR AND EDUCATION CENTER THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT. This message includes: - sign up info for those who have not signed up - request for travel info for those who want local transportation - current list of participants - topics on the agenda - request for science or instr presentations - PLEASE UPDATE INFORMATION FOR YOU LISTED BELOW. This is the third announcement for the fall 1997 meeting, which will be held at the new Sunspot Education and Visitor Center near APO. Meeting logistics: Lodging for is available in the NSO facilities at Sunspot. If we fill these rooms, we will need to use hotel space in Cloudcroft. Transportation from the El Paso airport to APO takes about 2.5 hours. NMSU will arrange for a van to transport people back and forth, but only on the day before the meeting and the Sunday. This may require some waiting at the airport or an early rise on Sunday. The status of your transportation is indicated below. NMSU will sponsor some of the local expenses for meals and lodging at Sunspot. Please return the following information to astro@nmsu.edu or rwalterb@nmsu.edu if you have not already done so, or if you want to update the information. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET SIGNED UP (SEE LIST BELOW), PLEASE FILL OUT, CUT OUT AND SEND IN: RETURN BEFORE AUGUST 31 1997 Name: I want to attend the ARC 3.5-m workshop? Yes/No I would like to give a brief presentation on a. instrumentation/hardware Yes/No topic: b. science Yes/No topic: I suggest that we definitely discuss the following topic at the meeting: I plan to rent a car Yes/No I would prefer an NMSU van, if possible Yes/No I would prefer to stay in a Sunspot dorm, if possible? Yes/no If necessary, I can stay (and pay for) a hotel in Cloudcroft Yes/No I would be willing to share a room in that case Yes/No Any other comments: Direct questions or comments to Rene Walterbos (rwalterb@nmsu.edu) ***** FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS, WHO WOULD LIKE A RIDE IN THE VAN: Arrival time to El Paso airport and flight number for September 18: Departure time from El Paso airport and flight number for September 21: CURRENT LIST OF PARTICIPANTS: (please send updated information, if necessary) Van Presentation? Hotel/ dorm Briggs, John, Univ of Chicago ? no Chanover, Nancy, Goddard Space Flight Center ? yes Duncan, Doug, Univ of Chicago ? yes Gillespie, Bruce no ? Geha, Marla, New Mex State Univ no ? Heckman, Tim, Johns Hopkins Univ no no hotel Hobbs, Lew, Univ of Chicago no yes maybe Hoopes, Charles, New Mex State Univ no no dorm Lugger, Phyllis, ? yes Lutz, Julie, Wash State Univ ? yes Mason, Paul, NMSU no yes dorm Rauscher, Bernard, Univ of Durham ? yes Richards, Gordon, Univ of Chicago yes yes dorm Secker, Jeff, Wash State Univ ? yes Strauss, Michael, Princeton Univ yes no yes Stubbs, Chris, Univ of Washington ? ? Szkody, Paula, Univ of Washington yes dorm Turner, Ed, Princeton Univ no yes yes Uomoto, Alan, Johns Hopkins Univ yes yes Wallerstein, Univ of Washington ? ? ? Walterbos, Rene, NMSU no yes maybe York, Don, Univ of Chicago no yes hotel AGENDA TOPICS: - ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN RECENT SHUT DOWN - DETAILED STATUS OF 3-YR PLAN, INCLUDING PLANNING FOR FUTURE - STATUS OF NEW SECONDARY - STATUS OF ECHELLE - IMPROVEMENTS TO CURRENT INSTRUMENTATION - HOW TO FUND NEW INSTRUMENTATION? - SCHEDULING OF THE 3.5-M Short presentations and speakers; we will accept more presentations. Chanover - Planetary science with the 3.5-m Richards - Spectroscopy of FIRST QSOs Lugger - Public Outreach through Adler Planetarium Duncan - Echelle Turner - Gravitational Lens Monitoring and H_0 from APO Uomoto - Instrumentation subject Rauscher - Collaboration with Univ of Durham on instrumentation projects Lutz - Science topic Mason - ARC observations of accreting binaries Walterbos - Discovery of Candidate Luminous Blue Variables in M31 with DIS Szkody - Results of Monitoring Campaigns with DIS and Satellite observations York - Echelle APO APO APO APO APO Apache Point Observatory 3.5m APO APO APO APO APO This is message 164 in the apo35-general archive. You can find APO the archive on http://www.astro.princeton.edu/APO/apo35-general/INDEX.html APO To join/leave the list, send mail to apo35-request@astro.princeton.edu APO To post a message, mail it to apo35-general@astro.princeton.edu APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO APO