NHSC Open Time Key Program Planning Workshop
Held: KS410 (4th Floor) Keith Spalding Building, CALTECH, Pasadena
Dates: July 18-19 2007

MEETING WEB PAGE: http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Herschel/nhsc_workshop1.html

Wednesday July 18th

8:30-9:00am    Breakfast/Coffee at KS410

9:00-9:05am   Welcome and Introductions (Bill Latter)

9:05-9:10am   Meeting logistics and Helpdesk (Phil Appleton)

9:10-9:50am    Overview of the NHSC - role, policies, and procedures (Bill Latter)

- The Herschel Science Centre
- The Herschel Observatory
- Observatory technical outline
- Observatory level scheduling and constraints (including pointing control system and relevance)
- Summary of observation planning, data processing tools, archive access

9:50-10:30am   Instrument Overview I- HIFI (Pat Morris) (including brief status, technical outline, calibration strategy, observation planning and data products)

10:30-10:40am   Coffee Break (Including introduction of NHSC development team by J. Rector)

10:40-11:20am    Instrument Overview II- Spire (Bernhard Schulz) (including brief status, technical outline, calibration strategy, observation planning and data products)

11:20-12:00am    Instrument Overview III- PACS(Babar Ali) (including brief status, technical outline, calibration strategy, observation planning and data products and parallel PACS-SPIRE modes)

12:00-1:30pm   Lunch (we will suggest some local lunch venues for participants)

1:30-2:00pm    The Reserved Observations List and Overview of Accepted GT Programs (Phil Appleton)

2:00-2:20pm    A Brief Introduction to HSpot (David Shupe)

2:20-2:30pm   Questions and Discussion

2:30-2:45pm   Coffee/Tea Break

2:45-5:00pm   Hands-on Time I with Hspot - Including three semi-structured examples (led by members of the NHSC Instrument Teams)

PACS Demo
SPIRE Demo
HIFI demo did not include a pdf file.

Thursday July 19th

8:30-8:45am   Breakfast/Coffee in KS410

8:45-9:00am   Greetings (George Helou)

9:00-9:20am   Announcements and Discussion (Phil Appleton)

9:20-10:05am    Example Science Cases and AOR Presentations- I HIFI (HIFI team representative)

10:05-10:50am    Example Science Cases and AOR Presentations- II PACS (PACS team representative)

10:50-11:00am   Coffee Break

11:00-11:45am    Example Science Cases and AOR Presentations- III SPIRE (SPIRE Team representative)

11:45am-12:15pm    Proposal Submission and other Community Affairs Issues (Gordon Squires)

12:15-12:30pm   Formal wrap-up of presentations, discussion and feed-back

12:30-1:50pm   Lunch

1:50-5:00pm   Hands-on Time II with Hspot

5pm   END