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John Davies. FP7 Planning Meeting, UKATC June 2006.

OPTICON

FP7 Networking Plans

John Davies

OPTICON Project Scientist


FP6 Networking• Proposal. 39,160 Keuro

11 Networks. Euro 6,680K (17%)

• Contract. 19,200 Keuro

6 Networks. Euro 3,718 (19%)


Management• Clearly needed.

• Distributed model works.

• Impossible to define until. shape/size/membership of consortium is clearer

• Assume FP6 cost *1.25 = 1,500Keuro


ELT Network FP7 Deliverables

– Updated Science case documents (2 over FP7 period)

– Science simulations in each key science area– Regular, small, focussed meetings (~4 per year)– 1 major community science meeting per year


ELT FP7 Network Resources

• Effort– 4 People working full-time on ELT science case

• IMH (lead) + 3 postdoc-level scientists• Distributed around Europe• Coordinated with other FP7 activity (e.g. AO or

instrumentation)• Costs per year

– FTE: ~ 200kE– Meetings: 25kE + (4 x 10kE) = 65kE– Publication of documents: 20kE (e.g. 2 x 50kE over 5 yrs) – Total per year: ~ 285 kE (~1,500 Keuro over FP7)


NUVA (UV-Net) FP6 Progress

Roadmap in good shape and on-schedule:- “Fundamental problems in astrophysics. Requirements for UV

observatories”, Kluwer-Springer, in press.

- Joint Discussion during the IAU GA on the impact of stellar (UV) astronomy on cosmological studies and on the understanding of how life-sustainable systems are generated.

- Conference in “El Escorial”, May 2007 to analyze the instrumentation required to achieve some fundamental goals of modern astronomy.


NUVA FP7 objectives• Identification of the key technologies for future UV

instrumentation.

• Identification of key VO compliant tools for the analysis and interpretation of UV data in connection with other spectral domains.

• Keeping the UV community connected Europe-wide until the end of the HST mission and in the advent of WSO/UV mission.


NUVA FP7 deliverables1. Assessment study of the relevant new

technologies (gratings, narrow band filters, high sensitivity spectral-imaging techniques, integral field spectroscopy, spectropolarimetry).

2. VO tools to analyze UV data and integrate them within the high redshift UV Universe targeted by the 10-m and ELT telescopes (e.g. characteristic structure scales in matter beams from z=0 to z=6-9).


NUVA FP7 Budget & Participants

Meetings 120 keuro

Publications 40keuro

Trips & Conferences 40keuro

-------------------------------------------------------GRAND TOTAL 200 keuro

PARTICIPANTS: PI and budget at UCM (Madrid) otherwise as in FP6


HTRA FP7 Network Costs, PI’s & Participants

• Estimated costs of ~ €192K for 4 to 5 year project

• Networks PI’s– Don Phelan & Andrew Shearer

• Key Participants– HTRA JRA– wider HTRA community including non-EU members


Key Technology Network, FP6 Progress

• Core team – 13 Members, including JRA chairs– 3 Meetings held

• Associate team formed – 26 members• Communications via Email & Twiki web pages• Workshops on

– Optics for ELT Instruments in Rome – published in Astron. Nach.– Deformable Mirrors & WHT test-bed in Paris– Use of WHT as technology test-bed at ESO

• Plenary talk at SPIE 2006 in Orlando on Novel Technology for Optical & IR Astronomy

• Draft Roadmap produced


KTN: Objectives for FP7• Act as focus for Optical and IR Technology

development planning• Use themes or JRAs to feed information in

– JRAs develop their theme networks • Filter this information and form linkages for

added–value R&D• Develop industry links and links to European

space and worldwide R&D programmes


KTN, Deliverables & Costs• Deliverables

– Series of workshops

– Capabilities database

– Updated Technology Roadmaps on 2-yearly cycle

– Developed interactive website for teams

– Public webpages

• Costs

– As in FP6 with adjustment for inflation (315 Keuro)

– Lead Agency UKATC

John Davies. FP7 Planning Meeting, UKATC June 2006.14

FASE. (Future Astronomical Software Environment) FP6 progress

Monthly phone meetings, Semi-annual face-to-face meetings, Documentation and minutes on Twiki Web site

• Three main deliverables:– High-level requirements. ( Draft version available fall 2005, Internal,

written review spring 2006, Final version fall 2006 after community wide review)

– Achitectural concept document ( Draft available spring 2005, Review expected late 2006 with final version early 2007)

– Interface specifications (Draft version in spring 2007 based on proto-type work, Final version after review during fall 2007)

• Documents will be delivered • by end 2007


FASE: FP7 objectives• Next natural step is a basic implementation

of FP6 derived specifications providing:– Single-user, desk-top version with scalability

– Command line execution of application tasks

– Links to Python scripting language

– Easy interface to applications written in C and Fortran

– Access to legacy applications from IRAF, MIDAS, ...

• Deliverables for a FP7 activity would be:– Detailed design and specifications for environment

– User level documentation and tutorials

– Basic implementation of environment as source

code with installation procedures for Linux systems


FASE: FP7 Resources.• Implementation requires actual man-power!

• Estimate of resources (with high uncertainties):– 20-40 FTE for software development assuming

• Major parts of central framework can be obtained from other open source projects (e.g. OpenRTE). This will be checked by proto-types forseen for fall 2006 and winter 2007.

• Environment is made available for a Linux platform only

– 20-50% adminstrative software overhead depending on how distributed the developments will be.

– 10-20 person scientific oversight committee

– With 50% FP7 funding, this suggests at least 1-2 Meuro

• Potential participants

ESO plus Institutes in Germany, Italy, Netherlands

UK, Spain, Finland, and France (plus USA)


Interferometry• Included in Interferometry presentation.

• Natural Continuation of FP6 work

Networking component 575 KEuro


Telescope Directors Forum. FP6 Progress

• Annual Directors Meetings

• Oversight of Access programme

• First steps to Common proposal Software

• Requirements matrix for new members

• Promotion of Access programme in CEE

• Successful Access Office at IAC


TDF. FP7 PlansObjectives

• Continue Annual Directors Meetings and Oversight of Access programme

• More efforts at integration and rationalisation in conjunction with Access programme

Resources • about the same as FP6 + inflation (~200 Keuro) +

cost of access office if required.• Lead agency and budget holders TBD


‘Research Enhancement’. FP6 Progress

• Successfull submission of Marie-Curie program (Neon schools: 6 planned 2005-8)

• Set-up of WG to identify the needs

• Preliminary plans for specialised training workshops in « new observing techniques » (second half of FP6)


EnhancementFP7 Objectives:

• Develop the programme further, with support to observing schools of various types

• More emphasis on life-long training (workshops)• Better use of archives (demos…)• Organise some events in the East of Europe.

FP7 ResourcesLead Agency IAP

Similar to FP6 plus inflation. ~150Keuro


New Outreach NetworkObjectives1. Promote role of OPTICON in

strengthening European Astronomy.2. Form a network of outreach professionals

to share ideas, tools, contacts, resources3. Develop a critical mass of media contacts

across EU so a ‘single button press’ reaches all European media


New Outreach NetworkDeliverables

1. Presence at IAU, JENAM etc backed up by suitable hardcopy (brochures, DVDs).

2. EU wide workshops of Outreach professionals

3. Fire and forget PR ‘cluster munition’


New Outreach NetworkResources

1-2 FTE/year distributed across several sites as ‘part-people’

50Keuro/year consumables/travel

Total ~0.5-1 MEuro

Lead Participants; Project Office (WP1) UKATC (WP2), IAC (WP3)


Second Generation Proposal and Observing Preparation tools

Abstract:• Exploit power of new Web technologies• Standardise European (and World?) pre-observation data models• Build on “Northstar” proposal tool to spread through Opticon and Radionet

partners.• Bring review/referee process into the web-based workflow• Explore possibilities of standards for Observing Preparation.

Proposer: UKATC Partners: ASTRON + TDF USA: NRAO + ?

Funding: € 500000 over 5 years (want enough effort to do something, not just talk about doing something)

In very early stages – discussions with ASTRON next month.


New AO network Described in AO presentation• Two Networks to strengthen an Science-

instrument-AO integrated approach:– AO specification/performance & instrument designs:

150k€– AO facilities performance versus science performance:

150k€

• One specific AO Network: AO workshops/meetings on hot topics: 250k€


Project Office 1500 (Keuro)

ELT 1500

NUVA 200

HTRA 192

KTN 315

FASE 1500

Interferometry 545

TDF 200

Access Admin 400

Enhancement 150

Outreach 750

Proposal tools 500

Adaptive Optics 550

Site Characterisation 250

Solar Network ?

TOTAL 8552 + Solar


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