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Meetings

May 14th, 2008

This meeting was recorded with EVO. This is a tar file May14_evo.tar

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(you will need EVO to play these files). Minutes here pdf

• GLAST news and launch information update (Julie McEnery)
• Collaborative efforts (Moderator: Gino Tosti pdf ):
  • MW campaigns
    (summary of planned campagins, ToO thresholds, ...)
  • Blazar monitoring and alerts
    (GLAST alerts for known TeV sources/candidates on a best effort basis?, E > 1 GeV data monitoring?, Whipple, optical programs, communication channels)
  • Proposals to be submitted to major observatories (Spitzer, Chandra, XMM, Suzaku, NRAO, ...) (are we willing to submit joint proposals for greater chances of success?)
• Policy issues (Moderator: Dave Thompson):
  (not addressed in the first part of the meeting), including:
  non-exclusivity, publication policy, confidentiality and conflict resolution.
• Moving forward
  • Logistics (communication channels, data formats, etc...)
  • Building up on the 2007 MW workshop at Addler Planetarium (Chicago).
  • Suggestions and action items

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