[Difx-users] DiFX users meeting 2016 pre-announcement

[Chris.Phillips at csiro.au]

?Hi Adam


Sounds good. For me all those dates are currently fine. It would be worth coordinating with Haystack regarding the date of the IVTW meeting - to either hold them back to back or with some separation in time.


Cheers

Chris


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From: Difx-users <difx-users-bounces at listmgr.nrao.edu> on behalf of Adam Deller <deller at astron.nl>
Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2016 2:23 AM
To: difxusers
Cc: jiangwu at shao.ac.cn
Subject: [Difx-users] DiFX users meeting 2016 pre-announcement

Dear difx-users and -developers,

The time has come to start planning the 10th (yes, 10th!) annual DiFX users and developer's workshop.  At Hobart in 2015, we discussed possible venues, and Shanghai was nominated with broad support.  Since the workshop has been held in Europe and Australia three times each, the US twice, and Asia only once so far, it would be appropriate and enjoyable to head to China this year.

Wu Jiang has investigated some options for dates and locations.  The baseline plan would be to hold the meeting in downtown Shanghai (where there observatory headquarters are), which is most convenient for transportation and accommodation.  We could arrange a visit to suburban campus co-located with the Tianman and Sheshan 65m and 25m telescopes on one day.

A visa is required for most visitors to China. No visa is required for ordinary passport holders from Singapore, Brunei and Japan to visit China for up to 15 days for business, sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends or transit.
For more information, please see http://cs.mfa.gov.cn/wgrlh/lhqz/lhqzjjs/, and note that it will be necessary to  prepare your visa application at least 30 days before the entry date to China.

In terms of dates, the meeting has traditionally been held sometime between September and November.  Due to some public holidays and other meetings, the earlier part of this date range is not so convenient.  So we would like to propose 3 options:

October 24-28
November 1-4
November 8-11

In each case, the users meeting would be held during the first two days, and the developers meeting the last three days. If you want to attend the DiFX users and developers meeting this year, can you please respond to this mail with a preferred week or weeks, or any other scheduling conflicts that we may have forgotten about?  If we can collect some responses over the next week or two, it would be nice to select a date soon to allow attendees plenty of time make travel plans and arrange visas etc.  Once the date has been settled, there will be a meeting webpage put up, registration made available, talks solicited, etc etc.

Cheers,
Adam and Wu Jiang

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