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

[Adam Deller]

Thanks Geoff, that's good to know (and argues for one of the November
options, I would think).

Cheers,
Adam

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Geoff Crew <gbc at haystack.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'm told the IVTW is scheduled for Oct 12-14 at Haystack.
>
> --
>
>                 Geoff (gbc at haystack.mit.edu)
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 09:16:40PM +0000, Chris.Phillips at csiro.au wrote:
> >    *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
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >    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 [1]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
> >    --
> >    !=============================================================!
> >    Dr. Adam Deller
> >    Ph  +31 521595785 / Fax +31 521595101
> >    Staff Astronomer, Astronomy Group
> >    ASTRON, Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4
> >    7991 PD Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
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> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. http://cs.mfa.gov.cn/wgrlh/lhqz/lhqzjjs/
>
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7991 PD Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
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