General information:
The workshop will take place in Wrocław from August 31 to September 2, 2008. Wrocław is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Poland, located in southwestern Poland, upon the Odra river. It is the economical, cultural and intellectual capital of Lower Silesia. It is famous for the many tributaries of the Odra, its canals, bridges and its cathedral. The location of Wrocław guarantees convenient air, road and train conections.
The workshop will take place at the lecture room at the Astronomical Institute of the Wrocław Observatory, and/or seminar room at our Lab, Kopernika 11.
The official languages for this conference will be English.
Accommodation:
Participants will be accommodated in theRezydent hotel,Rezydent motel (within the walking distance) andAcademy hotel (15-20 min by the tram No 12). The accommodation will be booked via the LOC of the Workshop (see thetable below).
Those, who stay at the REZYDENT Hotel have the breakfast AND one meal (Lunch or supper) included in the payment.
Those in REZYDENT Motel, have ONLY the breakfast included. They pay respectively less, but can order a meal by themselves at the associated bar/restaurant..
In the Academy hotel, no meals are available, however the location is in the city centre, so many restaurants/bars are around. Refrigerator and the cattle is usually available in the room..
Venue
by plane:
Direct flights to Wroclaw are available from many cities in Europe. For the details of arrivals see:
http://www.airport.wroclaw.pl.
Taxi and buses are available next to the airport.
We advise to take bus No. 406 which operates every 20-30 minutes on weekdays and every 40 minutes on Sundays and disembark at the last stop by the station - the Wroclaw Główny Station (Central Railway Station).
by train:
Wroclaw has three main railway stations: Wroclaw Główny (Central Railway Station), Nadodrze and Mikolajów. We advise you to disembark at Wroclaw Główny Station. For the details see:
http://www.pkp.pl.
The bus and tram stops are available near-by each station.
Wherever possible, we will provide assistance on arrival. Please inform LOC about your arrival day/time in order to arrange to lift you to the hotel.
Please look around for a man holding
STIX-SphinX banner. This will be a taxi driver or PhD student, who will drive you to the hotel. You will not have to pay him directly, but you should pay for this travel to the organizers at some point when you will have Polish currency “Zloty” exchanged (The drive from the airport will cost approx. ~$25). Those foreigners, who arrive by train, please STAY AT THE PLATFORM and look for the approaching man with the banner.
If you do not see a man for a while, please take regular taxi-you will need zlotys. Money Exchange kiosks (24/7) are present at the airport and at the main hall of the Central Railway Station.
Travel to Potsdam by Van
As there are 7 people going there, one 8 people Van appears to small for a comfortable trip lasting ~4-5 hours, especially if luggage included. Therefore, we decided to rent two 6 people vans (www.ricardotaxi.pl/uslugi/ see the photos). Having the two gives also extra “redundancy”. The vans will be waiting on September 2, starting from 11:45, at the REZYDENT Hotel parking and will drive you to the RHESSI Meeting place in Potsdam. All people going to Potsdam are booked at this Hotel. Total price for renting both vans is ~$900.
List of Participants and arrival/departure details known
| Name | from | Arrival | Departure | Stay at (see theinfo) |
|---|
| Benz Arnold | ETH, Switzerland | Sep 01, 14:15 (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 15 |
| Caspi Amir | UCB, USA | Augu 30, 13:10 (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 6 |
| Del Zanna Giulio | MSSL, UK | Sep 01, 10:35 (flight) | Sep 03, 16:20 (flight) | Rezydent motel, room 30 |
| Dennis Brian | GSFC, USA | Aug 30, 08:45 (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 14 |
| Farnik Frantisek | AI CzAS, Czech R. | Sep 01, 11:30 (car) | Sep 02, 12:00 (car) | Rezydent hotel, room 11 |
| Hurford Gordon | UCB, USA | Aug 31, 20:45 (train) | Sep. 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 7 |
| Krucker Säm | UCB, USA | Aug 30, 22:00 (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 21 |
| Kuzin Sergey | FIAN, Moscow | Aug 30, ??:?? (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 (flight) | Academy hotel |
| Lin Bob | UCB, USA | Aug 30, 11:20 (flight) | Sep 02, 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 25 |
| Orleanski Piotr | SRC, Warsaw | Aug 31, 22:00 (train) | Sep 02, 06:30 (train) | Academy hotel |
| Phillips Ken | MSSL, UK | Aug 29, 20:35 (flight) | Sep 06, 11:45 (flight) | Rezydent motel, room 15 |
| Schwartz Richard | GSFC, USA | Aug 30, 08:45 (flight) | Sep 02 12:00 van to Potsdam | Rezydent hotel, room 12 |
| Seweryn Karol | SRC, Warsaw | Aug 30, 22:00 (train) | Sep 01, 14:30 (train) | Guest room SRC |
| Skup Konrad | SRC, Warsaw | Aug 31, 22:00 (train) | Sep 02, 06:30 (train) | Academy hotel |
Programme
Sunday, August 31
Morning, 11:00 - 14:00
Visit to downtown & lunch there (or rest, for those who are in need)
Afternoon Session, 15:00 - 18:00, Seminar room SRC
| Aims of the gathering | Bob Lin, Brian Dennis |
| Discussion of the programme | Availability of people |
Presentation of previous (related to STIX) experiments
| RESIK on Koronas-F | Janusz Sylwester, Mirosław Kowaliński |
| SphinX on Koronas-Photon | Janusz Sylwester |
| SPIRIT & TESIS on CORONAS Missions | Sergey Kuzin |
Monday, September 1
Morning session, 09:30- 13:30, Lecture room IAU
| STIX: Science objectives & instrument description | Säm Krucker |
| Design of STIX grids & their alignment | Gordon Hurford |
| Details of STIX thermal design modelling performed at Warsaw | Karol Seweryn |
| STIX future thermal design needs | Gordon Hurford |
| RF15-I on Interball - X-ray imager | Janusz Sylwester, Marek Siarkowski |
| Techniques for RF15-I grid assembly and alignment | Janusz Sylwester, Zbigniew Kordylewski, Stefan Płocieniak |
| Attenuator calculations at SPD | Marek Siarkowski |
| Test and electronic equipment at SRC hedquarters | Piotr Orleanski |
| Presentation of FPGA circuts for the next possible SphinX Mission | Piotr Podgorski |
Lunch
Afternoon session, 16:30- 19:00, Lecture room IAU
Solar Orbiter viability
| ESA attitude | Arnold Benz |
| NASA attitude | Brian Dennis & Bob Lin |
| National Financial Support for the STIX, with SolO delayed | Frantisek Farnik, Arnold Benz, Janusz Sylwester |
Russian Inter-Helios
| Mission overview | Sergey Kuzin |
| Opportunities for foreign participation | Sergey Kuzin |
| Financial aspects | Sergey Kuzin |
| Summary & Actions | Bob Lin, Brian Dennis, Arnold Benz, Janusz Sylwester |
Dinner (19:30 - 22:00) at The Four Sesons Pub (walking distance, 20 min from the Lab)
Backup subjects:
Flare detection algorithms used in SphinX (Zbigniew Kordylewski, Janusz Sylwester)
Tuesday, September 2
Morning session 09:30-13:30, Lecture room IAU
SphinX
| SphinX tests at XACT and BESSY & their early interpretation | Szymon Gburek, Marek Siarkowski |
| SphinX data formats and data acess | Szymon Gburek |
| Complementing RHESSI database with SphinX and possibly other databases | Richard Schwartz |
| Modelling the SphinX Pile-up: initial results and comparison with BESSY | Marek Siarkowski |
| Modeling the line complex in the range 6-9 keV | Ken Phillips |
| Summary & Actions | Bob Lin, Brian Dennis, Janusz Sylwester, Ken Phillips, Arnold Benz, Frantisek Farnik |
Session on RESIK, recent analysis developments
| Data reduction | |
| DEM & Abundances together | Barbara Sylwester |
| Ar fitting | Ken Phillips |
| CHIANTI uses | Giulio del Zanna |
| Analysis interests & selection of flares | |
| Publication plans | |
LOC
| Name | e-mail | tel |
|---|
| Sylwester Janusz (Chair), SRC | js at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Konopka Elżbieta (Secretary), SRC | ek at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | tel: +4871 348 3238
fax: +4871 372 9372 |
| Bąkała Jaroslaw, SRC | jb at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Falewicz Robert, IAU | falewicz at astro.uni.wroc.pl | |
| Gburek Szymon, SRC | sg at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Kępa Anna, SRC | ak at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Kordylewski Zbigniew, SRC | zk at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Kowalinski Mirosław, SRC | mk at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Mrozek Tomasz, IAU | mrozek at astro.uni.wroc.pl | |
| Podgorski Piotr, SRC | pp at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Pres Paweł, IAU | pres at astro.uni.wroc.pl | |
| Rudawy Paweł, IAU | rudawy at astro.uni.wroc.pl | |
| Siarkowski Marek, SRC | ms at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Sylwester Barbara, SRC | bs at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
| Tomczak Michał, IAU | tomczak at astro.uni.wroc.pl | |
| Trzebiński Witold, SRC | wt at cbk.pan.wroc.pl | |
