Working groups

Tentative list of Working Groups with people interested to be part of them. Please email LW if you would like to be added to any of the groups. Soon the pages below will become the workplace for each of the WGs. Email LW if you want to obtain the credentials to edit the wiki pages.

The numbers indicate the order of joining the group. Volunteers for leading the group are marked in bold.

[O] - happy to observe [S] - student

Link to INT spectroscopy proposal I/2014A/4 (submitted 15/9/2013): PDF

Link to WHT spectroscopy proposal W/2014A/31 (submitted 15/9/2013): PDF

GSAWG1: Supernovae (Core collapse, 1a)

1. Simon Clark
2. Eran Ofek
3. Stephen Smartt
4. Mark Sullivan [O]
5. Sjoert van Velzen [O]
6. Patricia Whitelock
7. Andrzej Pigulski
8. Massimo Turatto
9. Lukasz Wyrzykowski [O]
10. Michel Dennefeld [O]
11. Morgan Fraser [O]
12. Lina Tomasella
13. Heather Campbell [O]
14. Stefano Benetti
15. Andrea Pastorello
16. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
17. Nic Walton [O]
18. Christian Knigge
19. Paolo Mazzali
20. David Bersier
21. Rob Barnsley
22. Philip James
23. Sergey Koposov

GSAWG2: CVs and XRBs

1. Simon Clark
2. Peter Jonker [O]
3. Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
4. Ulrich Kolb
5. Richard Busuttil
6. Boris Gaensicke [O]
7. Retha Pretorius
8. Andrzej Pigulski
9. Stuart P Littlefair [O]
10. Chris Copperwheat
11. Peter Wheatley [O]
12. Stephen Potter
13. Elme Breedt [O]
14. Michel Dennefeld [O]
15. Danny Steeghs [O]
16. Matthew Schurch [O]
17. Thomas Wevers [S][O]
18. Rob Fender
19. Christian Knigge
20. Vik Dhillon
21. Phil Charles

GSAWG3: Microlensing

1. Eran Ofek
2. Rachel Street
3. Lukasz Wyrzykowski
4. Martin Dominik

GSAWG4: Young Stars

1. Aleks Scholz [O]
2. Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
3. Chris Davis
4. Michael Smith
5. Dirk Froebrich [O]
6. Philip Lucas
7. Tigran Magakian
8. Suzie Ramsay
9. Steve Longmore
10. Carlos Contreras
11. Tim Naylor [O]
12. Darryl Sergison
13. Laszlo Szabados
14. Cecilia Farina [O]
15. Joao Alves
16. Tim Gledhill
17. Timo Prusti

GSAWG5: AGNs and TDEs

1. Paul O'Brien
2. Norbert Schartel
3. Peter Jonker [O]
4. Helene Sol
5. Stefanie Komossa
6. Stephen Smartt
7. Mark Sullivan [O]
8. Sjoert van Velzen [O]
9. Stephen Potter
10. Elme Breedt [O]
11. Michel Dennefeld
12. Andreja Gomboc
13. Morgan Fraser [O]
14. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
15. Ashish Mahabal
16. Nic Walton [O]
17. Werner Zeilinger
18. Carole Mundell
19. David Bersier
20. Shiho Kobayashi
21. Stefano Benetti
22. Sergey Koposov

GSAWG6: GRBs

1. Paul O'Brien
2. Stephen Smartt
3. Mark Sullivan [O]
4. David Alexander Kann
5. Matthew Schurch [O]
6. Andreja Gomboc
7. Jure Japelj
8. Neil Gehrels
9. Carole Mundell
10. Paolo Mazzali
11. David Bersier
12. Shiho Kobayashi
13. Stefano Benetti

GSAWG7: Be stars, R CrB stars, other rare events

1. Simon Clark
2. Patrick Tisserand
3. Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
4. Boris Gaensicke
5. Patricia Whitelock
6. Andrzej Pigulski
7. Peter Wheatley [O]
8. Laurent Eyer
9. Matthew Schurch
10. Laszlo Szabados
11. Andrea Pastorello
12. Rob Barnsley
13. Pavel Koubsky
14. Yves Frémat

GSAWG8: Gaia Alerts Processing and Infrastructure

1. Simon Hodgkin [O]
2. Dafydd Wyn Evans
3. Francesca De Angeli
4. Giorga Busso
5. Marco Riello
6. Anthony Brown (DPAC chair)
7. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
8. Patrick Burgess
9. Laurent Eyer
10. Timo Prusti (ESA: Gaia Project Scientist)
11. Sergey Koposov

GSAWG9: Spectroscopic Follow-Up

1. Simon Hodgkin [O]
2. Lina Tomasella
3. Stefanie Komossa
4. Danny Steeghs
5. Andreja Gomboc
6. Cecilia Farina [O]
7. Morgan Fraser [O]
8. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
9. Nic Walton [O]
10. Chris Davis
11. David Bersier
12. Werner Zeilinger

GSAWG10: Photometric Follow-Up

1. Lukasz Wyrzykowski
2. Andreja Gomboc
3. Liam K Hardy [O][S]
4. Ulrich Kolb [O]
5. Peter Wheatley [O]
6. Cecilia Farina [O]
7. Ashish Mahabal
8. Gabor Marschalko [O]
9. David Bersier
10. Andrzej Pigulski
11. Zbyszek Kołaczkowski
12. Grzegorz Kopacki
13. Przemek Brus
14. Dawid Moździerski
15. Gabriela Michalska
16. Pavel Koubsky
17. Philip James
18. Sergey Koposov