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

Link to NTT spectroscopy proposal ID: 093.D-0856 (submitted 1/10/2013): PDF

Link to PATT Liverpool Telescope spectroscopy proposal ID: PL14A15 (submitted 4/10/2013): PDF

Link to JMU Liverpool Telescope spectroscopy proposal ID: #10 (submitted 4/10/2013) : PDF

GSAWG1: Supernovae (Core collapse, 1a)

1. Nic Walton [O]
2. Simon Clark
3. Eran Ofek
4. Stephen Smartt
5. Mark Sullivan [O]
6. Sjoert van Velzen [O]
7. Patricia Whitelock
8. Andrzej Pigulski
9. Massimo Turatto
10. Lukasz Wyrzykowski [O]
11. Michel Dennefeld [O]
12. Morgan Fraser [O]
13. Lina Tomasella
14. Heather Campbell [O]
15. Stefano Benetti
16. Andrea Pastorello
17. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
18. Christian Knigge
19. Paolo Mazzali
20. David Bersier
21. Rob Barnsley
22. Philip James
23. Sergey Koposov
24. Valerio A. R. M. Ribeiro
25. Ian Skillen
26. Giuseppe Altavilla
27. Mickael Rigault
28. Oliver Vince
29. Goran Damljanovic
30. Philipp Podsiadlowski
31. Seppo Mattila
32. Erkki Kankare
33. Cosimo Inserra
34. Rubina Kotak

GSAWG2: CVs and XRBs

1. Elme Breedt [O]
2. Simon Clark
3. Peter Jonker [O]
4. Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
5. Ulrich Kolb
6. Richard Busuttil
7. Boris Gaensicke [O]
8. Retha Pretorius
9. Andrzej Pigulski
10. Stuart P Littlefair [O]
11. Chris Copperwheat
12. Peter Wheatley [O]
13. Stephen Potter
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
22. Andrew Mason
23. Marian Doru Suran
24. Dumitru Pricopi
25. Alexandru Dumitrescu
26. Valerio A. R. M. Ribeiro
27. Ian Skillen

GSAWG3: Microlensing

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

GSAWG4: Young Stars

NOTE: Wiki pages of this WG are password protected. If you want to join this group please email Chris Davis at Liverpool John Moores University

1. Chris Davis [O]
2. Aleks Scholz [O]
3. Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
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
18. Tom Ray
19. Tae-Soo Pyo
20. Nick Wright
21. Hauyu Baobab Liu
22. Jochen Eisloeffel

GSAWG5: AGNs and TDEs

1. Sjoert van Velzen [O]
2. Paul O'Brien
3. Norbert Schartel
4. Peter Jonker [O]
5. Helene Sol
6. Stefanie Komossa
7. Stephen Smartt
8. Mark Sullivan [O]
9. Stephen Potter
10. Elme Breedt [O]
11. Michel Dennefeld [O]
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
23. Oliver Vince
24. Goran Damljanovic
25. Francois Taris
26. Alexandre Humberto Andrei
27. Poshak Gandhi

GSAWG6: GRBs

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

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
15. Andrew Mason

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
12. Nic Walton (DPAC CU5/CU9 / GST)
13. Lukasz Wyrzykowski

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
13. Philippe Bendjoya
14. Giuseppe Altavilla
15. Mickael Rigault
16. Jean-Pierre Rivet
17. Michel Dennefeld [O]
18. Thomas Wevers [O]

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
19. Philippe Bendjoya
20. Giuseppe Leto
21. Giuseppe Altavilla
22. Oliver Vince
23. Goran Damljanovic
24. Jean-Pierre Rivet
25. Jure Japelj
26. Johanna Jarvis