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 (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. Morgan Fraser [O]
11. Lina Tomasella
12. Heather Campbell [O]
13. Stefano Benetti
14. Andrea Pastorello
15. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
16. Nic Walton [O]
17. Christian Knigge

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. Danny Steeghs [O]
15. Matthew Schurch [O]
16. Thomas Wevers [S][O]
17. Rob Fender
18. Christian Knigge

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
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

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. Andreja Gomboc
12. Morgan Fraser [O]
13. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
14. Ashish Mahabal
15. Nic Walton [O]

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

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

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

GSAWG9: Spectroscopic Follow-Up

1. Simon Hodgkin (PI INT spectroscopy programme) [O]
2. Lina Tomasella
3. Stefanie Komossa
4. Danny Steeghs
5. Andreja Gomboc
6. Cecilia Farina
7. Morgan Fraser [O]
8. Nadia Blagorodnova [O][S]
9. Nic Walton [O]

GSAWG10: Photometric Follow-Up

1. Lukasz Wyrzykowski
2. Andreja Gomboc
3. Liam K Hardy [O][S]
4. Ulrich Kolb [O]
5. Peter Wheatley
6. Cecilia Farina
7. Ashish Mahabal