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Dear Collegues,
Here is an outline
agenda for the meeting on Monday 4th August in
Conference room CR12 (R68) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. If
anyone would like to attend, and hasn't confirmed with me already, please could
you send me an email tomorrow. Everyone should go to the main gate to enter the
RAL site.
Best
wishes,
Malcolm.
UK-Cina
collaborations: discussion
Monday 4th August
2008
RAL, CR12,
R68
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome
M W Dunlop Overview of
previous UK-China workshop
Current
Kuafu status
Reports on
current collaborations:
M
Lester, M Freeman, I McCree, F Honary, B Lancester, E Prise, A Thomson,
...
Options for the Kuafu mission: A
Fazakerley
Coffee
Discussion: future collaborations and UK support for
Kuafu
17:00-17:30 Summary and
close
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Dear Collegues,
There has been
a suggestion to hold a meeting in the UK to asses potential UK-Chinese partnerships, including the possible involvement in various
Chinese programmes; notably the Kuafu space mission and (Chinese supported)
ground instrumentation. To
assist this discussion, initial reports on existing collaborations could be
made: one focus would be the theme of conjugate measurements in the context
of ground based support for space missions such as Kuafu. The status of the Kuafu
mission is under review in China at the moment, but there remains an
opportunity to contribute UK instruments to the payload, should the mission
proceed. A key event will be the coming Kuafu
symposium in September (2nd announcement attached), during which science aims
and support to the mission from ground based instrumentation will be
explored.
The background
to UK-China involvement (for STP) began with a community meeting held in September
2005, when we set priorities for new mission activities and endorsed
potential involvement in Kuafu (a number of developments since then may have
influenced our community view). A joint
UK-China science meeting on conjugate coordinated
measurements was then held at Cosners house in August 2006 (a brief
report on that meeting, made at the
time, is attached).
This message is to propose that we hold a half day
community discussion at RAL during the
afternoon on the 4th August
(TBC) to explore present and future UK-China science
collaborations and develop a view on
future activities. Please could you indicate your interest in
attending such a meeting by replying to M
Dunlop? Agenda to follow.
Malcolm
Dunlop.
_____________________________________________________________
Prof Malcolm W
Dunlop
Space Sciences
Division, SSTD,
Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory
Chilton,
DIDCOT
Tel:
+44 1235 44 5427
Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX
Fax:
+44 1235 44 5848
United
Kingdom
Email:
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