RadioNet European Radio Astronomy Software Forum:
The First Software Forum Meeting
On Tuesday to Thursday, March 1 - 3, 2005
at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK
Topic: Coding platform, review existing projects, non-isoplanatic patch effects, dynamic range limits, parallel processing, VO
Date: March 1 - 3, 2005
Time: 12:00 to 12:00
Programme: ProgrammeFirstSoftwareForumMeeting
Proceedings: ProceedingsFirstSoftwareForumMeeting
Who has registered? (look at the RegistrationFormFirstSoftwareForumMeeting)
Registration
Please add yourself to our RegistrationFormFirstSoftwareForumMeeting.
Hotel
- We have booked rooms at the Premier Travel Inn, Manchester Airport
South, Racecourse Road, Wilmslow
(formerly called the Boddington Arms), telephone: +44 870 990 6506.
For location see http://www.travelinn.co.uk/TI/index.jsp?page=inn&id=405
The hotel is at the NW corner of Altringcham Rd and Racecourse Rd. If you need to change your booking, please contact the hotel directly andadvise Janet Eaton (je@jb.man.ac.uk).
Travel information
- For those arriving via Manchester airport on Feb 28th you can reach the hotel by taxi for about 15 GBP or by a 7 min direct train journey that departs hourly or more frequently from the airport to Wilmslow station for 1.75 GBP, then a 1.5 km taxi ride from the station to the hotel.
See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ or http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en . For those arriving via Manchester airport on March 1st you should make your way directly to Jodrell Bank by taxi. Cost is about 30 GBP. For travel between the hotel and meeting each day we are providing a bus. For return travel from Jodrell Bank to Manchester airport at the end of the meeting, taxis from Jodrell Bank will be arranged. Cost is about 30 GBP. A guide how to reach Jodrell Bank from Manchester Airport
can also be found on the JBO webpage: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/contact/map.html.
Meals
- Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided at Jodrell Bank.
The conference dinner is on the evening of March 2nd: ConferenceDinnerFirstSoftwareForumMeeting On the evening of March 1st you will be brought back to the hotel after the meeting and will be free to find a restaurant in town.
Important Dates
06.01.2005 First Announcement, registration open
01.02.2005 Second Announcement
15.02.2005 Accommodation booking deadline
01.03.2005 Meeting start
03.03.2005 Meeting end
Financial Support
Details are here: FinancialSupportFirstSoftwareForumMeeting
Announcements
First announcement: FirstSoftwareForumMeetingAnnouncement1.txt
Second announcement: FirstSoftwareForumMeetingAnnouncement2.txt
Final announcement: FirstSoftwareForumMeetingAnnouncement3.txt
LOC:
Janet Eaton
JBO
Tom Muxlow
JBO
Anita Richards
JBO
SOC:
John Conway
OSO
Garrelt Mellema
ASTRON
Tom Muxlow
JBO
Tom Oosterloo
ASTRON
Cormac Reynolds
JIVE
Anita Richards
JBO
Alan Roy
MPIfR