Please consult the Workshop web page http://www.astron.nl/moon/
The main goal of the workshop is to provide timely input in the programmatic discussion in preparation to the ESA Ministerial Council in 2008. This workshop is aimed both at informing the community about the current status of a European lunar observatory, and to solicit input from the community for the science - specifically related to astronomy and astrophysics - that could and should be done from the moon. Topics that have been discussed in the past range from low-frequency radio observatories to submm-wave, infrared, optical, or high-energy X-ray and gamma-telescopes and particle detectors. Synergies with other experiments, e.g. with a network of seismic sensors or other detectors spread over a part of the lunar surface have also been considered. Nonetheless new and fresh ideas are still welcome.
The workshop will consist of both invited and contributed talks and will leave ample space for discussion. It will begin with a lunch on Thursday, November 23 and will finish with lunch on Friday, November 24, on the premises of EADS in Bremen. It is a busy time and it is no coincidence that other Exploration and Moon-workshops are happening around this date, so it is possible to attend only one day if necessary.
To register, please send an informal email to secretary@lofar.nl or complete the registration text file available on the webpage.
We welcome proposals for talks about potential astronomy to be done from the moon. Technical and theoretical papers are both welcome. Please send a descriptive title to the address mentioned above.
The program of talks will be assembled after November 1, but registration for attending the conference will remain open until the beginning of the conference. The number of participants is limited to about 20-30 people.
There is no registration fee. Hotel rooms can be reserved through the conference secretary. Financial supports for lodging can be given for a few participants - please let us know if you need it.
The address of the venue and descriptions on how to get there can be found at: http://www.eads.com/web/lang/de/1024/content/OF00000000400003/4/24/40669244.html
The venue is directly at the Bremen airport (http://www.airport-bremen.de/) and can be easily reached by public transportation from the main railway station (Take tram line No. 6, destination "Flughafen/Airport", up to the terminus "Hünefeldstraße").
The hotel is within walking distance and can be found at: http://www.atlantic-hotels.de/airport/hotel/flash6.htm
The program of the previous workshop can be found at: http://www.astron.nl/p/lunar_observatories.htm
We do not have a complete mailing list, so please help us by distributing the announcement further.
Looking forward to your active participation.
For the organizing committee:
Heino Falcke & Hartmut Müller
Scientific Organizing Committee: George Miley (Univ. Leiden) Dietrich Lemke (Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg) Leonid Gurvits (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, JIVE) Graham Woan (University of Glasgow) Dietrich Vennemann (ESA) Sebastian Jester (Southampton/Heidelberg)