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Welcome!
The seventh OPTICON Gaia Science Alerts workshop will be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, 7-9 December 2016.
The topics this year include:
- present and discuss scientific results from the Gaia Alerts so far
- discuss further scientific drivers and dedicated topics from Gaia Alerts (TDEs, microlensing events, SNe, CVs)
- discuss synergies between major large-scale transient surveys in order to maximise the scientific outcome of the Gaia Alerts
- present the status and the organisation of the H2020 OPTICON follow-up network
- receive feedback from the users to Gaia Alerts
- discuss and recognise future steps in improving the follow-up programmes
Workshop Organising Committee
Workshop Organising Committee:
- Peter Jonker (SRON)
- Morgan Fraser (Dublin)
- Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge)
- Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON)
- Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw)
