CHANDRA ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER 32


One announcement :

1.   MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES


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Item 1.   MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES
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We want to insure that Chandra users are aware of
this workshop, so our apologies to colleagues who 
may already have received this meeting announcement from 
our sister Great Observatories.  Note that registration
opens Feb 22.


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                FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - 6 February 2006 
           -- MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES  --
 		 May 22-24, 2006      Pasadena, CA
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 The Chandra, HST and Spitzer observatories are sponsoring a workshop to
 be held at the Pasadena Hilton from May 22-24 2006. The primary goal is to
 focus the astronomical community's attention on the scientific priorities
 for the Great Observatories over the next few years. 
 We want to emphasize both joint/multi-mission scientific programs, and 
 programs that lay foundations for the future.  Key questions
 we hope to address are:
 
 * What are the pressing issues of the day?
 * What would we really regret not doing with Chandra/HST/Spitzer before
    the missions end?
 
 The workshop, which will be limited to no more than 120 participants,
 will combine a series review talks, each covering a broad area of
 astrophysics outlined as follows:
 
 
 * Planets and planetary systems
 * Stars: the main-sequence and beyond
 * Nearby galaxies and stellar populations
 * Galaxy formation and the high redshift universe
 * Star formation and the ISM
 * Galaxy clusters and the IGM
 * AGN and QSOs
 * Cosmology
 
 Confirmed speakers include Ed Churchwell, Rob Kennicutt, Megan Donahue, 
 Niel Brandt, and Jim Leibert. 
 
 Each review talk will be mirrored in breakout discussion sessions,
 designed to enable active participation by all attendees. We will also
 hold a panel-led general discussion that will focus on preparing for the
 science programs that will be undertaken by future ground- and space-based
 projects, including ALMA, Con-X, JWST, Herschel, GSMT, VISTA and LSST.
 
 Confirmed panelists include Harry Ferguson, Ann Hornschemeier, Massimo Stavelli
 and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi. Jeff Hayes, the NASA Program Executive
 for Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer, will provide a 'View from Inside the Beltway' 
 on Wednesday morning.
 
 The meeting will also accommodate poster presentations, with time for 
 brief (1 minute) oral summaries.  There will be no plenary contributed 
 talks, although we encourage participants to
 prepare key arguments for the individual discussion sessions. 
 
 For more information please go to:
 http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/mtgs/greatobs.
 Meeting registration will open February 22, 2006.
 




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