SALT Workshop

:: VENUE

Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Goettingen

22 May 2008

SALT development White Paper discussions:
- future science drivers
- key programs
- future instruments
- potential telescope enhancements
- future observing modes
SALT Status presentations and Q&A
- current perfromance
- near term timetable of developments
- instrument updates
- initial results. We encourage PIs to give 10-15 min summaries of any SALT results they may like to present, whether they be scientifically or technically interesting (e.g. characterizing performance)
SALT Users Tools: demos & tutorials
- writing proposals
- the PI Proposal Tool manager and webmanager software simulation tools
- the SALT Pyraf pipeline reduction tools

1.	Overview of SALT Status	(09:00 - 09:30)
	David Buckley, SALT Project Scientist & Astronomy Operations Manager
2.	The Robert Stobie Spectrograph	(09:30 – 09:45)
	Ken Nordsieck, Principal Investigator, University of Wisconsin
3.	New Instrument Initiatives	(09:45 – 10:30)
	David Buckley et al.
4.	Coffee break	(10:30 – 11:00)
5.	Instrumentation “White Paper” discussions	(11:00 – 12:30)
	David Buckley, SALT Project Scientist & Astronomy Operations Manager
6.	Lunch break	(12:30 – 13:30)
7.	Overview of the SALT Proposal Tools (PIPT)	13:30 – 14:00)
	Christian Hettlage, SALT Software Engineer
8.	Overview of the SALT Webmanager browser tool	(14:00 – 14:30)
	Tim-Oliver Husser, SALT Software Engineer
9.	Overview of the SALT Data Reduction Pipeline	(14:30 – 15:00)
	Steven Crawford, SALT Data Manager
10.	Coffee break	(15:00 – 15:30)
11.	Demonstration of items 7, 8 & 9 and hands-on tutorial	(15:30 – 17:30)