The AstroGrid Science Advisory Group

The Science Advisory Group has been constituted to advise the project on scientific priorities as AstroGrid progresses through it's development Phase B. It will also consider future scientific priorities for the longer term development of AstroGrid and the UK's Virtual Observatory. The Science Advisory Group has these Terms of Reference. The AGSAGMembership to run until the end of the AstroGrid project (end 2007), represents the wide range of science areas to which AstroGrid will provide capabilities, thus Astrophysics, Solar Physics, and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

The BetaTesting pages give an overview of AstroGrid deliverables and capabilities from the astronomer end user point of view.

The AGSAG has/will have the following meetings:

• AG-SAG Meeting 1: 19 June 2003: IoA, Cambridge
• AG-SAG Meeting 2: 09 September 2003: Birmingham
• AG-SAG Meeting 3: 12 February 2004: Imperial College London
• AG-SAG Meeting 4: 17 September 2004: IoA, Cambridge
• AG-SAG Meeting 5: 07 February 2005: Glasgow
• AG-SAG Meeting 6: 25 May 2005: UCL
• AG-SAG Meeting 7: 08 Sep 2005: Hertfordshire
• AG-SAG Meeting 8: 02 Feb 2006: Sussex
• AG-SAG Meeting 9: 12 Jun 2006: BAS, Cambridge
• AG-SAG Meeting 10: 28 Sep 2006: ICC, Durham
• AG-SAG Meeting 11: 5 Feb 2007: UCL, London
• AG-SAG Meeting 12: 12 Jun 2007: Imperial College London
• AG-SAG Meeting 13: 5 Nov 2007: Soton
• AG-SAG Meeting 14: 19 May 2008: IoA, Cambridge
• AG-SAG Meeting 15: 17 Sep 2008: Imperial College London

Developing Example Science Cases

• GouldBelt
• Geoeffectiveness of CMEs
• Theory Movies
• Helioseismology
• Galactic plane PN distributions
• Type 2 QSO's

Tools Call Progress

• High Redshift (Prema)
• Newly Reduced Hipparcos Astrometric Catalogue

-- NicholasWalton - 30 Apr 2008