ESAC

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http//faculty.esac.esa.int/

• ESAC
• FACULTY
• THIRD ASSEMBLY
• 29 March 2007
• SENTINEL
• VIEWGRAPHS

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THEME
THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE MONEY
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OUTLINE AGENDA

• Introductory remarks Leo Metcalfe
• Brief presentations by current Laura Barragan
  visitors to the Faculty Georgina Benitez de
  la Mora Nuria Fonseca Cynthia
  Gomez Martin
• General status of the Faculty Leo
  Metcalfe (funding awarded, visitor schedule,
  plans, ideas ...)
  
• Status of Sept. Faculty Workshop Stefania
  Carpano preparations
  
• Discussion
  All
• AOB

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• ESAC FACULTY SO FAR

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RECALLING FACULTY PURPOSE MEMBERSHIP
Prime Directive DO SCIENCE Mission Statement
To foster a (more) effective scientific
environment at ESAC. To give a united face to
the scientific work Who constitute the
Faculty All active (i.e. publishing papers)
research scientists at ESAC ESA staff, RFs,
Science Contractors and LAEFF researchers
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CALENDAR

• Proto-faculty May 11 2006
• Established September 30 2006
• First Assembly May 11 2006
• Second Assembly October 19 2006
• Third Assembly March 29 2007
• 5 Jamborees (latest Jan. 25. Tot. 77 spoke/70
  bios on the web)
• 2 remote members participated by
  pre-delivered video
• 9 Council meetings (minutes on web)
• 1 Interfaculty Telecon with ESTEC Faculty
  Executive (Exec)
• 1 Presentation to ASTROCAM consortium at UCM
  meeting
• Help us track new members (8 already for
  Jamboree 6)

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FACULTY OPERATION

• In first months have focused on getting funds
  flowing
• Council meet 1/month to approve funding
  requests
• All funded projects finish with
• short written report of progress during visit
• Ideally presentation of results (seminar)
• eventual products (e.g. refereed papers etc.)

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• CHANCE TO MEET TO OUR
• VISITORS

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WELCOME
Laura Barragan Georgina Benitez de la Mora Nuria
Fonseca Cynthia Gomez Martin
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• FUNDED PROGRAMMES

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FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING
PERCENTAGE OF BUDGET ALLOCATED PER CATEGORY
Visitors Visitors Visitors Establish
ed Ph.D. students Trainees Researchers
Post-Docs.
35 40 10 Elite
seminar Mini-Workshops 5 5 Discr
etionary 5
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FACULTY OPERATION - FUNDING
Follow funding instructions at http//www.rssd.esa
.int/index.php?projectESAC_FACULTYpageinternal_
index THREE STEPS To start the process
? Apply for Faculty funding (text proposal made
to Council) email to faculty_funds_at_sciops.esa.i
nt After approval and 6 weeks before work
starts ? Submit Contract Application Form (1
pg. Word doc.) email to Andy.Pollock_at_esa.int
(cc Leo.Metcalfe_at_sciops.esa.int) On receipt of
contract in mail (or before using the web form)
? Submit Reimbursement Form (Microsoft Excel
format) Signed paper form Faxed to Clare
Bingham (ESTEC) (cc Andy Pollock)
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PROGRAMMES SUPPORTED
Faculty Science Workshop 2007 "X-rays from
nearby galaxies" 5th - 7th Sept. 2007 S.
Carpano (LOC Chair) M. Ehle (SOC
Co-chair) Category Status Initiator Prog.
Cost Topic Workshop (bus) 14/12--15/12 P.
Garcia-Lario 900 W Herschel ASTROCAM
Workshop Workshop (X-ray) 05/09--07/09 Stefania
Carpano 6000 W X-rays from nearby galaxies Nuria
Fonseca 01/02--31/07 M. Guainazzi 2500 T The
radio to X-ray connection in AGN Antonio
Martin 23/04--28/04 M. Kirsch 1340 T Conferenc
e Support for 14th. Laura Barragan
01/11--15/07 E. Kuulkers 2500 T INTEGRAL
Galactic bulge monitoring Daniel
Rosa-Gonz. 11/06--22/06 M. Santos-Lleo 2280 V AGN
and star formation connection Cynthia Gomez
M. 26/03--06/04 D. Barrado 1100 PV Brown dwarfs
in NGC1333 Maria-Pilar Esquej 12/02--23/02 R.
Saxton 1100 PV Galaxies in the XMM slew
survey Gabriele Ponti 21/05--25/05 A-L.
Longinotti 790 PV Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 335
Elisa Constantini 12/03--16/03 A-L. Longinotti
700 V Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 841 Yair
Krongold 15/10--31/10 M. Santos-Lleo 2280 V AGN
photoionized regions spectra Stefano
Bianchi 19/03--23/03 M. Guainazzi 250 V XMM
catalog of radio-quiet AGN Mrclla.
Venezianni 04/02--04/03 F. Piacentini 1600 PV Pol
arization of dust in the Galaxy Ge.Benitez dela
M. 01/02--30/04 P. Garcia-Lario 2100 T multi-l
post-AGB stars and PNe
Total committed to date Euro 25440
W Workshop T Trainee V Visitor PV PhD
Visitor
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PROGRAMMES SUPPORTED
Acknowledgement We acknowledge support from the
Faculty of the European Space Astronomy Centre
(ESAC)
THE COUNCIL IS TOO PREDOMINANT IN THESE FUNDING
REQUESTS !!
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OTHER PROGRAMMES
XMM-Newton 10x500 grants Euro 5000 XMM-Newton
calendar gifts Euro 800 Journal Page
Charges Euro TBD
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• Workshop
• X-rays from nearby galaxies

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FACULTY WEB
http//www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?projectESAC_FA
CULTY We are moving to the RSSD WEB-DB/LiveLink
environment which allows individuals to maintain
components of web interfaces directly ESTEC
Faculty web already there http//www.rssd.esa.int/
http//www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?projectMYPORTA
Lpageindex After a development period the
portal address will change Many thanks to Rod
Bailey for getting us to where we are web-wise
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INTER-FACULTY ESAC ESTEC

• ESAC Council ESTEC Exec. telecon re.
  Inter-Faculty issues
• Research evaluation of staff
• both faculty committees felt strongly that this
  has to be made work within the Annual
  Assessment exercise
• 3rd. Year for RFs
• established joint review board ESTEC/ESAC (4
  persons)
• allocated two 3rd. Year contracts
• next call July 2007
• Biennial Report inputs
• Again coordinated input from LM and Matt Taylor

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THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

• After the jamborees Opportunities to
  collaborate ??
• Criteria for success
• Milestones for Faculty achievement Goals
  performance goals
• 50 vs 20

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AOB

• ESAC Faculty Logo Competition !!!
• looking for ESAC Faculty logo by next Assembly
• input suggestions to faculty_council_at_sciops.esa.
  int
• Council will choose and give a PRIZE for best
  idea

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GENERAL DISCUSSION

• place holder

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