All, We’re happy to report that the MAVIS project was kicked off at ESO (Garching) on Jan 31 & Feb 1, 2019. The meeting was very successful, with about 20 consortium members and 7 ESO representatives. We also had a pre-kickoff meeting on Jan...

Following the successful MAVIS Phase A bid, we are very happy to release the wonderful collection of MAVIS White Papers to the public. Please follow this link to access the individual papers. A HUGE thanks goes to the many scientists from around ...

For confidentiality reason, these lists have been transfered to our internal wiki.

The ANU and INAF posted Press Releases on MAVIS on December 7. Here is the ANU one, and here the INAF one. The Aussie one is very Aussie-centric, not unexpectedly. This is quite important for us in Oz and we’re proud of it. These were picked up ...

Today, we just received notice from ESO that our bid was successful. MAVIS goes into phase A. Now the real work starts. We need also to sign the agreement with ESO (which should hopefully not take too long, as we have already ironed out the legal...

Because the ESO proposal is now due September 14 (delayed with respect to the originally anticipated mid-July), the due date for the white papers has been postponed to July 15 (from June 15). Instructions for white paper submission can be found h...

We have brand new mailing lists. In addition to the general mavis.team@mavis-ao.org, we also have mavis team addresses for each institutes. In alphabetical order: mavis.team.aao@mavis-ao.org mavis.team.anu@mavis-ao.org mavis.team.arcetri@ma...

The call for proposal for a VAOI (Visible Adaptive Optics Imager) is out; I received it today (one day after the workshop). Important dates are as follow: Acknowledgement to ESO due 25 May Questions to ESO deadline: 5 September Proposal du...

Thanks and congratulations to all for a very successful and productive workshop. Below are a few pictures. Feel free to send me photos if you have any that you want to share. Click on an image for the original size version.

The MAVIS workshop is almost upon us! The workshop in numbers, with two days to go: 52 participants turning up at the workshop, including a 15 participants from overseas. Remote connections possible, with 6 people who will be presenting/att...

Current list of MAVIS White Papers and topics Last updated 2018/04/30. To allow collaboration and coordination, this page provides a list of proposed topics for MAVIS White Papers received so far, along with the lead author, and list of co-autho...

JUNE 14, NEWS: The date for the white paper has been extended to July 15, 2018. (Copy of a letter sent to the ASA exploder on 11 April 2018). See also the current list of white papers in this post. Dear Colleagues, We are writing to solicit Whi...

There is a new “About MAVIS” static page that gives some details about the project. Richard and I have also been working on a fact sheet. Logo idea (with inverted too):     or the squa...

Recently we realised that we need to do a better job at advertising MAVIS to the community. Especially the Aussie community. Richard and I put together this talk, that we showed yesterday to the SAMI science group that were gathering here at Strom...

I have set-up a website for the upcoming MAVIS Science and Instrumentation Workshop. I also finally sorted out the domain name issue: MAVIS has now its own domain name, mavis-ao.org. I have bought the domain for one year, so I should remember to r...

MAVIS has a new website, including a blog! You are looking at it right now. A blog is a nice tool to announce news, new development, things of interest. My experience is that it help keeping the team motivated and gives a sense of unity. This is ...

MAVIS has a Project Scientist for Australia: Dr Richard McDermid, from Macquarie University. Dr. Richard McDermid is an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. His research field is primarily galaxy formation and evolutio...

We had our first MAVIS science workshop on 27 november 2017 at Mt Stromlo. Agenda Jon Lawrence and Francois Rigaut, “General Introduction about MAVIS, AAO and ANU capabilities” Geraint Lewis, “Halos, Streams & Shells” Karl Klazebrook, ...

Jekyll supports the use of Markdown with inline HTML tags which makes it easier to quickly write posts with Jekyll, without having to worry too much about text formatting. A sample of the formatting follows. Tables have also been extended from Ma...

Jekyll supports the use of Markdown with inline HTML tags which makes it easier to quickly write posts with Jekyll, without having to worry too much about text formatting. A sample of the formatting follows. Tables have also been extended from Ma...