(Almost five years into the project, we finally had our first ever busy week in Australia! I bet our European MAVIS team members had been expecting that for a while.)
The MAVIS team has had its first busy week with participants from all over the consortium since the start of COVID. A busy week is an event in which a large fraction of the team gets together in one physical place and works exclusively on the project for an extended period of time (in that case, a week). The format is a bit like a workshop or a summer school, except people attend to work rather than learn. There is usually a handful of plenary sessions, and a number of parallel split sessions - up to four in our case.
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The MAVIS team is pleased to announce that the project has successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters (and online) on March 30, 2023, pending completion of a few actions. The team has received high praise from the ESO review board for the quality of the documentation, as well as our collaborative spirit and professionalism. More that 60 documents were delivered 7 weeks prior to the review date and we received close to 500 RIXes.
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We just had an Australian-team only three day retreat (“mini busy week”) in Gerringong, on the NSW coast, about mid way between Sydney and Canberra. It was very good to be able to see each other again after more than two years. These three days were very productive, with a focus on getting ready for the production of the final PDR documents.
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Following the very successful MAVIS Online Science Workshop in July, all talks are now available online!
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ESO agreement signed: check.
Kick-off meeting: check.
Media release from ESO, Australia (ANU/MQ/AAL) and INAF: check.
Good things come to those who wait.
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In the process of creating/gathering graphics resources for the media release that is going to go along the agreement signature, we have a few more goodies. Feel free to use at will.
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We are please to announce the 2021 MAVIS Science Workshop, which will be fully online, scheduled for July 5-8th!
This workshop aims at bringing together the scientific community and discussing the key science cases where MAVIS will have a strong impact due to its unparalleled capabilities, as well as identifying the areas where it will provide unique synergies with existing and forthcoming facilities such as ELTs and JWST.
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A little bit of a project update for those interested: Oz in Summer, Busy week and agreement updates.
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MAVIS has a large footprint at the Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation conference. We lined up 12 papers on various aspects of the system, based on the phase A study. Here is the complete list and the links to the paper’s PDFs:
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[This is the web version of the paper published at SPIE 2020; Another crucial resource is the Science Case, available at the arXiv]. This paper has many authors (essentially the entire MAVIS phase A crew).
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Very long time we have not updated this blog. There are lots of news, all positive, that we are excited to share with you.
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The MAVIS team is putting an end to the phase A documentation review. It’s been a while we know that there is significant interest in the community for additional instruments. The selected instrumentation covers the largest possible fraction of the science case, but not all. There is space for additional instrumentation, or for specialised instrumentation to cover specific needs.
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So many things happened since the last post, and yet like so may websites, this one fell into neglect because its maintainers were busy doing other things!
The Kioloa busy week took place from March 6 to 10, 2020. 10 months after the first busy week, and the last post on this blog! In the meantime, we’ve seen many progress in the design, a successful mid-term review with ESO, a coalescence of the design, the start of covid-19, etc.
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The busy week was proposed (by Stefan Stroebele) at the Kick-off meeting as an effective way to boost activity and communication. It was decided to have two busy weeks during the phase A, the first one in Europe early in the phase A (05/2019) to kick start the project and the second one in Australia close to the end of the phase A (02/2020) to work on the final phase A document writing. The Asiago Observatory, managed by INAF - Padova Observatory and University of Padova, was picked for the first busy week.
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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.
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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.
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For confidentiality reason, these lists have been transferred to our internal wiki.
The ANU and INAF posted Press Releases on MAVIS on December 7.
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Today, we just received notice from ESO that our bid was successful. MAVIS goes into phase A.
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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).
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