Draft program for the RAVE collaboration meeting in Basel
        (Version Sep 22; still not final)


Friday, September 22, 2006:

Survey status (technical); current technical problems and successes

10:00  Steinmetz/Watson:  Survey status
10:30  Zwitter:  Improvements to the data reduction pipeline
10:40  Siviero:  Current starus of new data extraction and calibration
11:00  Siebert:  In-phase parallel analysis of reduced data

11:20  Coffee break

Plans for DR2

11:40  Zwitter:  DR2    (TBC) 

12:00  Discussion:  DR2 - When and What?   

13:00  Lunch  (sandwiches will be provided)

Stellar parameters and classification


14:00  Munari:   Atmospheric Properties at the RAVE Bright End
14:30  Zwitter:  Degeneracies in classification of RAVE spectra  
14:50  Siebert:  Stellar parameters in the radial velocity pipeline  

Ongoing Science

15:40  Freeman:  Ongoing work of Williams & Freeman

16:00  Coffee break

16:30  Bienayme:  Inclination of the velocity ellipsoid above the 
                  Galactic plane
16:50  Helmi:     Ongoing work in Groningen
17:00  Fulbright: Confirming RAVE Stellar Parameters with
                  High-Resolution Spectroscopy

17:20 - 18:30  EXB meeting

19:30  Joint dinner in Hotel Schluessel


Saturday, September 23, 2006

Scientific interests and future science with the existing instrumentation

09:00  Freeman:   Update on science programs
09:20  Zwitter:  Binary Stars and RAVE
09:30  Veltz:     RAVE results for the thin and the thick disk
09:50  Smith:  Escape Velocity: An Update

10:00  Everyone:  10-min talks...
       Bienayme:  Strasbourg plans
       Grebel:  Basel plans
       ???

10:30  Coffee break

11:00  More 10 min talks
       Vidrih:  Cambridge plans
       Steinmetz:  Potsdam plans
       ??

12:30  Lunch break  (Sandwiches will be provided)

Long-term prospects of RAVE 

14:00  ARGUS, SDSS-III, ...
       Steinmetz, Grebel, ...
15:00  Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

Funding issues, policy, etc. 

16:00  Steinmetz?  
16:30  Discussion: publication and membership rules

17:00  End