Personal notes from the MC meeting of the COST MP1104 action
Vienna, 10/04/2013

Jan Ryak

Item 4. 

   a. 277 members, 119 persons registered, 22 countries in Action
      (5/11/2012 SK official date of acceptance)
   b. budget status: no meetings in jan,feb due to reimb/budget problem
      2013 budget: 140kEur, 120kEur for science
      63kEur for meetings vienna, zurich, serbia, 
      helsinki ~15persons(12+3kEUR), Florence ~15persons
      22kEur school, 20kEur stsms, 4Eur outreach

      school: 32.5kEur planned for 35 persons 
              -> 
	      38.0kEur alreaady 20->29 students + teachers

      STSMs: 10.3K for 7 persons already used in 1st 2013 call
             2nd call 2013: end - Nov 30, deadline to apply: April 20,
	     answer: Jule 8 time slot July 1 - Nov 30

5. Early Stage Researchs: School, 3 young in 1st call of stsm
   Gender: video interview of girls during the school as a try...

9. Zurich: previous meeting item - definitions+...
   decision: list of polarimetry reduction codes with contacts to the web page

10. 2013: olan
    Belgrade: meeting
    Florence: meeting
    Helsinki: meeting
    coronal polarimetry: Arturo Ariste + Silvano Fineschi
                         PdM + Torino
			 11/2013, Toulouse
			 ~10-15kEur, asking for more the COST office
    Istanbul: MP0905+1104
    School: 32 students, already closed

    2014: 
    meeting on techniques - Frans Snik: Leiden, broad covarage, 2-4/2014, 
                                        max 55 persons, ~20kEur, 
    ASTROPOL 2014: Grenoble, June ~9-13?, minatec, coorganization, 30kEur
    	     	   40 persons
    meeting on modelling - Trujillo, Stepan: Prague, 1st week of May, 15kEur
    X+gamma ray polarimetry: Stockholm autumn 
    ACM conference: polarimetry session Helsinki
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    IAU symposium on polarimetry of Sun and starts - unknown still...
    SPIE astronomy 23-25/6/2014

12. non-COST country istitutions: also USA
    motivation letter to Lamy, he moves further, 
    we can go there for stsm 

next MC meeting: Prague

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TODO: Arturo: astropribor info on super achromatic half waveplates
      Action web: list of instruments - CoMP-S
                  polarimetric definitions from Zurich
      Books: polarized light in Nature
             Gabor book