July 19 – 20, 2010
Venue: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
* Participants:

Japan:
H. Murayama (IPMU)
H. Karoji (IPMU)
H. Aihara (IPMU)
Y. Suto (Tokyo)
M. Doi (Tokyo)
J. Silverman (IPMU)
N. Yasuda (IPMU)
M. Takada (IPMU)
N. Arimoto (NAOJ)
S. Miyazaki (NAOJ)
A. Ueda (NAOJ)
H. Takami (Subaru)
M. Akiyama (Tohoku)
M. Chiba (Tohoku)
T. Sousbie (Tokyo)

France:
J.-P. Kneib (LAM, Marseille)
A. Ealet (CPPM, Marseille)
P. Binetruy (Paris)
S. Katsanevas (Paris)
E. Aubourg (Paris)
P. Antilogus (Paris)

US:
R. Ellis (Caltech)
J. Gunn (Princeton)

UK:
I. Parry (Cambridge)

* Purpose of the meeting

– To set up the plan for PFS (define/discuss the spectrograph requirements; set up a project organisation; discuss the WBS etc)

* Agenda of the meeting (tentative)

Day 1 (July 19): 9:00 – 12:00 14:00 – 17:00

9:00 – 9:30 coffee and the purpose of the meeting (Suto)
9:30 – 10:30 SuMIRe project (Hitoshi Murayama)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30 Imaging survey
    (i) HSC project (Miyazaki)
    (ii) The current status of France-side imaging survey projects (CFHT/LSST/EUCLID) (someone from France side)
      * CFHT-LS and SNLS (Pain)
      * LSST (Antilogus)
      * EUCLID (Ealet)

12:30 – 14:00 lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Scientific requirements on PFS (Takada/Silverman)
15:00 – 15:45 Caltech/JPL/Cambridge WFMOS design (Ellis/Parry/Seiffert)

15:45 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00- 16:20 French contribution of the BOSS survey(Aubourg)
16:20- 16:40 Marseille interest in Future Dark Energy Survey (Kneib)

16:40 – 17:30 Discussion

18:00 – Dinner

Day 2 (July 20):

9:00 – 12:00 The scope of PFS collaboration and budget issues + Subaru community
  – The strategy for PFS survey
  – Princeton’s perspective (Gunn)
  – Perspective in Japan/Subaru community

12:00 – 13:30 lunch

13:30 – 17:00 Discussion session with vide connection with Eric Prieto
(15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break)

  – Instrumentation activities of Marseile group: past, present and future (someone from Marseille side)
  – Proposed contributions to SuMIRe
  – Marseille’s perspective on SuMIRe collaboration
  – What kinds of contributions? In-kind contribution?
  – funding situation or budget status
  – Also discuss general issues on SuMIRe: how the project would work, what will be the management structure in Japan, who would be responsible of what, how the project would be break in smaller manageable units,….