A meeting of the INAF contributors to GENIUS was held at the ASDC on November 4-6 to discuss the roles of the two planned contracts and to share with the whole italian team the respective activities. The schedule for the meeting was: Nov 4: Cross-matching discusion Experience from large catalog matching - Luciano Nicastro; The case study of Gaia matching - Alessandro Spagna ; The procedures being devloped in ASDC - Paola Marese; Nov 5: Interfaces of GENIUS The Trieste VO Dance extension - Marco Molinaro; The IGSL experience - Richard Smart; Validation exercises; Nov 6: Further validation discussions.
Yoshiyuki Yamada atend AGIS #21 on 24-26 Nov. http://wiki.cosmos.esa.int/gaia-dpac/index.php/CU3:Core_Processing:Meetings:AGIS_21#Agenda
Richard Smart travelled to the University of Hertfordshire 2-5/10/2014. In this visit we discussed the various datamining and matching programs used within the IPHAS, VVV and UKIDSS surveys along with possible validation efforts for the first Gaia results with Prof. P. Lucas, H. Jones, the student Leigh Smith and the postdoc Guillem Anglada Escuda. These discussions and procedures have been useful for all the INAF work packages of Genius.