Trimester report for December 2013 - February 2014 sent to Project officer (Luri, Balaguer)
Preparation of GENIUS content for the 6th call brochure, as requested by Sylwia Borowiecka (Luri, Balaguer)
Meeting at ESAC for the start of the first archive prototype with the Science Archives Team (4th April 2014)- Luri
Prototype archive: follow-up teleconference with CU) WP managers for the prototype preparation (11th April 2014) - Luri, Arenou
200 - User community
Two postdocs recruited for WP 200: Gráinne Costigan and Arkadiusz Hypky. Will start in May and September respectively*
300 - System design
400 - Data Exploitation
450-Community portal
User survey for the design of the GENIUS portal completed (T. Via)
500 - Scientific Validation
520-Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools
Adding to the data model the validation flags for the VTS WP942-VAL-210-0X0 to -260-0X0 (March 2014) - Boudreault
Corrections on the validation test designs for VTS WP942-VAL-210-0X0 to -260-0X0, and comments given to Fabricius+Antiche for VTS WP942-VAL-110-0X0 to -150-0X0 (March 2014) - Boudreault
Developing codes for validation test 210-010, 210-020, 220-010, and 220-030. Developing new codes for validation test 230-010 and 240-010 (March 2014) - Boudreault
Teleconference on validation test designs for WP942-VAL-1X0 and -VAL-2X0 (March 2014) - Antiche, Arenou, Boudreault, Fabricius
560-Transversal tools for special objects
Definition of an engineer post-doc profile and successful selection of a candidate: M. Kudryashova for 24 month at IMCCE, starting in August 2014. The work will be performed within WP560. First step is to acquire expertise in ephemerides computation, Gaia observations of SSOs, and then define the various specific tests (before their design in a second step).
600 - Support
630-Science Alerts testbed
Teleconference on science alerts data model, 14-3-2014 - Luri, Hambly, Hodgkin (on behalf of Nic Walton)