LIM@WIS: Less is More at Weizmann Institute of Science

June 7-9, 2010

Participants: Weizmann Institute of Science: Eli Waxman, Avishay Gal-Yam
India: Jayanth Murty, Biswajit Paul
Caltech: E. S. Phinney and S. R. Kulkarni
Israeli Space Agency: Zvi Kaplan (Director General)
Israeli Defence: Ofer Lapid (Defense Research and Development), Noam Ganot (Space Systems Engineer), Amir Perry (Space Systems Engineer)
Israeli Aerospace Industry:
Guests: Professor Amos Breskin (Physics of Professor, WIS; detectors); Professor Michael Hass (Professor of Physics, WIS)


S. R. Kulkarni (Next Generation Transient Facility)
V. M. Kaspi (Review of X-ray Astronomy)
M. H. van Kerkwijk v (The Galaxy and the Clouds of Magellan)
E. Waxman & A. Gal-Yam X-ray and UV Transients
B. Paul X-ray Instrumentation for Mini-satellites
J. Murthy Near IR Mini-satellite
E. S. Phinney Gravitational Wave astronomy & Minisats
D. Bhattacharya AstroSat
D. Maoz Near IR Minisatellite
P. Gorenstein Wide field telescopes for soft X-ray bands   |   Paper
Zvi Kaplan Israeli Space Agence (Introduction)
Noam Ganot (& Udi Segalis & Amir Perry) Israeli Universal Bus
Noam Ganot A thought experiment (Swift-Lite)

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