PROGRAM NOTES

The goals of SPARC workshops are:

1) to gather experts and summarize the state of the art in a particular area,

2) to identify outstanding issues,

3) to organize activities under the SPARC umbrella to address outstanding issues,

4) to report on progress in these activities to the SPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG),

5) to provide advice or recommendations to the SPARC SSG, if necessary.

In order to achieve these goals, it is necessary and important to schedule discussions during the program. It is hoped that all participants will not only attend but actively participate in these discussions. Additionally, all oral presentations should allow for 5-10 minutes of questions and discussion.
Posters will be shown on Monday and Tuesday only. There will be a number of long coffee breaks and lunches to ensure sufficient time to visit posters and talk to the authors.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Regarding transportation to and from ESTEC: In the mornings buses will pick up participants from the hotel and will bring them back from ESTEC in the afternoons. Attached please find bus schedule.

ESA computers are PCs running under XP. PowerPoint version 2003 is available on computers. Mac's are not available. We would advise those using Mac for the preparation of presentations to check the presentation on a PC, to see if there are any differences. (In particular, embedded pictures can be an issue.)

Regarding POSTERS: The poster panel sizes are 1.80 high, 1.20 wide.

Regarding SOCIAL EVENT: THE SOCIAL EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3RD IN THE RESTAURANT LA GALLERIA
Koningin Wilhelmina Boulevard 18, Noordwijk.
The restaurant is located in walking distance from the hotels, in the middle of Noordwijk's main beach promenade.

The dates of the SPARC-DA workshop were chosen to encourage participants to also attend the ADM-Aeolus workshop.