The UK members of a European Consortium VAMDC (Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre, http://www.vamdc.eu) are holding an STFC-funded meeting to ascertain atomic and molecular data needs amongst the UK astrophysics user community, identifying what data we will need for interpretation and  analysis of key missions involving the UK community: Gaia, ALMA, PLATO,  Juice, EXOMars and, given its recent success, Rosetta (as it enters its  data reduction phase) as well as Cassini-Huygens.  The core aim of the workshop will be to get UK

users to identify their  current sources of A&M data and how they search for and elect such data. Key gaps in the A&M data sets will be identified.

The meeting will be held on Friday 17 April at Queens University Belfast, starting at 11am (coffee from 10.30) and aiming to finish by 5pm in the John Bell Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics, Queens University Belfast.

There are no registration formalities but if you wish to attend please email deaneps@qub.ac.uk so we can get catering numbers right.

Speakers:
11-12.30
Nigel Mason (Open University) Introduction to VAMDC
Serena Viti (UCL) Data needs for ALMA
Gary Fuller (Manchester) mm submm spectroscopy*
Tom Millar (QUB) Data needs for astrochemical models
Malcolm Gray (Manchester) Maser studies with ALMA and elsewhere

13.30-15.00
Aleksi Suutarinen (Open University) Interstellar ices
Alan Fitzsimmons (QUB) Comets*
Jeronimo Bernard Salas (Open University) Data needs for JWST
Jane Greaves (St Andrews) Infra spectroscopy
Jonathan Tennyson (UCL)/Nikku Madhusudhan (Cambridge) Data needs for exoplanets

15.30-17.00
Guilio Del Zanna (Cambridge) Atomic spectroscopy
Cathy Ramsbottom (QUB) Atomic data
Ian Williams/ Jason Greenwood (QUB) collision physics
Guy Rixon (Cambridge) Technical aspects VAMDC

* unconfirmed

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Jonathan Tennyson,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University College London,