PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME FOR ANGLES KICK-OFF MEETING IN BONN APRIL 5 AND 6. Monday April 5. Session 1 -- All ANGLES. Who's who and who's interested in what. Brief (maximum 15 min) presentations by PI's and anyone else outlining the main research interests of their nodes and what they their proposed role is within ANGLES. 09:30 Introduction Ian Browne | PI Presentations | | 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 More presentations by PIs and others | | | 12:30 Lunch Afternoon April 5 2pm Session 2 -- co-ordination committee meeting (We need to decide exactly who is on the committee!) Agenda. 1. Report on contract negotiation. IB 2. Network understanding document. 3. PhD applications -- Current applications and the next step. 4. Defining PhD projects. 5. Advertizing for postdocs 6. Network schools 7. How to convince the young researchers that ANGLES belongs to them? 8. Network meetings 9. Any other business 10. Date of next co-ordination committee meeting 4pm Tea 4:30pm Session 3 -- All ANGLES In a short presentation Ian Browne will try and answer questions like: What can ANGLES do for me? How will it work? How much money is there and what it can and cannot be spent on? What do we have to deliver in return? This will merge into an open question and answer session, hopefully in the pub. ANGLES dinner April 6. 09:30 to 12:30 Session 4 --- All ANGLES Open Presentations. Not quite a full workshop, but a chance for anyone to report some science. Volunteer to say something please. The current virtuous (arm-twisted) volunteers are: Andy Biggs. B0128+437 -- recent VLBA results Tom York. Deconvloving HST ASC observations of B0218+357 and what it tells us about H_0. Rupal Mittal Addressing the flux-ratio discrepancy in JVAS B0218+357 Martin Smith. Galactic microlensing results Leon Koopmans. Probing High-z Galaxies through Lensing & Dynamics. Olaf Wuchnitz Deflection of light and particles by moving gravitational lenses Marusa Badac Strong lensing and N-body simulations Possible research programmes -- do we need to write proposals? Radio proposals -- Discussion to led by Richard Porcas (?) Optical Proposals -- Discussion to be led by Jose Munoz (?) Theoretical proposals -- Discussion to be led by Joachim Wambsganss (?) 12:30 Lunch 2 to 3:30pm Session 5 -- More administrative stuff for the PIs? Continuation of co-ordination committee meeting. End of ANGLES meeting.