CFHTLS-SL2S News

  • June 2007
    June 28-29: SL2S workshop, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, France. A special page on the workshop organisation may be found here.
  • April 2007
    130 orbits of snapshot granted for HST C16
  • January 2007
    Jan 15-16: SL2S workshop, Kavli Institute, SLAC, Stanford. Preparation of HST C16, and discussion on SL2S strategies. A summary of activities may be found here.
  • December 2006
    SL2S press release. See CFHT press release
  • November 2006
    ANR SL2S postdocs announcement to AAS JR
  • September 2006
    Sept 7, Video conf with Victoria, Karun Thanjavur, David Crampton, Jon Willis and the SL2S SG to prepare the coming proposals and set a path for future collaborative efforts
    Sept 1, first teleconf of SL2S Steering Group, C. Alard, B. Fort, J.-P. Kneib, R. Cabanac (Minutes of the meeting in french).
  • August 2006
    ANR grant for the SL2S, PI Cristophe Alard
  • July 2006
    R. Cabanac visits the IAP. Upgrade on project strategy.
  • June 11, 2006
    SL2S overview paper submitted to A&A (sl2s_PaperI_submit.pdf restricted).
  • May 19, 2006
    HST snapshot program 10876 phase II completed with the first 50 targets.
  • April 10, 2006
    HST Snapshot Program 10876 accepted. Target list due for May 19.
  • Jan. 23, 2006
    Submission of an HST snapshot proposal on the 50 first SL2S candidates.
  • Jan. 17-Feb. 18, 2006
    Visit of Bernard Fort and Mireille Dantel-Fort at CFHT: Review of the project. Planing of the coming observing semesters.
  • Nov. 22, 2005
    CFHTLS-SL2S meeting at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse). If you want to participate kindly contact
    Addendum: Minutes of the meeting maybe found here (in french, restricted).
  • Beginning of Nov., 2005
    Public release of the web site.
  • Sept. 30, 2005
    Gemini proposal submitted (cf. section Observing Proposals)