The MAP newsletter does invite contributions from the readers in the form of brief articles. Information on the submission of such contributions, as well as on their format and transmission, is provided in the impressum on the cover's back. Note that there is a strict two-page limit to such contributions (figures and references included). The contributions from the MAP-community will usually be printed at the end of the MAP newsletter. We encourage the reader to contribute to this newsletter in this way!
The MAP newsletter is planned to be issued at least twice a year. The dates of publication will be chosen in accordance with important MAP-related activities and events (workshops etc.). In addition, special issues on specific topics will also appear. We hope that the newsletter will be useful and informative, and that it will provide a platform for the exchange of ideas. To this end, contributions and feedback from the MAP-community and the readers are especially encouraged.
Christoph Schär, Stephan Baderand Peter Binder
3. The first MAP Workshop of September 1994, Zurich
3.1 Workshop Programme
The principal purpose of the workshop was to discuss and to take decisions
about the key objectives of MAP and to outline modelling and observing
strategies apt to test imminent hypotheses. The results of the workshop,
i.e. the outline of the scientific and experimental plan for MAP, should
be written down in the so-called 'MAP Design Proposal', i.e. the basic
document of the programme, the drafting of which had to be done during and
immediately after the workshop.
In order to achieve these goals the workshop was structured in four main steps: Initially nine key-note lectures were given to set the scene for the workshop and to stimulate the discussions which had to follow in the working groups. The first two working group sessions were dedicated to the definition of the key objectives of MAP . Having defined the main scientific foci of the programme, working group sessions three and four were concerned with field phase issues. The discussions had to result in a recommendation for the spatial and temporal location of the MAP field experiment. In the final working group session input for the MAP Design Proposal was collected and drafted. With the exception of this last one, results had to be presented in short reports to the plenary after each working group session. Plenary discussions took place in order to reach agreement on the primary objectives of MAP (after WG session II) and to figure out the recommendations for the field phase (after wg session IV).
After the official closure of the workshop at noon on Wednesday, the working group chairmen and rapporteurs and the members of the workshop programme panel continued the work in order to formulate and compile a first draft version of the MAP Design Proposal, which was indeed achieved by the end of the week. The detailed workshop programme is given below.
MAP Newsletter. October`00