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In advance of that historic flyby, the New Horizons mission is sponsoring a scientific meeting to review knowledge of the Pluto System, to inform the planetary science community about the flyby and collaboration/DAP funding opportunities, to discuss and begin to prepare groundbased and spacebased observing proposals, and to provide a venue for scientific predictions.

The workshop is geared towards users that have their own Herschel data as well as those that are new to Herschel but want to do science with the Herschel Archive. We will provide an introduction to the Observatory and the mission, but will focus on the main issues that affect the data, and on how to recognize when the data need to be re-processed. We will also survey the contents of the Archive, including the data that have been produced in the Key and Open Time programs. The workshop will provide beginning users the tools to understand the Archive and start working with Herschel data, and more advanced users with an opportunity to learn about the new capabilities of the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE).

This year will also mark the 65th birthday of Prof. Ger de Bruyn who has been a leading figure in radio astronomy in the last few decades and has been instrumental in the development of LOFAR, especially the LOFAR-EoR key science project. This conference is also planned as a celebration of his scientific career and achievements. Therefore, the topics of the conference have also been chosen to coincide with his scientific interests, which naturally fit into the topic of high quality imaging in the radio Universe.