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<b>Subject:</b> AAP Town Hall: 16th February 2026 13:00 GMT</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">The Astronomy Town Hall will take place on Monday 16<sup>th</sup> February at 1PM. Please see below for the Agenda and connection info.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">The discussion will be focussed on the astro community's views on priorities for funding (e.g. grants, studentships, fellowships, facilities, projects,
(low) TRL R&D, HPC/AI//compute resource...).</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">We will attempt to cover the agenda by 2PM but can continue until 2:30PM, if needed. </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">Questions or comments can be submitted in advance at
<span style="background:white"><a href="https://forms.gle/2WqV9qS1ABt4N3g7A" target="_blank" title="https://forms.gle/2WqV9qS1ABt4N3g7A">https://forms.gle/2WqV9qS1ABt4N3g7A</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">The Astronomy Advisory Panel</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">UK Astronomy Town Hall</span></b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">Monday16<sup>th</sup> February 13:00-14:00 + 30 mins as needed</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">Agenda</span></b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">13:00 Welcome and intro (Aprajita Verma)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">13:05 STFC update & Q&A (Grahame Blair, STFC Executive Director of Programmes)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black">13:30 Community Discussion: Funding priorities</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">AGP 2025 report & perspectives (Mark Sullivan, AGP Chair)</span></li><div>
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