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June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona
Tycho's Stella Nova
Agenda
Posters
- eSTAR - An overview of the current network - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
- MONET - State of the Union - Dary Mihova (Tuparev Technologies)
- Using Distributed Sensor Network Architecture to Link Heterogeneous Astronomical Assets - Robert White (LANL)
Sunday, June 3
7:00 pm - Reception
Monday, June 4
- AM chair: Roy Williams
- PM chair: George Djorgovski
8:30 - Welcoming remarks
8:40 - Session 1 - The science from rapid response
- Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emission in GRBs - Tom Vestrand (LANL)
- Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - Kem Cook (LSST)
- Thread safe astronomy - Rob Seaman (NOAO Data Products Program)
9:55 - Coffee
10:25 - Session 2 - Quickstart Guide for Autonomous Astronomy
- RTML + VOEvent < HTN: a system that is more than the sum of its parts - Robert White (LANL)
- How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - Roy Williams (Caltech)
- Remote Telescope Markup Language - Rick Hessman (University of Goettingen)
- Transport for the HTN and VOEvent Networks - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
12:05 - Lunch at local restaurants
1:35 - Session 3 - Long Range Vision for Transient Astronomy
- Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - Chris Smith (NOAO DPP)
- Science driven architectures for networked astronomy - Tim Naylor (University of Exeter)
- Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - Przemek Wozniak (LANL)
2:50 - Break
3:10 - Session 4 - Solar system objects
- Pan-STARRS and the Moving Object Processing System - Larry Denneau (Pan-STARRS)
- The Moving Object Processing System and LSST - Francesco Pierfederici (LSST)
- The LSST transient database for community science and E/PO - Kirk Borne (George Mason University)
4:25 - Tour leaves for PAIRITEL and MMT
- limited to 20 attendees, box dinner provided
4:25 - Open for discussions, demos, etc.
5:30 - Adjourn
Tuesday, June 5
- AM chair: Chris Smith
- PM chair: Tom Vestrand
8:30 - Session 5 - Surveys & Event Publishing
- A Tale of Three Surveys - Steve Howell (NOAO)
- A systematic search for supernovae in low redshift galaxy clusters - David Sand (Steward Observatory)
- Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey - George Djorgovski (Caltech)
9:45 - Coffee
10:15 - Session 6 - Observatory Operations
- Autonomous software, myth or magic? - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
- The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network - Marton Hidas (LCOGT)
- Lessons learned from RoboScope: a long-term automated monitoring program - Kent Honeycutt (Indiana University)
- RTS2 - Lessons learned from a widely distributed telescope network - Petr Kubanek (IAA-CSIC, Granada & University of Valencia)
- TAROT: A robotic observatory for gamma-ray bursts and other sources - Michel Boer (OHP)
12:20 - Lunch at local restaurants
1:50 - Session 7 - Event Classification
- Transient object detection and classification - Andy Becker (LSST)
- Building a classification engine for the Palomar Transients Finder - Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley)
- On probabilistic determination of type of an object based on previously known variable objects - Ashish Mahabal (Caltech)
- Event classification in the Nearby Supernova Factory Search - Stephen Bailey (LBL)
3:30 - Conference photo
3:40 - Break
3:50 - Session 8 - Web Services for Real Time Data Reduction and Analysis
- Data reduction services for heterogenous telescopes - Iain Steele (Liverpool JMU)
- ORAC-DR data reduction pipeline - Brad Cavanagh (JAC)
- Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
- Group discussion facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick
5:30 - Adjourn
6:30 - Conference dinner
Wednesday, June 6
- AM chair: Rob Seaman
- PM chair: Robert White
8:20 - Session 9 - VOEvent Unbound
- XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (UCO/Lick)
- The IVOA Standard Vocabulary Proposal: How to succeed in transporting the astronomical meaning of an event/observation without really trying (very hard) - Rick Hessman (University of Goettingen)
- Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service at your institution - Phillip Warner (NOAO DPP)
9:35 - Coffee
10:05 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies
- Resource discovery with the VO Registry - Matthew Graham (Caltech)
- Querying VOEvents Through Astrogrid - Elizabeth Auden (MSSL)
- Group discussion facilitated by Matthew Graham
11:20 - Tours of Steward Observatory Mirror Lab
- Group A: 11:30 SOML - 12:15 Box lunch
- Group B: 11:30 Box lunch - 12:15 SOML
1:00 - Session 11 - HTN Infrastructure
2:40 - Break
3:00 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling
- Adaptive distributed scheduling, putting the 'work' into network - Eric Saunders (LCOGT)
- Group discussion facilitated by Alasdair Allan
3:50 - Open for discussions, demos, etc.
5:30 - Adjourn
Thursday, June 7
8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients
- Does your Robot need a Flamethrower? Astrophysics from Antarctica - Nick Tothill (Harvard CFA)
- Radio transients at long wavelengths and emerging instrumentation - Joseph Lazio (NRL)
- GRB satellite triggers for neutrino telescopes - Mieke Bouwhuis (NIKHEF)
- The Supernova Early Warning System - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
- The future of the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network: VOEvent and customer requirements - Scott Barthelmy (NASA-GSFC)
10:35 - Coffee
11:05 - Session 14 - Grid Markets
12:20 - Closing remarks
12:30 - Adjourn
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