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June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona
Tycho's Stella Nova
Agenda
Sunday, June 3
7:00 pm - No host reception
Monday, June 4
- AM CHAIR: Roy Williams
- PM CHAIR: George Djorgovski
8:30 am - Welcome
9:00 - Session 1 - The science from rapid response
- Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emission in GRBs - Tom Vestrand (LANL) (KEYNOTE)
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- Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - Przemek Wozniak (LANL)
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- Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - Kem Cook (PROJECT)
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9:50 - COFFEE
10:20 - Session 2 - Quickstart Guide for Autonomous Astronomy
- RTML + VOEvent < HTN: a system that is more than the sum of its parts - Robert White (LANL)
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- How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - Roy Williams (Caltech)
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- How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - Roy Williams (Caltech) (TUTORIAL)
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- Remote Telescope Markup Language - Rick Hessman (PROJECT)
- Transport for the HTN and VOEvent Networks - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
11:50 - LUNCH
1:20 pm - Session 3 - Long Range Vision for Transient Astronomy
- Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - Chris Smith (PROJECT)
- Science Cases, and the telescope network architecture needed to carry them out - Tim Naylor (PROJECT)
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- Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - Kem Cook (PROJECT)
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- Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - Przemek Wozniak (LANL)
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2:20 - BREAK
2:40 - Session 4 - Solar system objects
- Pan-STARRS and the Moving Object Processing System - Larry Denneau (PROJECT)
- The Moving Object Processing System and LSST - Francesco Pierfederici (PROJECT)
- The LSST transient database for community science and E/PO - Kirk Borne (PROJECT)
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Arguments, agreements, advice, answers
Articulate announcements
4:00 - TOUR leaves for PAIRITEL and MMT
- limited to 20 attendees, box dinner provided
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Tuesday, June 5
- AM CHAIR: Chris Smith
- PM CHAIR: Tom Vestrand
8:30 am - Session 5 - Surveys & Event Publishing
- A Tale of Three Surveys - Steve Howell (PROJECT)
- A systematic search for supernovae in low redshift galaxy clusters - David Sand (PROJECT)
- Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey - George Djorgovski (Caltech)
9:40 - COFFEE
10:10 - Session 6 - Observatory Operations
- The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network - Marton Hidas (PROJECT)
- Lessons learned from RoboScope: a long-term automated monitoring program - Kent Honeycutt (PROJECT)
- RTS2 - Lessons learned from a widely distributed telescope network - Petr Kubanek (PROJECT)
- TAROT: A robotic observatory for gamma-ray bursts and other sources - Michel Boer (PROJECT)
- Autonomous software, myth or magic? - Alasdair Allan (PROJECT)
11:50 - LUNCH
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- Transient object detection and classification - Andy Becker (PROJECT)
- Building a classification engine for the Palomar Transients Finder - Josh Bloom (PROJECT)
- On probabilistic determination of type of an object based on previously known variable objects - Ashish Mahabal (PROJECT)
- Event classification in the Nearby Supernova Factory Search - Stephen Bailey (PROJECT)
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2:40 - CONFERENCE PHOTO
2:50 - BREAK
3:10 - Session 8 - Web Services for Real Time Data Reduction and Analysis
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- Data reduction services for heterogenous telescopes - Iain Steele (PROJECT)
- ORAC-DR data reduction pipeline - Brad Cavanagh (PROJECT)
- Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop - Alasdair Allan (PROJECT) (TUTORIAL)
- Group DISCUSSION facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick
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Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
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6:30 - CONFERENCE DINNER
Wednesday, June 6
- AM CHAIR: Rob Seaman
- PM CHAIR: Robert White
8:30 am - Session 9 - VOEvent Unbound
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- XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (PROJECT) (KEYNOTE)
- TITLE - Rick Hessman (PROJECT)
- Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service at your institution - Phillip Warner (PROJECT) (TUTORIAL)
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9:50 - COFFEE
10:10 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies
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- Resource discovery with the VO Registry - Matthew Graham (PROJECT)
- Querying VOEvents Through Astrogrid - Elizabeth Auden (PROJECT)
- Group DISCUSSION facilitated by Matthew Graham
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- Group A: 11:30 SOML - 12:15 LUNCH
- Group b: 11:30 LUNCH - 12:15 SOML
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1:00 pm - Session 11 - HTN Infrastructure
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- RTML - The State of the Union, revised RTML 3.2 schema for brain-dead software IDEs - Georg Tuparev (PROJECT)
- Eudoxos and HTN infrastructure - Nikolaos Solomos (PROJECT)
- RTML SOAP endpoint implementation on the Liverpool Telescope - Neil Clay (PROJECT)
- Robonet-1.0 - Chris Mottram (PROJECT)
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2:20 - BREAK
2:40 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling
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- Adaptive distributed scheduling, putting the 'work' into network - Eric Saunders (PROJECT)
- Thread safe astronomy: the VOEvent lifecycle - Rob Seaman (PROJECT)
- Group DISCUSSION facilitated by Alasdair Allan
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Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
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Thursday, June 7
8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients
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- The future of the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network: VOEvent and customer requirements - Scott Barthelmy (PROJECT) (,b>KEYNOTE)
- Radio transients at long wavelengths and emerging instrumentation - Joseph Lazio (PROJECT)
- GRB satellite triggers for neutrino telescopes - Mieke Bouwhuis (PROJECT)
- The Supernova Early Warning System - Kate Scholberg (PROJECT)
- Autonomous Antarctic Astronomy - Nick Tothill (PROJECT)
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10:10 - COFFEE
10:40 - Session 14 - Grid Markets
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- JMU Grid market prototype - Iain Steele (PROJECT)
- Grid-integration of robotic telescopes - Frank Breitling (PROJECT)
- Group DISCUSSION facilitated by Iain Steele
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11:50 pm - CLOSING REMARKS
Debates, discussions
Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk
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12:30 pm - ADJOURN
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Registration
The registration deadline is May 4, 2007.
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