Hot-wiring the Transient Universe: a Joint VOEvent & HTN Workshop

June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona

Tycho's Stella Nova

Agenda

• MONET - State of the Union - Dary Mihova (INST)
  
• Using Distributed Sensor Network Architecture to Link Heterogeneous Astronomical Assets - Robert White (INST)
  

• AM chair: Roy Williams
  
• PM chair: George Djorgovski
  

• Autonomous demo - Rob Seaman (NOAO Data Products Program)
  

• Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - Kem Cook (LSST)
  

• RTML + VOEvent < HTN: a system that is more than the sum of its parts - Robert White (LANL)
  

• Remote Telescope Markup Language - Rick Hessman (INST)
  
• Transport for the HTN and VOEvent Networks - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
  

• Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - Chris Smith (INST)
  
• Science Cases, and the telescope network architecture needed to carry them out - Tim Naylor (INST)
  
• Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - Przemek Wozniak (LANL)
  

• Pan-STARRS and the Moving Object Processing System - Larry Denneau (INST)
  
• The Moving Object Processing System and LSST - Francesco Pierfederici (LSST)
  
• The LSST transient database for community science and E/PO - Kirk Borne (INST)
  

• limited to 20 attendees, box dinner provided
  

• AM chair: Chris Smith
  
• PM chair: Tom Vestrand
  

• A systematic search for supernovae in low redshift galaxy clusters - David Sand (INST)
  
• Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey - George Djorgovski (INST)
  

• The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network - Marton Hidas (INST)
  
• Lessons learned from Robo Scope: a long-term automated monitoring program - Kent Honeycutt (INST)
  
• RTS2 - Lessons learned from a widely distributed telescope network - Petr Kubanek (INST)
  
• TAROT: A robotic observatory for gamma-ray bursts and other sources - Michel Boer (INST)
  
• Autonomous software, myth or magic? - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
  

• Transient object detection and classification - Andy Becker (LSST)
  
• Building a classification engine for the Palomar Transients Finder - Josh Bloom (INST)
  
• On probabilistic determination of type of an object based on previously known variable objects - Ashish Mahabal (INST)
  
• Event classification in the Nearby Supernova Factory Search - Stephen Bailey (INST)
  

• Data reduction services for heterogenous telescopes - Iain Steele (INST)
  
• ORAC-DR data reduction pipeline - Brad Cavanagh (INST)
  

• Group discussion facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick
  

• AM chair: Rob Seaman
  
• PM chair: Robert White
  

• The IVOA Standard Vocabulary Proposal: How to succeed in transporting the astronomical meaning of an event/observation without really trying (very hard) - Rick Hessman (INST)
  

• Resource discovery with the VO Registry - Matthew Graham (INST)
  
• Querying VOEvents Through Astrogrid - Elizabeth Auden (INST)
  
• Group discussion facilitated by Matthew Graham
  

• RTML - The State of the Union, revised RTML 3.2 schema for brain-dead software IDEs - Georg Tuparev (INST)
  
• Eudoxos and HTN infrastructure - Nikolaos Solomos (INST)
  
• RTML SOAP endpoint implementation on the Liverpool Telescope - Neil Clay (INST)
  
• Robonet-1.0 - Chris Mottram (INST)
  

• Adaptive distributed scheduling, putting the 'work' into network - Eric Saunders (INST)
  
• Thread safe astronomy: the VOEvent lifecycle - Rob Seaman (INST)
  
• Group discussion facilitated by Alasdair Allan
  

• Chair: Josh Bloom
  

• Radio transients at long wavelengths and emerging instrumentation - Joseph Lazio (INST)
  
• GRB satellite triggers for neutrino telescopes - Mieke Bouwhuis (INST)
  
• The Supernova Early Warning System - Kate Scholberg (INST)
  
• Autonomous Antarctic Astronomy - Nick Tothill (INST)
  

• JMU Grid market prototype - Iain Steele (INST)
  
• Grid-integration of robotic telescopes - Frank Breitling (INST)
  
• Group discussion facilitated by Iain Steele
  

                           

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