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June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona
Tycho's Stella Nova
Agenda
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- MONET - State of the Union - Dary Mihova (INST)
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- Using Distributed Sensor Network Architecture to Link Heterogeneous Astronomical Assets
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Sunday, June 3
7:00 pm - Reception
Monday, June 4
- AM chair: Roy Williams
- PM chair: George Djorgovski
8:30 - Welcome
9:00 - Session 1 - The science from rapid response
- Keynote - 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)
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)
- Tutorial - How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - Roy Williams (Caltech)
- Remote Telescope Markup Language - Rick Hessman (INST)
- Transport for the HTN and VOEvent Networks - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
11:50 - Lunch at local restaurants
1:20 - Session 3 - Long Range Vision for Transient Astronomy |
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- Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - Chris Smith (INST)
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- Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - Chris Smith (NOAO DPP)
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- 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)
2:20 - Break
2:40 - Session 4 - Solar system objects
- 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)
3:40 - Open for discussions, demos, etc. |
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Arguments, agreements, advice, answers
Articulate announcements
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4:00 - Tour leaves for PAIRITEL and MMT
- limited to 20 attendees, box dinner provided
5:30 - Adjourn
Tuesday, June 5
- AM chair: Chris Smith
- PM chair: Tom Vestrand
8:30 - Session 5 - Surveys & Event Publishing
- Keynote - A Tale of Three Surveys - Steve Howell (INST)
- A systematic search for supernovae in low redshift galaxy clusters - David Sand (INST)
- Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey - George Djorgovski (INST)
9:40 - Coffee
10:10 - Session 6 - Observatory Operations
- 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)
11:50 - Lunch at local restaurants
1:20 - Session 7 - Event Classification
- 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)
2:40 - Conference photo
2:50 - Break
3:10 - Session 8 - Web Services for Real Time Data Reduction and Analysis
- Data reduction services for heterogenous telescopes - Iain Steele (INST)
- ORAC-DR data reduction pipeline - Brad Cavanagh (INST)
- Tutorial - Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop - Alasdair Allan (eSTAR)
- Group discussion facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick
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Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
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5:30 - Adjourn
6:30 - Conference dinner
Wednesday, June 6
- AM chair: Rob Seaman
- PM chair: Robert White
8:30 - Session 9 - VOEvent Unbound |
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- Keynote - XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (INST)
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- Keynote - XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (UCO/Lick)
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- 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)
- Tutorial - Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service at your institution - Phillip Warner (INST)
9:50 - Coffee
10:10 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies
- Resource discovery with the VO Registry - Matthew Graham (INST)
- Querying VOEvents Through Astrogrid - Elizabeth Auden (INST)
- 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
- 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)
2:20 - Break
2:40 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling
- 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
3:50 - Open for discussions, demos, etc. |
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Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
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5:30 - Adjourn
Thursday, June 7
8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients
- Keynote - The future of the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network: VOEvent and customer requirements - Scott Barthelmy (INST)
- 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)
10:10 - Coffee
10:40 - Session 14 - Grid Markets
- JMU Grid market prototype - Iain Steele (INST)
- Grid-integration of robotic telescopes - Frank Breitling (INST)
- Group discussion facilitated by Iain Steele
11:50 - Closing remarks |
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Debates, discussions
Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk
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12:30 - Adjourn |
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