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)
- Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - Przemek Wozniak (LANL)
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)
- How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - Roy Williams (Caltech)
(TUTORIAL)
- 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)
- Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - Kem Cook (PROJECT)
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)
5:30 - ADJOURN
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
1:20 - Session 7 - Event Classification
2:40 - CONFERENCE PHOTO
2:50 - BREAK
3:10 - Session 8 - Web Services for Real Time Data Reduction and Analysis
5:30 - ADJOURN
6:30 - CONFERENCE DINNER
Wednesday, June 6
- AM CHAIR: Rob Seaman
- PM CHAIR: Robert White
8:30 am - Session 9 - VOEvent Unbound
9:50 - COFFEE
10:10 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies
11:20 - LUNCH
1:00 pm - Session 11 - HTN Infrastructure
2:20 - BREAK
2:40 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling
5:30 - ADJOURN
Thursday, June 7
8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients
10:10 - COFFEE
10:40 - Session 14 - Grid Markets
12:30 pm - ADJOURN
TIME - Session NUMBER - TITLE
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Topic revision: r4 - 2007-05-07 - RobSeaman