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<H1>[[http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired][Hot-wiring the Transient Universe]]: a Joint [[IvoaVOEvent][VOEvent]] & HTN Workshop</H1>
<H2>June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona</H2>

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---++ Agenda

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---+++ <i>List of [[http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/participants.cfm][Participants</i>]]<br>

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---+++ <i>Posters</i><br>
   * eSTAR - An overview of the current network - <i>Alasdair Allan</i> (<a href="http://www.estar.org.uk">eSTAR</a>)<br>
   * MONET - State of the Union - <i>Dary Mihova</i> (<a href="http://tuparev.com">Tuparev Technologies</a>)<br>
   * Using Distributed Sensor Network Architecture to Link Heterogeneous Astronomical Assets
 - <i>Robert White</i> (<a href="http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov">LANL</a>)<br>

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---+++ <i>Sunday, June 3</i><br>
---++++ 7:00 pm - Reception<br>

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---+++ <i>Monday, June 4</i><br>
   * AM chair:  Roy Williams<br>
   * PM chair:  George Djorgovski<br>

---++++ 8:30 - Welcoming remarks<br>

---++++ 8:40 - Session 1 - The science from rapid response<br>
   * Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emission in GRBs - <i>Tom Vestrand</i> (<a href="http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov">LANL</a>)
   * Science requiring follow-up of large surveys - <i>Kem Cook</i> (<a href="http://www.lsst.org">LSST</a>)<br>
   * Thread safe astronomy - <i>Rob Seaman</i> (<a href="http://nvo.noao.org">NOAO Data Products Program</a>)<br>

---++++!! 9:55 - Coffee<br>

---++++ 10:25 - Session 2 - Quickstart Guide for Autonomous Astronomy<br>
   * RTML + VOEvent < HTN: a system that is more than the sum of its parts - <i>Robert White</i> (<a href="http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov">LANL</a>)<br>
   * How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet - <i>Roy Williams</i> (<a href="http://voeventnet.org">Caltech</a>)<br>
   * Remote Telescope Markup Language - <i>Rick Hessman</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~hessman">University of Goettingen</a>)<br>
   * Transport for the HTN and VOEvent Networks - <i>Alasdair Allan</i> (<a href="http://www.estar.org.uk">eSTAR</a>)<br>

---++++!! 12:05 - Lunch at local restaurants<br>

---++++ 1:35 - Session 3 - Long Range Vision for Transient Astronomy<br>
   * Integrating VOEvent into the OIR System, an NOAO operations case study - <i>Chris Smith</i> (<a href="http://nvo.noao.edu">NOAO DPP</a>)<br>
   * Science driven architectures for networked astronomy - <i>Tim Naylor</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/timn">University of Exeter</a>)<br>
   * Real time optical transients from thinking telescopes - <i>Przemek Wozniak</i> (<a href="http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov">LANL</a>)<br>

---++++!! 2:50 - Break<br>

---++++ 3:10 - Session 4 - Solar system objects<br>
   * Pan-STARRS and the Moving Object Processing System - <i>Larry Denneau</i> (<a href="http://www.scootstuff.com/larry.html">Pan-STARRS</a>)<br>
   * The Moving Object Processing System and LSST - <i>Francesco Pierfederici</i> (<a href="http://www.lsst.org">LSST</a>)<br>
   * The LSST transient database for community science and E/PO - <i>Kirk Borne</i> (<a href="http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne">George Mason University</a>)<br>

---++++ 4:25 - Tour leaves for [[http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jbloom/Autotel/][PAIRITEL]] and [[http://www.mmto.org][MMT]]<br>
   * limited to 20 attendees, box dinner provided<br>

---++++!! 4:25 - Open for discussions, demos, etc.<br>

---++++!! 5:30 - Adjourn <br>

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---+++ <i>Tuesday, June 5</i><br>
   * AM chair:  Chris Smith<br>
   * PM chair:  Tom Vestrand<br>

---++++ 8:30 - Session 5 - Surveys & Event Publishing<br>
   * A Tale of Three Surveys - <i>Steve Howell</i> (<a href="http://www.noao.edu">NOAO</a>)<br>
   * A systematic search for supernovae in low redshift galaxy clusters - <i>David Sand</i> (<a href="http://jerome.as.arizona.edu/~dsand">Steward Observatory</a>)<br>
   * Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey - <i>George Djorgovski</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/pq">Caltech</a>)<br>

---++++!! 9:45 - Coffee <br>

---++++ 10:15 - Session 6 - Observatory Operations<br>
   * Autonomous software, myth or magic? - <i>Alasdair Allan</i> (<a href="http://www.estar.org.uk">eSTAR</a>)<br>
   * The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network - <i>Marton Hidas</i> (<a href="http://lcogt.net">LCOGT</a>)<br>
   * Lessons learned from !RoboScope: a long-term automated monitoring program - <i>Kent Honeycutt</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.indiana.edu/roboscope.shtml">Indiana University</a>)<br>
   * RTS2 - Lessons learned from a widely distributed telescope network - <i>Petr Kubanek</i> (<a href="http://lascaux.asu.cas.cz/rts2">IAA-CSIC, Granada & University of Valencia</a>)<br>
   * TAROT: A robotic observatory for gamma-ray bursts and other sources - <i>Michel Boer</i> (<a href="http://www.obs-hp.fr/www/OHP.html">OHP</a>)<br>

---++++!! 12:20 - Lunch at local restaurants<br>

---++++ 1:50 - Session 7 - Event Classification<br>
   * Transient object detection and classification - <i>Andy Becker</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.washington.edu/becker/research.html">LSST</a>)<br>
   * Building a classification engine for the Palomar Transients Finder - <i>Josh Bloom</i> (<a href="http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jbloom">UC Berkeley</a>)<br>
   * On probabilistic determination of type of an object based on previously known variable objects - <i>Ashish Mahabal</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam">Caltech</a>)<br>
   * Event classification in the Nearby Supernova Factory Search - <i>Stephen Bailey</i> (<a href="http://snfactory.lbl.gov">LBL</a>)<br>

---++++!! 3:30 - Conference photo<br>
---++++!! 3:40 - Break<br>

---++++ 3:50 - Session 8 - Web Services for Real Time Data Reduction and Analysis<br>
   * Data reduction services for heterogenous telescopes - <i>Iain Steele</i> (<a href="http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk">Liverpool JMU</a>)<br>
   * ORAC-DR data reduction pipeline - <i>Brad Cavanagh</i> (<a href="http://www.oracdr.org">JAC</a>)<br>
   * Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop - <i>Alasdair Allan</i> (<a href="http://www.estar.org.uk">eSTAR</a>)<br>
   * Group discussion facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick<br>

---++++!! 5:30 - Adjourn <br>

---++++ 6:30 - Conference dinner<br>

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---+++ <i>Wednesday, June 6</i><br>
   * AM chair:  Rob Seaman<br>
   * PM chair:  Robert White<br>

---++++ 8:20 - Session 9 - VOEvent Unbound<br>
   * XML packet authentication - <i>Steve Allen</i> (<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/">UCO/Lick</a>)<br>
   * The IVOA Standard Vocabulary Proposal: How to succeed in transporting the astronomical meaning of an event/observation without really trying (very hard) - <i>Rick Hessman</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~hessman">University of Goettingen</a>)<br>
   * Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service at your institution - <i>Phillip Warner</i> (<a href="http://voevent.noao.edu">NOAO DPP</a>)<br>

---++++!! 9:35 - Coffee <br>

---++++ 10:05 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies<br>
   * Resource discovery with the VO Registry - <i>Matthew Graham</i> (<a href="http://www.voeventnet.org">Caltech</a>)<br>
   * Querying VOEvents Through Astrogrid - <i>Elizabeth Auden</i> (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/research-computing/research/e-science/astrogrid.html">MSSL</a>)<br>
   * Group discussion facilitated by Matthew Graham<br>

---++++ 11:20 - Tours of Steward Observatory Mirror Lab<br>
   * Group A: 11:30 SOML - 12:15 Box lunch<br>
   * Group B: 11:30 Box lunch - 12:15 SOML<br>

---++++ 1:00 - Session 11 - HTN Infrastructure<br>
   * RTML - The State of the Union, revised RTML 3.2 schema for brain-dead software IDEs - <i>Georg Tuparev</i> (<a href="http://tuparev.com">Tuparev Technologies</a>)<br>
   * EUDOXOS and HTN infrastructure - <i>Nikolaos Solomos</i> (<a href="http://mastor.snd.edu.gr/physics">EUDOXOS National Astronomy Centre</a>)<br>
   * RTML SOAP endpoint implementation on the Liverpool Telescope - <i>Neil Clay</i> (<a href="http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk">Liverpool JMU</a>)<br>
   * Robonet-1.0 - <i>Chris Mottram</i> (<a href="http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/RoboNet">Liverpool JMU</a>)<br>

---++++!! 2:40 - Break <br>

---++++ 3:00 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling<br>
   * Adaptive distributed scheduling, putting the 'work' into network - <i>Eric Saunders</i> (<a href="http://lcogt.net">LCOGT</a>)<br>
   * Group discussion facilitated by Alasdair Allan<br>

---++++!! 3:50 - Open for discussions, demos, etc.<br>

---++++!! 5:30 - Adjourn <br>

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---+++ <i>Thursday, June 7</i><br>
   * Chair:  Josh Bloom<br>

---++++ 8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients<br>
   * Does your Robot need a Flamethrower?  Astrophysics from Antarctica - <i>Nick Tothill</i> (<a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/04.13/01-winterover.html">Harvard CFA</a>)<br>
   * Radio transients at long wavelengths and emerging instrumentation - <i>Joseph Lazio</i> (<a href="http://www.nrl.navy.mil">NRL</a>)<br>
   * GRB satellite triggers for neutrino telescopes - <i>Mieke Bouwhuis</i> (<a href="http://antares.in2p3.fr">NIKHEF</a>)<br>
   * The Supernova Early Warning System - <i>Kate Scholberg</i> (<a href="http://snews.bnl.gov">Duke University</a>)<br>
   * The future of the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network: VOEvent and customer requirements - <i>Scott Barthelmy</i> (<a href="http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov">NASA-GSFC</a>)<br>

---++++!! 10:35 - Coffee <br>

---++++ 11:05 - Session 14 - Grid Markets<br>
   * JMU Grid market prototype - <i>Iain Steele</i> (<a href="http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk">Liverpool JMU</a>)<br>
   * Grid-integration of robotic telescopes - <i>Frank Breitling</i> (<a href="http://www.aip.de">Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam</a>)<br>
   * Group discussion facilitated by Iain Steele<br>

---++++!! 12:20 - Closing remarks<br>

---++++!! 12:30 - Adjourn<br>

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<a href="http://www.noao.edu"><img src="http://www.noao.edu/images/1inch_72dpi.gif" alt="NOAO"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.estar.org.uk"><img src="http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/images/estar.gif" alt="eSTAR"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov"><img src="http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/images/lanl_logo_white.jpg" alt="LANL"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.lsst.org"><img src="http://www.lsst.org/bimages/LSST_logo_white.jpg" height="39" width="125" alt="LSST"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.us-vo.org"><img src="http://www.us-vo.org/images/NVO_100pixels.jpg" alt="NVO"></a>
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