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

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

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

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)
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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)
  
• 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

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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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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

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9:50 - COFFEE

10:10 - Session 10 - Registries and Databases: Federation for Dummies

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11:20 - LUNCH

1:00 pm - Session 11 - HTN Infrastructure

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2:20 - BREAK

2:40 - Session 12 - Distributed Scheduling

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5:30 - ADJOURN

Thursday, June 7

• CHAIR: Josh Bloom
  

8:30 - Session 13 - Outer Limits: Space-based, Radio and non-EM Transients

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10:10 - COFFEE

10:40 - Session 14 - Grid Markets

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12:30 pm - ADJOURN

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Registration

Sponsors

• eSTAR
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• U.S. National Virtual Observatory