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

Posters

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

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

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 (INST)
  
• 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 (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)
  

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 (INST)
  
• The LSST transient database for community science and E/PO - Kirk Borne (INST)
  

3:40 - OPEN for discussions, demos, etc.

Arguments, agreements, advice, answers
Articulate announcements

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 am - Session 5 - Surveys & Event Publishing

• A Tale of Three Surveys - Steve Howell (INST) (KEYNOTE)
  
• 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 (INST)
  

11:50 - LUNCH

1:20 pm - Session 7 - Event Classification

• Transient object detection and classification - Andy Becker (INST)
  
• 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)
  
• Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop - Alasdair Allan (INST) (TUTORIAL)
  
• Group DISCUSSION facilitated by Mike Fitzpatrick
  

4:50 - OPEN for discussions, demos, etc.

Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo

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

• XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (INST) (KEYNOTE)
  
• 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)
  
• Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service at your institution - Phillip Warner (INST) (TUTORIAL)
  

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 LUNCH
  
• Group b: 11:30 LUNCH - 12:15 SOML
  

1:00 pm - 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.

Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat Conversation, contradiction, criticism

5:30 - ADJOURN

Thursday, June 7

• CHAIR: Josh Bloom
  

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

• The future of the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network: VOEvent and customer requirements - Scott Barthelmy (INST) (KEYNOTE)
  
• 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 pm - CLOSING REMARKS

Debates, discussions Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe Dissention, declamation Double talk, double talk

12:30 pm - ADJOURN

Registration

Sponsors

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