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

June 4 - 7, 2007, Tucson, Arizona



Tycho's Stella Nova





Agenda


Posters

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




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

  • 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

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 (LSST)
  • 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

  • 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

1:20 pm - 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

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

  • KEYNOTE - XML packet authentication - Steve Allen (INST)
  • 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 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

  • 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 pm - Closing remarks

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

12:30 pm - Adjourn




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