The workshop will be held on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 102. (Maps and directions are on the Travel page).
All talks are 25 minutes plus 5 for questions.
| Monday, April 27 (AM Chair: Alasdair Allan, PM Chair: Rob Seaman) |
| 8:15 |
Muffins |
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| 8:30 |
Welcoming Remarks - Rob Seaman / Steve Allen |
9:00
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Session 1 |
Bigger Surveys, Faster Response |
| Fast Transients to Long Period Variables: Timescales in LSST (abstract) (PDF) - Lynne Jones (University of Washington) |
| Global Monitoring of the Night Sky with the RAPTOR Telescopes - Tom Vestrand (LANL) |
| The Synoptic Infrared Imaging Survey (abstract) (PDF) - Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley) |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
Session 2 |
Time Domain Astronomy I |
| Flares on Low-mass Stars in the Galaxy (abstract) (PDF) - Eric Hilton (University of Washington) |
| Supernovae Rates in the Era of Synoptic Surveys (abstract) (PDF) - Dovi Poznanski (UC Berkeley) |
| Transients in the Dark Energy Survey (abstract) (PDF) - Peter Nugent (LBNL) |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
(on your own) |
| 1:30 |
Session 3 |
Astronomical Outreach |
| Using WorldWide Telescope Communities for crowd-sourcing event-based Research (abstract) (PDF) - Jonathan Fay (Microsoft Research) |
| VOEvents in the Amateur & Small University Environment (abstract) (PDF) - Bob Denny (DC-3 Dreams) |
| The Alt-Az Telescope Initiative (PDF) - Russell Genet (California Polytechnic) |
| Coming Soon in Leiden: .Astronomy v2 beta (PDF)- Alasdair Allan |
| 3:00 |
Break |
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| 3:30 |
Session 4 |
VOEvent - Infrastructure |
| Report from Sunday Session |
| The State of VOEvent Transport (PDF) - Alasdair Allan |
| Skyalert: Real-Time Astronomy for You and Your Robots (abstract) (PDF) - Roy Williams (Caltech) |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn |
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| Tuesday, April 28 (AM Chair: Tom Vestrand, PM Chair: Steve Allen) |
| 8:30 |
Muffins |
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8:45
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Session 5 |
Group Discussion on Priorities for VOEvent |
| Facilitator: Roy Williams |
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| 10:15 |
Coffee |
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| 10:30 |
Session 6 |
Time Domain Astronomy II |
| Proving the Universe with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy (abstract) (PDF) - J. Xavier Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz) |
| VOEvent status within GCN (abstract) (PDF) - Scott Barthelmy (NASA-GSFC) |
| Fermi GBM Detection and Prompt Notification of Transients (abstract) (PDF) - Bill Paciesas (UAH/NSSTC) |
| RoboProbing High-z: The Reionization and Transients InfraRed (RATIR) Camera - Nathaniel Butler (UC Berkeley) |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
(on your own) note: During lunch a UCSC Astronomy Lunchtime Astrophysics Seminar will be given by Josh Bloom "Time-Domain Astronomy in the Next Decade" in ISB102 |
| 2:00 |
Session 7 |
Radio Transients |
| The LOFAR Transients Key Project (abstract) (PDF) - John Swinbank (University of Amsterdam) |
| Searches for Transients with Next-Generation Radio Interferometers (abstract) (PDF) - Casey Law (UC Berkeley) |
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| 3:00 |
Photo |
| 3:10 |
Break |
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| 3:30 |
Session 8 |
VOEvent - Time Series |
| The State of VOEvent Time Series - Roy Williams |
| XML for MPC ephemerides (PDF) - Arnold Rots (CfA) |
| Developing Sources and Timeseries for the Decade of Time-Domain (abstract) (PDF) - John M. Brewer (San Francisco State University) |
| Group Discussion |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn |
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| 6:30 |
Conference Dinner |
Miramar Fish Grotto |
| Wednesday April 29 (AM Chair: Roy Williams, PM Chair: Scott Barthelmy) |
| 8:30 |
Muffins |
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9:00
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Session 9 |
Trends in Transient Response Astronomy |
| Optical Transient Discoveries from CRTS (abstract) (PDF) - Andrew Drake (Caltech) |
| The Simple Event Access Protocol (abstract) (PDF) - Matthew Graham (Caltech) |
| Discussion of SEAP - Rob Seaman, Moderator |
| 10:30 |
Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
Session 10 |
Time Domain Astronomy III |
| Nearby Supernova Factory: Supernova Cosmology in the Era of Scripted Observing (abstract) (PDF) - Rollin Thomas (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) |
| Transient Radio Searches, Volunteer Computing and Distributed Thinking (abstract) (PDF) - Dan Werthimer (UC Berkeley) |
| PyMPChecker: A tool to find asteroids in imaging data (abstract) (PDF) - Christopher Klein (UC Berkeley) |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
(on your own) |
| 1:30 |
Session 11 |
Time Domain Surveys |
| The NuSTAR hard x-ray mission: transient detection and followup (abstract) (PDF) - David Smith (U.C. Santa Cruz) |
| LSST-PanSTARRS Solar System Events (abstract) (PDF) - Francesco Pierfederici (LSST) |
| Results from VERITAS: A Very High Energy View of the Transient Universe (abstract) (PDF) - David Williams (UC Santa Cruz) |
| 3:00 |
Break |
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| 3:30 |
Session 12 |
VOEvent - Semantics |
| The State of VOEvent Semantics (PDF) - Matthew Graham |
| 4:00 |
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The Lick/Astro colloquium: Alexei Filippenko, UC Berkeley
NS Annex 101 (the other end of the building from Hotwired2)
"The Lick Observatory Supernova Search, and Follow-up Studies of Supernovae" |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn |
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