Conference Schedule (as of 24/10/08)
Sunday, November 2, 2008: Tutorial |
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Event |
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| Google Sky and Microsoft World Wide Telescope Tutorial | Borduas/Krieghoff | 13:00 - 17:00 |
Time |
Event |
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| 13:00 | Welcome by Alberto Conti (coin toss to decide the presentation order) | |
| 13:05 | Google (or Microsoft) Introduction/Demo/Spiel | |
| 13:30 | Microsoft (Google) Intro/Demo/Spiel | |
| 13:55 | Panel discussion / presentations - Architecture (hardware and software) - Software development practices - Participation (How to publish your own data) |
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| 15:00 | coffee break | |
| 15:15 | open discussion (moderated by Alberto Conti and Rob Seaman) | |
| 16:00 | Science usage discussion - From Google/Microsoft - From projects: VOEvent/KML workflow example and/or others - From the audience |
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| 16:55 | Wrap up (Rob Seaman) | |
| 17:00 | End | 19:00 - 22:00: Conference reception in the main foyer (Borduas) | Warning, Canada is going to winter time tonight, so please set your clock back one hour at midnight between Saturday and Sunday! |
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 |
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Session 5 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 5.1: 08:30 - 09:00 | Mike IRWIN: Automatic image detection and analysis for wide field surveys | |
| 5.2: 09:00 - 09:30 | Frank MASCI: AWAIC: A WISE Astronomical Image Co-adder | |
| 5.3: 09:30 - 09:45 | Nicholas WALTON: PathGrid: The transfer of astronomical image algorithms to the analysis of medical microscopy data | |
| 5.4: 09:45 - 10:00 | Meyer PESENSON: Astronomical Applications of Image Inpainting | |
| Coffee break: 10:00 - 11:15 | Focus Demo: (10:15 - 11:00) pysynphot: A replacement for stsdas.synphot (Laidler) | |
Session 6 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 6.1: 11:15 - 11:45 | Jean CLAVEL: Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: ESA's long-term plan in Space Science | |
| 6.2: 11:45 - 12:15 | John ISAACS: James Webb Space Telescope - Mission Overview | |
| Group Photo: 12:15 - 12:20 | ||
| Lunch: 12:20 - 14:00 | ||
Session 7-A |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 7A.1: 14:00 - 14:15 | Rob SEAMAN: An Agent to Supervise Real Observations in a Virtual Astronomical World | |
| 7A.2: 14:15 - 14:30 | Russ LAHER: Designing the Science Data Quality Analysis Subsystem for the LSST Project | |
| 7A.3: 14:30 - 14:45 | Francesco PIERFEDERICI: Pan-STARRS/LSST MOPS Alert System | |
| 7A.4: 14:45 - 15:00 | Jacek BECLA: Towards Efficient Analysis of Astronomical Data at Peta-scale | |
| 7A.5: 15:00 - 15:15 | Roy WILLIAMS: VOEventNet: A Portal to Astronomical Transients | |
Session 7B |
Description |
Fortin/Leduc/Lismer |
| 7B.1: 14:00 - 14:15 | Stephen GWYN: MegaPipe: the MegaCam image stacking pipeline | |
| 7B.2: 14:15 - 14:30 | Andreas WICENEC: The ALMA Science Archive Portal Technologies | |
| 7B.3: 14:30 - 14:45 | Stephen ORD: GPUs for data processing in the MWA | |
| 7B.4: 14:45 - 15:00 | Bruce BERRIMAN: A Cost Benefit Study of Doing Astrophysics On The Cloud: Production of Image Mosaics | |
| 7B.5: 15:00 - 15:15 | Claudio GHELLER: The Italian Theoretical VO data center for simulated data | |
| Coffee break: 15:15 - 16:30 | Focus Demo (15:30 - 16:15): A guided tour of Saada (Michel) | |
Session 8A |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 8A.1: 16:30 - 16:45 | Maria NIETO-SANTISTEBAN: GrayWulf: Conquering Astronomical Databases | |
| 8A.2: 16:45 - 17:00 | Bart SCHEERS: Database Techniques within LOFAR's Transients Key Project | |
| 8A.3: 17:00 - 17:15 | Hanno HOLTIES: LOFAR initial operations, paving the way for scientific success | |
| 8A.4: 17:15 - 17:30 | Karen O'NEIL: The GBT Dynamic Scheduling System: A New Scheduling Paradigm | |
Session 8B |
Description |
Fortin/Leduc/Lismer |
| 8B.1: CANCELLED | David CIARDI: The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Archives: KOA and NStED | |
| 8B.2: 16:30 - 16:45 | Felix STOEHR: The HST Cache | |
| 8B.3: 16:45 - 17:00 | Peter WEILBACHER: Advanced Data Reduction Schemes for MUSE | |
| 8B.4: 17:00 - 17:15 | Stephan OTT: The Herschel Data Processing System --- getting ready for launch | |
| Break: 17:30 - 17:45 | ||
BOF |
Description |
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| BOF 3: 17:45 - 19:00 | Michael Noble: Parallel and distributed computing in Astronomy Location: Borduas/Krieghoff |
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| BOF 1: 17:45 - 19:00 | Bill Pence: FITS and the IAU FITS Working Group Location: Lismer/Leduc/Fortin |
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| BOF 4: 17:45 - 19:00 | Mark H. Clark: Engaging the Observer Location: Room 415 |
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| Banquet: 20:00 - 24:00 | ||
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 |
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Session 9 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 9.1: 08:30 - 9:00 | Matthew GRAHAM: Astronomy 2020 - a pragmatic approach. | |
| 9.2: 9:00 - 9:30 | Ray PLANTE: Mixing the Public and the Private: Security in the Virtual Observatory | |
| 9.3: CANCELLED | Giuliano TAFFONI: Web 2.0 for Astronomy | |
| 9.4: 9:30 - 9:45 | Norman GRAY: The SKUA project and the Semantic Web | |
| 9.5: 9:45 - 10:00 | Alasdair GRAY: Vocabularies in the VO | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Group Photo (Take two) | |
| Coffee break: 10:20 - 11:15 | Focus Demo (10:30 - 11:00): Galexview: The new interface to Galex data (Rogers) | |
Session 10 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff |
| 10.1 11:15 - 11:45 | Rick WHITE: Inside the Hubble Legacy Archive: AJAX and XSLT and VOTables, Oh My! | |
| 10.2 11:45 - 12:00 | Séverin GAUDET: The Canadian Advanced Network For Astronomical Research | |
| 10.3 12:00 - 12:15 | Richard DUBOIS: GLAST LAT Science Data Processing - Four Months Experience After Launch | |
| 10.4 12:15 - 12:30 | Daniel FLATH: GLAST Data-Processing Pipeline | |
| 10.5 12:30 - 12:45 | Thomas STEPHENS: A High Performance Spatial Query Engine for Large Data Sets Implemented for the GLAST LAT Data | |
| 10.6 12:45 - 13:00 | Arnold ROTS: Closing Remarks | |
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