Time |
Event |
| 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) |
Monday, November 3, 2008 |
Session 1 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Daniel Durand |
| 1.0: 8:30 - 8:45 |
Welcome |
| 1.1: 8:45 - 9:15 |
Keith SHORTRIDGE: Talking amongst ourselves - communication in the astronomical software community |
| 1.2: 9:15 - 9:30 |
Richard SHAW: Forensic Data Quality Assurance |
| 1.3: 9:30 - 9:45 |
Michelle GOWER: The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System: The Processing Framework |
| 1.4: 9:45 - 10:00 |
Tony DARNELL: The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System: The Coaddition Pipeline and PSF |
| Coffee break: 10:00 - 11:15 |
Focus Demo: visIVO - New integrated services (Becciani) |
Session 2 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Jim Lewis |
| 2.1: 11:15- 11:30 |
William PENCE: The Battle Between Image Compression and Noise |
| 2.2 11:30 - 11:45 |
Christopher MILLER: Software Design, Process, and Testing for NOAO VO Portal |
| 2.3: 11:45 - 12:00 |
Deborah LEVINE: The Design of the Spitzer Space Telescope Heritage Archive |
| 2.4: 12:00 - 12:15 |
Anastasia ALEXOV: A Case Study in Modernizing Software: The IRAS Scan Processing and Integration Tool ("Scanpi") |
| Lunch: 12:15 - 14:00 |
Focus Demo: (13:00 - 14:00 ) JUDO and UDON: dedicated web tools for (Ebisawabrowsing and quick analysis of space astronomical data) |
Session 3 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Tony Krueger |
| 3.1: 14:00 - 14:30 |
Mark GIULIANO: Multi-Objective Optimal Scheduling for Space Science Applications |
| 3.2: 14:30 - 15:00 |
Yoshiyuki YAMADA: JASMINE -- Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exprolation -- data analysis and accuracy assessment |
| 3.3: 15:00 - 15:15 |
Dan PRESTON: Event Discovery in Astronomical Time Series |
| Coffee break: 15:15 - 16:30 |
Focus Demo: Aladin 6 (Fernique) |
Session 4 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Daniel Egret |
| 4.1: 16:30 - 17:00 |
Uwe LAMMERS: To boldly go where no man has gone before: Seeking Gaia's Astrometric Solution with AGIS |
| 4.2: 17:00 - 17:30 |
Armin REST: Detecting Light Echoes with Difference Imaging |
| Break: 17:30 - 17:45 |
BOF |
Description |
|
| BOF 6: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Mike Fitzpatrick: Future Astronomical Data Reduction and Analysis Software
Location: Borduas |
| BOF 5: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Mike McCarty: Renaissance of the Web
Location: Cullen |
| BOF 2: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Rob Seaman: Architectures for Time Domain Astronomy
Location: Leduc |
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 |
Session 5 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Richard Hook |
| 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: pysynphot: A replacement for stsdas.synphot (Laidler) |
Session 6 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Carlos Gabriel |
| 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
Chair: Christian Veillet |
| 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 |
Krieghoff
Chair: Koh-Ichiro Morita |
| 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 |
Lincoln GREENHILL: 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: A guided tour of Saada (Michel) |
Session 8A |
Description |
Borduas
Chair:Francois Ochsenbein |
| 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 |
Krieghoff
Chair: Allen Farris |
| 8B.1: 16:30 - 16:45 |
Bruce Berriman: The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Archives: KOA and NStED |
| 8B.2: 16:45 - 17:00 |
Felix STOEHR: The HST Cache |
| 8B.3: 17:00 - 17:15 |
Peter WEILBACHER: Advanced Data Reduction Schemes for MUSE |
| 8B.4: 17:15 - 17:30 |
Stephan OTT: The Herschel Data Processing System --- getting ready for launch |
| Break: 17:30 - 17:45 |
BOF |
Description |
|
| BOF 3: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Michael Noble: Parallel and distributed computing in Astronomy
Location: Borduas |
| BOF 1: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Bill Pence: FITS and the IAU FITS Working Group
Location: Krieghoff |
| BOF 4: 17:45 - 19:00 |
Mark H. Clark: Engaging the Observer
Location: Leduc |
| Banquet: 20:00 - 24:00 |
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 |
Session 9 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Tom Handley |
| 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: 9:30 - 9:45 |
Giuliano TAFFONI: Web 2.0 for Astronomy |
| 9.4: 9:45 - 10:00 |
Norman GRAY: The SKUA project and the Semantic Web |
| 9.5: 10:00 - 10:15 |
Alasdair GRAY: Vocabularies in the VO |
| Coffee break: 10:15 - 11:15 |
Focus Demo: Galexview: The new interface to Galex data (Rogers) |
Session 10 |
Description |
Borduas/Krieghoff
Chair: Arnold Rots |
| 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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