November 2-5, 2008
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Sunday, November 2, 2008: Tutorial

Event
Location
Time
Google Sky and Microsoft World Wide Telescope Tutorial Borduas/Krieghoff 13:00 - 17:00
Detailed agenda:
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
13:55Panel discussion / presentations
- Architecture (hardware and software)
- Software development practices
- Participation (How to publish your own data)
15:00coffee break
15:15 open discussion (moderated by Alberto Conti and Rob Seaman)
16:00Science usage discussion
- From Google/Microsoft
- From projects: VOEvent/KML workflow example and/or others
- From the audience
16:55 Wrap up (Rob Seaman)
17:00End
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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