Hot-wiring the Transient Universe: A Joint VOEvent & HTN Workshop June 4-7 2007 • University of Arizona, Tucson Final Call for Registration (Registration closes on the 4th May 2007)

Website
The conference website can be found at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/ hotwired
The Workshop
An interdisciplinary agenda will cover technology, methods and experimental design for the detection and rapid follow-up observations of celestial transients, as well as data fusion to create knowledge about the underlying astronomical phenomena. Sessions will include tutorials and demos as well as topical presentations and working discussions. Refereed proceedings will be published as an issue of Astronomische Nachrichten.
We anticipate starting with a broad vision of future trends in the reporting and follow-up of celestial transient alerts - reaching into the era of movie-like modes of observation of the sky (e.g., via LSST), of new space missions and giant telescopes, and of the Virtual Observatory. The context will be the emerging national and international observing system encompassing multi-wavelength (and non- EM) instruments on telescopes of all apertures, both robotic and human mediated. Concrete action items will emerge for both networked event reporting and autonomous follow-up. All aspects of community interest in astronomical transient and time domain phenomena will be discussed, from experimental design to the scheduling of resources, observing modes to technical standards, scientific research programs to education and public outreach.
Registration
Registration for the workshop will close on the 4th May, register online at:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/register/index.cfm
Accommodations
Accommodation at the two conference hotels is available at a reduced rate;
Marriott University Park
880 E. 2nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85719 USA
Rate: $109/night + tax and city surcharge
Distance from NOAO: about 0.8 miles
Four Points by Sheraton - Tucson University Plaza
1900 E. Speedway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 87519 USA
Rate: $59/night + tax & city surcharge
Distance from NOAO: about 0.4 miles
Location
Meinel Optical Sciences Building, Rm 307 University of Arizona, Tucson
Campus map:
http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/staticLarge/94.01.html
Tucson map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=university+of+arizona, +tucson&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.093296,68.994141&layer=&ie=UTF8&z =15&om=1&iwloc=addr
The conference venue is a winner of the prestigious Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects:
http://iraf.noao.edu/~seaman/meinel.pdf
Network
A wireless network will be available in the meeting areas.
Preliminary Program of sessions (pending further contributions)
QuickStart Guide for Autonomous Astronomy (Chair: Roy Williams) Robert White: RTML + VOEvent < HTN: A system that is more than the sum of its parts Roy WIlliams: How to build and how to read a VOEvent packet (TUTORIAL) Rick Hessman: What is RTML? Alasdair Allan: Transport for the HTN and VOEvent networks Long range vision for transient astronomy (Chair: George Djorgovski) Kem Cook: Science requiring follow-up of large surveys Przemek Wozniak: Thinking Telescope Transients Francesco Pierfederici: The LSST Moving Object Processing System Event Classification (Chair Josh Bloom) Tom Vestrand: The Science from Rapid Response: Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emission in GRBs (KEYNOTE) Andy Becker: Transient Object Detection and Classification Josh Bloom: Building a Classification Engine for the Palomar Transients Finder Ashish Mahabal: On probabilistic determination of type of an object based on previously known variable objects Web services for real time data reduction and analysis (Chair: Mike Fitzpatrick) Alasdair Allan: Your PLASTIC pal, helping you pull VOEvent onto the desktop (TUTORIAL) Iain Steele: Data Reduction Services for Heterogenous Telescopes Tim Jenness: ORAC-DR Data Reduction Pipeline VOEvent Unbound (Chair: Rob Seaman) Steve Allen: XML packet authentication Rick Hessman: UCDs vs. ontologies - just a matter of semantics Surveys and event publishing George Djorgovski: Some experiences from the Palomar-Quest survey David Sand: A Systematic Search for Supernovae in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters Phillip Warner: Integrating and deploying a VOEvent service atyour institution (TUTORIAL)
Space-based and Radio transients Steve Howell: Kepler precursor survey Scott Barthelmy: Gamma-ray Bursts Coordinates Network Observatory Operations Chris Smith: Integrating VOEvent into OIR System, an NOAO Operations case study Kent Honeycutt: Lessons learned from RoboScope: a long-term automated monitoring program Kate Scholberg: The Supernova Early Warning System Alasdair Allan: Autonomous software, myth or magic? Registries and databases: federation for dummies (Chair: Matthew Graham) Elizabeth Auden: Querying VOEvents through AstroGrid Matthew Graham: Resource Discovery with the VO Registry Grid Markets (Chair: Iain Steele) Distributed scheduling (Chair: Alasdair Allan) Eric Saunders: Adaptive distributed scheduling, putting the 'work'into network
HTN infrastructure (Chair: Robert White) Michel Boer: TAROT: A robotic observatory for gamma-ray bursts and other sources Neil Clay: RTML SOAP endpoint implementation on the Liverpool Telescope TBD: RTML 3.2: a revised RTML schema for brain-dead software IDEs Chris Mottram: Robonet-1.0 Wrap-up and action items Rob Seaman: The life cycle of a transient event final discussion
Sponsoring Organisations
The workshop was funded from generous contributions from the sponsoring organisations;
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, http://www.noao.edu National Virtual Observatory, http://www.us-vo.org Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, http://www.lsst.org eSTAR Project, http://www.estar.org.uk Thinking Telescope Project, http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov/
and under the auspices of the IVOA's VOEvent Working Group and the HTN Consortium.
IVOA, http://www.ivoa.net/ HTN, http://www.telescope-networks.org/
Organizing Committee
Rob Seaman, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Roy Williams, California Institute of Technology
Alasdair Allan, eSTAR Project, University of Exeter
Robyn Allsman, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Scott Barthelmy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Joshua Bloom, University of California, Berkeley
Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO
Matthew Graham, California Institute of Technology
Frederic Hessman, MONET Project, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Iain Steele, eSTAR Project, Liverpool John Moores University
Philip Warner, NOAO
Robert White, Thinking Telescope Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Received on 2007-04-27Z05:20:15