Program

Final program 3/5/2010

March 17

17:00-19:00 Reception
The rest of the program for March 17, 2010

March 18

08:00 Breakfast (provided)
 8:45 Standard Introduction & Welcome
I. Looking For Interesting Stuff
09:00 Palomar Transient Factory
Shri Kulkarni
09:30 Transients in the Local Universe
Mansi M Kasliwal
09:45 Pan-STARRS in the Era of Wide-Field Time-Domain Surveys
Armin Rest
10:15 Killer Asteroids and Exploding Galaxies—The Catalina Sky Survey and the Catalina Real Time Transient Survey
Edward Beshore
10:45 Break (provided)
11:15 Exploring the Time Domain With the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey
George Djorgovski
11:30 Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope: Where are we? Where are we going?
Timothy M. Brown
12:00 Lunch (provided)
II. Things That Can Be Seen Really, Really Far Away
01:30 Scratching Decadal Itches with Gamma-Ray Bursts
Joshua S. Bloom
02:00 The Calan/Tololo Supernova Survey
Mark Phillips
02:15 Massive Star Outbursts and Their Optical Transients
Nathan Smith
02:30 Pretty Good Novae: Transients Intermediate Between Novae & Supernovae
Howard E. Bond
02:45 Radioactively Powered Optical Counterparts of Neutron Star Mergers
Brian Metzger
03:00 Break (provided)
03:30 Cataclysmic Variability of Galactic Nuclei
Michael Eracleous
III. Things That Aren’t So Far Away
 04:00  Variable Stars: the Partially Known and the Totally Unknown
Paula Szkody
 04:30  Variability According to Kepler
Steven B. Howell

March 19

IV. Things That Are Pretty Close
08:00 Breakfast (provided)
09:00 Fifty Years of the Variable Sun
Frank Hill
09:30 Our Hurtling, Whirling Solar System
Lynne Jones
10:00 Transient phenomena and variations in comets, asteroids, centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects
Beatrice Mueller
10:30 Break (provided)
11:00 Global Network for Planet Detection and Asteroseismology Study Using Extremely high Precision Extrasolar Planet Tracker Instruments
Jian Ge
V. Really Interesting Ways to Find Interesting Stuff
11:15 Transient Identification and Classification with WISE
Douglas Hoffman
11:30 WISE: Clear Views of Dark Objects
Roc Cutri
11:45 Reaching Out with Eventful Astronomy
Kirk Borne
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
01:30 SOFIA and Astronomical Transient Events
Dan Lester
01:45 Search for Hidden Baryons Through Scintillation
Marc Moniez
02:00 The Galaxy Viewed at Very Short Time-Scales with the Berkeley Visible Image Tube (BVIT)
Barry Welsh
02:15 Wide Field Radio Transient Surveys
Steve Croft
02:30 Break (provided)
VI. Breakout Sessions
03:00

The First Round of Two Parallel Breakout Sessions:

I. Future Telescope/Instrumentation Needs for Event Observation
Chair—Sidney Wolff

II. Using the Virtual Observatory to Communicate Events
Chair—Rob Seaman

March 20

08:00 Breakfast (provided)
09:00

The Second Round of Two Parallel Breakout Sessions:

I. Event Identification Software
Chair—Armin Rest

II. Coordinating Follow-up Observations of Events
Chair—Steve Howell

10:30 Break (provided)
11:00 Summary—Chairs Present Session Summaries
12:00 We’re Done