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
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 II. Using the Virtual Observatory to Communicate Events |
March 20 |
|
| 08:00 | Breakfast (provided) |
| 09:00 |
The Second Round of Two Parallel Breakout Sessions: I. Event Identification Software II. Coordinating Follow-up Observations of Events |
| 10:30 | Break (provided) |
| 11:00 | Summary—Chairs Present Session Summaries |
| 12:00 | We’re Done |