Workshop2010:agenda
Workshop's agenda
The workshop will be structured around invited science presentations and contribution talks, concluding with a discussion periods. We anticipate stimulating significant discussion and tackling the goals of the workshop.
All presentations will be recorded and will be published on this website during or soon after the workshop.
!!! We would kindly ask and advise you to email us your presentation as a pdf file BEFORE the meeting. We'll keep it as a back-up option in case of any potential technical problems (e.g. broken laptop). AFTER/during the meeting we would like to get the most up-to-date version of you presentation to make it available on this website. !!!
Live streaming
The presentation will be also streamed live. Please email Lukasz Wyrzykowski if you want to view it.
Abstract book
Abstract book can be downloaded here. The titles are linked to pdf versions of the talks.
| Wednesday 23 June 2010 | ||||
| time | session | title | speaker | |
| 10:30 | Coffee and registration | |||
| 11:00 | Welcome and update on GREAT | Nick Walton | ||
| 11:15 | Gaia | Gaia status | Timo Prusti | |
| 11:35 | The Gaia mission: a primer | Francois Mignard | ||
| 12:00 | Science Alerts | LW/STH | ||
| 12:25 | Asteroid Alerts | Paolo Tanga | ||
| 12:45 | Q+A/Discussion | |||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Surveys | Transient and Supernovae searches with PS1 | Stephen Smartt | |
| 14:25 | High energy transients | Paul O'Brien | ||
| 14:45 | Explosive Transient Detection in the Era of Synoptic Sky Surveys | Przemek Wozniak | ||
| 15:10 | The Palomar Transient Factory | Eran Ofek | ||
| 15:30 | Tea | |||
| 16:00 | PTF - The reduction, subtraction, detection, and classification pipelines + some results | Dovi Poznanski | ||
| 16:20 | Optical transients detected by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) | Peter Wheatley | ||
| 16:40 | Real-time Transient classification, follow-up and the way forward | Ashish Mahabal | ||
| 17:05 | Q+A/Discussion | |||
| 17:30 | end of day 1 | |||
| 19:00 | Reception and dinner in Churchill College | |||
| Thursday 24 June 2010 | ||||
| time | session | title | speaker | |
| 09:30 | Surveys | Gaia in the context of low-redshift transient surveys | Mark Sullivan | |
| 10:00 | The PTF core-collapse supernova key project | Avishay Gal-Yam | ||
| 10:20 | Supernova monitor programs | Massimo Turatto | ||
| 10:40 | Variability, outbursts and mass loss amongst massive evolved stars | Simon Clark | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee | |||
| 11:30 | Science | GRB science with GAIA | Nial Tanvir | |
| 11:50 | Orphan GRB afterglows with GAIA | Andrew Levan | ||
| 12:10 | Gaia Microlensing Alerts | Andrew Gould | ||
| 12:40 | Microlensing live and in colour | Martin Dominik | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Science | Workshop photo | ||
| 14:10 | Accretion-driven transients in the Galaxy | Danny Steeghs | ||
| 14:30 | The galactic population of cataclysmic variables | Boris Gaensicke | ||
| 14:50 | Irregular variability during early stellar evolution: what can we learn about the circumstellar material? | Agnes Kospal | ||
| 15:10 | R Coronae Borealis variability and Galactic distribution | Patrick Tisserand | ||
| 15:30 | Tea | |||
| 16:00 | Science | Q+A/Discussion/Summary | ||
| 16:30 | Outreach | Outreach possibilties with Gaia and Hands-On-Universe | Roger Ferlet | |
| 16:55 | Outreach/Citizen's Science potential of GAIA Science Alert System. | Lech Mankiewicz | ||
| 17:20 | Q+A/Discussion | |||
| 17:30 | end of day 2 | |||
| Friday 25 June 2010 | ||||
| time | session | title | speaker | |
| 09:30 | Gaia | Ground Based Optical Tracking of Gaia | Martin Altmann | |
| 09:50 | Gaia and variable stars ; Ground based follow-up | Laurent Eyer | ||
| 10:15 | High-Energy Sources and Cataclysmic Variables as Alert Targets for Gaia. Major spectral changes from BP/RP | Rene Hudec | ||
| 10:40 | How Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) can contribute to Gaia Science Alerts | George Seabroke | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee | |||
| 11:30 | Alert distribution possibilities | Ross Burgon | ||
| 11:45 | Follow-up | Follow-up opportunities with robotic telescopes | Fraser Lewis | |
| 12:10 | Transient Astronomy with the Liverpool Telescope: Software, Systems and Science | Iain Steele | ||
| 12:35 | The eSTAR Project | Tim Naylor | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Discussion | Discussion - towards the Road Map | All | |
| 14:45 | Concluding summary | All | ||
| 15:00 | end of day 3 | |||
