Workshop2011:agenda
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Preliminary agenda
| session | title | name | time (with discussion) | |
| Wednesday | ||||
| 10:00 | Welcome | STH/LW | 10m | |
| 10:10 | Gaia | Gaia overview | Floor van Leeuven | 25m |
| 10:35 | Gaia Alerts overview | STH/LW | 30m | |
| 11:05 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:35 | Gaia | Asteroids with Gaia | Paolo Tanga | 25m |
| 12:00 | Gaia | Gaia Spectro Science Alerts | Paola di Mateo | 25m |
| 12:25 | lunch | 90m | ||
| 13:55 | Ground Based Observations for Gaia (GBOG)'s role in Gaia Science Alerts | George Seabroke | 20m | |
| 14:15 | Gaia-FUN-SSO: a ground-based follow-up for Solar System Objects | Whilliam Thuillot | 25m | |
| 14:40 | Science | Variable stars?? | Laurent Eyer | 20m |
| 15:00 | SNe, overview and follow-up | Massimo Turrato | 30m | |
| 15:30 | tea | 30m | ||
| 16:00 | Microlensing | Vasily Belokurov/Wyn Evans | 20m | |
| 16:20 | Prediction of Astrometric Microlensing Events for the Gaia Mission | Svea Proft | 20m | |
| 16:40 | The detectability of GRB optical counterparts with Gaia | Jure Japelj/Andreja Gomboc | 20m | |
| 17:00 | Study of high z Universe with Gaia | Rene Hudec | 20m | |
| 17:20 | Exotic events?? | Simon Hodgkin?? | 20m | |
| 17:40 | discussion | all | 20m | |
| 18:00 | end of day 1 | |||
| 19:00 | DINNER at St.John's Chop House | |||
| Thursday | ||||
| 09:00 | Galactic transients; linking GAIA alerts with multi-wavelength surveys | Danny Steeghs | 20m | |
| 09:20 | Facilities | Potential follow-up of GAIA alerts from the SONG and MiNDSTEp networks of telescopes. | Uffe Jorgensen | 20m |
| 09:40 | Java Robotic Telescope for Gaia Alert System | Jan Soldan | 20m | |
| 10:00 | "Pi of the Sky" - wide field search for optical transients | Marcin Sokolowski | 20m | |
| 10:20 | Gloria - a network of telescopes which can take on some of Gaia alerts | Lech Mankiewicz | 20m | |
| 10:40 | The La Palma 0.5m Robotic Telescope | Stuart Littlefair | 20m | |
| 11:00 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:30 | Transients detected in the WASP survey | Peter Wheatley | 20m | |
| 11:50 | The LCOGT network | Yannis Tsapras | 20m | |
| 12:10 | STILT (Small Telescopes Installed at LT) instruments | Neil Mawson | 20m | |
| 12:30 | lunch | 90m | ||
| 14:00 | The Liverpool Telescope and Gaia | Iain Steele | 20m | |
| 14:20 | Iranian National Observatory Project | Habib Khosroshahi | 20m | |
| 14:40 | PanStarrs & Spectroscopy | Stephen Smartt | 20m | |
| 15:00 | tea | 30m | ||
| 15:30 | Lucky Imaging Astrometric follow-up | Craig Mackay | 20m | |
| 15:50 | Exploring Night Sky from the Top of the World. | Utsav Kandel | 20m | |
| 16:10 | Overview of French and other European spectroscopic facilities | Michel Dennefeld | 20m | |
| 16:30 | Italian facilities | Gisella Clementini | 20m | |
| 16:50 | other facilities (Swiss,Israeli, Polish)??? | ??? | 20m | |
| 17:10 | discussion | all | 30m | |
| 17:40 | end of day 2 | |||
| Friday | ||||
| 09:00 | Facilities | SAAO facilities and instruments | Patricia Whitelock | 20m |
| 09:20 | Engaging with the public | Gerry Gilmore | 20m | |
| 09:40 | What shall we follow today? | Ashish Mahabal | 20m | |
| 10:00 | Skyalert: Rapid Transients for you and your Robot | Roy Williams | 60m | |
| 11:00 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:30 | Discussion | Getting organized | all | 60m |
| 12:30 | lunch | 90m | ||
| 14:00 | end of day 3 |
The workshop's dinner will take place in St.John's Chop House on Wednesday evening.
