Workshop2014:agenda

Draft agenda, subject to changes.

	title	name	time (with discussion)
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
12:00	lunch		1:30
13:30		Welcome	0:05
13:35	Timo Prusti (ESA)	Gaia overview and status	0:30
14:05	Anthony Brown (Leiden)	Commissioning	0:30
14:35	Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge)	Gaia Science Alerts Operations	0:25
15:00	Łukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw)	Design of AlertPipe	0:30
15:30	coffee		0:30
16:00	Guy Rixon (Cambridge)	Technical challenges and solutions for Gaia Science Alerts	0:30
16:30	Nadia Blagorodnova (Cambridge)	Gaia: a Supernova Discovery Machine	0:30
17:00	George Seabroke (MSSL)	Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer follow-up of Gaia Science Alerts	0:25
17:25	Nami Mowlawi (Geneva)	CU7 variability processing and analysis	0:25
17:50	end of day 1
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
09:30	Christine Ducourant (Bordeaux)	The millions of tiny galaxies that Gaia is observing	0:25
09:55	Kester Smith (Heidelberg)	Automated classification of Gaia sources	0:25
10:20	Morgan Fraser (Cambridge)	Validating Gaia Alerts with ground based spectroscopy	0:25
10:45	Andrzej Piascik (Liverpool)	A Spectrograph for the Rapid Analysis of Transients	0:15
11:00	coffee		0:30
11:30	Massimo Turatto (Padova)	Asiago supernova programme	0:15
11:45	Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge)	Spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia Alerts	0:30
12:15		Discussion	0:45
13:00	lunch		1:00
14:00	Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw)	OGLE-IV overview	0:45
14:45	Adam Miller (Caltech)	Current and Future Palomar Time-Domain Surveys	0:25
15:10	Dorota Skowron (Warsaw)	The All-Sky Automated Survey for Super Novae	0:20
15:30	coffee		0:30
16:00	Cosimo Insera (Belfast)	Overview of PESSTO	0:30
16:30	Heather Campbell (Cambridge)	Type Ia Supernovae - Gaia	0:25
16:55	Grainne Costigan (Leiden)	CU9 Gaia Data Archive	0:20
17:15	end of day 2
18:00	workshop dinner	Zacheta Art Gallery and Restaurant
	with optional exhibition Cosmos calling!
Thursday, 11 September 2014
09:30	Seppo Mattila (Turku)	Supernovae in nuclear environments	0:25
09:55	Elme Breedt (Warwick)	Accreting compact objects in the transient sky	0:25
10:20	Peter Jonker (SRON)	The Gaia Science Alerts potential for discovering intermediate-mass black holes	0:25
10:45	coffee		0:45
11:30	Thomas Wevers (Nijmegen)	Probing a new region of phase-space: very short timescale variability with Gaia	0:25
11:55	Jure Japelj (Ljubljana)	Hunting for GRB afterglows with Gaia	0:25
12:20	Wyn Evans (Cambridge)	Predicting Microlensing Events	0:25
12:45	lunch		1:15
14:00	Martin Dominik (St.Andrews)	Measuring masses - Microlensing with Gaia	0:25
14:25	Kailash Sahu (STSI)	Astrometric Microlensing with GAIA	0:25
14:50	Krzysztof Hryniewicz (Geneva)	Search for TDE candidates with Swift BAT	0:25
15:15	Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)	Tidal Disruption Events and the search for Massive Black Holes (<10^6 Msun)	0:25
15:40	coffee		0:30
16:10	Sjoert van Velzen (Nijmegen)	TDEs	0:25
16:35	Dan Maoz (Tel Aviv)	Fast Radio Bursts	0:25
17:00	Arne Henden (AAVSO)	Citizen Science in the Age of GAIA	0:25
17:25	Anna Hourihane (Cambridge)	Gaia outreach in the UK	0:20
17:45	end of day 3
Friday 12 September 2014				'NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM'
09:30	Nic Walton (Cambridge)	GREAT Network	0:15
09:45	Gerry Gilmore (Cambridge)	OPTICON	0:15
10:00	Łukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw)	Time-domain Network within OPTICON	0:20
10:20	Krzysztof Ulaczyk (Warsaw)	Ephemeris tools for follow-up planning	0:10
10:30	Liam Hardy (Sheffield)	pt5m on La Palma - ready to follow up Gaia transients	0:15
10:45	Hasan Esenoglu (Tubitak)	Photometric Contribution to Gaia Alerts from Robotic and Remote Control TUG	0:15
11:00	coffee		0:30
11:30	Milan Stojanovic (Belgrade)	Serbian-Bulgarian mini-network telescopes as a part of Gaia-Follow-Up Network	0:15
11:45	Jochen Greiner (Garching)	GROND capabilities for Gaia transient follow-up	0:15
12:00	Chris Davis (Liverpool)	Time domain astronomy with the Liverpool Telescope	0:15
12:15	Werner Zeilinger (Vienna)	Gaia Science Alerts: Report on test observations	0:15
12:30	Zbigniew Kołaczkowski (Wrocław)	Wroclaw Observatory	0:15
12:45	Michał Pawlak (Warsaw)	Warsaw Observatory	0:15
13:00	Yogesh Joshi (ARIES)	Multi-domian analysis in the Nainital Microlensing Survey data	0:15
13:15	lunch
	end of day 4