Workshop2015:agenda

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Abstract book and agenda [pdf]

	name	title	time (with discussion)
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
10:00	registration desk open
12:30	lunch		1:30
14:00		Welcome	0:10
14:10	David Bersier	ASAS-SN: The All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae	0:20
14:30	David Reiss	LSST Transient Alert Production Pipeline	0:20
14:50	Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska	OGLE-IV Transient Survey	0:20
15:10	Krzysztof Ulaczyk	The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer	0:15
15:25	coffee break		0:35
16:00	Fraser Lewis	Education and Outreach Opportunities from Gaia Transients	0:20
16:20	Sophie Bartlett	Getting to know Gaia - Applying a current, real-world context to the school science curriculum	0:20
16:40	Anna Hourihane	Gaia Science Alerts for outreach: publication and follow-up	0:20
17:00	Lorraine Hanlon	Watcher robotic telescope and Gaia archive	0:20
17:20	Tim Staley	Beyond ATEL's - How to hook in to the VOEvent network	0:20
17:40	end of day 1
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
09:30	Simon Hodgkin	Gaia Science Alerts	0:30
10:00	Lukasz Wyrzykowski	First year of the Gaia Alerts	0:30
10:30	Heather Campbell	First science from Gaia	0:30
11:00	coffee break		0:45
11:45	Laurent Eyer	Variable stars in Gaia	0:25
12:10	Nic Walton	Gaia Science Alerts in the Main Gaia Data Releases	0:20
12:30	Nadejda Blagorodnova	Nuclear transient detection with Gaia	0:30
13:00	WORKSHOP PHOTO	steps to the Cathedral
13:10	lunch break		1:30
14:30	Grant Kennedy	Transits of exploding asteroids and fragmented comets	0:20
14:50	Chris Copperwheat	Gaia transients with the Liverpool Telescope and Liverpool Telescope 2	0:20
15:10	Rob Barnsley	IO:I - a new infrared imager for the Liverpool Telescope	0:15
15:25	coffee break		0:35
16:00	Andrzej Piascik	Spectrographic Classification of Transients with the Liverpool Telescope	0:20
16:20	Helen Jermak	LOTUS: a low-cost UV spectrograph on the Liverpool Telescope	0:15
16:35	Massimo Turatto	SOXS, the next generation instrument for ESO NTT	0:15
16:50	Alceste Bonanos	Observing facilities at the National Observatory of Athens	0:20
17:10	Goran Damljanovic	Gaia-FUN-TO and the observations of Gaia Alerts objects using Serbian-Bulgarian mini-network telescopes	0:20
17:30	Giuseppe Leto	Catania participation in the Gaia Alerts Network	0:15
17:45	Kris Rybicki	Loiano and Ostrowik Observatories	0:15
18:00	Ulrich Kolb	PIRATE going forward	0:15
18:15	discussion		0:30
18:45	end of day 2
19:30	WORKSHOP DINNER
Thursday, 12 November 2015
09:30	Peter Jonker	TDEs with Gaia	0:25
09:55	Sjoert van Velzen	Optical observations of stellar tidal disruption flares	0:25
10:20	Thomas Wevers	Fast transients from Gaia	0:20
10:40	Susanna Vergani	Catching GRB orphan afterglows from Gaia triggers	0:20
11:00	coffee break		0:45
11:45	Seppo Mattila	Nuclear supernovae with Gaia	0:25
12:10	Morgan Fraser	Freaks and weirdos - A taxonomy of rare, peculiar and puzzling supernovae	0:25
12:35	Massimo Della Valle	Novae in the Gaia Era	0:25
13:00	lunch break		1:30
14:30	Elme Breedt	Accreting compact object binaries from Gaia and other transient surveys	0:20
14:50	Kris Rybicki	Astrometric microlensing from Gaia and OGLE	0:20
15:10	Gerry Gilmore	OPTICON	0:15
15:25	coffee break		0:35
16:00	Josep Manel Carrasco	The Montsec Observatory and the Gaia science alerts	0:20
16:20	Orhan Erece	Observations, Contributions and A New Follow-Up Software at TUG	0:15
16:35	Vira Godunova	Monitoring of transient phenomena at the Terskol Observatory	0:15
16:50	Viktor Votruba	Danish 1.54m telescope na La Silla and Czech participation	0:20
17:10	Klaas Wiersema	Observing transients with the University of Leicester observatory	0:15
17:25	Magda Butkiewicz-Bąk	Global Astrophysical Telescope System - a new tool for photometry and spectroscopy	0:15
17:40	end of day 3
Friday, 13 November 2015
09:30	Arancha Delgado	Introduction to the new Gaia Alerts Interface	0:30
10:00	Morgan Fraser	Running a successful spectroscopic programme - lessons from PESSTO	0:30
10:30	Lukasz Wyrzykowski	How to do the photometric follow-up?	0:30
11:00	coffee break		0:45
11:45	Lukasz Wyrzykowski	Introduction to the Calibration Server and other tools	0:30
12:15	Heather Campbell	Photometric classification of transients	0:30
12:45	lunch and end of the meeting

NOTE: agenda might still change slightly