Workshop2010:agenda

Workshop's agenda

This agenda is still in its draft form and it still might change. Please contact us if you have any comments.

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.

It is very likely we will record all presentations in order to make them available through this website. Please contact us if you strongly object to being recorded! We might also be able to stream the talks live. Details soon.

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
18:30(TBC)		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	How GBOG can help the Gaia ommunity organize itself for multi-site large observational efforts.	Elena Pancino
09:55		Ground Based Optical Tracking of Gaia	Martin Altmann
10:15		Gaia and variable stars ; Ground based follow-up	Laurent Eyer
10:35		High-Energy Sources and Cataclysmic Variables as Alert Targets for Gaia. Major spectral changes from BP/RP	Rene Hudec
11:00		Coffee
11:30		How Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) can contribute to Gaia Science Alerts	George Seabroke
11:50		Alerts distributions possibilities	Ross Burgon
12:05	Follow-up	Follow-up opportunities with robotic telescopes	Sarah Roberts
12:30		Transient Astronomy with the Liverpool Telescope: Software, Systems and Science	Iain Steele
13:00		Lunch
14:00	Discussion	Discussion - towards the Road Map
14:45		Concluding summary	NAW/LW/STH/FvL/GG
15:00		end of day 3