Workshop2010:agenda

Workshop's agenda

Post-workshop White Book is available here

Abstract book can be downloaded here. The titles are linked to pdf versions of the talks.

All presentations were also video recorded and are available in AVI format.

Wednesday 23 June 2010
time	session	title	speaker
10:30		Coffee and registration
11:00		Welcome address recording	Rob Kennicut
11:05		Welcome and update on GREAT recording	Nick Walton
11:15	Gaia	Gaia status	Timo Prusti
11:35		The Gaia mission: a primer recording	Francois Mignard
12:00		Science Alerts recording	LW/STH
12:25		Asteroid Alerts recording	Paolo Tanga
12:45		Q+A/Discussion
13:00		Lunch
14:00	Surveys	Transient and Supernovae searches with PS1 recording	Stephen Smartt
14:25		High energy transients recording	Paul O'Brien
14:45		Explosive Transient Detection in the Era of Synoptic Sky Surveys recording	Przemek Wozniak
15:10		The Palomar Transient Factory recording	Eran Ofek
15:30		Tea
16:00		PTF - The reduction, subtraction, detection, and classification pipelines + some results recording	Dovi Poznanski
16:20		Optical transients detected by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) recording	Peter Wheatley
16:40		Real-time Transient classification, follow-up and the way forward recording	Ashish Mahabal
17:05		Q+A/Discussion recording
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 recording	Mark Sullivan
10:00		The PTF core-collapse supernova key project recording	Avishay Gal-Yam
10:20		Supernova monitor programs recording	Massimo Turatto
10:40		Variability, outbursts and mass loss amongst massive evolved stars recording	Simon Clark
11:00		Coffee
11:30	Science	GRB science with GAIA recording	Nial Tanvir
11:50		Orphan GRB afterglows with GAIA recording	Andrew Levan
12:10		Gaia Microlensing Alerts recording	Andrew Gould
12:40		Microlensing live and in colour recording	Martin Dominik
13:00		Lunch
14:00	Science	Workshop photo
14:10		Accretion-driven transients in the Galaxy recording	Danny Steeghs
14:30		The galactic population of cataclysmic variables recording	Boris Gaensicke
14:50		Irregular variability during early stellar evolution: what can we learn about the circumstellar material? recording	Agnes Kospal
15:10		R Coronae Borealis variability and Galactic distribution (and SkyMapper) recording	Patrick Tisserand
15:30		Tea
16:00	Science	Q+A/Discussion/Summary recording
16:30	Outreach	Outreach possibilties with Gaia and Hands-On-Universe recording	Roger Ferlet
16:55		Outreach/Citizen's Science potential of GAIA Science Alert System recording	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 recording	Martin Altmann
09:50		Gaia and variable stars ; Ground based follow-up recording	Laurent Eyer
10:15		High-Energy Sources and Cataclysmic Variables as Alert Targets for Gaia. Major spectral changes from BP/RP recording	Rene Hudec
10:40		How Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) can contribute to Gaia Science Alerts recording	George Seabroke
11:00		Coffee
11:30		Alert distribution possibilities	Ross Burgon
11:45	Follow-up	Follow-up opportunities with robotic telescopes recording	Fraser Lewis
12:10		Transient Astronomy with the Liverpool Telescope: Software, Systems and Science recording	Iain Steele
12:35		The eSTAR Project recording	Tim Naylor
13:00		Lunch
14:00	Discussion	Discussion - towards the Road Map recording	led by N.Walton
14:45		Concluding summary	All
15:00		end of day 3

Posters:

Giuseppe Altavilla, Gaia and discovery of Supernovae