Workshop2011:agenda
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Preliminary agenda
Similarly to last year we will be recording the presentations to make them available here later on. It will require you to present your talk from our computer. Options available: MS Powerpoint, Keynote'11, PDF.
| 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.
