Workshop2011:agenda
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Please send your talk to Lukasz Wyrzykowski (wyrzykow@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Registration will be open from 9am on Wednesday. Coffee will be available.
The workshop's dinner will take place in St.John's Chop House on Wednesday evening.
| session | title | name | time (with discussion) | |
| Wednesday | ||||
| 10:00 | Welcome | STH/LW | 10m | |
| 10:10 | Gaia | Gaia overview | Floor van Leeuven | 20m |
| 10:30 | Alerts overview [1] | STH/LW | 30m | |
| 11:00 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:30 | Gaia Archive Preparations | Nicholas Walton | 15m | |
| 11:45 | Gaia Spectro Science Alerts | Paola di Mateo | 20m | |
| 12:05 | Asteroids with Gaia | Paolo Tanga | 20m | |
| 12:35 | lunch | 95m | ||
| 14:00 | Special | What shall we follow today? | Ashish Mahabal | 30m |
| 14:30 | Skyalert: Rapid Transients for you and your Robot | Roy Williams | 60m | |
| 15:30 | tea | 30m | ||
| 16:00 | Science | Variable stars with Gaia | Laurent Eyer | 20m |
| 16:20 | SNe, overview and follow-up | Massimo Turrato | 30m | |
| 16:50 | Prediction of Astrometric Microlensing Events for the Gaia Mission | Svea Proft | 20m | |
| 17:10 | Microlensing | Wyn Evans/Lukasz Wyrzykowski | 20m | |
| 17:30 (moved to Thu)) | The detectability of GRB optical counterparts with Gaia | Jure Japelj/Andreja Gomboc | 20m | |
| 17:50 (moved to Thu) | Study of high-z Universe with Gaia, Spectroscopic Alerts & Czech Gaia CU7 support by RTs | Rene Hudec | 20m | |
| 18:10 | end of day 1 | |||
| 19:00 | DINNER at St.John's Chop House | |||
| Thursday | ||||
| 09:00 | Facilities | Ground Based Observations for Gaia (GBOG)'s role in Gaia Science Alerts | George Seabroke | 20m |
| 09:20 | Potential follow-up of GAIA alerts from the SONG and MiNDSTEp networks of telescopes. | Uffe Jorgensen | 20m | |
| 09:40 | Galactic transients; linking GAIA alerts with multi-wavelength surveys | Danny Steeghs | 20m | |
| 10:00 | Java Robotic Telescope for Gaia Alert System | Jan Soldan | 20m | |
| 10:20 | "Pi of the Sky" - wide field search for optical transients | Marcin Sokolowski | 20m | |
| 10:40 | Gloria - a network of telescopes which can take on some of Gaia alerts | Lech Mankiewicz | 20m | |
| 11:00 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:30 (not presented) | The La Palma 0.5m Robotic Telescope | Stuart Littlefair | 20m | |
| 11:50 (not presented) | Transients detected in the WASP survey | Peter Wheatley | 20m | |
| 12:10 | The LCOGT network | Yannis Tsapras | 20m | |
| 12:30 | WORKSHOP PHOTO | 5m | ||
| 12:35 | lunch | 85m | ||
| 14:00 | The Liverpool Telescope and Gaia | Iain Steele | 20m | |
| 14:20 | STILT (Small Telescopes Installed at LT) instruments | Neil Mawson | 20m | |
| 14:40 | Iranian National Observatory Project | Habib Khosroshahi | 20m | |
| 15:00 | Catalina Realtime Transient Survey (CRTS) | Ashish Mahabal | 30m | |
| 15:30 | tea | 30m | ||
| 16:00 | Lucky Imaging Astrometric follow-up | Craig Mackay | 20m | |
| 16:20 | Overview of European and French spectroscopic facilities | Michel Dennefeld | 20m | |
| 16:40 | Italian facilities | Gisella Clementini | 20m | |
| 17:00 | Overview of other facilities (Swiss, Israeli, Polish, Austrian) | LW | 20m | |
| 17:20 | discussion | all | 40m | |
| 18:00 | end of day 2 | |||
| Friday | ||||
| 09:00 | Facilities | SAAO facilities and instruments | Patricia Whitelock | 20m |
| 09:20 | The ESO Public spectroscopic survey of the Transient Universe | Stephen Smartt | 30m | |
| 09:50 | Gaia-FUN-SSO: a ground-based follow-up for Solar System Objects | Whilliam Thuillot | 30m | |
| 10:20 | Engaging with the public | Gerry Gilmore | 20m | |
| 10:40 | Discussion | Getting organized | all | 20m |
| 11:00 | coffee | 30m | ||
| 11:30 | Discussion | Getting organized and Summary | all | 60m |
| 12:30 | lunch | 90m | ||
| 14:00 | end of day 3 | |||
