ADASS 2001 Conference Schedule

ADASS 2001 Conference Week-at-a-Glance
Sunday
30 Sep
Monday
1 Oct
Tuesday
2 Oct
Wednesday
3 Oct
  Oral Session 1: Virtual Observatory (8:20 am to 10:00 am) Oral Session 4: Science & Analysis (8:30 am to 10:00 am) Oral Session 8: Information Technology (8:30 am to 10:00 am)
Oral Session 2: Enabling Technologies (11:15 am to 12:30 pm) Oral Session 5: Enabling Technologies (11:15 am to 12:30 pm) Oral Session 9: Virtual Observatory (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
Tutorial: Python for Scientific Computing (12:30 pm to 5 pm) Oral Session 3: Calibration & Pipeline Reduction (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm) Oral Session 6: Virtual Observatory (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm) Oral Session 10: Science & Analysis (2:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
BoF Session 1:
(4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
Use of Free Software (M. Galassi)
FITS (D. Wells)
Oral Session 7:
Enabling Technologies (4:30 pm to 5:45 pm)
Oral Session 11: Enabling Technologies (4:00 pm to 5:00 pm)
  Display Session
Demos
Conference Reception
6 pm to 7:30 pm
BoF Session 2:
(7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
International VO Coordination (Hanisch/Giaretta)
VO Interoperability Standards (F. Genova)
Conference Banquet
6:30pm to 10:00 pm
 
Sunday
30 Sep
Monday
1 Oct
Tuesday
2 Oct
Wednesday
3 Oct


Sunday, 30 September

Tutorial: Python for Scientific Computing (12:30 pm to 5:00 pm) (E. Jones)
Conference Reception (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm)


Monday, 1 October

Session 1: Virtual Observatory (8:20 am to 10:00 am)
8:20 am Welcome & Opening Remarks  
8:30 am Science with a Virtual Observatory (Invited) (R. Brunner)
9:00 am ASTROVIRTEL (Invited) (P. Benvenuti)
9:30 am AstroGrid: the UK's Virtual Observatory Initiative (R. Mann)
9:45 am Theory in a Virtual Observatory (P. Teuben)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)
Session 2: Enabling Technologies (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
11:15 am Extremely Large Telescopes (OWL) (Invited) (R. Gilmozzi)
11:45 am Technical Challenges of the Keck Interferometer (Invited) (A. Boden)
12:15 pm The RAPTOR Experiment A System for Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients (W. Vestrand)
Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 3: Calibration & Pipeline Reduction (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)
2:00 pm Self-Calibration of Imaging Arrays (Invited) (R. Arendt)
2:30 pm The Terapix Data Reduction Pipeline (Invited) (E. Bertin)
3:00 pm Pipeline Processing at the Isaac Newton Group: Facilitating Transient Event Astronomy (N. Walton)
3:15 pm Reducing and calibrating SCUBA data on demand (T. Jenness)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:30 pm to 4:30 pm)
BoF Session 1 (4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
4:30 pm Use of Free Software in Astronomical Data Systems (M. Galassi)
FITS (D. Wells)
Dinner Break (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm)
BoF Session 2 (7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
7:30 pm International Virtual Observatory Coordination (R. Hanisch/
D. Giaretta)
Proposed Virtual Observatory Interoperability Standards (F. Genova)


Tuesday, 2 October

Session 4: Science & Analysis (8:30 am to 10:00 am)
8:30 am The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan (Invited) (E. Miner)
9:00 am New Science from 2MASS (Invited) (M. Skrutskie)
9:30 am The MATPHOT Algorithm for Digital Point Spread Function CCD Stellar Photometry (K. Mighell)
9:45 am The HST/WFPC2 Point Source Catalog: Development of a Strategic New Resource (R. Butler)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)
Session 5: Enabling Technologies (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
11:15 am CADC Pipeline Management & Data Mining Systems (Invited) (D. Schade)
11:45 am Parallel and Distributed Astronomical Imaging with the Glish Bus (A. Willis)
12:00 noon Infrastructure for SIRTF Science Processing (J. Rector)
12:15 pm ESO's Next Generation Archive System (A. Wicenec)
Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 6: Virtual Observatory (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)
2:00 pm Architectures for the Virtual Observatory (Invited) (R. Williams)
2:30 pm AVO Infrastructure (Invited) (P. Quinn)
3:00 pm VO Data Model - FITS, XML plus NDF: the Whole is More than the Sum of the Parts (D. Giaretta)
3:15 pm XML in action for VO solutions (P. Fernique)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:30 pm to 4:30 pm)
Session 7: Enabling Technologies (4:30 pm to 5:45 pm)
4:30 pm Opening new windows in astronomical data processing with LOFAR (K. van der Schaaf)
4:45 pm Automatic Classification Pipelines for All-sky Surveys (S. Brumby)
5:00 pm HEALPix - Fast, High Resolution (K. Gorski)
5:15 pm Query Performance in The SDSS Early Data Release (A. Thakar)
5:30 pm Application of PC-Based 3D Virtual Reality in Physics & Astronomy (S. Chakaveh)
Conference Banquet (6:30 pm to 10:00 pm)


Wednesday, 3 October

Session 8: Information Technology (8:30 am to 10:00 am)
8:30 am Recent Research in Collaboration and Information Access: Finding the Next Frontiers (Invited) (M. Ackerman)
9:00 am Putting Your Data on the Web (Invited) (M. Pelletier)
9:30 am From Urania to the Astronomical Virtual Observatory (AVO) (G. Eichhorn)
9:45 am Hera - The HEASARC Web-based Data Analysis Environment (W. Pence)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)
Session 9: Virtual Observatory (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
11:15 am The GriPhyN Project (Invited) (I. Foster)
11:45 am Interoperability (Invited) (F. Genova)
12:15 pm Tuplespaces in the Virtual Observatory (M. Noble)
Lunch Break, Display Session Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 10: Science & Analysis (2:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
2:00 pm Multiscale Methods in Astronomy: Beyond Wavelets (Invited) (J.-L. Starck)
2:30 pm Variability analysis in Archived and Newly Acquired Wide Field Mosaic Data (P. Ortiz)
2:45 pm Pushing the Envelope Unleashing the Potential of High Contrast Imaging with HST (G. Schneider)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:00 pm to 4:00 pm)
Demo Break-Down begins (4:00 pm)
Session 11: Enabling Technologies (4:00 pm to 5:00 pm)
4:00 pm The Scientist's Expert Assistant Simulation Facility (A. Koratkar)
4:15 pm Keys to Developing Quality GUI's in the Astronomical Environment (W. Roby)
4:30 pm The ALMA Common Software (ACS) as a Basis for a Distributed Software Development (G. Raffi)
4:45 pm Closing Remarks  
Display Break-Down (5:00 - 6:00 pm)

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