ADASS 2002 Conference Schedule

ADASS 2002 Conference Week-at-a-Glance

Sunday
13 Oct

Monday
14 Oct

Tuesday
15 Oct

Wednesday
16 Oct

 

Oral Session 1: VO Technologies (8:20 to 10:00)

Oral Session 4: Data Management (8:30 to 10:15)

Oral Session 8: Optimizing Science (8:30 to 10:00)

Oral Session 2: Sky Surveys (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)

Oral Session 5: Calibration (11:30 am to 12:30 pm)

Oral Session 9: Calibration (11:15 am to 12:15 pm)

Tutorial: XML and Web Services for Astronomers

Harborside Ballroom C

(1 pm to 5 pm)

Oral Session 3: Next-Generation  Telescopes & Control Systems

(2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

Oral Session 6:  Enabling Technologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

Oral Session 10:  VO Interoperability

(2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

BoF Session 1:
(4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
FITS (D. Wells)
Re-usable Software Components

(F. Tanner)

Education & Public Outreach (S. McDonald)

Oral Session 7: Data Management

(4:30 pm to 5:45 pm)

 

 

Display Session (Harborside Ballroom A/B)

Demos (Essex)

Conference Reception

Harborside Foyer
(7 pm to 9 pm )

BoF Session 2:
(7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
Python in Astronomy

(P. Greenfield)
Astronomical Websites

(T. Ferro)

Teaching Scientific Computing (Johnson & Teuben)

Conference Banquet

Delle Notte Restaurant
(6:30pm to 9:30 pm )

 

Sunday
13 Oct

Monday
14 Oct

Tuesday
15 Oct

Wednesday
16 Oct


Sunday, 13 October

Tutorial: XML and Web Services for Astronomers (1:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

(R. Williams and R. Brunner)

Conference Reception (Harborside Foyer, 7 pm to 9 pm)


Monday, 14 October

Session 1: VO Technologies (8:20 am to 10:00 am)

8:20 am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

8:30 am

High Performance Computing (Invited)

(M. Livny)

9:00 am

Rapid Development for Distributed Computing (Invited)

(M. Noble)

9:30 am

ESTAR: Building an Observational GRID

(A. Allan)

9:45 am

AstroComp: A Web Portal for High-Performance Astrophysical Computing on a Grid of Supercomputers

(P. Miocchi)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)

Session 2: Sky Surveys (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)

11:15 am

Photometric and Astrometric Calibration of the Southern H-alpha Sky Survey Atlas (Invited)

(P. McCullough)

11:45 am

The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Sky Survey (Invited)

(M.Watson)

12:15 pm

ISOCAM Parallel Mode Survey

(S. Ott)

Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)

Session 3: Next Generation Telescopes & Control Systems (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

2:00 pm

Conceptual Design for the Square-Kilometer Array (Invited)

(R. Ekers)

2:30 pm

The NGST Science & Operations System (Invited)

(J. Pollizzi)

3:00 pm

Adaptive Optics at the VLT: NAOS-CONICA (Invited)

(C. Lidman)

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

FITS

(D.Wells)

Re-usable Software Components

(F. Tanner)

Education and Public Outreach

(S. McDonald)

Dinner Break (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm)

BoF Session 2 (7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)

7:30 pm

Python in Astronomy

(P. Greenfield)

Astronomical Web Site Development

(T. Ferro)

Teaching Scientific Computing

(Johnson & Teuben


Tuesday, 15 October

Session 4: Data Management (8:30 am to 10:15 am)

8:30 am

Data Management for the LSST (Invited)

(A. Connolly)

9:00 am

Microlensing Events: Exploring the Time Domain (Invited)

(K. Cook)

9:30 am

The Raptor Real-Time Processing Architecture

(M. Galassi)

9:45 am

The SUBARU Trinity System (Invited)

(R. Ogasawara)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:15 am to 11:30 am)

Session 5: Calibration (11:30 am to 12:30 pm)

11:30 am

Data Calibration for the Low-Frequency Radio Telescope (Invited)

(J. Noordam)

12:00 noon

Calibration Techniques for Sub-mm Imaging (Invited)

(S. Guilloteau)

Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)

Session 6: Enabling Technologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

2:00 pm

Micro Observatory (Invited)

(P. Sadler)

2:30 pm

Mirage: A Tool for Interactive Pattern Recognition from Multimedia Data

(T.K. Ho)

2:45 pm

Montage: An On-Demand Image Mosaic Service for the NVO

(B. Berriman)

3:00 pm

Architecture for All-Sky Browsing of Astronomical Datasets

(J. Jacob)

3:15 pm

Scoping the UK’s VO: AstroGrid’s Key Science Drivers and Impact on System Design

(N. Walton)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:30 pm to 4:30 pm)

Session 7: Data Management (4:30 pm to 5:45 pm)

4:30 pm

Data Management for the VO (Invited)

(P. Dowler)

5:00 pm

The NRAO End-to-End (e2e) Project

(T. Cornwell)

5:15 pm

Data Organization in the SDSS Data Release 1

(A. Thakar)

5:30 pm

HDX Data Model: FITS, NDF, and XML Implementations

(D. Giaretta)

Conference Banquet (6:30 pm to 9:30 pm)


Wednesday, 16 October

Session 8: Optimizing Science (8:30 am to 10:00 am)

8:30 am

New Science with LIGO (Invited)

(K. Blackburn)

9:00 am

AstroVirgil: Interactive X-Ray Analysis for EPO and First-Look

(S. McDonald)

9:15 am

Science Goal-Driven Observing

(A. Koratkar)

9:30 am

Small Theory Data and the VO

(J. McDowell)

9:45 am

Federating Catalogs and Interfacing Them with Archives: A VO Prototype

(D. Mink)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)

Session 9: Calibration (11:15 am to 12:15 pm)

11:15 am

Calibration of Space IR Arrays (Invited)

(M. Dickinson)

11:45 am

Error Analysis & Propagation in the SIRTF Pipelines (Invited)

(M. Moshir)

Lunch Break, Display Session Viewing (12:15 pm to 2:00 pm)

POC Meeting (12:15 to 2:00 pm)

Session 10: VO Interoperability (2:00 pm to 3:45 pm)

2:00 pm

SkyQuery: A Prototype Distributed Query Web Service for the VO

(T. Budavari)

2:15 pm

Why Indexing the Sky is Desirable

(P. Ortiz)

2:30 pm

Quantum Topic Maps: A Physicist’s View of the Information Universe

(N. Ogievetsky)

2:45 pm

A New Way of Joining Source Catalogs Using a Relational DBMS

(C. Page)

3:00 pm

A Bit of GLUe for the VO: Aladin Experience

(P. Fernique)

3:15 pm

Interoperability of the ISO Data Archive and the XMM-Newton Science Archive

(C. Arviset)

3:30 pm

Closing Remarks

 

Demo & Display Break-Down (4:00 - 6:00 pm)

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