ADASS 2003 Conference Schedule

ADASS 2003 Conference Week-at-a-Glance

Sunday
12 Oct

Monday
13 Oct

Tuesday
14 Oct

Wednesday
15 Oct

 

Oral Session 1: Surveys & Data Management (8:50 to 10:30)

Oral Session 4:  High-Performance Computing 

(9:00 to 10:30)

Oral Session 8: Large-Scale Data Management (9:00 to 10:30)

Oral Session 2: Image Restoration

(11:45 to 13:00)

Oral Session 5: Instrument Modeling (11:45 to 13:00)

Oral Session 9: Control Systems (11:45 to 12:45)

Workshop: Virtual Observatory Software & Standards

[Main Lecture Hall]

(13:00 to 17:00)

Lunch (provided, 13:00 to 14:30)

Oral Session 3:  Algorithms & Classification

(14:30 to 15:30)

Oral Session 6:  Surveys, Archives, & VO

(14:30 to 16:00)

Oral Session 10:  Data Processing Systems

(14:30 to 16:00)

BoF Session 1:

(16:30 to 18:00)

FITS (W. Pence)

Linux (A. Ferro)

Oral Session 7: VO Resources

(17:00 to 18:30)

 

 

Display Session & Demos (Forum)

Conference Reception

Galerie de Marbre
(19:00 to 21:00)

BoF Session 2:
(20:00 to 21:30)
Compression in Astronomy

(J. Rountree)
Atomic Data in the VO (Dubernet, Debray)

Conference Banquet

Maison Kammerzell Restaurant
(20:00 to 23:00)

 

Sunday
12 Oct

Monday
13 Oct

Tuesday
14 Oct

Wednesday
15 Oct


Sunday, 12 October

Workshop: Virtual Observatory Software & Standards (13:00 to 17:00)

(R. Hanisch, et al.)

Conference Reception (Galerie de Marbre, 19:00 to 21:00)


Monday, 13 October

Session 1: Surveys & Large-Scale Data Management (8:50 to 10:30)

8:50

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

9:00

ESO Imaging Surveys (Invited)

(L. Da Costa)

9:30

Wide-Field Cosmic Shear Surveys (Invited)

(Y. Mellier)

10:00

QUEST: A Case Study in Designing Sky Surveys in the VO Era

(M. Graham)

10:15

The LOFAR Global Sky Model

(O. Smirnov)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:30 to 11:45)

Session 2: Image Restoration (11:45 to 1:00)

11:45

Model-Free Deconvolution via Multi-scale Methods (Invited)

(R. Willett)

12:15

Image Restoration (Invited)

(T.Cornwell)

12:45

Scale Sensitive Deconvolution

(S. Bhatnagar)

Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (13:00 to 14:30)

Session 3: Algorithms & Classification (14:30 to 15:30)

14:30

Promises and Challenges in Automatic Pattern Recognition (Invited)

(T.K. Ho)

15:00

Algorithms for Statistics on Very Large Datasets

(A. Gray)

15:15

Source Detection with Bayesian Inference on ROSAT All-Sky Survey Data Sample

(F. Guglielmetti)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (15:30 to 16:30)

BoF Session 1 (16:30 to 18:00)

16:30

FITS

(W. Pence)

Linux

(A. Ferro)

Dinner Break (18:00 to 20:00)

BoF Session 2 (20:00 to 21:30)

20:00

Compression in Astronomy

(J. Rountree)

Access to Databases of Atomic and Molecular Data in the VO

(M. Dubernet, B. Debray)


Tuesday, 14 October

Session 4: High Performance Computing (9:00 to 10:30)

9:00

The European Grid Infrastructure EGEE Project (Invited)

(F. Gagliardi)

9:30

Flexible Computing on Big Iron (Invited)

(E. Huizinga)

10:00

Atlasmaker: Grid-enabled Multi-wavelength Imaging

(R. Williams)

10:15

Batch Query System with interactive Local Storage for SDSS and the VO

(W. O’Mullane)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:30 to 11:45)

Session 5: Instrument Modeling (11:45 to 13:00)

11:45

Instrument Modeling in Observational Astronomy (Invited)

(P. Ballester)

12:15

3-D Spectroscopy (Invited)

(A. Pecontal-Rousset)

12:45

End-to-end Simulation of the JWST/NIRSpec Instrument

(X. Gnata)

Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (13:00 to 14:30)

Session 6: Surveys, Archives & VO (14:30 to 16:00)

14:30

The CFHT Legacy Survey (Invited)

(C. Veillet)

15:00

Astronomical Data Storage & Distribution in the Next 5 Years (Invited)

(B. Pirenne)

15:30

Data Models in the VO: How Do They Make Code Better?

(N. Gray)

15:45

VO Access to Complex Data: MERLIN and Other Interferometry Archives

(A. Richards)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (16:00 to 17:00)

Session 7: VO Resources (17:00 to 18:30)

17:00

Resource Registries for the Virtual Observatory

(R. Plante)

17:15

Compare: A Scaleable & Portable Catalog Cross-Comparison Engine for the NVO

(S. Monkewitz)

17:30

Montage: A Grid-Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the National Virtual Observatory

(B. Berriman)

17:45

eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents, and When Robotic Telescopes Aren’t

(A. Allan)

18:00

AstroGrid: Initial Deployment of the UK’s VO

(N. Walton)

18:15

The Chandra Bibliography Database

(A. Rots)

Conference Banquet (20:00 to 23:00)


Wednesday, 15 October

Session 8: Large-Scale Data Management (9:00 to 10:30)

9:00

The ALMA Software System (Invited)

(J. Schwarz)

9:30

The GAIA Data Access and Analysis System (Invited)

(X. Luri)

10:00

The VLT Data Flow System: a Flexible “Science Support Engine”

(K. Haggouchi)

10:15

ImgCutout, An Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery

(M. Nieto-Santisteban)

Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:30 to 11:45)

Session 9: Control Systems (11:45 to 12:45)

11:45

The GBT Precision Control System (Invited)

(K. Constantikes)

12:15

Keck Interferometry (Invited)

(G. van Belle)

Lunch Break, Display Session Viewing (12:45 to 14:30)

POC Meeting (12:45 to 14:30)

Session 10: Data Processing Systems (14:30 to 16:00)

14:30

Observer vs. Software Engineer: the Dawn of the Armchair Astronomers

(F. Economou)

14:45

Distributed Development and Maintenance of a Large Science Analysis System: A Critical Analysis

(C. Gabriel)

15:00

VLT Instrument Pipeline System Overview

(Y. Jung)

15:15

The CARMA Software System

(S. Scott)

15:30

The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline

(F. Valdes)

15:45

Closing Remarks

 

Demo & Display Break-Down (16:00 - 17:00)

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