Programme
TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
Scientific Motivation, Roadmap for Development and Current Status
June 10 - 14, 2002
Garching, Germany
Conference Timetable
| SUNDAY, June 9th | ||
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| 18.00-20.00 | Welcome Wine & Cheese Reception and Registration: Heisenberg Haus in Garching | |
| MONDAY, June 10th | ||
| 09.50-10.00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | K.M. Górski |
| 10.00-11.00 | SESSION I - Conference Sponsor Addresses and Opening Lecture | Chair: P.J. Quinn |
| 10.00-10.10 | Joint NSF and NASA Address | E. Friel |
| 10.10-10.20 | ESA Address | Ã. Gimeñez |
| ESO Address by C. Cesarsky will be given on Friday | ||
| 10.20-11.00 | Progress of Science: Remembrance of Issues Past and Issues for the Future | P.J.E. Peebles |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION II - Ongoing VO Initiatives | Chair: A. Lawrence |
| 11.30-12.00 | Astrophysical Virtual Observatory | P.J. Quinn |
| 12.00-12.30 | National Virtual Observatory | R. Hanisch |
| 12.30-12.45 | The German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO) | W. Voges |
| 12.45-13.00 | The Australian Virtual Observatory | R. Norris |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14.00-16.00 | SESSION II - Ongoing VO Initiatives (ctd) | Chair: G. Fabbiano |
| 14.00-14.30 | The AstroGrid Project: Powering the Virtual Observatory | A. Lawrence |
| 14.30-15.00 | ASTROVIRTEL - Lessons learned for the VO | P. Benvenuti |
| 15.00-15.30 | Astro-Wise | K. Kuijken E. Valentijn |
| 15.30-15.45 | The Canadian Virtual Observatory | D. Schade |
| 15.45-16.00 | The Russian Virtual Observatory | O. Malkov |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.30-17.30 | SESSION III - | Chair: E. Schreier |
| 16.30-17.00 | Some Science Drivers and Implications for VO Structures | G. Gilmore |
| 17.00-17.30 | GOODS Project | R. Fosbury |
| TUESDAY, June 11th | ||
| 09.30-11.00 | SESSION IV - | Chair: G. Longo |
| 09.30-10.00 | Analysing Large Data Sets in Astrophysics | A. Szalay |
| 10.00-10.20 | Standardised Sky Partitioning - the HEALPix Example | K.M. Górski |
| 10.20-10.40 | Visualising and Analysing Massive Astronomical Datasets with PartiView | C.T. Liu |
| 10.40-11.00 | Dealing with the Petascale Pipeline Processing Systems for UKIRT WFCAM and VISTA IR Mosaic Cameras | R.G. McMahon |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION V - | Chair: R. Williams |
| 11.30-12.00 | e-Science and the Grid | M. Kunze |
| 12.00-12.30 | Data Grids for Collection Federation | R. Moore |
| 12.30-12.45 | Authentication and Authorization architecture in AstroGrid and the VO | G. Rixon |
| 12.45-13.00 | EGSO - The Fabric of a Virtual Solar Observatory | A. Csillaghy |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14.00-15.30 | SESSION VI - | Chair: B. Pirenne |
| 14.00-14.30 | CfA VO activities and Data Model Testbed | G. Fabbiano |
| 14:30-14:50 | BAX: An X-Ray Cluster Database | A. Blanchard |
| 14.50-15.10 | TNG Long Term Archive - Interoperability and Interactions with the Italian Grid Project | F. Pasian |
| 15.10-15.30 | VO Worthiness of Data - Ancillary Information and Calibration Status | M. Rosa |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.00-17.30 | SESSION VII - | Chair: R. Hanisch |
| 16.00-16.30 | Federation and Fusion of Astronomical Data Sets: Standards and Tools | D. Egret |
| 16.30-16.50 | Towards an Image data Model for the VO | J. McDowell |
| 16.50-17.10 | Scalable Metadata Definition Frameworks | R. Plante |
| 17.10-17.30 | Space-Time Metadata for the VO | A. Rots |
| 18.30 - sharp | Bus from Garching to Munich-Nymphenburg | |
| 19.00 - 22.30 | Conference Coctail and Dinner at "Schlosscafe im Palmenhaus", Nymphenburg Garden | |
| 22:45 - sharp | Bus from Munich-Nymphenburg to Garching | |
| WEDNESDAY, June 12th | ||
| 09.30-11.00 | SESSION VIII - | Chair: P. Benvenuti |
| 09.30-09.50 | A Proposed XML Format for Astronomical Tables | F. Ochsenbein |
| 09.50-10.20 | The Uphill Battle of Semantic Interoperability | R. Williams |
| 10.20-10.40 | Design for a VOTable Manipulation Tool | A. Kembhavi |
| 10.40-11.00 | ASTROVIRTEL: Tools and Operations | F. Pierfederici |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION IX - | Chair: A. Szalay |
| 11.30-12.00 | Computer Science Aspects of the Virtual Observatory - How Can We Federate All These Archives? | J. Gray |
| 12.00-12.20 | An AVO Interoperability Prototype | M. Allen |
| 12.20-12.40 | Interoperability of ESA Science Archives (mainly ISO and XMM-Newton) | C. Arviset |
| 12.40-13.00 | AstroGrid's Pilot Programme and the Course of VO Development | R. Mann |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14.00 - | Free Afternoon | |
| or time available for parallel meetings | ||
| THURSDAY, June 13th | ||
| 09.30-11.00 | SESSION X - | Chair: N. Walton |
| 09.30-10.00 | Making Ground Based Optical/Infrared Surveys VO Compatible | L. da Costa |
| 10.00-10.30 | Radio Surveys Through Rose-Colored Glasses | D. Helfand |
| 10.30-10.45 | e-Star: Telescopes and Databases as a Single Information Grid | T. Naylor |
| 10.45-11.00 | PLANCK & VOs: Far-IR/Sub-mm specificities | J.-F. Sygnet |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION XI - | Chair: D. De Young |
| 11.30-12.00 | Massive Variability Search and Monitoring by OGLE and ASAS | B. Paczynski |
| 12.00-12.30 | The Future of Radio Surveys and the VO | S. Garrington |
| 12.30-12.45 | RAE: A project to Develop the Narrabri Observatory(Australia) for Remote Use from Science Centers in Northern Hemisphere | C. Pennypacker |
| 12.45-13.00 | Archive Computing: Scalable Computing Environments on Very Large Archives | A. Wicenec |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14.00-15.30 | SESSION XII - | |
| 14.00-15.30 | Discussion: VO Enthusiasts vs. Sceptics, etc. | Moderator: P.J. Quinn |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.00-17.30 | SESSION XIII - | Chair: F. Genova |
| 16.00-16.30 | Statistical Methodology for NVO | G.J. Babu |
| 16.30-16.50 | Statitistical Analysis of Observed and Simulated Surveys | A. Doroshkevich |
| 16.50-17.10 | Catalog Intersection: Beyond Simple Cross-Correlations | P. Ortiz |
| 17.10-17.30 | Meeting the Users Science Challenge for a Virtual Universe: the AstroGrid Experience | N. Walton |
| FRIDAY, June 14th | ||
| 09.30-11.00 | SESSION XIV - | Chair: G. Djorgovski |
| 09.30-10.00 | What are the questions? (What are the scientific, rather than technical, motivations for the Virtual Observatory?) | J. Ostriker |
| 10.00-10.30 | Theoretical Astrophysics and the US-NVO Initiative | D. De Young |
| 10.30-11.00 | Review of use of VO for distributing/sharing theoretical results | S. White |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-13.00 | SESSION XV - | Chair: D. Durand |
| 11.30-12.00 | Artificial Intelligence Tools for Visualisation and Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases | G. Longo |
| 12:00-12.20 | Data Mining Facility | S. Derriere |
| 12.20-12.40 | Automatic Detection/Extraction/Classification of Stellar Spectra from Slitless Wide Field Spectroscopy | M. Kontizas |
| 12.40-13.00 | Star-Forming Regions at High Resolution - Radio Interferometry and the AVO | A.M.S. Richards |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14.00-15.20 | SESSION XVI - | Chair: K.M. Górski |
| 14.00-14.30 | Data Mining Challenges in a Virtual Observatory | G. Djorgovski |
| 14.30-14.50 | Data Mining and the AstroGrid Data Warehouse | C. Page |
| 14.50-15.05 | The Hands-On Universe Project: Developing an International Cadre of Students, Teachers, and Other Scientists to Undertake Measurements with IVO and Other Atronomical Data Sets | C. Pennypacker |
| 15.05-15.20 | Enabling Outreach with Virtual Observatories | M. Voit |
| 15.20-15.45 | Conference Closing | |
| 15.20-15.30 | ESO Address | C. Cesarsky |
| 15.30-15.45 | Conference Summary | P.J. Quinn |
| End of Meeting | ||
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