Workshop2011:agenda

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Preliminary agenda


session title name time (with discussion)
Wednesday
10:00 Welcome STH/LW 10m
10:10 Gaia Gaia overview Floor van Leeuven 25m
10:35 Gaia Alerts overview STH/LW 30m
11:05 coffee 30m
11:35 Gaia Asteroids with Gaia Paolo Tanga 25m
12:00 Gaia Gaia Spectro Science Alerts Paola di Mateo 25m
12:25 lunch 90m
13:55 Ground Based Observations for Gaia (GBOG)'s role in Gaia Science Alerts George Seabroke 20m
14:15 Gaia-FUN-SSO: a ground-based follow-up for Solar System Objects Whilliam Thuillot 25m
14:40 Science Variable stars?? Laurent Eyer 20m
15:00 SNe, overview and follow-up Massimo Turrato 30m
15:30 tea 30m
16:00 Microlensing Vasily Belokurov/Wyn Evans 20m
16:20 Prediction of Astrometric Microlensing Events for the Gaia Mission Svea Proft 20m
16:40 The detectability of GRB optical counterparts with Gaia Jure Japelj/Andreja Gomboc 20m
17:00 Study of high z Universe with Gaia Rene Hudec 20m
17:20 Exotic events?? Simon Hodgkin?? 20m
17:40 discussion all 20m
18:00 end of day 1
19:00 DINNER at St.John's Chop House
Thursday
09:00 Galactic transients; linking GAIA alerts with multi-wavelength surveys Danny Steeghs 20m
09:20 Facilities Potential follow-up of GAIA alerts from the SONG and MiNDSTEp networks of telescopes. Uffe Jorgensen 20m
09:40 Java Robotic Telescope for Gaia Alert System Jan Soldan 20m
10:00 "Pi of the Sky" - wide field search for optical transients Marcin Sokolowski 20m
10:20 Gloria - a network of telescopes which can take on some of Gaia alerts Lech Mankiewicz 20m
10:40 The La Palma 0.5m Robotic Telescope Stuart Littlefair 20m
11:00 coffee 30m
11:30 Transients detected in the WASP survey Peter Wheatley 20m
11:50 The LCOGT network Yannis Tsapras 20m
12:10 STILT (Small Telescopes Installed at LT) instruments Neil Mawson 20m
12:30 lunch 90m
14:00 The Liverpool Telescope and Gaia Iain Steele 20m
14:20 Iranian National Observatory Project Habib Khosroshahi 20m
14:40 PanStarrs & Spectroscopy Stephen Smartt 20m
15:00 tea 30m
15:30 Lucky Imaging Astrometric follow-up Craig Mackay 20m
15:50 Exploring Night Sky from the Top of the World. Utsav Kandel 20m
16:10 Overview of French and other European spectroscopic facilities Michel Dennefeld 20m
16:30 Italian facilities Gisella Clementini 20m
16:50 other facilities (Swiss,Israeli, Polish)??? ??? 20m
17:10 discussion all 30m
17:40 end of day 2
Friday
09:00 Facilities SAAO facilities and instruments Patricia Whitelock 20m
09:20 Engaging with the public Gerry Gilmore 20m
09:40 What shall we follow today? Ashish Mahabal 20m
10:00 Skyalert: Rapid Transients for you and your Robot Roy Williams 60m
11:00 coffee 30m
11:30 Discussion Getting organized all 60m
12:30 lunch 90m
14:00 end of day 3


The workshop's dinner will take place in St.John's Chop House on Wednesday evening.