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=Preliminary agenda=
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=Workshop's agenda=
  
The workshop will be structured around invited science presentations and contribution talks, concluding with a discussion period. We anticipate stimulating significant discussion and tackling the goals of the workshop.  
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'''This agenda is still in its draft form and it still might change. Please contact us if you have any comments.'''
  
'''''It is very likely we will record all presentations in order to make them available through this website. We might also be able to stream the talks live. Details soon.'''''
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The workshop will be structured around invited science presentations and contribution talks, concluding with a discussion periods. We anticipate stimulating significant discussion and tackling the goals of the workshop.  
  
* '''Wednesday 23 June''' - workshop starts at 11:00 (coffee at 10:30).
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'''''It is very likely we will record all presentations in order to make them available through this website. Please contact us if you strongly object to being recorded! We might also be able to stream the talks live. Details soon.'''''
evening: reception and workshop's dinner in the Churchill college
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* '''Thursday 24 June'''
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* '''Friday 25 June''' - workshop ends in early afternoon (15:00)
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA500"> Coffee and registration </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Welcome and update on GREAT
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Nick Walton
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:15
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia status<br/>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Timo Prusti
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:35
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | The Gaia mission: a primer<br/>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Francois Mignard
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Science Alerts
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | LW/STH
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Asteroid Alerts
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Paolo Tanga
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:50
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | '''Q+A/Discussion'''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 13:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA07A"> Lunch </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | How Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) can contribute to Gaia Science Alerts
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | George Seabroke
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:20
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Surveys
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Transient and Supernovae searches with PS1
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Stephen Smartt
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:45
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Optical transients detected by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP)
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Peter Wheatley
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 15:10
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | High energy transients
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Paul O&#39;Brien
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 15:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA500"> Tea </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Explosive Transient Detection in the Era of Synoptic Sky Surveys
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Przemek Wozniak
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:25
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | The Palomar Transient Factory
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Eran Ofek
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:45
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | PTF - The reduction, subtraction, detection, and classification pipelines + some results
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Dovi Poznanski
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 17:05
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Real-time Transient classification, follow-up and the way forward
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Ashish Mahabal
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 17:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | '''Q+A/Discussion'''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 17:40
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''end of day 1''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 18:30(TBC)
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA07A"> Reception and dinner in Churchill College </span>
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|colspan="5"|<big>'''Thursday 24 June 2010'''</big>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''session''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''title''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 09:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Surveys
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia in the context of low-redshift transient surveys
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Mark Sullivan
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | The PTF core-collapse supernova key project
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Avishay Gal-Yam
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:20
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Supernova monitor programs
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Massimo Turatto
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:40
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Variability, outbursts and mass loss amongst massive evolved stars
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Simon Clark
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA500"> Coffee </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Science
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | GRB science with GAIA
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Nial Tanvir
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:50
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Orphan GRB afterglows with GAIA
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Andrew Levan
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:10
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia Microlensing Alerts
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Andrew Gould
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:40
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Microlensing live and in colour
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Martin Dominik
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 13:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA07A"> Lunch </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Science
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Posters
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:10
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Accretion-driven transients in the Galaxy
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Danny Steeghs
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | The galactic population of cataclysmic variables.
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Boris Gaensicke
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 14:50
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Irregular variability during early stellar evolution: what can we learn about the circumstellar material?
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Agnes Kospal
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 15:10
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | R Coronae Borealis variability and Galactic distribution
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Patrick Tisserand
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 15:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA500"> Tea </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Science
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | '''Q+A/Discussion/Summary'''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Outreach
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Outreach possibilties with Gaia and Hands-On-Universe
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Roger Ferlet
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 16:55
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Outreach/Citizen's Science potential of GAIA Science Alert System.
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Lech Mankiewicz
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 17:20
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | '''Q+A/Discussion'''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 17:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''end of day 2''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 19:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA07A"> optional BBQ at the IoA (weather permiting) </span>
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|colspan="5"|<big>'''Friday 25 June 2010'''</big>
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|-
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''time''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''session''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | ''title''
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 09:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Follow-up
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | How GBOG can help the Gaia ommunity organize itself for multi-site large observational efforts.
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Elena Pancino
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 09:55
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Ground Based Optical Tracking of Gaia
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Martin Altmann
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:15
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Gaia and variable stars ; Ground based follow-up
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Laurent Eyer
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 10:35
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | High-Energy Sources and Cataclysmic Variables as Alert Targets for Gaia. Major spectral changes from BP/RP
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Rene Hudec
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | <span style="color:#FFA500"> Coffee </span>
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:30
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" |
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Alerts distributions possibilities
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Burgon
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 11:45
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | VOEvent
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Guy Rixon??
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | 12:00
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Follow-up opportunities with robotic telescopes
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|  style="border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid;" | Sarah Roberts
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Revision as of 13:41, 1 June 2010

Workshop's agenda

This agenda is still in its draft form and it still might change. Please contact us if you have any comments.

The workshop will be structured around invited science presentations and contribution talks, concluding with a discussion periods. We anticipate stimulating significant discussion and tackling the goals of the workshop.

It is very likely we will record all presentations in order to make them available through this website. Please contact us if you strongly object to being recorded! We might also be able to stream the talks live. Details soon.


Wednesday 23 June 2010
time session title speaker
10:30 Coffee and registration
11:00 Welcome and update on GREAT Nick Walton
11:15 Gaia Gaia status
Timo Prusti
11:35 The Gaia mission: a primer
Francois Mignard
12:00 Science Alerts LW/STH
12:30 Asteroid Alerts Paolo Tanga
12:50 Q+A/Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Gaia How Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) can contribute to Gaia Science Alerts George Seabroke
14:20 Surveys Transient and Supernovae searches with PS1 Stephen Smartt
14:45 Optical transients detected by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) Peter Wheatley
15:10 High energy transients Paul O'Brien
15:30 Tea
16:00 Explosive Transient Detection in the Era of Synoptic Sky Surveys Przemek Wozniak
16:25 The Palomar Transient Factory Eran Ofek
16:45 PTF - The reduction, subtraction, detection, and classification pipelines + some results Dovi Poznanski
17:05 Real-time Transient classification, follow-up and the way forward Ashish Mahabal
17:30 Q+A/Discussion
17:40 end of day 1
18:30(TBC) Reception and dinner in Churchill College
Thursday 24 June 2010
time session title speaker
09:30 Surveys Gaia in the context of low-redshift transient surveys Mark Sullivan
10:00 The PTF core-collapse supernova key project Avishay Gal-Yam
10:20 Supernova monitor programs Massimo Turatto
10:40 Variability, outbursts and mass loss amongst massive evolved stars Simon Clark
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Science GRB science with GAIA Nial Tanvir
11:50 Orphan GRB afterglows with GAIA Andrew Levan
12:10 Gaia Microlensing Alerts Andrew Gould
12:40 Microlensing live and in colour Martin Dominik
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Science Posters
14:10 Accretion-driven transients in the Galaxy Danny Steeghs
14:30 The galactic population of cataclysmic variables. Boris Gaensicke
14:50 Irregular variability during early stellar evolution: what can we learn about the circumstellar material? Agnes Kospal
15:10 R Coronae Borealis variability and Galactic distribution Patrick Tisserand
15:30 Tea
16:00 Science Q+A/Discussion/Summary
16:30 Outreach Outreach possibilties with Gaia and Hands-On-Universe Roger Ferlet
16:55 Outreach/Citizen's Science potential of GAIA Science Alert System. Lech Mankiewicz
17:20 Q+A/Discussion
17:30 end of day 2
19:00 optional BBQ at the IoA (weather permiting)
Friday 25 June 2010
time session title speaker
09:30 Follow-up How GBOG can help the Gaia ommunity organize itself for multi-site large observational efforts. Elena Pancino
09:55 Ground Based Optical Tracking of Gaia Martin Altmann
10:15 Gaia and variable stars ; Ground based follow-up Laurent Eyer
10:35 High-Energy Sources and Cataclysmic Variables as Alert Targets for Gaia. Major spectral changes from BP/RP Rene Hudec
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Alerts distributions possibilities Burgon
11:45 VOEvent Guy Rixon??
12:00 Follow-up opportunities with robotic telescopes Sarah Roberts
12:25 Transient Astronomy with the Liverpool Telescope: Software, Systems and Science Iain Steele
12:50 Q+A/Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Discussion Discussion - towards the Road Map Walton??
14:30 Summary NAW/LW/STH/FvL/GG
15:00 end of day 3