Sunday, 2 October 2005

Registration (8:30-19:00)

Euroforum Foyer

Guided Visit to the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (10:00-13:00)

Starting point: Euroforum Foyer

Tutorial 1

14:00

16:00

R: A powerful public software environment for statistical analysis of astronomical data

D. Hunter

Tutorial 2

16:30

18:30

Using Python for Interactive Data Analysis

P. Greenfield

19:30

21:00

Opening Reception

Monday, 3 October 2005

9:00

21:00

Poster Viewing

11:30

13:00

Demonstrations

Session 1: Opening, Solar Eclipse

8:30

8:45

Welcome, Opening Remarks

D. Southwood

8:45

9:15

An Umbraphile's Tale (Invited)

G. Schneider

Session 2: Solar Eclipse

9:30

12:30

Eclipse activities

10:55

11:00

Solar Eclipse Totality

Focus Demo 1

12:30

13:00

Publishing data into VO with Saada

L. Michel

13:00

14:30

Lunch

14:30

19:00

Demonstrations

Focus Demo 2

14:30

15:00

Aladin

P. Fernique, et al.

Session 3: Space-Based Science

15:15

15:45

ESA Solar System Research (Invited)

B. Foing

15:45

16:15

The X-Ray Universe and its Highlights (Invited)

N. Schartel

16:15

16:45

X-Ray Astronomy and the Analysis of X-Ray Data (Invited)

J. McDowell

16:45

17:45

Coffee Break

BoF Session 1

17:30

19:00

FITS

W. Pence

BoF Session 2a

BoF Session 2b

19:15

20:45

VOEvent: Update on Real-Time Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure

R. Williams

Common Astronomical S/W Environment for Data Analysis

P.Grosbøl, D.Tody

Tuesday, 4 October 2005 (morning)

9:00

21:00

Poster Viewing

9:30

13:00

Demonstrations

Session 5: Optical Surveys

9:00

9:30

The CFHT Legacy Survey (Invited)

C. Veillet

9:30

10:00

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Invited)

T. Axelrod

10:00

10:15

Automatic astrometric and photometric calibration with SCAMP

E. Bertin

10:15

10:30

From handicraft to industry: supporting surveys at ESO telescopes

A. Chavan

10:30

11:30

Coffee Break; Poster & Demo Viewing

Session 6: Tools & Techniques

11:30

12:00

Astrostatistics: Goodness-of-Fit and All That (Invited)

J. Babu

12:00

12:15

GLAST Offline Software's use of Gaudi and ROOT

H. Kelly

12:15

12:30

Uncovering Small Scale Structures in Adaptive Optics Images

M. Stickel

12:30

12:45

BUCS: An Engine for Generating Realistic Imaging Data and Treating Selection Effects

R. Bouwens

12:45

13:00

A Turing-Influenced Sub-system for Instrument Control

K. Shortridge

13:00

14:30

Lunch

Tuesday, 4 October 2005 (afternoon)

14:30

19:00

Demonstrations

Focus Demo 3

14:30

15:00

ESA Science Archives: ISO, XMM-Newton, Integral, Planetary Missions

J. Hernández, et al.

Session 7a: Pipelines & Work-Flows

15:15

15:30

First Results From The VISTA Data Flow System and WFCAM

J. Lewis

15:30

15:45

ACS as the framework for integrating offline data reduction in ALMA

S. Harrington

15:45

16:00

Definition of astronomical data analysis workflows on a service-oriented Grid architecture using BPEL

V. Manna

16:00

16:15

Painless access to interferometry images comes closer

A. Richards

Session 7b: VO Standards & Services

15:15

15:30

Interoperable Authentication for the Virtual Observatory

R. Plante

15:30

15:45

Theoretical support to Observational data in the VO framework

P. Osuna

15:45

16:00

SkyBoT, a new VO service to identify Solar System objects

J. Berthier

16:00

16:15

Handling 3D data in the Virtual Observatory

I. Chilingarian

16:15

16:30

Development of Japanese Virtual Observatory: Experience on Interoperation with other Virtual Observatories

M. Ohishi

16:30

17:30

Coffee Break

Tuesday, 4 October 2005 (evening)

Session 8a: Parallel & Distributed Computing

17:30

17:45

Using the Parallel Virtual Machine for Everyday Analysis

M. Noble

17:45

18:00

Integration of MultiAgent Systems to AstroGrid

A. Barker

18:00

18:15

Big Science with a Small Budget: Non-Embarrassingly Parallel Applications in a Non-Dedicated Network of Workstations

A. De Vicente

18:15

18:30

Bridging VO and computational grid applications

F. Pasian

18:30

18:45

Large-Scale Query and XMatch, entering the Parallel Zone

M. Nieto-Santisteban

Session 8b: Data Quality & Fidelity

17:30

17:45

A Framework for Telescope Data Quality Management

N. Radziwill

17:45

18:00

A new method for fidelity assessment in radio astronomy imaging

A. Kemball

18:00

18:15

Validation and Verification of Chandra Data - Combining Pipelines, a Graphical Application and the Human Factor

J. Evans

18:15

18:30

The GTC Telescope Control and Data Reduction systems

P. Gómez Alvarez

BoF Session 3a

19:00

20:30

The Future of UTC and Leap Seconds

S.Allen, P.Bunclark, M. Calabretta, R.Seaman

BoF Session 3b

19:00

20:30

Which Linux is Right for You?

P.Daly

21:30

Banquet

Wednesday, 5 October 2005

9:00

16:30

Poster Viewing

9:30

13:30

Demonstrations

Session 9: VOScience

9:00

9:30

VO Science (Invited)

E. Solano

9:30

10:00

Doing Massive Science on Grids and VO Platforms (Invited)

R. Nichol

10:00

10:15

Exploring the high redshift universe with VO Tools

E. Gonzalez-Solarez

10:15

10:30

Towards a VO-Compliant ESO Science Archive

P. Rosati

10:30

11:30

Coffee Break

Session 10: Information Systems

11:30

12:00

ALMA Science Data Model (Invited)

F. Viallefond

12:00

12:15

VOEvent: Information Infrastructure for Real-time Astronomy

R. Williams

12:15

12:45

Public Dissemination of Astronomical Data (invited)

C. Christian

12:45

13:00

Transforming the way VLBI is done

H. van Langevelde

13:00

14:30

Lunch

14:30

16:30

Demonstrations

Focus Demo 4

14:30

15:00

VisIVO: interoperable visualisation & data analysis for the VO

C. Gheller, et al.

Session 11: Information Systems

15:15

15:45

Databases and Web Services (Invited)

A. Szalay

15:45

16:15

Advanced Information Retrieval Methods in ADS (Invited)

M. Kurtz

16:15

16:30

The SIMBAD Database: Lessons Learned from 30 years of Experience

M. Wenger

16:30

17:30

Coffee Break; Poster & Demo Breakdown

Session 12: VO in Transition

17:30

18:00

VO: Transition from Development to Operations (Invited)

R. Hanisch

18:00

18:15

The Astrophysical Virtual Observatory to EURO-VO Transition

P. Padovani

18:15

18:30

Science in the Euro-VO Technology Centre: Key Capabilities into 2006

N. Walton

18:30

18:45

Closing Remarks