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