ADASS XVII Meeting Programme
  Sunday, 23 September  
11:00 20:00 Registration Foyer
13:00 19:00 Poster/Demo Setup  
Tutorial Sessions Small Hall
13:00 15:15 3D Visualisation in Astronomy J. Kauffmann
15:15 15:45 Coffee Break  
15:45 18:00 Data Mining in Astronomy S. McConnell
19:00 21:00 Opening Reception Main Foyer
  Monday, 24 September  
Session 1: Data Preservation Great Hall
08:30 08:45 Welcome, Opening Remarks
08:45 09:15 Data Preservation and the Virtual Observatory R. Mann (invited)
09:15 09:45 Trusted Data Repositories D. Giaretta (invited)
09:45 10:00 Long-Term Preservation of Astronomical Research Results R. Hanisch
10:00 10:15 Building a Framework for Data Preservation of Large-Scale Astronomical Data J. Kantor
10:15 11:30 Coffee Break, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Session 2: Footprints and Mosaics Great Hall
11:30 12:00 Making the Sky Searchable: Automated Astrometry D. Hogg (invited)
12:00 12:30 Automated Image Registration for the Future W. Hack (invited)
12:30 12:45 Conference Photo  
12:45 14:00 Lunch, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Session 3: HEP Computing Great Hall
14:00 14:30 Data Acquisition in High-Energy Physics J. Gutleber (invited)
14:30 15:00 Data Analysis in High Energy Physics, Weird or Wonderful? R. Mount (invited)
15:00 15:15 GLAST LAT Computing: A Fusion of HEP and Astrophysics R. Dubois
15:15 16:30 Coffee Break, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Focus Demo 1 Small Hall
15:30 16:00 New Developments for Aladin T. Boch
Session 4a: Web Services and the Virtual Observatory Great Hall
16:30 16:45 The NOAO NVO Portal and the Web 2.0 C. Miller
16:45 17:00 A Critical Point in the VO D. Schade
17:00 17:15 Cloudspace: Virtual Environments in the VO M. Graham
17:15 17:30 Workflow in Astronomy : the VO France Workflow Working Group Experience A. Schaaff
Session 4b: Image Processing and Mosaics Small Hall
16:30 16:45 The NOAO Pipeline Applications F. Valdes
16:45 17:00 The MONTAGE Service: Custom Mosaics on Demand B. Berriman
17:00 17:15 Distributed Processing of Future Radio Astronomical Observations G. van Diepen
17:15 17:30 LOFAR Self-Calibration using a Blackboard Software Architecture M. Loose
17:30 19:30 Dinner Break  
BoF 1.1 Great Hall
19:30 21:00 FITS W. Pence
BoF 1.2 Small Hall
19:30 21:00 Transient Event Reporting and Response with VOEvent R. Seaman
  Tuesday, 25 September  
Session 5: Algorithms and Image Processing I Great Hall
08:30 09:00 PLANCK/HFI Data Analysis K.Ganga (invited)
09:00 09:30 Image Processing Application for Cognition (IPAC) M. Pesenson (invited)
09:30 10:00 LSST and the Dark Sector: Image Processing Challenges T. Tyson (invited)
10:00 10:15 Organizing the Extremely Large LSST Database for Real-Time Astronomical Processing J. Becla
10:15 11:15 Coffee Break, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Session 6a: Algorithms and Image Processing II Great Hall
11:15 11:30 Autonomous observing: The Astronomer's Last Stand A. Allan
11:30 11:45 Vector Gradient Intersection Transform H. Lorch
11:45 12:00 Optimal Extraction of Echelle Spectra N. Piskunov
12:00 12:15 LSB Galaxies Detection Using Markovian Segmentation on Astronomical Images M. Louys
Session 6b: Data Archiving and Preservation Small Hall
11:15 11:30 Automated Data Tagging in the HLA (.pdf) (.ppt) N. Gaffney
11:30 11:45 The JCMT Science Archive and the Virtual Observatory S. Gaudet
11:45 12:00 Evaluation of Lossless Compression Methods for Astronomical Image Data C. Grünler
12:00 12:15 ELT Science Case Evaluation Using An HPC Portal P. Linde
12:15 13:30 Lunch, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Session 7: Image Processing and Data Visualisation I Great Hall
13:30 14:00 Astronomy + Medicine = Understanding A. Goodman (invited)
14:00 14:15 3D Visualization and Detection of Outflows From Young Stars M. Borkin
14:15 14:30 S2PLOT: A Straightforward Library for Advanced 3-dimensional Scientific Visualisation D. Barnes
14:30 14:45 Accessing eSDO Solar Image Processing and Visualisation through AstroGrid E. Auden
14:45 15:45 Coffee Break, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Focus Demo 2 Small Hall
15:00 15:30 VirGO: A Visual Brower for the ESO Science Archive Facility F. Chereau
Session 8: Image Processing and Data Visualisation II Great Hall
15:45 16:15 Accuracy and Aesthetics: Scientific Visualization Using Hollywood Tools F. Summers (invited)
16:15 16:30 VOExplorer: Visualising Data Discovery in the Virtual Observatory J. Tedds
16:30 16:45 Building Rich Internet Applications in Astronomy D. Magee
BoF 2.1 Great Hall
16:45 18:15 Data Mining for Large Scale Astronomical Datasets: Challenges, Milestones and Solutions S. McConnell
BoF 2.2 Small Hall
16:45 18:15 IRAF Users and Developers M. Fitzpatrick
20:00 23:00 Conference Dinner Great Hall
  Wednesday, 26 September  
Session 9: Data Mining I Great Hall
08:30 09:00 Large-scale Pulsar Survey at Arecibo Using ALFA: Data Mining and Management J. Cordes (invited)
09:00 09:15 Probabilistic Cross-identification of Astronomical Sources T. Budavari
09:15 09:30 A Method for Exploiting Domain Information in Parameter Estimation C. Bailer-Jones
09:30 09:45 VIM: A Tool to Explore Your Sources R. Williams
09:45 10:00 Needles in a Haystack: Faceted Browsing and the Virtual Observatory D. Burke
10:00 10:15 PaperScope: Graphically Exploring the ADS M. Holliman
10:15 11:30 Coffee Break, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Session 10: Miscellaneous Great Hall
11:30 11:45 The IAU 2000/2006 Changes to Celestial Reference Systems: A Bluffer's Guide P. Wallace
11:45 12:00 Scientific Data Analysis through Web Services in a Scientific Grid C. Gabriel
12:00 12:15 Software Modelling of IFU Spectrometers N. Lorente
12:15 12:30 ECSS in the eXtreme W. O'Mullane
ADASS 2008 Daniel Durand
12:30 14:00 Lunch, Poster & Demo Viewing  
Focus Demo 3 Great Hall
14:00 14:30 PaperScope in Use M. Holliman
Session 11: Data Mining II Great Hall
14:30 15:00 Morphological Description of the Large Scale Cosmic Structures V. Martinez (invited)
15:00 15:15 Data Mining Large Surveys: The IPHAS Early Data Release E. Gonzalez-Solares
15:15 15:30 Robust Machine Learning Applied to Terascale Astronomical Datasets N. Ball
15:30 15:45 20 Spatial Queries for an Astronomer's Bench (mark) M. Nieto-Santisteban
15:45 16:00 Finding Outliers in Multivariate Data with Measurement Errors S. Raychaudhury
16:00 16:15 Closing Remarks
16:15 17:00 Poster/Demo Break Down  

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