Oral sessions

 

O1: Surveys & Large-Scale Data Management

O1.1 ESO Imaging Surveys Luiz DaCosta
O1.2 Wide Field Cosmological Weak Lensing Surveys Yannick Mellier
O1.3 QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era Matthew J Graham
O1.4 The LOFAR Global Sky Model: Design Challenges Oleg Smirnov
 

O2: Image Restoration

O2.1 Wavelet-Based Superresolution in Astronomy Rebecca Willett
O2.2 Image reconstruction in radio astronomy: past and future Tim Cornwell
O2.3 Scale Sensitive Deconvolution Sanjay Bhatnagar
 

O3: Algorithm & Classification

O3.1 Promises and challenges in automatic pattern recognition Tin Kam Ho
O3.2 Algorithms for Statistics on Very Large Datasets Alexander Gray
O3.3 Source Detection with Bayesian Inference on ROSAT All-Sky Survey Data Sample Fabrizia Guglielmetti
 

O4: High Performance Computing

O4.1 The European Grid Infrastructure EGEE Project Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi
O4.2 Flexible Computing on Big Iron Edwin Huizinga
O4.3 Atlasmaker: Grid-enabled Multiwavelength Imaging Roy Williams
O4.4 Batch Query System with Interactive Local Storage for SDSS and the VO William O'Mullane (1)
 

O5: Instrument Modeling

O5.1 Instrument Modelling in Observational Astronomy (Invited) Pascal Ballester (European Southern Observatory)
O5.2 Software tools for 3D spectroscopy Arlette Pécontal-Rousset
O5.3 End-to-end simulation of the JWST/NIRSpec instrument Gnata Xavier
 

O6: Surveys, Archives & VO

O6.1 MegaPrime/MegaCam and the CFHT Legacy Survey Christian Veillet
O6.2 Astronomical Data Storage and Distribution in the next five years Benoît Pirenne
O6.3 Data models in the VO: how do they make code better? Norman Gray
O6.4 VO access to complex data - MERLIN and other interferometry archives Anita Richards
 

O7: VO Resources

O7.1 Resource Registries for the Virtual Observatory R. Plante
O7.2 Compare: A Scaleable and Portable Catalog Cross-Comparison Engine for the NVO Serge Monkewitz
O7.3 Montage: A Grid Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the National Virtual Observatory Bruce Berriman
O7.4 eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents and when Robotic Telescopes aren't... Alasdair Allan
O7.5 AstroGrid: Initial Deployment of the UK's Virtual Observatory Nicholas A Walton
O7.6 The Chandra Bibliography Database Arnold H. Rots
 

O8: Large-Scale Data Management

O8.1 The ALMA Software System Joseph Schwarz
O8.2 Gaia: understanding our Galaxy X. Luri
O8.3 The VLT Data Flow System: a flexible 'science support engine' Karim HAGGOUCHI
O8.4 ImgCutout, an Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery. Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban
 

O9: Control Systems

O9.1 The GBT Precision Telescope Control System Kim Constantikes
O9.2 Keck Interferometry - Current Engineering and Scientific Results Gerard Van Belle
 

O10: Data Processing Systems

O10.1 Observer versus software engineer: The dawn of the armchair astronomers Frossie Economou
O10.2 Distributed development and maintenance of a large science analysis system: a critical analysis Carlos GABRIEL
O10.3 VLT instruments pipeline system overview Yves Jung
O10.4 The CARMA Software System Stephen L. Scott
O10.5 The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Francisco Valdes

Poster displays

 

P1: Surveys and Large-Scale Data Management

P1.1 Data Archive and Transfer System (DARTS) of ISAS Takayuki Tamura
P1.2 Metadata generic server prototyping at CNES Paul KOPP
P1.3 User provided reduced data, catalogues and atlases in the ISO Data Archive Alberto Salama
P1.4 On the analysis of old objective prism spectra with modern systems Corinne Rossi
P1.5 The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP): Optical Data Processing and Catalog Generation Robert Cameron
P1.6 From FITS to SQL - Loading and Publishing the SDSS Data Ani Thakar
P1.7 Adapting the BIMA Image Pipeline for Miriad using Python David Mehringer
P1.8 LIGO Data Analysis Software and Systems Gregory Mendell
P1.9 Searching for a cosmic string through the graviational lens effect: Japanese Virtual Observatory science use case Y. Shirasaki
P1.10 Towards a large field of view archive for the European VLBI Network Huib van Langevelde
P1.11 The WFCAM Data Pipelines James Lewis
P1.12 The INTEGRAL Archive System Mohamed Tahar Meharga
P1.13 Clustering the large VizieR catalogues, the CoCat experience François Ochsenbein
P1.14 An Authenticated FTP Staging Area for Proprietary Data Tim Kimball
P1.15 HST ACS Associations, the Next Step after WFPC2 Richard Hook
P1.16 Distributed Data Storage Systems for Astronomy Justin Kanoa Withington
P1.17 Increasing the Accessibility of GBT Data Karen O'Neil
P1.18 The ACS Science Data Archive Terence Allen
P1.19 The Gemini Science Archive Severin Gaudet
P1.20 Webservices for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Joerg M. Colberg
P1.21 The NOAO Pipeline Data Manager Rafael Hiriart
P1.22 The D4A Digitiser Jean-Pierre De Cuyper
P1.23 Transparent XML Binding using the ALMA Common Software (ACS) Container/Component Framework Heiko Sommer
P1.24 ALMA Proposal Preparation: Supporting the novice and the expert. Alan Bridger
P1.25 The ALMA Prototype Pipeline Lindsey Davis
P1.26 The ALMA Archive: A centralized system for information services. Andreas Wicenec
P1.27 Flexible Storage of Astronomical Data in the ALMA Archive Holger Meuss
P1.28 Dynamic Scheduling in ALMA Allen Farris
P1.29 ALMA On-Line Calibration Software Robert Lucas
 

P2: Surveys, Archives and VO

P2.1 SAADA: An Automatic Archival System for Astronomical Data NGUYEN Ngoc Hoan
P2.2 Using a reversed exposure time calculator for querying uncalibrated archives Bruno Voisin
P2.3 Adapting ESA Archives Inter-Operability Services to VO Standards ARVISET Christophe
P2.4 The Chandra FITS Dictionary Sherry Winkelman
P2.5 Accessing astronomical data remotely through a web browser. Jean-Paul Le Fèvre
P2.6 The SuperCOSMOS Science Archive Nigel Hambly
P2.7 A Comparison of Large All-Sky Catalogs Douglas J. Mink
P2.8 High Availability Architecture for The Chandra Data Archive Panagoula Zografou
P2.9 A Domino-based Virtual Observatory service for the HI Parkes All Sky Survey David G. Barnes
P2.10 Recent Developments at the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute Randall Thompson
P2.11 The Optical Monitoring Camera Data Server: Contents and Functionalities. Raul Gutierrez
P2.12 The Skysoft project C. Baffa
P2.13 The Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies (KUG) Nagako Miyauchi-Isobe
P2.14 Korean Astronomical Data Center Prototype Release Hyun-il Sung
P2.15 An experience of data fusion from diverse information resources on the example of optical identification radio sources. Olga Zhelenkova
P2.16 Merging data from a collection of sources Patricio Ortiz
P2.17 Spatial Queries with VO Regions in SQL Alex Szalay
P2.18 Open SkyQuery - VO Compliant Dynamic Federation of Astronomy Archives Tamas Budavari
P2.19 The GALEX Public Science Archive at MAST Cosimo A. Volpicelli
P2.20 Publishing Links to Astronomical Data On-line Alberto Accomazzi
P2.21 Spectrum and bandpass services for the Virtual Observatory Laszlo Dobos
P2.22 Federating Datasets and Spatial Joins Clive Page
P2.23 ISDC's DAL and DAL3 libraries Bruce O'Neel
P2.24 Web Services in Telescope Interoperability Jacob W. Clasen
P2.25 Review of the ASTROVIRTEL experience at the end of its three approved cycles Alberto Micol
P2.26 Build Your Own SkyNode! Norbert Purger
P2.27 ATLAS - A General Search Service for Complex Collections of Data (IPAC) Anastasia Alexov
P2.28 Publishing Data on AstroGrid Martin Hill
P2.29 The WFPC2 associations Version 2: Toward VO Daniel Durand
P2.30 Atomic and Molecular Physics Databases in the Virtual Observatories Marie-Lise Dubernet
P2.31 BDB - a database for all types of binaries Edouard Oblak
P2.32 New features for Aladin François Bonnarel
P2.33 The ACS GTO Data Archive Tools William Jon McCann
P2.34 PostgreSQL: the suitable DBMS solution for astronomy and astrophysics. Igor Chilingarian
P2.35 Electronic Journals as Databases Andras Holl
 

P3: VO Resources

P3.1 DRACO and the Italian participation in Virtual Observatory activities F. Pasian
P3.2 Organisation of Data Sets in Virtual Observatories Mark Allen
P3.3 MMDSL: a Multi-mission data server at LAEFF Enrique Solano
P3.4 Spectral Data Models for the VO Jonathan C. McDowell
P3.5 Resource Metadata for the Virtual Observatory Robert Hanisch
P3.6 Data Model Design for the Virtual Observatory Stephen Lowe
P3.7 Astronomical Catalogues -- Simultaneous Querying and Matching Hans-Martin Adorf
P3.8 Searchable Registry for the National Virtual Observatory Gretchen Greene
P3.9 HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory Gyorgy Fekete
P3.10 Astronomical Data Query Language : Simple Query Protocol for the Virtual Observatory Naoki Yasuda
P3.11 A Prototype toward Japanese Virtual Observatory (JVO) Masatoshi OHISHI
P3.12 VO Enabled Mirage, the IVOAClient Package, and Using JSky and JAI to view FITS Images in Java Applications Samuel Carliles
P3.13 The AVO Prototype Peter Quinn
P3.14 TWiki: A Collaboration Platform for VO Projects Marco Leoni
P3.15 Virtual Solar Inc. Robert Bentley
P3.16 XML in the Virtual Observatory Bob Mann
P3.17 UCDs in the IVOA context Sébastien Derriere
P3.18 A Virtual Observatory Data Inventory Service Thomas McGlynn
P3.19 Proposal for a query capable quantity based data model in the VO Brian Thomas
P3.20 Web Services and related works at CDS André Schaaff
P3.21 The AstroGrid MySpace System A.C. Davenhall
P3.22 A Prototype Publishing Registry for the Virtual Observatory Ramon Williamson
P3.23 Survey among Spectral Data Providers and Consumers Markus Dolensky
P3.24 The AstroGrid Registry: identifying resources in the Virtual Observatory Elizabeth Auden
P3.25 VOTable JAVA Streaming writer and applications. Pallavi Kulkarni
P3.26 Toolkit for scientific discovery using VOTables Sonali Kale
P3.27 Virtual Observatory Object Query Language Patrick Dowler
 

P4: Data Processing Systems

P4.1 The HERSCHEL/PACS Common Software System as Data Reduction System Ekkehard Wieprecht
P4.2 Data Reduction Software for the VLT Integral Field Spectrometer SPIFFI Juergen Schreiber
P4.3 Data Management with the Object Oriented Framework ROOT Reiner Rohlfs
P4.4 Spica, a Terapix tool to process wide-field images Laurent Domisse
P4.5 Pre-processing the INTEGRAL telemetry at ISDC Nicolas Morisset
P4.6 The Common Pipeline Library - a silver bullet for standardising pipelines? Klaus Banse
P4.7 Moor: Web Access to End-to-End Data Flow Information at ESO Alberto Maurizio Chavan
P4.8 Planck/LFI DPC Software Integration Plan Andrea Zacchei
P4.9 Grid Data Distribution strategy: Design and Implementation of a Pipeline Oriented Data Management System. Nicola Lama
P4.10 Extending Sherpa Data Analysis with S-Lang Stephen Doe
P4.11 The SLANG/CIAO Synergy: Using S-Lang within CIAO Gregg Germain
P4.12 Developments in the Starlink AST library - an intelligent WCS management system. David Berry
P4.13 APT: Hubble Space Telescope's Proposal Preparation Tool Tony Krueger
P4.14 First steps to interoperate GILDAS and MIRIAD, two current state-of-the-art data reduction packages of millimeter radioastronomy Jérôme Pety
P4.15 Chandra Level 3 Processing: Creating an Automated Source Catalog for Chandra Data Roger Hain
P4.16 Making FITS available in .NET and it's Applications Vivek Haridas
P4.17 The SCUBA-2 Data Reduction Pipeline Tim Jenness
P4.18 The INTEGRAL ground segment, data and science processing Roland Walter
P4.19 Data Processing at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Mathias Beck
P4.20 From INTEGRAL to Planck: Geneva's contribution to the LFI data processing Marc Turler
P4.21 Automated image reduction and analysis of images from multiple data archives Seathr\' un \' O'Tuairisg
P4.22 An IRAF-based data reduction and analysis pipeline for the xFOSC family of instruments Ray Butler
P4.23 The MAXI Software System Hitoshi Negoro
P4.24 LTL - The Little Template Library Claus A. Goessl
P4.25 Extending ORAC-DR for offline processing of ESO and ClassicCam data Malcolm J. Currie
P4.26 Modeling and developing the SuperAGILE experiment information system Francesco Lazzarotto
P4.27 The AIPS++ Project J.P. McMullin
P4.28 A Science Data Model for the Virtual Observatory Gerard Lemson
P4.29 The ACS Science Data Pipeline Kenneth Anderson
P4.30 The NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Architecture Francesco Pierfederici
P4.31 Interacting with the NOAO Mosaic Pipeline Michelle Miller
P4.32 Building Towards the LSST: A Common Pipeline for Real-time Detection of Optical Transients via Frame Subtraction for SuperMacho, ESSENCE, LONEOS, and SDSS Armin Rest
 

P5: Data Processing and Visualisation

P5.1 New User Requirements for Astronomical Data Visualization William Joye
P5.2 Visualizing data cubes on the Grid Guy Rixon
P5.3 Visualization Guilets in S-Lang Michael S. Noble
P5.4 Fv 4.0 - New Release of the FITS Data Visualizer and Editor William Pence
P5.5 3D inspection of visibility data obtained with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope Nico Vermaas
P5.6 Shadow Bands Observed During The Total Solar Eclipse Of 4 December 2002, By High-Resolution Imaging. Szymon Gladysz
 

P6: Image Restoration & Compression

P6.1 Generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging in VLBI Sergey Likhachev
P6.2 Images analysis in Asteroid and Satellites Astrometry Alvaro Lopez Garcia
P6.3 Representations of distortions in FITS world coordinate systems Mark R. Calabretta
P6.4 MultiDrizzle: Fully Automated Registration, Cosmic-Ray Cleaning and Combination of Dithered HST Images Anton M. Koekemoer
P6.5 JPEG 2000 Compression for the Downlink and Archiving of Astronomical DataV Janet C. Rountree
P6.6 Sub-pixel image centering with a Maximum likelihood estimator. Application to AO corrected images. Damien Gratadour
P6.7 Refinements to the Iterative Self-Calibration Program for the SIRTF GOODS Legacy Project David Grumm
P6.8 Automatic astrometric calibration with SCAMP Emmanuel Bertin
P6.9 Some (surprising?) uses of Aperture Photometry Mike Irwin
P6.10 Techniques of astro images Moataz Kordi
P6.11 Non-linear transient models and transient corrections methods for IR low-background photo-detectors A. Coulais
 

P7: Algorithms and Classification

P7.1 Automated determination of stellar population parameters in galaxies using active instance-based learning Thamar Solorio
P7.2 Boxiness parameter from moments Masafumi Yagi
P7.4 Automatic FITS images quality evaluation with QualityFITS Frédéric Magnard
P7.5 Advances in Automated Algorithms for Morphological Classification of Galaxies based on Shape Features Shaukat Goderya
P7.6 Genetic Programming and other fitting techniques in Galactic Dynamics Peter Teuben
P7.7 Automated identification of spectra in Schmidt plates Raquel Diaz
P7.8 Determination of initial conditions of M81 triplet using Evolution Strategies Juan Carlos Gomez
P7.9 Age determination for the nuclear stellar population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using Locally Weighted Regression (LWR). Juan P. Torres-Papaqui
P7.10 Optimal Selection of Training Data for the Difference Boosting Neural Networks Ninan Philip
 

P8: High Performance Computing

P8.1 An AMR multigrid code for calculating gravitational forces. Claudio Gheller
P8.2 How the Planck computing needs fit well on a GRID structure Riccardo Smareglia
P8.3 High Performance Computing for Space using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)-Based Technology Kenneth J. Mighell
P8.4 A parallel code analysis of light curve sequences through the astrocomp-grid portal to produce accurate surface maps of magnetically active close binaries U. Becciani
P8.5 Efficient usage of HPC horsepower for the LOFAR telescope Kjeld v.d. Schaaf
 

P9: Control Systems

P9.1 Hubble Space Telescope - Monitoring Science Instruments using the On-line Telmetry Archive System Manfred P. Miebach
P9.2 Software reverse engineering and development: the VST telescope control software case Pietro Schipani
P9.3 Using OpenOffice as a portable Interface to JAVA-Based Applications Tom Comeau
P9.4 An Overview of the Large Binocular Telescope Control System Michele De La Peña
P9.5 The CARMA Control System Chul Gwon
P9.6 The development of the LUCIFER control software Marcus Juette
P9.7 Survey Definition Tool Martin Folger
P9.8 The CARMA Monitor System (CAM) - Transforming Cyclically Collected Telemetry into a Linear Stream N. S. Amarnath (U Maryland)
P9.9 The GBT Engineering Measurement System Paul Marganian
P9.10 When The Observer isn't there: the OMP Feedback System Kynan Delorey
P9.11 The WFCAM instrument software Andrew Vick
P9.12 NRAO Proposal Submission Tool Honglin Ye
P9.13 NEWFIRM Software - System Integration using OPC P. N. Daly
P9.14 Observational Scripting, Control and Imaging with the Allen Telescope Array J. Colby Kraybill
P9.15 Science Goal Monitor: Tools for Science Goal Capturing and Onboard Goal Monitoring Anuradha Koratkar
P9.16 Software tools and preliminary design of a control system for the 40M OAN radiotelescope Pablo de Vicente
 

P10: Instrument Modeling

P10.1 New Simulation Software for VLBI Observations Igor Guirin
P10.2 Slitless spectroscopy of extragalactic objects V. F. Polcaro
P10.3 Model Based Corrections to Data from Radiation Damaged Detectors. Paul Bristow
P10.4 SIRTF Tools for DIRT Marc W. Pound (UMD)
P10.5 Data Handling for Planck/LFI Ground Tests M. Maris
P10.6 Phasor Algorithms of the SIM Fringe Estimation Xiaopei Pan
P10.7 Scheduler, a distributed batch controller. Dan Nguyen
P10.8 Maintaining Software for Active Missions: a Case Study of Chandra's CTI Problem. Joseph Masters
P10.9 Chandra Long-Term Trending and Prognostication Tools Bradley D. Spitzbart
P10.10 Evaluation of centroiding methods for 2D calibration lamp spectra Masatoshi OHISHI
P10.11 Efficient data-mining in the sky background John Cunniffe
P10.12 WBUCS: A Web-based tool for simulating deep galaxy fields. Daniel K. Magee
P10.13 Comparison of Echelle Spectra Reduction Packages Petr Skoda
P10.14 The ATST Virtual Instrument Model Stephen Wampler
P10.15 Simulation of the SNIFS instrument. Bonnaud Christophe

Demos

D1 The XCAT-DB, a Public Interface for XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue. Laurent MICHEL
D2 Near Real Time Data Visualization of the INTEGRAL data Laurent Lerusse
D3 ESA ISO and XMM-Newton Archives Inter-Operability and VO Services ARVISET Christophe
D4 Demo of numarray, PyFITS, chaco, and related software Jin-chung Hsu
D5 The US National Virtual Observatory NVO Team
D6 AstroCat/CVcat: A catalogue on cataclysmic variables based on a new framework for online interactive astronomical databases Fabian Euchner
D7 The ESO/ST-ECF Archive and the AVO prototype. Benoît Pirenne
D8 Generic abstraction of hardware control based on the ALMA Common Software Bogdan Jeram
D9 The CDS hub Françoise Genova
D10 E3D, The Euro3D Visualization Tool for Integral Field Spectroscopy S.F. Sánchez
D11 The NOAO Data Products Program Michael Fitzpatrick
D12 Starlink Software David Giaretta

Bird of a Feather sessions

 

B1: BoF Session 1

B1.1 FITS William Pence
B1.2 Linux Anthony Ferro
 

B2: BoF Session 2

B2.1 Data Compression in Astronomy Janet Rountree
B2.2 Access to Databases of Atomic and Molecular Data in the VO M.L. Dubernet