ADASS XII Conference

Program

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Sunday, October 13, 2002 Program

	Tutorial: XML and Web Services for Astronomers (1:00pm to 5:00pm; Harborside Ballroom C)	Roy Williams and Robert Brunner
	Registration (12:00pm to 6:30pm; Registration Desk)
	Conference Reception (7:00pm to 9:00pm; Harborside Foyer)

Monday, October 14, 2002 Program

	Coffee and Light Breakfast Fare (7:30am to 8:30am; Harborside Foyer)
	Oral Session 1: VO Technologies (8:20am to 10:00am; Harborside C)
8:20am	Welcome & Opening Remarks	William Smith, Jr. AURA President
8:30am	High Performance Computing (Invited)	Miron Livny
9:00am	Rapid Development for Distributed Computing, with Implications for the Virtual Observatory (Invited)	Michael Noble
9:30am	eSTAR: Building an Observational GRID	Alasdair Allan
9:45am	AstroComp: A Web Portal for High Performance Astrophysical Computing on a Grid of Supercomputers	Paola Di Matteo
	Coffee Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (10:00am to 11:15am)
	Oral Session 2: Sky Surveys (11:15am to 12:30pm; Harborside C)
11:15am	Photometric and Astrometric Calibration of the Southern H-alpha Sky Survey Atlas (Invited)	Peter McCullough
11:45am	The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Sky Survey (Invited)	Michael Watson
12:15pm	ISOCAM Parallel Mode Survey	Stephan Ott
	Lunch Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (12:30pm to 2:00pm)
	Oral Session 3: Next Generation Telescopes and Control Systems (2:00pm to 3:30pm; Harborside C)
2:00pm	Conceptual Design for the Square-Kilometer Array (Invited)	Ron Ekers
2:30pm	The James Webb Space Telescope Science & Operations Systems (Invited)	Joe Pollizzi
3:00pm	Adaptive Optics at the VLT: NAOS-CONICA (Invited)	Chris Lidman
	Coffee Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (3:30pm to 4:30pm)

	BoF 1: FITS (4:30pm to 6:00pm; Harborside C)	Don Wells
	BoF 2: Re-usable Software Components (4:30pm to 6:00pm; Laurel)	Frank Tanner
	BoF 3: Education and Public Outreach (4:30pm to 6:00pm; Kent C)	Steve McDonald
	Dinner Break (6:00pm to 7:30pm)
	BoF 4: Python in Astronomy (7:30pm to 9:00pm; Harborside C)	Perry Greenfield
	BoF 5: Astronomical Websites (7:30pm to 9:00pm; Laurel)	Tony Ferro
	BoF 6: Teaching Scientific Computing with N-body Simulations (7:30pm to 9:00pm; Kent C)	Vicki Johnson Peter Teuben

Monday, October 14, 2002 Program, continued

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Program

	Coffee and Light Breakfast Fare (7:30am to 8:30am; Harborside Foyer)
	Oral Session 4: Data Management (8:30am to 10:15am; Harborside C)
8:30am	Data Management for the LSST (Invited)	Andrew Connolly
9:00am	Microlensing Events: Exploring the Time Domain (Invited)	Kem Cook
9:30am	The Raptor Real-Time Processing Architecture	Mark Galassi
9:45am	The Subaru Telescope Software Trinity System (Invited)	Ryusuke Ogasawara
	Coffee Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (10:15am to 11:30am)
	Oral Session 5: Calibration (11:30am to 12:30pm; Harborside C)
11:30am	Data Calibration for the Low-Frequency Radio Telescope (Invited)	Jan Noordam
12:00pm	Calibration Techniques for the Sub-mm Imaging (Invited)	Stephane Guilloteau
	Lunch Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (12:30pm to 2:00pm)
	Oral Session 6: Enabling Technologies (2:00pm to 4:00pm; Harborside C)
2:00pm	Micro Observatory (Invited)	Philip Sadler
2:30pm	Mirage: A Tool for Interactive Pattern Recognition from Multimedia Data	Tin Kam Ho
2:45pm	Montage: An On-Demand Image Mosaic Service for the NVO	Bruce Berriman
3:00pm	Architecture for All-Sky Browsing of Astronomical Datasets	Joseph Jacob
3:15pm	Scoping the UK's Virtual Observatory: AstroGrid's Key Science Drivers and Impact on System Design.	Nicholas Walton
	Coffee Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (3:30pm to 4:30pm)
	Oral Session 7: Data Management (4:30pm to 5:45pm; Harborside C)
4:30pm	Data Management for the VO (Invited)	Patrick Dowler
5:00pm	The NRAO End-to-End (e2e) Project	Tim Cornwell
5:15pm	Data Organization in the SDSS Data Release 1	Aniruddha Thakar
5:30pm	HDX Data Model - FITS, NDF and XML implementation	David Giaretta
	Conference Banquet (6:30pm to 9:30pm; Della Notte)

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 Program

	Coffee and Light Breakfast Fare (7:30am to 8:30am; Harborside Foyer)
	Oral Session 8: Optimizing Science (8:30am to 10:00am; Harborside C)
8:30am	New Science with LIGO: Past, Present and Future (Invited)	Kent Blackburn
9:00am	AstroVirgil: Interactive X-Ray Analysis for the EPO and First-Look	Steve McDonald
9:15am	An End-to-End Architecture for Science Goal Driven Observing	Anuradha Koratkar
9:30am	Small Theory Data and the Virtual Observatory	Jonathan McDowell
9:45am	Federating Catalogs and Interfacing Them with Archives: A VO Prototype	Doug Mink
	Coffee Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (10:00am to 11:15am)
	Oral Session 9: Calibration (11:15am to 12:15pm; Harborside C)
11:15am	Calibration of Space IR Arrays (Invited)	Mark Dickinson
11:45am	Uncertainty Estimation & Propagation in SIRTF Pipelines (Invited)	Mehrdad Moshir
	Lunch Break, Display Session and Demo Viewing (12:15pm to 2:00pm)
	POC Meeting (12:15pm to 2:00pm)
	Oral Session 10: VO Interoperability (2:00pm to 3:30pm; Harborside C)
2:00pm	SkyQuery - A Prototype Distributed Query Web Service for the VO	Tamas Budavari
2:15pm	Why Indexing the Sky is Desirable	Patricio Ortiz
2:30pm	Quantum Topic Maps: A Physicist's View of the Information Universe	Nikita Ogievetsky
2:45pm	A New Way of Joining Source Catalogs using a Relational DBMS	Clive Page
3:00pm	A Bit of GLUe for the VO: Aladin Experience	Pierre Fernique
3:15pm	Interoperability of the ISO Data Archive and the XMM-Newton Science Archive	Christophe Arviset
3:30pm	Closing Remarks
	Demo and Display Break-Down (4:00pm to 6:00pm)