| Conference Program and Abstracts |
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A gzipped PostScript version of the Conference
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| Sunday, November 1 |
12:00 -
7:00 pm |
Conference Check-In
in Illini Union (Lobby of the Illini Rooms) |
1:00 -
7:00 pm |
Poster and Demo set up in Illini Union
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
1:00 -
5:45 pm |
Tours and Tutorials (Note:
these run concurrently) |
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· NCSA
Facilities Tour |
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· Tutorial: Topics in Java Application
Development |
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· Tutorial: Parallelization
Workshop |
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· Tutorial: Multiscale Image and Data
Analysis: Theory, Applications and Software |
7:00 -
9:00pm |
Reception in
the Illini Union Ballroom |
| Monday, November 2 |
| 7:30 -11:30 am |
Conference Check-In |
| 7:00 -8:30 am |
Poster set up in Illini Union
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
| 8:30 am |
Welcome, Opening Remarks |
8:45 -
10:30 am |
Session
T1: Computational Infrastructure and Future Technologies
(Patrick Wallace, Chair) |
| 8:45 am |
T1.1: The Future of
Astronomical Computing (Invited) |
Larry Smarr |
| 9:15 am |
T1.2: Experience
with a Large-scale Windows NT Cluster (Invited) |
Andrew Chien |
| 9:45 am |
T1.3: Status and
Future Plans for Parallelization of AIPS++ |
Doug Roberts |
| 10:00 am |
T1.4: HDF5: A New
Scientific Data File Format |
Mike Folk |
| 10:15 am |
T1.5: ORAC-DR:
Pipelining With Other People's Code |
Frossie Economou |
10:30 -
11:15 am |
Coffee Break; Poster and
Demo Session
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
11:15 am -
12:30 pm |
Session
T2: Information Services (F. Rick Harnden,
Chair) |
| 11:15 am |
T2.1: Window to
the Universe - A Web-based Tool for Earth and Space
Science (Invited) |
Roberta Johnson |
| 11:45 am |
T2.2: Web-Based
Tools For Exploration Of ADC Data Holdings And NASA Data
Archives |
Vincent Kargatis |
| 12:00 pm |
T2.3: Using a
Java Web-based Graphical Interface to access the SOHO Data
Archive |
Isabelle F. Scholl |
| 12:15 pm |
T2.4: IMS of
Istanbul University Science Faculty Astronomy and Space
Science Department |
Sevinç
Gülseçen |
12:30 -
1:45 pm |
Lunch Break; Poster and
Demo viewing
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
1:45 -
4:00 pm |
Session
T3: Image Processing, Visualization, and Data
Pipelines (Brian Glendenning, Chair) |
| 1:45 pm |
T3.1: Tera-Data
Analysis & Visualization (Invited) |
Paul Woodward |
| 2:15 pm |
T3.2: The Pixon
Method (Invited) |
Richard Puetter |
| 2:45 pm |
T3.3: Data
Processing Models Within AIPS++ |
Athol J. Kemball |
| 3:00 pm |
T3.4: Post
Operational HST Science Instrument Archives and Predictive
Calibration Methods |
Michael R. Rosa |
| 3:15 pm |
T3.5: Pipeline
Processing of Data in the VLT era |
Preben Grosbol |
| 3:30 pm |
T3.6: Data
Analysis Software for the ESA X-ray Multi-mirror Mission
(XMM) |
Fred A. Jansen |
| 3:45 pm |
T3.7: On-The-Fly
Calibration at STScI |
Stephen Lubow |
4:00 -
4:45 pm |
Snack Break; Poster and
Demo Session
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
4:45 -
6:00 pm |
Session B1:
Birds-of-a-Feather 1 (Note: these run
concurrently) |
(Moderators) |
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B1.1:
Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) |
Don Wells |
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B1.2: Linux |
Mike Fitzpatrick
Martin Bly
Dave Mills |
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B1.3:
Coordinating Astronomy Web Resources/Extensible Markup
Language (XML) |
Tom McGlynn
Damien Guillaume |
6:00 -
7:45 pm |
Dinner Break |
7:45 -
9:00 pm |
Session B2:
Birds-of-a-Feather 2 (Note: these run
concurrently) |
(Moderators) |
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B2.1: IRAF  |
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B2.2: IDL |
Wayne Landsman |
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B2.3: Java |
Steve Scott |
| Tuesday, November 3 |
8:30 -
10:15 am |
Session T4:
Observatory Planning, Scheduling, Telescope Control
(Glenn Miller, Chair) |
| 8:30 am |
T4.1: Next
Generation User Support Tools (Invited) |
Anuradha Koratkar
Sandy Grosvenor |
| 9:00 am |
T4.2: Results
from the NOAO Telescope Proposal Process Workshop |
Jeannette Barnes |
| 9:15 am |
T4.3: Small, Fast
and Reusable: A Satellite Planning and Scheduling System |
Steven Kleiner |
| 9:30 am |
T4.4: NASA's
Instrument Control Markup Language (ICML) |
Kenneth B. Sall |
| 9:45 am |
T4.5: The Gemini
Data Handling System: A Case History |
Séverin Gaudet |
| 10:00 am |
T4.6: TransVERSE
an Architecture for Configuring Astronomical Observations |
Mark Giuliano |
10:15 -
11:00 am |
Coffee Break; Poster and
Demo Session
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
11:00 am -
12:00 pm |
Session T5:
Computational Astrophysics (Dick Crutcher,
Chair) |
| 11:00 am |
T5.1: Cosmology
from High-Redshift Supernovae (Invited) |
Peter M. Garnavich |
| 11:30 am |
T5.2: The
Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics |
Michael L. Norman |
| 11:45 am |
T5.3: Large Scale
Clustering in the Universe - a Package |
Ivan Valtchanov |
12:00 -
1:15 pm |
Lunch Break; Poster and
Demo viewing (Illini Rooms
A & B) |
1:15 -
3:00 pm |
Session T6:
Data Analysis (Dick Shaw, Chair) |
| 1:15 pm |
T6.1: Algorithms
for CCD Stellar Photometry (Invited) |
Kenneth J. Mighell |
| 1:45 pm |
T6.2: WCSTools:
An Image Astrometry Toolkit |
Douglas J. Mink |
| 2:00 pm |
T6.3: Infrared
Jitter Imaging Data Reduction: Algorithms and
Implementation |
Nicolas Devillard |
| 2:15 pm |
T6.4: Modern CCD
Epoch of Moving Celestial Objects Observations Algorithms and
Software for Their Processing in Interactive Mode |
Oleg Bykov |
| 2:30 pm |
T6.5:
Contour-Based Image Compression for Fast Real-Time Coding |
Sergei V. Vasilyev |
| 2:45 pm |
T6.6: Stellar CCD
Photometry: New Method and Techniques |
A. El-Bassuny Alawy |
| 3:00 pm |
T6.7: A Method to
Test the Adequacy of a Model to Observations |
Alexander S. Tsvetkov |
3:15 -
4:15 pm |
Snack Break; Poster and
Demo Session
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
4:15 -
5:30 pm |
Session B3: Birds-of-a-Feather
3 (Note: these run concurrently) |
(Moderators) |
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B3.1: The Future
of Astronomical Data-analysis Systems (FADS) |
Jan Noordam
Peter Teuben |
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B3.2: Software
Project Management |
Arno Granados |
5:30 -
6:30 pm |
Poster and
Demo Session (Illini Rooms
A & B) |
7:00 -
10:00 pm |
Conference
Banquet at the University Inn Concorde
Room (20th floor) |
| Wednesday, November 4 |
8:30 -
10:00 am |
Session T7:
Archiving (Rudi Albrect, Chair) |
| 8:30 am |
T7.1:
Systematization and Use of Atomic Data for Astrophysical
Modeling (Invited) |
Nancy S. Brickhouse |
| 9:00 am |
T7.2: Building a
Robust Archive System for the ESO VLT |
Miguel Albrecht |
| 9:15 am |
T7.3: Clustering
for Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy based on Astronomical
Markup Language (AML) Documents |
Damien Guillaume |
| 9:30 am |
T7.4: Formatting
Journal Tables in XML at the ADC |
Edward J. Shaya |
| 9:45 am |
T7.5: A Search
and Discovery Tool - AMASE |
Cynthia Y. Cheung |
| 10:00 am |
T7.6: The
Prospects of DVD-R for Storing Astronomical Archive Data |
Benoît P. Pirenne |
10:15 -
11:00 am |
Coffee Break; Poster and
Demo Session
(Illini Rooms A & B) |
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Session T8:
Astrostatistics and Databases
(Doug Tody, Chair) |
| 11:00 am |
T8.1: Bayesian
Inference: A Developer's Perspective (Invited) |
Thomas J. Loredo |
| 11:30 am |
T8.2: Statistics
of Time Structure Count in Time Profile of Cosmic Gamma-Ray
Bursts |
Alexei S. Pozanenko |
| 11:45 am |
T8.3: ESO/CDS
Data-mining Tool Development Project |
Patricio F. Ortiz |
| 12:00 pm |
T8.4: Lexical and
Co-occurrence Evidence for Subject Vocabulary Reconciliation
in ADS Databases |
Jonghoon Lee |
| 12:15 pm |
Closing Remarks |
12:30 -
1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30 -
5:45 pm |
NCSA
Facilities Tour |
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