Program/Talks
Talk titles are linked to presentations where available
Agenda |
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| Wed 12th | Introductory sessions (Chair: Kimball) |
| 9:00-09:30 | Welcome, logistics, Introduction (Mark Lacy, NRAO) |
| 09:30-10:00 | The ALMA development plan (Al Wootten, NRAO) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30-11:15 | CASA development (Jeff Kern, NRAO) |
| 11:15-noon | Discussion: use cases for advanced software (Jeff Kern, Adam Leroy, Tony Remijan) |
| Noon-1pm | lunch (provided) |
| Interfaces (Chair: Scott) | |
| 1:00-1:50 | A Better Interface Between Scientists and Data Reduction Software (Bojan Nikolic, Cambridge) |
| 1:50-2:30 | Linked visualization tools for astrophysical data (Chris Beaumont, CfA/UH) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Cellular Automata for Galaxies with Parallel Processing and GPUs (Brian Kent, NRAO) |
| 3:00-3:30 | Tea |
| 3:30-3:50 | CyberSKA (Erik Rosolowky, UBC) |
| 3:50-4:40 | Citizen science in the Peta age (Tiha von Ghyczy, UVa/IDXchange) |
| 4:40-5:20 | Discussion session - putting peta data on the human scale (Mark Lacy, Brian Kent, Tiha von Ghyczy) |
| 6:30 |
Dinner - Downtown Grille |
| Thu 13th | Feature identification (Chair: Lacy (am), Kern (pm) |
| 09:00-09:30 | The line forest problem and the Chemistry that Causes It (Eric Herbst, UVa) |
| 09:30-10:00 | Analysis Tools for ALMA (Tom Wilson, NRL) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Opportunities for Spectroscopic Analysis with ALMA (Brooks Pate, UVa) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee |
| 10:50-11:40 | WEEDS (Pierre Hily-Blant, Grenoble) |
| 11:40-12:00 | Discussion session (panel Tony Remijan, Crystal Brogan, Tom Wilson) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Radio astronomy and compressive sampling (Sanjay Bhatnagar, NRAO) |
| 12:30-1:10 |
lunch (provided) |
| 1:10-1:50 | Feature identification in datacubes (Jogesh Babu, Penn State) |
| 1:50-2:30 | Science measurements in 3,4,5+ dimensions (Anita Richards, Manchester) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Feature detection and analysis in noisy datacubes (Robert Reid, NRAO) |
| 3:00-3:30 | Discussion: advanced analysis techniques (Panel Kent, Leroy, Scott) |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 | NRAO/UVa colloquium: Gultiken (Michigan) |
| Fri 14th | Algorithms, methods and incorporation into CASA (Chair: Kent) |
| 09:00-09:40 | TBD (Mundy, Maryland) |
| 09:40-10:20 | Correction of atmospheric phase variations using water vapor radiometer data, incorporation into CASA (Bojan Nikolic, Cambridge) |
| 10:20-10:50 | How to be a CASA Taskmaster: Getting your user-created Python into CASA (Steve Myers, NRAO) |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee |
| 11:20-noon | Conference wrap up: priorities for advanced software development, possible consortia and the path forward (Mark Lacy, Jeff Kern) |
