VOEvent Workshop Schedule

[Roy Williams]

Please find on the Twiki the schedule of talks and discussion for the IVOA VOEvent
workshop.
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VOEventSchedule
This is where presentations and note will appear as the meeting progresses.

And here is a transcription

Weds April 13 - Powell-Booth Room 100

      8.00 am  Breakfast
      9.00 am  Roy Williams:
                       Why are we Here?
      9.30 am  Scott Barthelmy:
                       Gamma Ray Burst Event Reporting
      10.00 am  Derek Fox:
                       Transient Astronomy "Free-for-All" at the Astronomer's 
Telegram
      10.30 am  Break
      11.00 am  George Djorgovski :
                        The Palomar-Quest Survey and Exploration of the Time Domain
      11.30 am  Tim Axelrod:
                        Events in the LSST
      12.00 pm  Lunch
      1.00 pm     Group discussion on vocabulary for event types
      1.40 pm  Robert White:
                       The Thinking Telescope Project: RAPTOR and Telescope 
Interconnectivity using TALONS
      2.20 pm  Alasdair Allen:
                      Robotic telescope networks, agent architectures and event 
messaging
      3.00 pm  Break
      3.30 pm  Joshua Bloom:
                        Implementing a Real-Time VOEvent Messaging Network
      4.10 pm     Group discussion on IVOA working group: core members, Kyoto
      5.00 pm  Adjourn
      7.00 pm  Dinner, Location TBD


Thurs April 14 - Powell-Booth Room 100

      8.00 am  Breakfast
      9.00 am  Szabolcs Marka:
                       Gravitational wave detectors as users and sources of 
astrophysical events
      9.30 am  Matthew Graham:
                      XML Schema and the VORegistry
      10.00 am  Frederic Hessman:
                       Robotic Telescope Markup Language
      10.40 am  Break
      11.00 am  Rob Seaman:
                         Introduction to IVOA Space/Time Coordinates
      11.30 am     Group discussion on space and time representation
      12:00 pm  Lunch
      1.00 pm     Group discussion on event model
      1.30 pm   Breakout: Schema integration and generation
                      Breakout: Interoperation with existing systems
      3.00 pm  Break
      3.30 pm   Breakout: Writing VOEvent definition
                     Breakout: Collaboration of event producers and users
      4.30 pm  Roy Williams:
                       Summary and next steps
      5.00 pm  Adjourn



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