First announcement: Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories, Málaga, Spain, 18-20 May 2009

[Petr Kubánek]

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Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories

Topics
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 * Robotic Astronomy: historical perspective
 * Existing robotic observatories worldwide
 * New hardware and software developments
 * Real-time analysis pipelines
 * Archiving the data
 * Telescope and observatory control systems
 * Transient detection and classification
 * Protocols for robotic telescope networks
 * Standards & protocols for transient reporting
 * Scientific results obtained by means of robotic observatories
 * Global networks
 * Future strategies

When
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18-20th May 2009

Where
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http://www.beachhoteltorremolinos.com - Hotel Pueblo Camino Real,
Los Álamos, Torremolinos (Málaga)
Provincia de Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, Europe

Invitation
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The number of automatic astronomical facilities worldwide continues to
grow, and the level of robotisation, autonomy, and networking is
increasing as well. This has a strong impact in many astrophysical
fields, like the search for extrasolar planets, the monitoring of
variable stars in our Galaxy, the study of active galactic nuclei, the
detection and monitoring of supernovae, and the immediate follow-up of
high-energy transients such as gamma-ray bursts.

The main focus of the workshop will be on the new and existing
astronomical facilities whose goal is to observe a wide variety of
astrophysical targets with no (or very little) human interaction. The
workshop will become an international forum for researchers to summarise
the most recent developments and ideas in the field, with a special
emphasis given to the technical and observational results obtained
within the last five years.

Please see more details and hopefully register on:

http://www.iaa.es/astrorob2009