Invitation to Hotwired II - 2nd announcement

[Rob Seaman]

Second announcement for "Hot-wiring the Transient Universe II":

Registration now open at:

	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired2/register

The deadline is March 15, but please register immediately so we can  
finalize the agenda (which is looking very exciting)!  Filling out the  
form is not tied to payment.  Please contact seaman at noao.edu with any  
concerns.

You are invited, welcome, asked and even cajoled to participate in the  
second Hot-wiring the Transient Universe workshop to be held in lovely  
Santa Cruz, California from 26-30 April 2009.  I've appended the  
information from the poster, but all you really need is the URL:

	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired2

Your contributions will be key to making Hotwired II even more  
successful than Hotwired I.

Please forward as appropriate.  For those who see this message more  
than once, consider yourself twice invited!

Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Chair, IVOA VOEvent Working Group
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Hot-wiring the Transient Universe 2

Santa Cruz, California
April 26 - April 30, 2009

The VOEvent Working Group of the International Virtual Observatory  
Alliance announces the workshop, Hot-wiring the Transient Universe 2.  
A strong interdisciplinary agenda will engage all aspects of  
technology, experimental design and information infrastructure for  
pursuing time domain science associated with astronomical transient  
events.  A primary focus will include the announcement of transients  
and their rapid follow-up using robotic and human directed telescopes,  
as well as the acquisition and scientific curation of archival time  
series data. Published proceedings will capture a panoramic snapshot  
of the state of the art of real-time astronomy.

Astronomical transients occur at scales from the local solar system to  
Galactic to cosmological. Transients arrive via electromagnetic  
radiation, gravitational waves, neutrinos and other particles.  
Discoveries are made via spacecraft and by ground-based surveys,  
through automatic pipelines and the Virtual Observatory, with robotic  
telescopes and by the human eye.  Meeting the challenges of the time  
domain demands this new empirical framework for carrying out the art  
and science of astronomy.

Organizing Committee
	Rob Seaman, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
	Steve Allen, UCO/Lick Observatory
	Alasdair Allan, University of Exeter
	Scott Barthelmy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
	Joshua Bloom, University of California, Berkeley
	Robert Denny, DC3-Dreams
	Matthew Graham, California Institute of Technology
	Norman Gray, Universities of Leicester and Glasgow
	Frederic Hessman, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
	Roy Williams, California Institute of Technology

Registration, hotels and information
	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired2

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