Aspen workshops?

[Rob Seaman]

Hi,

Is anybody from the WG planning to attend the Aspen Center for Physics  
workshop, "Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys: New Astrophysics Frontier" from  
June 14 to July 5?

	http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html

The abstract makes VOEvent sound very pertinent (especially weeks II  
and III):

	"The ability to deeply and rapidly image much of the sky will have  
great impact in astrophysics. New technology large aperture, wide  
field survey telescopes coupled with powerful data processing systems,  
promise to open up the time domain for exploration.  The goal of this  
workshop is to bring theorists, observers, and computational  
scientists together to discuss the discovery space of wide-fast-deep  
surveys, and to develop algorithms and observing strategies that  
maximize the scientific return of such a program. With billions of  
galaxies and stars, new ways of addressing phenomena ranging from dark  
energy to the formation of our Galaxy will be explored. A general  
discussion of what types of transient behavior are expected, or indeed  
possible, is essential to maximize the potential. The exploitation of  
wide-fast-deep surveys for unanticipated phenomena depends critically  
on solving technical challenges in data management and automated  
discovery.  After a review and discussion of known and speculative  
phenomena and how these new surveys can probe them (weeks I and II),  
the workshop will then focus (weeks II and III) on optimizing the  
system for time-domain discovery: survey strategy, and analysis  
methodology requiring database and algorithm innovations."

There is a Neutrino workshop running at the same time that also sounds  
VO-ready:

	"Our workshop revolves around the broad issue of the interplay of  
neutrino physics with other ``non-neutrino'' science"

Rob
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