Aspen workshops?

[Kirk D Borne]

FYI ... one usually does not "plan to attend" these Aspen workshops.
One must apply (deadline is in January), and then wait to see if you
are "selected to attend".  I did apply, and I found out last week that
I am on the wait-list.  So, it appears that they have already made their 
first round of selections.  The "they" in this sentence refers to the 
organizing committee of the particular workshop that you applied to attend.
Since Tony Tyson, Michael Strauss, and Zeljko Ivezic are all on the
committee and they are all LSST'ers, then I would hope that they 
have invited some VOEvent'ers also in the first round of invitations.

- Kirk


----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:17 pm
Subject: Aspen workshops?

> 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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