Aspen workshops?

[Joshua Bloom]

Yes, I'm planning to attend.

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Josh Bloom
Associate Professor of Astronomy
jbloom at astro.berkeley.edu
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On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

> 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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