ADASS 2000 Conference Schedule

ADASS 2000 Conference Week-at-a-Glance
Sunday
12 Nov
Monday
13 Nov
Tuesday
14 Nov
Wednesday
15 Nov
  Continental Breakfast (7 am to 8 am)
Oral Session 1: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:20 to 9:45) Oral Session 4: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:30 to 10:00) Oral Session 7: Software Development Technologies (8:30 to 10:00)
Oral Session 2: Enabling Technologies/Public Outreach (11:00 to 12:30) Oral Session 5: Sky Surveys (11:15 to 12:30) Oral Session 8: Science Data Pipelines (11:15 to 12:30)
Lunch Provided (12:30 pm to 2 pm) Lunch Break (12:30 pm to 2 pm)
Oral Session 3: Software Development Methodologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm) Oral Session 6: Software Development Technologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm) Oral Session 9: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (2:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
  BoF Session 1:
(4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
NVO (R. Hanisch)
CORBA (M. Pound)
BoF Session 3:
(4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
IRAF (T. Boroson)
DS9 (W. Joye)
Oral Session 10: Software History (3:00 pm to 4:00 pm)
  Display Session 1 Display Session 2 Display Session 3
Demos
Conference
Reception

7 pm to 10 pm
BoF Session 2:
(7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
FITS (D. Wells)
Linux (P. Daly) (ends at 9:30 pm)
IDL (W. Landsman)
Conference Banquet
7pm to 11 pm
 
Sunday
12 Nov
Monday
13 Nov
Tuesday
14 Nov
Wednesday
15 Nov


Sunday, 12 November

Conference Reception (7:00 pm to 10:00 pm)


Monday, 13 November

Session 1: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:20 am to 9:45 am)
8:20 am Welcome & Opening Remarks  
8:30 am National Virtual Observatory (Invited) (A. Szalay)
9:00 am VLT commissioning (Invited) (J. Spyromilio)
9:30 am A Parallel, Distributed Archive Template for the NVO (A. Thakar)
Coffee Break, Display Session 1 & Demo Viewing (9:45 am to 11:00 am)
Session 2: Enabling Technologies/Public Outreach (11:00 am to 12:30 pm)
11:00 am Classic SETI (Invited) (J. Tartar)
11:30 am SETI@home (Invited) (D. Werthimer)
12:00 pm Hands-On Universe: A Global Program for Educational and Public Outreach in Astronomy (M. Boer)
12:15 pm Architecture for the NASA OSS Education Resource Catalog (C. Christian)
Lunch (provided), Display Session 1 & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 3: Software Development Methodologies & Technologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)
2:00 pm Open Source for SOFIA's Data System (Invited) (J. Graybeal)
2:30 pm Software Engineering at ESO (Invited) (G. Filippi)
3:00 pm Exploiting VSIPL and OpenMP for Parallel Image Processing (J. Kepner)
3:15 pm CORBA as an Interoperability Tool for Astronomy (M. Wenger)
Coffee Break, Display Session 1 & Demo Viewing (3:30 pm to 4:30 pm)
BoF Session 1 (4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
4:30 pm National Virtual Observatory (R. Hanisch)
CORBA (M. Pound)
Dinner Break (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm)
BoF Session 2 (7:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
7:30 pm FITS (D. Wells)
IDL (W. Landsman)
Linux (ends at 9:30 pm) (P. Daly)


Tuesday, 14 November

Session 4: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:30 am to 10:00 am)
8:30 am Chandra Science (Invited) (S. Murray)
9:00 am Chandra Operations (Invited) (R. Brissenden)
9:30 am The SIRTF Science Center is Alive and Well and Living in Pasadena (W. Green)
9:45 am How to Serve 12 TB of 2MASS Images (T. Handley)
Coffee Break, Display Session 2 & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)
Session 5: Sky Surveys (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
11:15 am 2MASS (Invited) (R. Cutri)
11:45 am The Second Generation Guide Star Catalog (B. McLean)
12:15 pm The SIM Astrometric Reference Grid (R. Swartz)
Lunch Break, Display Session 2 & Demo Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 6: Software Development Technologies (2:00 pm to 3:30 pm)
2:00 pm GRIDS (Invited) (C. Kesselman)
2:30 pm A Hierarchical, Self-Validating, Web-Ready XML Data Format for Scientists (E. Shaya)
3:00 pm Declaritave Metadata Processing with XML and Java (D. Guillaume)
3:15 pm Embedded Astrophysics Query Support Using Informix Datablades (A. Zhang)
Coffee Break, Display Session 2 & Demo Viewing (3:30 pm to 4:30 pm)
BoF Session 3 (4:30 pm to 6:00 pm)
4:30 pm IRAF (T. Boroson)
Using SAOImage DS9 (W. Joye)
Conference Banquet (7:00 pm to 11:00 pm)


Wednesday, 15 November

Session 7: Software Development Technologies (8:30 am to 10:00 am)
8:30 am Distributed Objects (Invited) (J. Manuel Filgueira)
9:00 am Real-Time Linux (Invited) (V. Yodaiken)
9:30 am FunTools: Experiments in Minimal Buy-In Software (E. Mandel)
9:45 am Parallel Query Processing and Dynamic Cross-Identification (P. Kunszt)
Coffee Break, Display Session 3 & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:15 am)
Session 8: Science Data Pipelines (11:15 am to 12:30 pm)
11:15 am The SDSS Image Reduction Pipeline (Invited) (R. Lupton)
11:45 am The Networked Telescope: Progress Toward a Grid Architecture for Pipeline Processing (R. Plante)
12:00 pm The EIS Project: Status and Pipeline Software (R. Hook)
12:15 pm Gigawulf: Powering the Isaac Newton Group's Data Pipeline (R. Greimel)
Lunch Break, Display Session 3 Viewing (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm)
Session 9: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (2:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
2:00 pm Computing Challenges at ALMA (Invited) (B. Glendenning)
2:30 pm Tools for Coordinated Planning Between Observatories (J. Jones)
2:45 pm The Scientist's Expert Assistant Simulation Facility (K. Wolf)
Display Break-Down begins (3:00 pm)
Session 10: Astronomical Software Retrospective (3:00 pm to 4:00 pm)
3:00 pm A History of Astronomical Software Since the 1960's (Invited) (K. Shortridge)
3:30 pm Reflections on a Decade of ADASS (Invited) (D. Shaw)
3:45 pm Closing Remarks  

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