ADASS 97 Final Program
Sonthofen, Germany, September 14-17, 1997
 

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Program At-A-Glance

  Sunday, 14 September 
Begin End  Description Duration
14:00 20:00  Registration; Poster and Demo set-up 6:00
18:00 20:00  Reception 2:00

 

 Monday, 15 September
Begin End  Description Duration
  8:00 20:00  Registration  
  8:30   8:45  Opening Remarks 0:15
  8:45   9:45  Session 1: Computational Astrophysics etc. 1:00
  9:45 10:30  COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS 0:45
10:30 12:30  Session 2: Applications 2:00
12:30 14:30  LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS 2:00
14:30 15:30  Session 3: Computational Infrastructure 1:00
15:30 16:15  COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS 0:45
16:15 17:00  Session 4: Future Technologies 0:45
17:00 17:45  Session 5: Data Analysis Applications 0:45
17:45 19:45  DINNER 2:00
   BOF Room A  BOF Room B     
19:45 21:00  AstroBrowse
 Hanisch
 Linux
 Fitzpatrick/Bly
  1:15

 

 Tuesday, 16 September
Begin End  Description Duration
  8:00 20:00  Registration  
  8:30   9:45  Session 6: Education and Public Outreach 1:15
  9:45 10:45  COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS 1:00
10:45 12:15  Session 7: Data Flow and Scheduling - I 1:30
12:15 14:00  LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS 1:45
14:00 14:45  Session 8: Data Flow and Scheduling - II 0:45
14:45 15:30  COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS 0:45
   BOF Room A  BOF Room B  BOF Room C  
15:30 16:45  IRAF
 Jacoby /Tody
 IDL
 Stern/Landsman
 AIPS/AIPS++
 van Moorsel/Cornwell
1:15
16:45 18:00  FITS/Date-2000
 Wells /Grosbol
 Scheduling/Pipelines
 Antunes/Ryan
  1:15
19:30 21:30   CONFERENCE BANQUET 2:00

 

 Wednesday, 17 September
Begin  End  Description Duration
  8:00   9:45  Session 9: Archives & Information Services 1:45
  9:45 10:30  COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS 0:45
10:30 11:30  Session 10: Astrostatistics/Data Bases 1:00
11:30 11:45  Bob Hanisch: "ADASS Reflections" 0:15
11:45 11:55  Closing Remarks 0:10
11:55 13:25  LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS 1:30
13:25 14:40  BOF: FADS - III 1:15

 


 

 
Detailed Program
 

 
Sunday, 14 September
 

14:00 - 20:00 Registration; Poster and Demo set-up
18:00 - 20:00 Reception

 
Monday, 15 September
 

08:00 - 20:00 Registration
 
08:30 - 08:45 Opening Remarks

Session 1
08:45 - 09:45
Computational Astrophysics etc.

M. Norman Early Universe Simulation (INVITED)
U. Becciani Parallel tree n-body code: data distribution and DLB on CRAY T3D for large simulations
R. Crutcher VRML & Collaborative Environments: New Tools for Networked Visualization

09:45 - 10:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS


Session 2
10:30 - 12:30
Applications

J.R. Fisher Object-Oriented Experiences with GBT Monitor and Control (INVITED)
D. Barnes Parkes Multibeam realtime O-O data reduction using AIPS++ (INVITED)
R.F. Warren-Smith World Coordinate Systems as Objects
A. Micol Constructing and Reducing Sets of HST Observations Using Accurate Spacecraft Pointing Information
S. Scott The New User Interface for the OVRO Millimeter Array
F. Valdes The IRAF Mosaic Package

12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS


Session 3
14:30 - 15:30
Computational Infrastructure

J. Schwarz Managing IT Infrastructure (INVITED)
S. Schaller Cost-effective system management
G. Hunt A Trans-Continental LAN

15:30 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS


Session 4
16:15 - 17:00
Future Technologies

E. Mandel Other People's Software
D. Tody Open IRAF Message Bus and Distributed Object Technology
M. Conroy Building S/W Systems from Heterogeneous Components

Session 5
17:00 - 17:45
Data Analysis Applications

S. Doe Fitting & Modelling of AXAF data with the ASC Fitting Application
E. Sturm The ISO Spectral Analysis Package ISAP
C. Gabriel News on the ISOPHOT Interactive Analysis

17:45 - 19:45 DINNER

BOF Room A BOF Room B
19:45 - 21:00 AstroBrowse
Hanisch
Linux
Fitzpatrick/Bly

 
Tuesday, 16 September
 

08:00 - 20:00 Registration

Session 6
08:30 - 09:45
Education and Public Outreach

C. Christian CyberHype or Educational Technology - What is being learned from all those BITS? (INVITED)
N. McKay Using Java for Astronomy: The Virtual Radio Interferometer Example
L. Benacchio Teaching Astronomy via the Internet
R. Albrecht Astronomy on-line

09:45 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS / DEMOS


Session 7
10:45 - 12:15
Data Flow and Scheduling - I

P. Quinn The VLT Data Flow System (INVITED)
M. Chavan Nightly Scheduling of the ESO VLT
A. Antunes TAKO: Astro E's Mission independent Scheduling Suite
P. Hilton ASCA: An International Mission
M. Giuliano Achieving Stable Observing Schedules in an Unstable World

12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS


Session 8
14:00 - 14:45
Data Flow and Scheduling - II

N. Peccia The XMM Science Operations Centre Control System
S. Ott Data Analysis with ISOCAM Interactive Analysis preparing for the future
E. Wieprecht The Interaction of the ISO-SWS Pipeline software and the ISO-SWS Interactive Analysis System

14:45 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS

BOF Room A BOF Room B BOF Room C
15:30 - 16:45 IRAF
Jacoby/Tody
IDL
Stern/Landsman
AIPS/AIPS++
van Moorsel/Cornwell
16:45 - 18:00 FITS/Date-2000
Wells
Scheduling/Pipelines
Antunes/Ryan

19:30 - 21:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET

 
Wednesday, 17 September
 

Session 9
08:00 - 09:45
Archives & Information Services

M. Albrecht The VLT Science Archive System
J. Pollizzi A queriable repository for HST Telemetry Data.
P. Ortiz Accessing Astronomical Data over the WWW using datOZ
K. Gamiel Distributed Searching of Astronomical Databases with Pizazz
G. Eichhorn New Capabilities of the ADS Abstract and Article Service
A. Baruffolo Object-Relational DBMS for Large Astronomical Catalog Management
F. Ochsenbein The VizieR system to access astronomical data

09:45 - 10:30 COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS


Session 10
10:30 - 11:30
Astrostatistics/Data Bases

F. Murtagh Noise Detection and Filtering using Multiresolution Transform Methods (INVITED)
R. Gupta New Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in stellar spectroscopy
N. Christlieb How to exploit an astronomical gold mine: Automatic Classification of Hamburg/ESO Survey Spectra

11:30 - 11:45 Bob Hanisch: "ADASS Reflections"
11:45 - 11:50 Closing Remarks

11:50 - 13:25 LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS

13:25 - 14:40 BOF: FADS - III
Noordam/Teuben

 


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