Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIV

October 24 - 27, 2004
Pasadena California

ADASS 2004


Oral Sessions in Justine's Ballroom

Tentative


Monday, October 25th

= Invited Speaker

Time Exhibit
8:30 Session: Welcome to ADASS 2004
Dr. George Helou, IPAC Executive Director - Opening Plenary Session
9:00 - 10:15 Session: Imaging Algorithms
9:00 O1.1 Tony Chan - Blind Deconvolution and Super-Resolution Imaging Algorithm
9:30 O1.2 Julio Valdez - Visual Data Mining of Astronomic Data with Virtual Reality Spaces: Understanding the Underlying Structure of Large Data Sets.
10:00 O1.3 Charles Backus - Hires: Super-resolution for the Spitzer Infrared Telescope
10:15 - 11:15 Break for snacks in Justine
11:15 - 12:15 Session: Ground Based Observatories I
11:15 O2.1 Nick Kaiser - Pan-STARRS
11:45 O2.2 Roc Cutri - The 2MASS Extended Mission and Ancillary Data Products
12:15 - 13:45 Break for lunch
13:45 - 15:15 Session: Great Space Observatories I
13:45 O3.1 Anton Koekemoer - The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)
14:15 O3.2 Roland Walter - INTEGRAL and its Science Data Centre
14:45 O3.3 Carlos Gabriel - XMM-Newton: Approaching 5 years of succesful science operations
15:00 O3.4 S.G. Ansari - Gaia Grid: Its Implications and Implementation
15:15 - 16:00 Break for snacks in Justine

Tuesday, October 26th

= Invited Speaker

Time Exhibit
8:30 Session: Welcome to ADASS 2004
Dr. David Baltimore, President of Caltech - Plenary Session
8:45 - 10:15 Session: Great Space Observatories II
8:45 O4.1 Michael Werner - Spitzer Space Telescope: Scientific Results and Data Analysis Challenges
9:15 O4.2 Mehrdad Moshir - Spitzer Space Telescope: Data Processing and Algorithmic Complexity
9:45 O4.3 Justin Macki - The Mars Exploration Rover Imaging System
10:15 - 11:15 Break for snacks in Justine
11:15 - 12:15 Session: The Virtual Observatory: Handling the Data
11:15 O5.1 Paolo Padovani - Science with Virtual Observatory tools
11:45 O5.2 F. Ochsenbein - Interoperability in action: the Aladin Experience
12:00 O5.3 Pedro Osuna - VOSpec: A tool for handling Virtual Observatory Compliant Spectra
12:15 - 13:45 Break for lunch
13:45 - 15:15 Session: The Virtual Observatory: Grid
13:45 O6.1 Ewa Deelman - Using Grid Technologies to Support Large-Scale Astronomy Applications
14:15 O6.2 Tony Linde - Features of the AstroGrid approach to Virtual Observatory architecture
14:30 O6.3 Nicholas A. Walton - Deploying the AstroGrid: Science Use Ready
14:45 O6.4 Tevfik Kosar - Reliable, Automatic Transfer and Processing of Large Scale Astronomy Datasets
15:00 O6.5 Jeffery P. Gardner - A Framework for Parallel Data Analysis on a Distributed Grid
15:15 - 16:00 Break for snacks in Justine
16:00 - 17:15 Session: The Virtual Observatory: Mining and Analysis
16:00 O7.1 Ray Plante - Registries and Publishing in the Virtual Observatory
16:30 O7.2 William O'Mullane - OpenSkyQuery & OpenSkyNode - the VO Framework to Federate Astronomy Archives
16:45 O7.3 David Giaretta - VO-enabling a major astronomical analysis and reduction software system
17:00 O7.4 Drew Devereux - An O(NlogM) Algorithm for Catalogue Matching

Wednesday, October 27th

= Invited Speaker

Time Exhibit
8:30 Session: Welcome to ADASS 2004
Dr. Charles Elachi, JPL Director - Plenary Session
8:45 - 10:15 Session: Ground-based Observatories II
8:45 O8.1 Colin Lonsdale - Simulating the Performance of the Square Kilometer Array
9:15 O8.2 Colin Aspin - The Gemini Science Archive: Current Status and Future Prospects
9:30 O8.3 Ghaleb Abdulla - Simulation of the Future LSST Data Pipeline
9:45 O8.4 Greg Schwarz - Linking and tagging initiatives at the Astrophysical Journal
10:00 O8.5 William Joye - Development of SAOImage DS9: Lessons learned from a small but successful software project
10:15 - 11:15 Break for snacks in Justine
11:15 - 12:15 Session: Detection Algorthms
11:15 O9.1 Emmanuel Bertin - SExtractor, ten years after
11:45 O9.2 Alexander Gray - Fast Algorithms for Massive-Scale Classification Problems: Toward 1 Million Quasars
12:00 O9.3 Alvaro Soto - Detection of Rare Objects in Massive Astrophysical Datasets Using Innovative Knowledge Discovery Technology
12:15 - 13:45 Break for lunch
14:15 - 16:00 Session: More Algorithms
14:15 O10.1 David Van Dyk - Model-Based Count-Limited Image Restoration
14:45 O10.2 L. Michel - SAADA: Astronomical Databases Made Easy
15:00 O10.3 David Makovoz - Mosaicking with MOPEX
15:15 O10.4 Tim Cornwell - W projection: a new algorithm for wide field imaging with radio synthesis arrays
15:30 O10.5 Eric Sessoms - Hardware Acceleration for Astronomical Data Analysis
15:45 Final Remarks

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