Conference Programme

Wednesday 9th of October 2019

Session 7a. Telescope operations and scheduling: from classical to autonomous

Start Time: 09:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

09:00 - 09:30
Invited talk (I7.1)
Josep Colomé
STARS: Telescope and space mission scheduling towards a multi-observatory framework
09:30 - 09:45
Oral Contribution (O7.2)
Roberto Pizzo
LOFAR: challenges and solutions to operate the World's largest radio telescope
09:45 - 10:00
Oral Contribution (O7.3)
Vanessa Moss
Preparing for the next generation of radio observatory operations

Session 7b. Telescope operations and scheduling: from classical to autonomous

Start Time: 11:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

11:00 - 11:15
Oral Contribution (O7.4)
Benjamin Winkel
Starlink, OneWeb and 5G - A new dark age for radio astronomy?
11:15 - 11:30
Oral Contribution (O7.5)
Matthias Schartner
Presentation of a new VLBI scheduling software VieSched++
11:30 - 11:45
Oral Contribution (O7.6)
Eva Sciacca
Big Data Architectures for Logging and Monitoring Large Scale Telescope Arrays
11:45 - 12:00
Oral Contribution (O7.7)
Luisa Arrabito
A DIRAC based prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array data management, processing and simulations

Lightning Session 3

Start Time: 12:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Pascal Ballester

12:00 - 12:03
L.11
François Bonnarel
(P2.6) Implementation feedback of the IVOA Provenance data model
12:03 - 12:06
L.12
Sander ter Veen
(P8.13) Calibration of a phased array using holography: the LOFAR case.
12:06 - 12:09
L.13
Pablo Gutiérrez-Marqués
(P8.17) Operability vs optimization in automated telescopes. Lessons learnt from robotic space exploration.
12:09 - 12:12
L.14
Karan Vahi
(P10.39) Gearing the DECam Analysis Pipeline for Multi-Messenger Astronomy using Pegasus Workflows
12:12 - 12:15
L.15
Gyula I. G. Jozsa
(P10.40) MeerKATHI - an end-to-end data reduction pipeline for MeerKAT and other radio telescopes
12:15 - 13:45
Lunch break

Session 8. Open data access and provisioning

Start Time: 13:45 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Jessica Mink

13:45 - 14:15
Invited talk (I8.1)
Juan Gonzalez-Nunez
Maximising data reach: bringing the Gaia dataset to the world
14:15 - 14:30
Oral Contribution (O8.2)
Anastasia Galkin
Daiquiri - Python based framework for the publication of scientific databases
14:30 - 14:45
Oral Contribution (O8.3)
Anne-Marie Weijmans
Streamlining the Sloan Digital Sky Survey public data releases: changes made and lessons learned
14:45 - 15:00
Oral Contribution (O8.4)
Javier Hernández Fuertes
Implementing, with Python and PostgreSQL, Virtual Observatory services for publishing survey data from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre

Session 9. Data processing pipelines

Start Time: 16:00 | Room: Plenary Theatre | Chair: Stephen Gwyn

16:00 - 16:30
Invited talk (I9.1)
Eleonora Alei
Exo-MerCat: a merged exoplanet catalog with Virtual Observatory connection
16:30 - 16:45
Oral Contribution (O9.2)
Steven Crawford
Science Platforms for the reduction and analysis of data for the James Webb Space Telescope
16:45 - 17:00
Oral Contribution (O9.3)
Gijs Molenaar
Easy to deploy and easy to modify data reduction pipelines using KERN and CWL
17:00 - 17:15
Oral Contribution (O9.4)
Mateusz Malenta
Accelerating Radio Astronomy With High Performance Computing
17:15 - 17:30
Oral Contribution (O9.5)
Emmanuel Bertin
The SExtractor++ software

Birds of a Feather (B.7)

Start Time: 17:35 | Room: Plenary Theatre

17:35 - 18:35
Simon O'Toole
Building Balanced Teams