Robo-AO science workshop
Date: 20 May, 2010Time: Noon-5:00 pm
Location: Caltech, 370 Cahill
Agenda
- 12:20 - Lunch is served
- 12:30 - Introductions
- 12:35 - Welcome - Shri Kulkarni
- 12:45 - Robo-AO: what you need to know (with demo via live link to lab)
- Brief overview of system, capabilities, performance and types of observations - Christoph Baranec
- How an observation will work (software architecture) - Reed Riddle
- Schedule of Robo-AO on sky - Christoph Baranec
- 1:20 - The demo period: what can we do? - Law
- 1:30 - Current science ideas/talks
- Extragalactic
- Lensed quasars - Eran Ofek
- PTF/transients - Mansi Kasliwal
- Other ideas (floor open)
- Extragalactic
- 2:15 - Coffee break
- 2:30 - More science ideas/talks (10 mins per slot inc. questions/comments)
- Planets
- Transit survey follow-up - Tim Morton
- Astrometry (planets) - Nick Law
- Ca H&K transits, spectrograph feeding - John Johnson
- Coronagraphs - Sasha Hinkley
- Discussion
- Stars & Clusters
- Binarity survey - Nick Law
- White dwarf multiplicity - Marten van Kerkwijk
- Astrometry (clusters) - Jessica Lu
- Asteroseismology - Reed Riddle
- Discussion
- General ideas
- Robo-AO + interferometry - Theo Brummelaar
- Planets
- 4:15 - Floor open for free discussion and more ideas
- 5:00 - Robo-AO testbed tour