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June 15

• 5:00 - 7:00 PM Opening reception, registration

• 8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and posters
• 9:10 - 10:30 VO: the first decade and beyond [Chair: G. Fabbiano] [talks 15+5 min each]
  • US VO effort: status and plans [R. Hanisch]
  • European VO efforts and IVOA: status and plans [F. Pasian]
  • Examples of forthcoming major projects: LSST [S. Krughoff]
  • Examples of forthcoming major projects: SKA [R. Norris]
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and posters
• 11:00 - 12:30 The Fourth Paradigm and X-Informatics [Chair: T. Lanz]
  • VO roles in the future Chinese astronomical projects [A. Luo] [15 min]
  • Keynote talk: The Fourth Paradigm and X-Informatics [T. Hey] [45 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [T. Hey, G. Longo, G. Djorgovski] [30 min]
• 12:30 - 1:30 Catered Lunch
• 1:30 - 3:00 Trends in high performance computing [Chair: J. Bloom]
  • Challenges in Exascale Computing [P. Kogge] [40 min]
  • A Data to Discovery Engine [M. Stalzer] [20 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [M. Stalzer, P.Kogge, F. Pasian] [30 min]
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee and posters
• 3:30 - 5:00 Datacentric computing [Chair: T. Budavari]
  • Culture Clashes in Data Sharing [S. Traweek] [20 min]
  • Towards Astronomy With Petabytes [A. Szalay & A. Thakar] [40 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [A. Thakar, A. Szalay, T. Budavari] [30 min]
• Conference dinner
  • 6:00 - 6:30 Cocktails
  • 6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

• 8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and posters
• 9:00 - 10:30 Knowledge discovery and extraction [Chair: R. D'Abrusco]
  • Three Recent Results in Astrostatistics [A. Gray] [30 min]
  • New Opportunities in Petascale Astronomy [R. Brunner & N. Ball] [30 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [A. Mahabal, A. Gray, K. Wagstaff] [30 min]
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and posters
• 11:00 - 12:30 Visualization and Immersive VR [Chair: C. Donalek]
  • Collabortive Visualizations in virtual environments [M. Bowman] [30 min]
  • Discussion [15 min]
  • Visualization of highly complex data sets [S. Lombeyda] [30 min]
  • Discussion [15 min]
• 12:30 - 1:30 Catered Lunch
• 1:30 - 3:00 New science with Astroinformatics and Virtual Observatory [Chair: R. Hanisch]
  • A view from the outside [D. Hogg] [30 min]
  • A view from the VO perspective [D. De Young] [30 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [G. Fabbiano, D. Hogg, D. De Young] [30 min]
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee and posters
• 3:30 - 5:00 Collaborative environments and tools [Chair: T. Hey]
  • An overview: Social networking, Web 2.0, and telepresence tools [O. Laurino] [20 min]
  • Practical Uses of Virtual Worlds [C. White] [20 min]
  • Virtual worlds as a scientific/scholarly platform [G. Djorgovski] [20 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [G. Longo, O. Laurino, G. Djorgovski, C. White] [30 min]

• 8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and posters
• 9:00 - 10:30 Crowdsourcing and citizen science [Chair: F. Ochsenbein]
  • An overview: Zooniverse and beyond [L. Fortson] [30 min]
  • Astronomy on the carbon-silicon interface [M. Graham] [20 min]
  • Additional perspectives on citizen science [K. Borne] [10 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [L. Fortson, K. Borne, M. Graham] [30 min]
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and posters
• 11:00 - 12:30 Novel methods of publishing, knowledge preservation and dissemination [Chair: D. Schade]
  • Next Steps for Enhancing Scientific Discovery from the Astrophysics Literature [J. Mazzarella] [20 min]
  • Experiences from the SIMBAD Annotation Service [S. Derriere] [20 min]
  • The Role of Repositories and Journals in the Astronomy Research Lifecycle [A. Accomazzi] [20 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [J.Mazzarella, S. Derriere, A. Accomazzi] [30 min]
    • peer review
    • professional credit
    • new modalities: data archives, simulations, archives, codes, wikis, blogs, etc.
    • electronic lab books on line, documenting the full research process
    • the role(s) of scholarly/university libraries
• 12:30 - 1:30 Catered Lunch
• 1:30 - 3:00 New methodologies for education and public outreach [Chair: B. Berriman]
  • Crowdsourcing science communication [S. Kendrew] [20 min]
  • Futility Tweets and Finding the Right Image [G. Squires] [20 min]
  • Outreach is about Access [A. Muench] [20 min]
  • Panel-led discussion: S. Kendrew, A. Muench, G. Squires] [30 min]
• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee and posters
• 3:30 - 4:30 Developing the next generation of AstroInfo-empowered scientists [Chair: T. Murphy]
  • Building a Better Scientist [Y. Xu] [30 min]
  • Panel-led discussion [Y. Xu, K. Borne, G. Longo] [30 min]
    • Training (comp/dataint science curricula)
    • Building the new profession (career paths, recognition)
• 4:30 - 5:00 Recap: what's next? [Chairs: G. Djorgovski, G. Longo]
  • Open discussion [30 min]