Detailed Program

 
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Conference Program and Abstracts
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Registration Times
 

Saturday, October 2nd
3:00pm - 6:00pm Kohala Ballroom Promenade
Sunday, October 3rd
7:00am - 6:00pm Kohala Ballroom Promenade
Monday, October 4th
7:30am - 4:30pm Kohala Ballroom Promenade
Tuesday, October 5th
7:30am - 3:00pm Kohala Ballroom Promenade


ADASS 99 Conference Schedule

ADASS 99 Conference Week-at-a-Glance
Sunday
3 Oct		 Monday
4 Oct		 Tuesday
5 Oct		 Wednesday
6 Oct
Tour of CFHT Observatory (8:00 to mid-afternoon) Oral Session 1: Sky Surveys (8:20 to 10:00) Oral Session 4: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:30 to 10:00) Oral Session 7: Scripting Languages & Software Methodologies (8:30 to 10:00)
Tutorial 1: Software Process Improvement (1 PM to 4 PM) Oral Session 2: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (11:15 to 12:30) Oral Session 5: Software Development Methodologies (11:15 to 12:30) Oral Session 8: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (11:00 to 12:30)
Oral Session 3: Scripting Languages (2:00 PM to 3:30 PM) Oral Session 6: General Data Analysis (2:00 PM to 3:30 PM) Oral Session 9: Distributed Data Systems & Services (2:00 PM to 4:00 PM)
Tutorial 2: SEL Recommended Approach to Effective Software Engineering
(1 PM to 4 PM) 		BoF Session 1:
(4:15 PM to 6:00 PM)
Python (P. Barrett)
Linux (M. Fitzpatrick)
RT-Linux (P. Daly) 		BoF Session 3:
(4:30 PM to 5:45 PM)
AIPS++ (T. Cornwell)
IRAF (G. Jacoby)
 
Display Session 1 Display Session 2 Display Session 3
Demos
Conference Reception
6 PM to 7:30 PM 		BoF Session 2:
(7:30 PM to 8:45 PM)
FITS (D. Wells)
JSky (M. Albrecht)
Conference Banquet
7pm to 10 PM
Sunday
3 Oct		 Monday
4 Oct		 Tuesday
5 Oct		 Wednesday
6 Oct

Saturday, 2 October

Registration (3:00PM to 6:00PM)
Early Conference Check-in at Kohala Ballroom Promenade

 

Sunday, 3 October

Registration (7:00AM to 6:00PM)
Conference Check-in at Kohala Ballroom Promenade
Mauna Kea Observatories Tour (8:00AM to approx. 4:00PM)
Departure from Group Tour Lobby; access from Hotel Main Lobby
Tutorials (1:00PM to 4:00PM)
1:00PM Tutorial 1: Software Process Improvement - (King's Room 1) A. Parra
1:00PM Tutorial 2: SEL Recommended Approach to Effective Software Engineering - (King's Room 2) G. Abshire
Conference Reception (6:00PM to 7:30PM)
Lagoon Lanai , Hilton Waikoloa Hotel

Monday, 4 October

Registration (7:00AM to 4:30PM)
Conference Check-in at Kohala Ballroom Promenade
Session 1: Sky Surveys (8:20am to 10:30am)
General Sessions will be held in the Kohala Ballrooms 1&2
8:20am Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30am The Hubble Deep Fields (Invited) (H. Ferguson)
9:00am The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Invited) (A. Szalay)
9:30am The Indexing of the SDSS Science Archive (P. Kunszt)
9:45am Rapid Cross-Identifications of Large Astronomical Catalogs (J. Ma)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00am to 11:15am)
Display Sessions and Demos will be located in the Kohala Ballrooms 3&4
Session 2: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (11:15am to 12:30PM)
11:15am The Next Generation Space Telescope (Invited) (E. Smith)
11:45am Queue Scheduling at the JCMT: The Real-Life Experience (Invited) (R. Tilanus)
12:15PM ORAC: 21st Century Observing at UKIRT (A. Bridger)
Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30PM to 2:00PM)
Session 3: Scripting Languages (2:00PM to 3:30PM)
2:00PM Tcl/Tk - Welcome to the Integration Age (Invited) (M. McLennan)
2:30PM Scientific Computing with Python (Invited) (D. Beazley)
3:00PM A New CL for IRAF Based on Python (P. Greenfield)
3:15PM SAOTk and TclXPA: Tk/Tcl Extensions for Astronomy (W. Joye)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:30PM to 4:15PM)
BoF Session 1 (4:15PM to 6:00PM)
4:15PM Python in Astronomy? (ends at 5:30) - (King's Room 1) (P. Barrett)
Linux in Astronomy- (King's Room 2) (M. Fitzpatrick)
5:15PM Real-Time Linux - the RTOS for Astronomy? - (King's Room 3) (P. Daly)
Dinner Break (6:00PM to 7:15PM)
BoF Session 2 (7:30PM to 8:45PM)
7:30PM FITS - (King's Room 1) (D. Wells)
Building a Repository of Reusable Java Components for Astronomy (JSky) - (Kohala Ballroom 1&2) (M. Albrecht)

Tuesday, 5 October

Session 4: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (8:30am to 10:00am)
General Sessions will be held in the Kohala Ballrooms 1&2
8:30am Reduction of Adaptive Optics Images (Invited) (J.-P. Veran)
9:00am The Green Bank Telescope Active Optics (Invited) (D. Wells)
9:30am A User-Friendly Way to Optimize Adaptive Optics: NAOS Preparation Software (S. Marteau)
9:45am ComPASS: A common framework for streamlining multi-level planning systems from scientist to observatory/spacecraft (T. Brooks)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00am to 11:15am)
Display Sessions and Demos will be located in the Kohala Ballrooms 3&4
Session 5: Software Development Methodologies (11:15am to 12:30PM)
11:15am Managing the Software Development Process (Invited) (A. Parra)
11:45am A New Paradigm for User Support and Software Tools (G. Miller)
12:15PM Distributed Development for the XMM Science Analysis System: Languages, Procedures, and Interfaces (G. Vacanti)
Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30PM to 2:00PM)
Session 6: General Data Analysis (2:00PM to 3:30PM)
2:00PM Object Classification as a Data Analysis Tool (Invited) (R. White)
2:30PM Straight Talk on Dithering, Sampling, and Image Reconstruction (Invited) (R. Hook)
3:00PM Time Critical Analysis by Image Subtraction (I. Bond)
3:15PM Chasing Asteroids in Near-Real Time on Wide-Field CCD Images at CFHT (C. Veillet)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (3:30PM to 4:30PM)
BoF Session 3 (4:30PM to 5:45PM)
4:30PM AIPS++ - (King's Room 1) (T. Cornwell)
IRAF - (King's Room 2) (G. Jacoby)
Conference Banquet (7:00PM to 10:00PM)
Water's Edge Restaurant, Hilton Waikoloa Hotel

Wednesday, 6 October

Session 7: Scripting Languages/Software Methodologies (8:30am to 10:00am)
General Sessions will be held in the Kohala Ballrooms 1&2
8:30am Event Driven Programming with Glish (Invited) (D. Schiebel)
9:00am JSky: Building a Library of Reusable Java Components for Astronomy (M. Albrecht)
9:15am Infrared Science Archive - Client Java Toolkit (J. Good)
9:30am The Aladin Java Applet Experience (P. Fernique)
9:45am Using a Data-Driven Model for Instrument Development (D. Clarke)
Coffee Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (10:00 am to 11:00 am)
Display Sessions and Demos will be located in the Kohala Ballrooms 3&4
Session 8: Enabling Technologies for Astronomy (11:00 am to 12:30 PM)
11:00am Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory AST/RO (Invited) (A. Lane)
11:30am The Keck Telescope Control System (Invited) (W. Lupton)
12:00PM Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control (L. Koons)
12:15PM SIRTF Science Operations System Design (W. Green)
Lunch Break, Display Session & Demo Viewing (12:30 PM to 2:00 PM)
Session 9: Distributed Data Systems & Services (2:00 PM to 4:00 PM)
2:00PM Distributed Data Systems and Services in Astronomy and the Space Sciences (Invited) (R. Hanisch)
2:30PM Data Mining at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (P. Dowler)
2:45PM NPACI Digital Sky: A Technology Demonstration (T. Handley)
3:00PM Using XML for Accessing Resources in Astronomy (F. Ochsenbein)
3:15PM XML at the ADC: Steps to a Next Generation Data Repository (E. Shaya)
3:30PM Simbad as a Test Bed for Two Object Database Management Systems: Objectivity/DB and O2 (M. Wenger)
3:45PM Closing Remarks  
Display/Demo Breakdown (4:00 PM)
 


Thursday, 7 October 

(additional to regular conference days)
All day - Visit To The Maui High Performance Computing Center and Maui Space Surveillance Site
8:00am - approx. 4:00pm - Tour Of The Mauna Kea Observatories- Departure from Group Tour Lobby; access from Hotel Main Lobby