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Location: All sessions take place at Norris University Center (1999 Campus Drive). View Hot-Wired VI Map.
Time: All events are scheduled in Central Daylight Time, the local timezone.
Printable Schedule: PDF.
Livestreaming: BlueJeans Livestream Link Disabled. The meeting is not being recorded, but we are attempting a “do-it-yourself” livestream. Please be patient, as the set-up is simply an iPad in the meeting room. Thank you.
Food: Apart from Tuesday’s optional banquet dinner, all meals are independent (i.e., not provided at the meeting).
- Refreshments will be provided in the mornings, and at breaks. (Beverages: coffee, tea, water. Snacks: coffee cake or bagels, fruit in the morning; cookies & dessert bars in the afternoon.)
- Participants are encouraged to enjoy meals in groups. See recommended on- and off-campus dining options on the Lodging & Dining page.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2019
8:00 PM Informal Welcome Gathering
Evanston Pub (1601 Sherman Avenue)
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2019
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Participant Check-in |
| 9:30 – 9:40 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern): Time-domain Eco System & Structure of the Conference | |
| Session 1 | Lessons Learned from Past & Current Surveys |
| Chair: Candice Stauffer (Northwestern) | |
| 9:40 – 10:10 AM | Maria Drout (U. of Toronto): Time Domain Astro in the 2020s |
| 10:10 – 10:25 AM | SLIDES Sara Webb (Swinburne University of Technology): Science with DWF: The Second to Minute Transient Universe |
| 10:25 – 10:40 AM | Regis Cartier (CTIO/NOAO): The NIR ULTRA-VISTA SN survey |
| 10:40 – 10:55 AM | SLIDES Matthew Lehner (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics): Status of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) |
| 10:55 – 11:15 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:15 – 11:55 AM | Panel: Lessons Learned from Past & Current surveys: PanSTARRS, ZTF, ASASSN, DLT-40, ASASSN, DWF Moderator: Sara Webb (Swinburne University of Technology) Ryan Chornock (Ohio U.), Maria Drout (U. of Toronto), Christoffer Fremling (Caltech), Dave Sand (U. of Arizona), Benjamin Shappee (U. of Hawaii) |
| Session 2 | The Future with LSST |
| Chair: David Matthews (Northwestern) | |
| 11:55 – 12:15 PM | SLIDES Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory): The Future: Transient Science Enabled by LSST |
| 12:15 – 12:35 PM | SLIDES Melissa Graham (LSST & U. of Washington): The Future: LSST (Data Products) |
| 12:35 – 2:05 PM | LUNCH BREAK (independent) |
| Session 3 | Alert Packet Tools |
| Chair: Lindsay DeMarchi (Northwestern) | |
| 2:05 – 2:25 PM | SLIDES Eric Bellm (U. of Washington): The Future: LSST (Alert Distribution and Filtering) |
| 2:25 – 2:45 PM | SLIDES David Collom (Las Cumbres Observatory): Demo Session on MARS |
| 2:45 – 3:00 PM | SLIDES Scott Barthelmy (Las Cumbres Observatory): The Time-domain Astronomy Coordinate Hub (TACH) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 PM | SLIDES Emily Petroff (University of Amsterdam Astronomical Institute): A VOEvent Standard for Fast Radio Bursts and its Applications |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Michael Briggs (U. of Alabama): Real-Time Alerts from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor |
| 3:30 – 3:50 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session 4 | Brokers (Part 1) |
| Chair: Giacomo Terreran (Northwestern) | |
| 3:50 – 4:30 PM | SLIDES Monika Soraisam (NOAO): Talk and Demo Session on ANTARES |
| 4:30 – 5:10 PM | SLIDES Matt Nicholl (U. of Edinburgh): Talk and Demo session on LASAIR |
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2019
| Session 1 | Brokers (Part 2) |
| Chair: Dan Milisavljevic (Purdue) | |
| 9:00 – 9:40 AM | SLIDES *Ernesto Castillo (CMM/MAS): Talk and Demo Session on ALeRCE |
| 9:40 – 9:55 AM | SLIDES *Meg Schwamb (Queen’s University Belfast): The LSST-MPC Connection |
| 9:55 – 10:35 AM | SLIDES Rob Seaman (Catalina Sky Survey): NEOfixer and the Catalina Sky Survey: a Broker for Near Earth Asteroids |
| 10:35 – 10:55 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:55 – 11:25 AM | Round Table: Brokers Moderator: Wen-fai Fong (Northwestern) Kate Alexander (Northwestern), Edo Berger (Harvard), Baptiste Cecconi (Observatoire de Paris), Phil Cowperthwaite (Carnegie Observatories) |
| Session 2 | Open Data Access |
| Chair: Genevieve Schroeder (Northwestern) | |
| 11:25 – 11:40 AM | SLIDES Peter Williams (Center for Astrophysics: Harvard & Smithsonian and American Astronomical Society): The WorldWide Telescope |
| 11:40 – 12:30 PM | Talks and Demo on LCO TOM (20 + 15 + 15 minutes) SLIDES Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory): The Astrophysical Events Observatory Network (AEON): science use-cases SLIDES Tim Lister (Las Cumbres Observatory): Target and Observation Manager (TOM) Systems for Solar System Science SLIDES Jamison Burke (UC Santa Barbara/Las Cumbres Observatory): Using the TOM Toolkit to Rebuild the Supernova Exchange |
| 12:30 – 2:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK (independent) |
| Session 3 | Follow-up Resources Part 1 (spectroscopic + multi-wave) |
| Chair: Wynn Jacobson-Galan (Northwestern) | |
| 2:00 – 2:20 PM | SLIDES Ryan Chornock (Ohio U.): Spectroscopic Follow-up |
| 2:20 – 2:40 PM | SLIDES Kate Alexander (Northwestern): Radio Breakthroughs: A New Window on the Transient Sky |
| 2:40 – 3:00 PM | SLIDES Bryan Miller (Gemini Observatory): Gemini in AEON |
| 3:00 – 3:15 PM | SLIDES Cesar Briceno (SOAR/CTIO): The SOAR Telescope in the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON) |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | SLIDES Stephen Ridgway (NOAO): Challenges of Telescope Allocation in Time-domain Astronomy |
| 3:30 – 3:50 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair: David Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory) | |
| 3:50 – 4:10 PM | SLIDES Lou Strolger (Space Telescope Science Institute): Policies and Machine-learning Processes which Reduce Bias in the Allocation of Follow-up Resources |
| 4:10 – 4:25 PM | SLIDES Daniel Bramich (NYUAD): X-ray Binary New Early Warning System (XB-NEWS) |
| 4:25 – 4:40 PM | SLIDES Brenna Mockler (UC Santa Cruz): An Energy Inventory of Tidal Disruption Events |
| 4:40 – 5:30 PM | Panel: Spectroscopic and Multi-wavelength Follow-up in the Era of Thousands of Alerts per Night Moderator: W. Neil Brandt (Penn State) Deanne Coppejans (Northwestern), Denis Leahy (U. of Calgary), Jeonghee Rho (SETI Institute), Giacomo Terreran (Northwestern), Aaron Tohuvavohu (Penn State), Nikolaus Volgenau (Las Cumbres Observatory) |
| *Remote Presentation | |
| 7:00 PM | Banquet Dinner (optional) The Stained Glass (1735 Benson Ave.) |
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019
| Session 1 | Follow-up Resources Part 2 (spectroscopic + multi-wave) |
| Chair: Deanne Coppejans (Northwestern) | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 AM | Tyler Pritchard (NYU): Extreme Broad-lined Type Ic SNe: Understanding SNe in the Fast Transient Regime |
| 9:15 – 9:30 AM | SLIDES Yuhan Yao (Caltech): Supernova Experiments Conducted by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) |
| 9:30 – 9:45 AM | Wynn Jacobson-Galán (Northwestern): Constraining Type Iax Progenitor Scenarios Through the Detection of Spectroscopic Helium |
| 9:45 – 10:00 AM | |
| Session 2 | Multi-messenger Astrophysics |
| Chair: Aprajita Hajela (Northwestern) | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | SLIDES Christopher Berry (Northwestern): Multi-messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves |
| 10:30 – 10:45 AM | SLIDES Kerry Paterson (Northwestern): SAGUARO: Searching the Optical Sky for Gravitational Waves |
| 10:45 – 11:05 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:05 – 11:35 AM | Anna Franckowiak (DESY): Multi-messenger Astronomy with Neutrinos |
| 11:35 – 11:55 AM | SLIDES Derek Fox (Penn State): The AMON Network |
| 11:55 – 12:15 PM | SLIDES Surabhi Sachdev (Penn State): Early Warning Detection of Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Coalescences |
| 12:15 – 12:30 PM | SLIDES Andy Howell (Las Cumbres Observatory / UCSB): SCiMMA – Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Multi-Messenger Astronomy |
| 12:30 – 2:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK (independent) |
| Session 3 | Algorithms, Machine Learning, Astroinformatics (Part 1) |
| Chair: Niharika Sravan (Purdue) | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM | SLIDES Adam Miller (Northwestern): Machine Learning: the Answer to the LSST Time-Domain Classification Problem? |
| 2:30 – 2:50 PM | SLIDES Daniel Muthukrishna (U. of Cambridge): RAPID: Early Classification of Explosive Transients using Deep Learning |
| 2:50 – 3:05 PM | SLIDES Sebastian Gomez (Harvard): Searching for Superluminous Supernovae in Transient Alert Streams |
| 3:05 – 3:20 PM | SLIDES Liam Connor (U. of Amsterdam): Applying Deep Learning to Real-time FRB Classification on ALERT |
| 3:20 – 3:40 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Chair: Anya Nugent (Northwestern) | |
| 3:40 – 3:55 PM | SLIDES Ninah Hernitschek (Caltech): Machine-Learning Strategies for Variable Source Classification |
| 3:55 – 4:10 PM | SLIDES Johannes Marais (U. of the Free): Machine Learning Techniques to Classify Transients in the LSST era: a Proof-of-Concept using MeerLICHT |
| 4:10 – 7:30 PM | DINNER BREAK (independent) |
| 7:30 – 8:30 PM | Public Lecture, McCormick Auditorium Andrew J. Connolly (U. of Washington): Streaming the Universe |
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2019
| Session 1 | Algorithms, Machine Learning, Astroinformatics (Part 2) |
| Chair: Adam Miller (Northwestern) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | SLIDES Antonella Palmese (Fermilab): Time Domain Science with DESI |
| 9:30 – 9:50 AM | Ashley Villar (Harvard): Light-curve Classification Efforts |
| 9:50 – 10:10 AM | Adriano Baldeschi (Northwestern): Classifying Transients from their Environments |
| 10:10 – 10:25 AM | V. Zach Golkhou (U. of Washington): GenESIS: A Framework for Time-domain Analysis |
| 10:25 – 10:45 AM | COFFEE BREAK |
| Session 2 | Algorithms, Machine Learning, Astroinformatics (Part 3) |
| Chair: Kerry Paterson (Northwestern) | |
| 10:45 – 11:05 AM | SLIDES Griffin Hosseinzadeh (Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian): 3000 Photometrically Classified Transients from the Pan-STARRS Medium Deep Survey |
| 11:05 – 11:20 AM | SLIDES Lucy Fortson (U. of Minnesota): Supporting Transient Surveys with Citizen Science |
| 11:20 -11:35 AM | SLIDES Adam McMaster (Zooniverse, U. of Oxford): Building the Zooniverse into Your Pipeline |
| 11:35 – 11:50 AM | SLIDES David Grant (U. of Oxford): Global Jet Watch: a Network of Ttelescopes for Time-lapse Spectroscopy |
| 11:50 – 12:00 PM | Concluding Remarks |
| 12:00 – 12:05 PM | GROUP PHOTO |
| 12:05 – 2:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK (independent) |
| 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Hack Session (optional) Hands-On TOM Toolkit Set-up and Customization Workshop Session Leader: David Collom (Las Cumbres Observatory) |
| 2:00 PM | Bus Departs Evanston and Travels to Downtown Chicago Departs from: 40 Arts Circle Drive (Block Museum, just south of meeting venue) Arrives to: 112 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago |
| 3:30 – 5:00 PM | Architecture Boat Tour (optional) |
| 5:00 – 8:30 PM | DINNER BREAK IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO (independent) |
| 8:30 PM | Bus Returns from Downtown Chicago to Evanston Departs from: 112 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago Arrives to: Orrington Hotel, 1710 Orrington Avenue |
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019
| 9:00 AM – Noon | Hack Session (optional) Observing Queues Session Organizers: Bob Goodrich (GMTO) and Jay Elias (SOAR/NOAO) |