| Monday, February 28 | ||
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| 14:00 - 19:00 | Registration | |
17:00 - 19:00 | Reception |
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| Tuesday, March 1 | ||
| 7:00 - 17:00 | Registration | |
9:00 | Welcome |
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9:15 | History |
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| 9:15 | Genet - History of robotic and remotely operated telescopes - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 9:45 | Seaman - 3 things your robot should know - Abstract - Presentation | |
10:15 | Education |
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| 10:15 | Mclin - Using robotic telescopes to teach STEM skills: Undergraduate and high school students - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 10:35 | Coffee and poster session | |
11:05 | Remote Operations - 1 |
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| 11:05 | Veillet - Why to stay away from your telescope at night? - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 11:25 | Moody - The Remote Observatory for Variable Object Research (ROVOR) - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 11:45 | Springer - The Willard L. Eccles Observatory: Commissioning and development of remote operation capabilities - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 12:05 | Aspin - The Uh88, full remote operations of a Mauna Kea telescope - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 12:25 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Remote Operations - 2 |
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| 14:00 | Gajadhar - Retrofitting the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope for remote operations - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 14:30 | Kerr - Switching the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope to remote operations - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 14:50 | Bakos - Global networks of small telescopes: HATNet and HATSouth - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 15:10 | Coffee and poster session | |
15:40 | Remote Operations - 3 |
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| 15:40 | Oram - Remote operations of laser guide star systems: Gemini Observatory - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 16:00 | Riddle - Robo-AO: The first autonomous laser guide star adaptive optics system for 1 to 3 meter telescopes - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 16:20 | Discussion: The challenges of moving existing facilities to remote operations | |
| 17:10 | End of session | |
| Wednesday, March 2 | ||
8:30 | Remote Observations |
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| 8:30 | Manset - Remote queued service observing at Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope- Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 8:50 | Kibrick - Operating a wide-area high-availability collaborative remote observing system for classically-scheduled observations- Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 9:20 | Wirth - More bang for the buck: Lessons learned from remote observing at the W. M. Keck Observatory- Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 9:40 | Zhu - Remote observing with the FAST telescope- Abstract - Presentation | |
| 10:00 | Coffee and poster session | |
10:30 | Robotic Telescopes - 1 |
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| 10:30 | Smith - The Liverpool Telescope - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 11:00 | Guinan - The 1.3m Robotically Controlled Telesocpe (RCT) at Kitt Peak - A fifty year old dream realized: Telescope characteristics, current research, and education program - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 11:20 | Bohlender - Remote and robotic operation of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory 1.2-m Telescope and McKellar Spectrograph - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 11:40 | Buie - Autonomous operations and use of the Lowell Observatory 0.8-m Telescope - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
13:30 | Robotic Telescopes - 2 |
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| 13:30 | Eastman - DEMONEX: The DEdicated MONitor of EXotransits - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 13:50 | Lehner - The TAOS Robotic Occulation Survey - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 14:20 | Hodapp - IRIS - An Infrared Imaging System Dedicated to Monitoring Star-Forming Regions for Variability - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 14:40 | Tonry - ATLAS: An asteroid warning system - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 15:00 | Agol - Finding habitable earths around white dwarfs with a robotic telescope transit survey - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 15:20 | Coffee and conference photo | |
15:50 | Robotic Telescopes - 3 |
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| 15:50 | Guyon - Precision photometry with a low-cost robotic wide field imaging system - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 16:10 | Milone - Infrared photometry for automated telescopes: Passband selection - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 16:30 | Discussion: The challenges of moving from remote to robotic operation | |
| 17:15 | End of session | |
17:30 | Luau | |
| Thursday, March 3 | ||
8:30 | Sensing the Environment |
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| 8:30 | Businger - The Mauna Kea Weather Center: Custom atmospheric forecasting support for Mauna Kea - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 9:00 | Cuillandre - SkyProbe, monitoring the absolute atmospheric transmission in the optical - Abstract | |
| 9:20 | Riddle - The Thirty Meter Telescope robotic site testing system - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 9:40 | Discussion: Is weather a challenge for remote and autonomous operation? | |
| 10:00 | Coffee and poster session | |
10:30 | Telescope Networks |
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| 10:30 | Rosing - We keep you in the dark - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 11:00 | Martinez - LCOGT sites and facilities - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 11:20 | Williams - Sierra Stars Observatory Network: An accessible global network - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 11:40 | Henden - A scientific network of small robotic telescopes - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
13:30 | Software |
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| 13:30 | Kubanek - Building and operating a network of autonous observatories with an open source software - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 14:00 | Little - Telescope control through CelestialGrid -- Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 14:20 | Rosing - The LCOGT software system - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 14:40 | Thanjavur - Artificial intelligence in autonomous telescopes - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 15:00 | Walawendar - Computer infrastructure for the variable young stellar objects survey - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 15:20 | Coffee and poster session | |
15:50 | Data Management and Rapid Response |
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| 15:50 | Comeron - Rapid response to transient events at the VLT - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 16:20 | Roth - Target of opportunity and time critical queue observations at Gemini Observatory - Abstract - Presentation | |
| 16:40 | Jenness - Data managment at the UKIRT and JCMT - Abstract - Presentation - Paper | |
| 17:10 | Discussion: Desinging new facilities with remote or autonomous observations in mind | |
| 17:50 | Conference wrap-up | |
| 18:00 | End of conference | |
| Friday, March 4 | ||
8:30 - 17:00 | Summit tour |
| Author | Title | Abstract |
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| Barrick | Using an ethernet based relay to remotely control lights at CFHT | Abstract |
| Bauman | Remote monitoring of a fire protection system | Abstract |
| Benedict | Converting a liquid nitrogen cooled instrument to remote operation | Abstract |
| Christen | Remote/Robotic Operation of Astro-Physics German Equatorial Mounts | Abstract Poster |
| Denny | A Web-Remote/Robotic/Scheduled Astronomical Data Acquisition System | Abstract Poster |
| Flewelling | PanSTARRS: Remote operations and automated processing for Gigapixel Camera | Abstract |
| Gelderman | The Robitcally Controlled Telescope (RCT): First Five Years of Fully Autonomous Operation | Abstract |
| Gelderman | Flexible Queue Scheduling Capabilities of the 1.3-m RCT: Application to Time Variable Sources | Abstract |
| Gelderman | Autontomous Scheduling of the 1.3-meter Robotically Controlled Telescope (RCT) | Abstract |
| Gelderman | Automation of the 1.3-meter Robotically Controlled Telescope (RCT) | Abstract |
| Gelderman | Narrow-band Imagery with the 1.3-meter Robotically Controlled Telescope (RCT) | Abstract |
| Gelderman | Real World Practical Considerations for Remote and/or Autonomous Robotic Telescopes | Abstract |
| Guinan | RCT photometry of the Hubble Classical Cepheid V19 in M33: Evidence for the Cessation of Pulsations - A Case of Stellar Evolution in Real Time | Abstract |
| Karjalainen | Remote observing at Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes | Abstract |
| Kuroda | The development of an automatic reduction system for Gamma-Ray Burst afterglow | Abstract Paper |
| Lara-Gil | The RTS2 Web Interface | Abstract |
| Lavie-Cambot | Automation of Pic du Midi 2-m Telescope Bernard Lyot | Abstract Poster |
| Look | Remote Control of the CFHT Dome Shutter | Abstract Poster |
| Mack | ACE Observatory Control System - 16 years of remote intercontinental observing | Abstract Poster |
| Manset | Principles of Queued Service Observing at CFHT | Abstract Paper |
| Martioli | CFHT data processing and calibration ESPaDOnS pipeline: Upena and OPERA (optical spectropolarimetry) | Abstract |
| Mclin | Using Telescope Observations to Mentor High School Students in STEM | Abstract Paper |
| Melsheimer | Auto Guiders for Remotely Operated, Automated, or Robotic Telescopes |
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| Melsheimer | Designing New Facilities | Abstract |
| Morrison | ASIVA -- The All-Sky mid-IR imager on Mauna kea | Abstract |
| Pennypaker | Great Times Now and In the Future For Telescopes Afar in Education | Abstract |
| Reed | The Baker Observatory Robotic Autonomous Telescope | Abstract Paper |
| Sebag | Lidar and All-Sky IR Camera Cloud Measurements for LSST Scheduling | Abstract | Sheehan | Gemini Observatory, transition to base facility science operations | Abstract Poster |
| Thanjavur | CFHT data processing and calibration pipeline for WIRCam: Iiwi (near-IR imaging) | Abstract Poster |
Thompson | Searching for Variable Events in High-Cadence Data | Abstract Paper |
| Yerli | A Potential 4+ Class IR Telescope in East Anatolia, Turkey | Abstract Poster |