2nd HTN Programme

Table of contents

1 Sunday (downtown) 2 Monday (Institut für Astrophysik) 3 Tuesday (Institut für Astrophysik) 4 Wednesday (Institut für Astrophysik)

Sunday (downtown)

• 18:00 - 21:00 : Informal gathering at the Ratskeller Restaurant on the west side of the market at the center of the old city. We have reserved a block of outside seats looking at the Gänseliesel statue right in front of the old town hall, but you pay for your dinner. The Ratskeller is a good place to have classic German cuisine or just enjoy a tall glass of Weizenbier. If it's cold and wet outside, we'll meet inside in the cellar of the old town hall.

Monday (Institut für Astrophysik)

• 8:00 - 9:00 : Registration
• 9:00 - 9:30 : Summary of 1st HTN Workshop ("Whence") : Allan & White
• 9:30 - 10:40 : Seventeen 4-minute self-introductions by each of the partcipating projects/institutions/companies ("Who") : eSTAR/Exeter, EUDOXOS, GAVO/Garching, Los Cumbres/Santa Barbara, LT/Liverpool, MONET/Göttingen, 4PI GmbH/Sonneberg, Raptor/Los Alamos, Robonet/Liverpool, Skynet/Chapel Hill, STELLA/Potsdam, Teleskoptechnik Halfmann, Telescop Technologies Ltd., Tuparev Technologies Inc., Wendelstein/Munich, Würzburg
• 10:40 - 11:00 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace
• 11:00 - 12:30 : Protocol Talks ("How")
  • "HTN Protocol", Allan
  • "RTML Protocol", Hessman
  • "VOEvent Protocol", White
• 12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch at the University Cafeteria ("Mensa")
• 13:30 - 15:00 : Science Talks I ("Why", 20 minutes each)
  • "First robotic nights with the spectroscopic STELLA-I telescope", Granzer
  • "GRB's via HTN?", Mottram
  • "The Whole Earth Telescope Experience", Schuh
  • N.N. (up for grabs)
• 15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace
• 15:30 - 17:30 : Discussion
• 17:30 - 19:00 : Refreshments & Posters
• 19:00 - 24:00 : Grill party, volleyball game, and a showing of the independent astro-thriller "The Krone Experiment" based on a novel by our colleague J. C. Wheeler (Univ. Texas) (weather-dependent, may be moved to Tuesday)

Tuesday (Institut für Astrophysik)

• 9:00 - 10:30 : Technical Talks ("How", 20 minutes each)
  • "Web Services RTML transport - a Java Implementation", Clay
  • "Remote Telescope Markup Language Examples", Hessman
  • "LCOGT.NET", Rees
  • "Design & Implementation of a Software Package to Control a Network of Robotic Observatories, Tuparev
• 10:30 - 10:50 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace
• 10:50 - 12:20 : Networking Talks ("What", 20 minutes each)
  • "eSTAR: Distributed peer-to-peer scheduling of an HTN", Allan
  • "Skynet: Dynamic, per Exposure, Scheduling", Crain
  • "Scheduling Individual Telescopes within a HTN", Fraser
  • "Using the Computational Markets Toolkit to Prototype a Telescope Economy", Steele
• 12:20 - 13:30 : Sandwiches and drinks in the library or on the terrace
• 13:30 - 15:00 : Science Talks II ("Why", 20 minutes, each)
  • "The German VO and the HTN", Voges
  • "An autonomous agent for variable star surveys", Saunders
  • "The science of Thinking Telescope Project and the HTN: Moving from the past to the future", White
  • N.N. (up for grabs)
• 15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace
• 15:30 - 17:30 : Panel Discussion, "The Sociology of Telescopic Resource-Sharing"
• 17:30 - 19:00 : Bier, Bretzeln & Posters
• 19:00 - 20:00 : A Carl Friedrich Gauss Walking Tour (grave, Observatory)
• Dinner downtown at the participants' leisure

Wednesday (Institut für Astrophysik)

• 9:00 - 10:30 : Concrete Networking Plans ("Who"+"What"+"When")
• 10:30 - 10:50 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace
• 10:50 - 12:30 : Concrete Networking Plans (continued)
• 12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch at the University Cafeteria
• 13:30 - 15:00 : Final Discussion / Wrap Up
• 15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee & Tea on the Terrace

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