HOU Conference — June 25-26, 2006

Agenda

Location: University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory

See also Presentation documents.

Monday June 26th

9:00amWelcome and Introduction (Carl Pennypacker)

9:15amState of the Universe, Hands On

• New developments
• Software
• Images

9:30am New Developments in the Telescope and Image Request System with possible reports from

• Carl Pennypacker
• Alan Gould
• Tim Spuck
• Richard Gelderman
• David Barnaby
• Kaoru Kimura?
• Michael Hibbs?

10:00am HST Collaboration (phone conference)— Max Mochler

• Software
• Mac
• Hubble images
• Heritage

10:45am Break

11:00am Software Developments including Web Based tools and

• Client Based Software
• Vivian Hoette
• MIRA
• SalsaJ
• Pennypacker, Gould about Future HOU IP

12:00pm Lunch

1:30pm Sharing strategies for HOU Introductory Workshops (Chelen andKevin)—During this session, any new HOU teachers will learn basic HOU image processing tools and curriculum strategies, various software packages and advantages of each.

• Tracking Moons of Planets
• Orbital Periods, Distances, Speeds, Mass of the Planet
• New images of Saturn and Titan (complete cycle)
• New images of Jupiter and Io
• Supernova Light Curves
• Other Interesting Topics

3:00pm Break

3:15pm HOU Teacher’s Share-a-thon

8:00pmResearch and observing

Tuesday June 27th

9:00am Kepler Mission and Searching for Extrasolar Planets

• Alan Gould - Transit module for Measuring Brightness
• Carl Pennypacker - Eclipsing Binaries

10:00am Break

10:15am HOU Teacher’s Share-a-thon

12:00pm Lunch

1:30pm Student Research: Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the CyberInfrastructure Tools?

3:00pmFinding/Tracking Asteroids and Supernovae

• Tim Spuck
• Harlan DeVore?

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