Proposal Submission Tools Workshop - Programme

Day 1, Monday 4 June 2018
     
08:30 - 09:00     Registration
Session 1 Chair: Andy Biggs Challenges and Solutions: Presentations from Observatories: Requirements and Challenges, Designs, Technologies, A suggested structure and topics to cover will be provided
(DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292793)
09:00 - 09:05
 Leonardo Testi Welcome
09:05 - 09:20 Andy Biggs Workshop Overview and Aims
09:20 - 09:40 Pamela Klaassen
Mark Nicol		 ALMA (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292795)
09:40 - 10:00 Adriaan Renting
Sander ter Veen		 ASTRON (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292797)
10:00 - 10:20  Bruno Khelifi CTA (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292799)
10:20 - 10:40 Break  
10:40 - 11:00 Ferdinando Patat
 ESO (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292801)
11:00 - 11:20 Andrew Stephens Gemini (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292803)
11:20 - 11:40
 Jeremie Boissier IRAM (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292805)
11:40 - 12:00 Tsuyoshi Kobayashi NAOJ (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292807)
12:00 - 13:00 Catered Lunch   
13:00 - 13:20 Snehal Valame
Yogesh Wadadekar		 GMRT (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292809)
13:20 - 13:40 Adam Scott
Verne Smith		 NOAO (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292811)
13:40 - 14:00 Stephan Witz NRAO (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292813)
14:00 - 14:20 Antonio Chrysostomou
Snehal Valame		 SKA (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292815)
Session 2 Chair: Alan Bridger  
14:20 - 15:00  

1. Demos of new tools:

  • ALMA (Joe Barrett)
  • ESO (Thomas Bierwirth)
  • GMRT (Snehal Valame)
  • Gemini (Carlos Quiroz)

2. Discussion - Topics:

  • What commonalities are seen?
  • Proposal preparation versus observing preparation - what are the differences? Common areas?
  • Proposal Management and Review - different from preparation, but perhaps very similar across observatories?
  • Architectures: Desktop or web
  • Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript (and associated frameworks - angular etc),....
  • Future of Java
  • Phone/tablet use?
  • Cloud technologies

 
15:00 - 15:30 Break Workshop group photo
15:30 - 16:30   Discussion and demos (continued)
16:30 - 17:00  Conclusions Suggest detailed topics for breakouts Tuesday afternoon
17:00  End of Day 1  
17:00   Reception Bavarian Bier und Brezen after the End of Day 1
Day 2, Tuesday 5 June , 2018
Session 3    
09:00 - 10:30
 Andy Biggs (policy) and Alan Bridger (technology)

Parallel Breakout Sessions

  • Policy Group (Octans, E.241)
  • Technology Group (Grus, A.2.30)
For some more details please read here
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 12:00   Joint Discussion (Eridanus)
12:00 - 13:00 Catered Lunch
 
Session 4
 Chair: Carlos de Breuck  
13:00 - 13:20 Maurizio Chavan
 Overview on Authentication and Authorisation: Challenges and Opportunities
  • What is A&A?
  • General observatory needs
  • Grouping mechanisms

(DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292817)
13:20 - 14:00 Davide Vaghetti (GARR) Presentation on A&A and Federations
(DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1293385)
14:00 - 15:00   Discussion on A&A, Federating, Grouping Mechanics
15:00 - 15:30 Break  
15:30 - 16:30    Discussion (continued)
16:30 - 17:00   Conclusions
17:00  End of Day 2  
19:00 Workshop Dinner Garchinger Augustiner - Menu Dinner (English / German)
Day 3, Wednesday 6 June , 2018
Session 5 Chair: Erich Schmid  
09:00 - 10:00
 Alan Bridger/Andy Biggs Reports on Day 2 breakouts
10:00 - 10:30 Hanno Holties Experiences with a common system - Northstar
(DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1292821)
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 12:00   Discussion on future collaborations
12:00 - 13:00 Catered Lunch   
Session 6
 Chair: Alan Bridger  
13:00 - 14:00  
General Discussion
14:00 - 14:30   Workshop round-up and summary
14:30 End of Workshop The ESO Supernova is open and the entrance is free of charge

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