AAS Meeting
Topical Session

Robotic Observatories

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 8:30 am - 12:30

 
Session Information ---
Increasingly more observatories, especially those with small- to medium-sized
telescopes, are developing robotic capability to best observe transient and
time variable phenomena. This session will provide an overview of recent
scientific and educational results from existing robotic observatories and
will address the hardware and software challenges to robotization.
Scientists, engineers, and educators will get together to present lessons
learned, latest technological advances, and ideas yet to be on the drawing
board. What is the current status of the development? What does it cost
to create or to refurbish a fully robotic observatory? Does it really save
money to operate such a facility? How do education and outreach contribute
to, and gain from, robotic operation? You will have to take part in
person (no remote or robotic participation) to experience the exciting
progress in this fast-growing field.

This session will include invited talks, ample time for discussions, and
a contributed poster session.  This webpage maintains the most up-to-date program of the session.  

Inquiries should be addressed to: Wen-Ping Chen (wchen@astro.ncu.edu.tw),
or Richard Gelderman (geldermn@grendel.tccw.wku.edu).

   

Tentative Talks --- program will be formulated as confirmation evolves and question marks are removed.  
Confirmed speakers .....
Greg Henry (Tennessee State U.) Photoelectric Photometry (?)
Hye-Sook Park (LLNL) SuperLotis (Kitt Peak) (?)
Yuzuru Yoshii 
(U. Tokyo)
Magnum (?)
Bob Mutel
(Iowa Robotic Tel.)
Robotic University Astronomy Labs (?)
Weidong Li 
(Katzman Autom Tel)
Supernova Searches (?)
Wen-Ping Chen
(National Central U.)
Robotic Observations of the TAOS Project (?)
Rich Williams 
(Optical Mechanics Inc.)
(?)
James Wray 
(SciTech Ast.  Research)
(?)
Chris Moss 
(TTL)
(?)
Peter Mack (Astronomical Consulting & Equipment) (?)
Adrian Loeff 
(EOS Technologies)
(?)
Speakers to be confirmed .....
Kent Honeycutt (Indiana U.) Roboscope & SpectraBot (?)
George McCook (Villanova U.) research with undergrads (?)
Earle Luck 
(CWRU Nassau Stn Obs)
online edu/outrch interface (?)
F.V. Hessmann (Goettingen) RTML and MONET (?)
Stuart Marshall 
(LLNL)
Experience from ROTSE (?)
David Crawford GNAT the GNAT experience (?)
John Mattox 
(Francis Marion U.)
Global Networks (?)