Agenda
Please note: this agenda is preliminary and may change.
All times are in the Pacific Daylight Time zone.
All speakers should allow ~5min for questions at the end of their talk or demo. I.e. a 30min slot = 25min + 5min.
Day 1: Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026
AM Session 1:
Chair: Rachel Street
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Registration open; meet and greet | |
| 09:00 | Rachel Street | Welcome and introduction to AEON+. |
| 09:10 | Griffin Hosseinzadeh | Results from Year 1 of the Public AEON Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Astronomy (PASSTA) |
| 09:40 | Markus Hundertmark | The Galactic Science Observing Priority Manager: Classification Probabilities for Rubin |
| 10:10 | Petr Pravec, Miroslav Velen | Observations of near-Earth asteroids at the 1.54m Danish telescope on La Silla |
| 11:00 | 30min | Break |
AM Session 2:
Chair: Antoine Le Calloch
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | Natalya Johnson | Diversity-Aware Bayesian Optimization for GW-EM Training Dataset Generation |
| 12:00 | Andy Howell | Data sharing and data licensing |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
PM Session 3:
Chair: Jeff Mader
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Cam Wipper | A New Era: The First Phase of AEON Integration with CFHT/Kealahou |
| 14:30 | Gemma Anderson | ATNF’s plans for a radio Transient Facility |
| 15:00 | Cesar Briceño | AEON at SOAR and Blanco: 4m followup facilities in the Rubin Era |
| 15:30 | 30min | Break |
PM Session 4:
Breakout sessions will follow an unconference model and participants are encouraged to propose their own topics. Chair: Andy Howell
| Time | Duration | Hack session topics (Broder) | Discussion topics (Farrand Hall) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | 1hr | E.g. | E.g. Data sharing and data licensing |
| 17:00 | End of day |