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 2: Thursday, Oct 29, 2026
AM Session 1:
Chair: Cesar Briceño
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Rachel Street | Welcome and logistics |
| 09:10 | Miguel Gómez | GOATS: An end-to-end time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy platform |
| 09:40 | Rachel Street | The TOM Toolkit v3 & AEONlib |
| 10:10 | Thomas Culino | SkyPortal: An Open-Source Data Platform for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics |
| 11:00 | 30min | Break |
AM Session 2:
Breakout sessions will follow an unconference model and participants are encouraged to propose their own topics. Chair: Daniel Harbeck
| Time | Duration | Hack session topics (Broder) | Discussion topics (Farrand Hall) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | 1hr | E.g. | E.g. Conflict resolution for scheduling high priority targets |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
PM Session 3:
Chair: Moira Andrews
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Łukasz Wyrzykowski | BHTOM: Coordinating a Global Network for Time-Domain Follow-up |
| 14:30 | Antoine Le Calloch | BOOM: a high-throughput Rust alert broker for ZTF, LSST and the next generation of surveys |
| 15:00 | Gemma Anderson | TRACE-T: Automating rapid radio follow-up of transients |
| 15:30 | Break |
PM Session 4:
Chair: Cam Wipper
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | Samuel Wyatt | NASA Astrophysics Cross-Observatory Science Support (ACROSS) |
| 16:30 | Moira Andrews | TOM ACROSS and SNEx2 |
| 17:0 | End of day |