Science & Engineering for Time Domain Astronomy

Hot-wiring the Transient Universe IV will explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary agenda includes future and ongoing science investigations, information infrastructure for publishing observations in real time, as well as novel data science to classify events and systems to optimize follow-up campaigns. Time domain astronomy is at the fore of modern astrophysics and crosses fields from solar physics and solar system objects, through stellar variability, to explosive phenomena at galactic and cosmological distances. Recent rapid progress by instruments in space and on the ground has been toward a continuous record of the electromagnetic sky with ever increasing coverage, sensitivity, and temporal resolution. With the advent of gravitational wave and neutrino observatories we are witnessing the birth of multi-messenger astronomy.

Program Organizing Committee

• Rachel Street, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
• Eric Saunders, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
• Josh Bloom, University of California, Berkeley
• Eric Christensen, Catalina Sky Survey, The University of Arizona
• Matthew Graham, California Institute of Technology and National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• Ashish Mahabal, California Institute of Technology
• Tom Matheson, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• Tara Murphy, Sydney Institute for Astronomy
• Andrej Prsa, Villanova University
• Rob Seaman, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• John Swinbank, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• Tom Vestrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Lucianne Walkowicz, The Adler Planetarium
• Roy Williams, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
• Przemek Wozniak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Link to previous meeting: Hot-wiring the Transient Universe III

For more information, email: info@hotwireduniverse.org