Hot-wiring the Transient Universe 6 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.

For more information about the Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe conference series please see the web pages for Hotwired V, Villanova, PA, October 2016

Program Organizing Committee

• Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University, Chair
• Federica Bianco, New York University
• Eric Christensen, Catalina Sky Survey, University of Arizona
• Matthew Graham, Zwicky Transient Factory
• Melissa Graham, University of Washington
• Ashish Mahabal, California Institute of Technology
• Tom Matheson, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• Andrej Prsa, Villanova University
• Antonia Rowlinson, Universiteit van Amsterdam and ASTRON
• Rob Seaman, Catalina Sky Survey, University of Arizona
• Rachel Street, Las Cumbres Observatory
• Tom Vestrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Roy Williams, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
• Przemek Wozniak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

For more information, email: info@hotwireduniverse.org