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Day 3 - Oct 3

Observing Facilities

8:00 - 9:00am Breakfast provided

Session 1 [Auditorium]: Programmatically-Accessible Observing Facilities

Chair: Stephen Ridgway

9:00 - 9:30am Cesar Briceno

AEON-SOAR: Introduction to the AEON Network and programmatic observing facilities
9:30 - 10:00am Jon Nation

Expansion to LCO request language to support AEON-SOAR, review of LCO API capabilities
10:00 - 10:30am Bryan Miller Gemini in AEON

10:30 - 11:00am Coffee break

Session 2 [Auditorium]: Programmatically-Accessible Observing Facilities

Chair: Matthew Graham

11:00 - 11:30am Ruby van Rooyan

South African astronomy in the age of large telescopes
11:30am - 12:00pm Doug Arnold

The Next Generation of Liverpool Telescopes for Transient Astronomy in the LSST era
12:00 - 12:30pm ANTARES: Writing your own filter
Discussion: Interfacing with observing facilities - choices of protocol and package dependencies

12:30 - 2pm Lunch [on own]

Session 3 [Breakout rooms]: Hands-on session

2:00 - 3:30pm Softie leads

Writing a TOM alert broker module

3:30 - 4pm Coffee break

Session 4 [Breakout rooms]: Hands-on session

4:00 - 5:00pm Softie leads

Writing a TOM observatory module

Dinner [on own]


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#mtg-followup-workshop