Worldwide Telescope India Workshop

Worldwide Telescope India Workshop

Microsoft Research is proudly presenting the WorldWide Telescope – a virtual telescope that is designed to enhance your experience in astronomical research, science education, entertainment and beyond.
We will update existing users with the latest version and solutions of WWT, provide a hands-on environment to jump start new users, share with you our experiences of WWT-based research including connections with the Virtual Observatory and education collaborations worldwide, and learn from you for future improvements to WWT.
This event is co-hosted by Microsoft Research, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). The workshop is free for all participants.
Event dates:
Bangalore: September 02-03, 2010, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science. (To participate in the Bangalore workshop, please email or fax your details including name, organization, postal address, telephone & fax numbers, and email address to wwt@end2end.in or +91 80 40897009 respectively. Confirmation of participation will be communicated to the participants via email or fax).
Pune: September 04, 2010, IUCAA auditorium, Pune University Campus (To participate in the Pune workshop, please email to Arvind Paranjpye at arp@iucaa.ernet.in)

 Agenda:
Bangalore, September 02, 2010 (Day 1)

08:30 – 09:15	Registration
09:15 – 09:30	Welcome address, Astrosciences at IISc: Prof. Chanda Jog, IISc
09:30 – 10:00	Microsoft Research in India: Vidya Natampally, Microsoft Research India
10:00 – 10:30	WorldWide Telescope Academic Program: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research
10:30 – 11:00	Tea/coffee break
11:00 – 11:45	WorldWide Telescope and Astronomy on the Carbon-Silicon Interface: Prof. George Djorgovski, Astronomy Department, Caltech, USA
11:45 – 12:30	Talk by Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, IUCAA, India
12:30 – 13:00	Panel discussion: Dr. Ashish Mahabal (CalTech), Yan Xu (Microsoft Research), Prof. Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA), Dr. Shylaja (Bangalore Association for Science Education)
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30	WWT and VO Connection: Dr. Ashish Mahabal, Astronomy Department, Caltech, USA
14:30 – 15:30	WWT demo(s) + Creating Guided Tours: Arvind Paranjpye, IUCAA
15:30 – 16:00	WWT Language Localizations: Samir Dhurde, IUCAA
16:00 – 16:30	Tea/coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Q&A, Day-1 wrap-up: Dr. Ashish Mahabal, Astronomy Department, Caltech, USA

 

 Bangalore, September 03, 2010 (Day 2)

09:30 – 10:00	Chandrayaan-I Imagery: Dr. B Gopalakrishna, SAC
10:00 – 10:30	Science at BASE: Prof. C V Vishveshwara
10:30 – 11:00	Tea/ coffee break
11:00 – 11:30	Enabling Undergraduate Radio Astronomy: Dr. Rabbi Angiras, St.Joseph's College, Bangalore
11:30 – 12:00	Hands-on demos
12:00 – 13:00	Wrap up

Pune, September 04, 2010
Session 1
Venue: Bhaskara III

10:00 – 10:30	Welcome and Local Universe: Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, IUCAA
10:30 – 11:00	Microsoft Research India: Sridhar Vedantham, Microsoft Research India
11:00 – 11:45	WorldWide Telescope Academic Program: Yan Xu, Microsoft Research
11:45 – 12:30	Science and Outreach at Universities: Prof T.R. Seshadri, Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi

Session 2
Venue: Chandrashekhar Auditorium

14:00 – 14:15	WWT and Science/Astronomy Educators: Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, IUCAA
14:15 – 14:45	IUCAA Public Outreach and WWT: Prof. Gulab Dewangan, IUCAA
14:45 – 15:15	Making WWT Tours: Arvind Paranjpye, IUCAA
15:15 – 15:45	On WWT Language Localizations: Samir Dhurde, IUCAA
15:45 – 16:15	Tea/ coffee break
16:15 – 17:15	WWT and Future Collaboration: Group discussion led by Dr. Ashish Mahabal

Session 3: Public Lecture

18:30 – 19:30	The WorldWide Telescope and Astronomy on the Man-Machine Interface: Prof. George Djorgovski, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology

*Agenda subject to minor revisions