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17:00 Registration opens
20:00 Cocktail reception at Hotel Camino Real Swimming pool surroundings
09:30 - 09:45 Official Opening
09:45 - 10:15 Alberto Castro-Tirado An historical perspective
10:15 - 10:45 Carl Akerlof ROTSE (pdf)
10:45 - 11:00 Martin Nekola BART
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Nobuyuki Kawai MITSuME and other initiatives (invited)
12:00 - 12:15 Marc Buie Converting from Classical to Robotic Astronomy: the Lowell Observatory 0.8m telescope (pdf)
12:15 - 12:30 Josep Colomé The OadM robotic observatory (pdf)
12:30 - 12:45 Alejandro Ferrero The use of electron-multiplying CCDs in high-time resolution studies of GRBs and other transient sources
12:45 - 13:00 Katarzyna Malek Pi of the Sky detector (pdf)
13:00 - 13:15 Alberto Riva Design, manufacturing and commissioning of BIRCAM
13:15 - 13:30 Stanislav Vítek Looking for focus
13:30 - 16:00 Lunch break
16:00 - 16:30 Marcin Sokolowski Detection of short optical transients of astrophysical origin in real time (invited) (pdf) (ppt)
16:30 - 16:45 Evgeny Gorbovskoy Transient detections and other real-time data processing from wide-field chambers (pdf) (ppt)
16:45 - 17:00 Ichro Takahasi AROMA (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:00 Ronan Cunniffe Astronomical data archive and VO tools (invited) (pdf)
18:00 - 18:15 Luis J. Goicoechea Robotic monitoring of gravitationally lensed quasars (pdf)
18:15 - 18:30 Luciano Nicastro Multiple depth DB tables indexing on the sphere (pdf)
18:30 - 19:00 Poster mini-presentations - 120 seconds per poster (12x)
Mauro Stefanon TROBAR: Robotic Astronomy in Valencia (pdf)
09:30 - 10:00 Mauro Stefanon The REM Observing software (invited) (pdf)
10:00 - 10:30 Emilio Molinari REM, Automatic for the People (pdf)
10:30 - 10:45 Krzysztof Nawrocki PiMan: system manager of the "Pi of the Sky" experiment (pdf)
10:45 - 11:00 Petr Kubánek RTS2 - the Remote Telescope System (pdf)
11:00 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 12:15 Josh Bloom Transient detection and classification (invited)
12:15 - 12:30 Francisco Forster Maximizing detection probabilities in targeted transient surveys (pdf)
12:30 - 12:45 Alexei Pozanenko Wide-field surveys (pdf)
12:45 - 13:00 Sergey Karpov Wide & fast monitoring the sky in subsec domain (pdf)
13:30 - 15:45 Lunch break
15:45 - 16:15 Alain Klotz Protocols for robotic telescopes networks (invited) (pdf)
16:15 - 16:45 Petr Kubánek Standards and protocols for transient reporting (pdf)
16:45 - 17:00 Sebastian Castillo Carrión Making preliminary GRB real-time astronomical reports (pdf)
17:00 - 17:30 Vojtech Simon Monitoring of high-energy sources (invited) (pdf)
17:30 - 17:45 Bruce Gendre Advantage of temporal resolution with TAROT: the observation of GRB 081126 (pdf)
17:45 - 18:15 Coffee break
18:15 - 18:45 Thomas Granzer Three years of robotic operation on STELLA (pdf) (ppt)
18:45 - 19:00 Fernando Comeron Turning large telescopes robotic: the Rapid Response Mode at the VLT (pdf)
19:00 - 19:15 Lorraine Hanlon The Watcher Robotic Telescope and its Observations of GRBs
19:15 - 19:30 Martin Jelínek GRB observations by BOOTES (pdf)
19:30 - 19:45 Matus Kocka D50 telescope for GRBs and HE sources (pdf)
22:00 Flamenco show at Hotel Camino Real
09:30 - 10:00 Fraser Lewis Monitoring LMXBs with Faulkes Telescopes (pdf) (ppt)
10:00 - 10:30 Klaus Strassmeier The STELLA robotic facility in Tenerife
10:30 - 10:45 Nataly Tyurina MASTER prompt and follow-up GRB observations (pdf) (ppt)
10:45 - 11:00 Javier Gorosabel Robotization of the 1.23m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Carole Mundell GRBs in the Era of Rapid Followup (invited) (pdf)
12:00 - 12:30 Alain Klotz Experiences and results from the TAROT observation system (pdf)
12:30 - 13:00 Vladimir Lipunov MASTER Robotic Net (pdf) (ppt)
13:00 - 13:15 Matthew Lehner The Taiwanese - American Occultation Survey (pdf) (ppt)
13:15 - 13:30 Luis Cuesta CAB Robotic Telescopes (pdf) (ppt)
13:30 Lunch break, Free Afternoon
Free afternoon prior to Conference dinner in Málaga
20:30 Conference dinner
in Málaga, at Parador Nacional de Gibralfaro. Bus departure is at 20:00 50 meters from the Hotel Camino Real main entrance. End is expected at 24:00.
09:45 - 10:15 John Baruch The Bradford Telescope (invited)
10:15 - 10:30 Francisco Sánchez-Moreno Montegancedo Astronomical Observatory: first free access telescope via the Internet (pdf)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Fabrizio Vitali Future strategies (invited)
11:30 - 12:00 Grigory Beskin From TORTORA to MEGATORTORA
12:00 - 12:15 Chenzhou Cui Potential robotic autonomous observatories from China (pdf)
12:15 - 12:30 Rene Hudec The role of ground-based robotic observatories in satellite projects (pdf)
12:30 - 13:20 Joint Discussion
13:20 - 13:30 Concluding Remarks
13:30 End of Workshop
Although we list as official meeting dates Monday through Thursday, we expect discussions to be extended to Friday morning, depending on participants interests and time schedule.