AstroRob2019 (Sep 30 - Oct 4)Dear colleagues:
This is the second announcement of the Sixth Workshop on Robotic
Autonomous Observatories that will be held in Torremolinos (Málaga),
Spain, on 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2019. If you plan to attend, please do register
before 15 July 2019 (early payment, i.e. lower registration fee):
http://astrorob.iaa.es/index.php/component/comprofiler/registersWe are happy to confirm that Dr. Gerald J. Fishman (NASA chief
scientist, Emeritus) has confirmed his assistance and will give the
Opening Talk on “The early history of gamma-ray bursts – a personal
view”. We look forward to an exciting scientific program, with the
contributions to be published in Rev. Mex. A.A. as the last AstroRob
2017 (see the AstroRob 2017 published contributions at
http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/rmsc51_frameset.html).
Social activities included in the fee are the Excursion to Caminito del
Rey (Oct 2) and the Conference dinner (Oct 4). Swimming in the
Mediterranean sea will be possible thanks to the usually good weather
conditions in early October. Accompanying persons are also welcome.
Additional excursions to nearby towns (e.g., Cordoba, Granada, Sevilla,
etc.) are also feasible for them at extra cost.
And do not forget that accommodation at the beautiful Conference site
(
http://www.pueblocaminoreal.com) is booked only until Aug 6 on a first
come, first serve basis, at very affordable prices. So we encourage to
contact the hotel (Smy Costa del Sol) sending an e-mail to
reservas.malaga@smyhotels.com with the subject "AstroRob 2019”
If some of you need an invitation letter in order to get the visa,
please contact us as soon as possible.
Please do not hesitate to send this announcement to other colleagues who
might be interested in attending.
Additional details are given below.
All the best,
Alberto Castro-Tirado
on behalf of the SOC and LOC
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1. WEBSITE
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http://astrorob.iaa.es2. IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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25 Feb 2019: First announcement
14 June 2019: Second announcement
15 July 2019: Deadline for early registration
06 Aug 2019: Deadline for hotel reservation
14 Sep 2019: Deadline for oral talks contributions
19 Sep 2019: Preliminary Scientific Program
01 Sep 2019: Deadline for posters request
15 Sep 2019: Last Announcement
30 Sep-4 Oct 2019: Workshop
3. TOPICS
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-Existing robotic observatories worldwide
-New hardware and software developments
-Real-time analysis pipelines
-Wide-field imaging and follow-ups
-Archiving the data and quality control
-Telescope and observatory control systems
-Transient detection and classification
-Space Debris Surveillance and Tracking
-Protocols for robotic telescopes networks
-Scientific results obtained by means of robotic observatories
-Public Outreach and Citizen Science
-Global networks
-Educational applications
-Future strategies
-Gravitational Waves electromagnetic counterpart searches
4. RATIONALE
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Ten years after the celebration of the First Workshop on robotic
autonomous observatories in Málaga, the number of automatic astronomical
facilities worldwide has significantly grown, as well as the level of
robotisation, autonomy, and networking, with many recent developments
motivated by the search of new electromagnetic counterparts to
gravitational waves in the next months. This has a strong impact in many
other astrophysical fields, like fireballs detection, minor planet
studies, the search for extra-solar planets, the monitoring of variable
stars in our Galaxy, the study of active galactic nuclei, the detection
and monitoring of supernovae, and the immediate follow-up of high-energy
transients such as cosmic gamma-ray bursts, besides the search of
neutrino and gravitational waves electromagnetic counterparts. Last, but
not least, space debris surveillance and tracking is another field of
increasing interest. Educational aspects will be also covered.
The Scientific Organizing Committee will try to work on a very dynamic
program, dealing not only with scientific and technical issues but also
with educational and open science aspects.
The workshop will be host in Hotel Smy Costa del Sol (same hotel as in
the 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015, a hotel which has just been refurbished)
in Torremolinos, Málaga (Spain) just at the beach forefront and 10 min
from the Malaga International Airport. Your family is most welcome if
they also want to relax while you are attending the Workshop (check
special discounts). Temperatures are still very pleasant at that time of
the year (early Autumn) and swimming in the Mediterranean see is
feasible. For the second time, the Workshop time will take place around
the famous Torremolinos’s San Miguel Fair so we will also plan some
activity around this celebration (Sep 29-Oct 2).
This Sixth Workshop will be hosted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de
Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) and the Department of Systems Engineering and
Automatics (ISA-UMA) under the auspices of the Spanish Research Council
(CSIC) and the Universidad de Málaga.
The Scientific and Local Organizing Committees are listed below:
5. SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Amelia Bayo (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile)
M. D. Caballero-García (ASU-CAS, Prague, CZ)
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada, Spain; chair)
Alex R. Gibbs (University of Arizona, USA)
Sergey Guziy (Nikolaev National University, Ukraine)
Lorraine Hanlon (UCD, Ireland)
David Hiriart (UNAM, Mexico)
Nobuyuki Kawai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Vladimir Lipunov (MSU Moscow, Russia)
David Martínez-Delgado (CFST Warszawa, Poland)
Shashi B. Pandey (ARIES Nainital, India)
Carlos Pérez del Pulgar (UMA, Spain)
Ferhat Fikri Özeren (TÜBİTAK TUG and ERCİYES University,Turkey)
Binbin Zhang (University of Nanjing, China)
6. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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María Eva Alcoholado-Feltström (LOC secretary)
Antonio Reina (UMA, Spain; chair)
Irene Carrasco, Emilio Fernández-García, Youdong Hu (IAA-CSIC)
Alberto Castellón, Sebastián Castillo (UMA)
