Agenda
Updated Mar 3, 2026. Note: Agenda subject to change prior to the workshop.
| Time (PDT) | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Day 0: March 23 (Monday) | ||
| 9:00-16:00 | LSST Informatics & Statistics Science Collaboration Meeting (Keith Spalding 410 [4th floor]) | |
| 16:00--18:30 | Registration and Opening Reception (Cahill Lobby and Patio) | |
| Day 1: March 24 (Tuesday) | ||
| 8:00 | Registration (Cahill Lobby) | |
| 9:00 | Tom Greene (Caltech/IPAC Executive Director) | Welcome Address |
| 9:00 | Ryan Lau (Caltech/IPAC, SOC co-chair) | Logistics |
| Session: Relativistic Transients (Chair: Ryan Lau) | ||
| 9:10 | Anna Ho (Cornell, Invited) | Relativistic Stellar Transients with ULTRASAT |
| 9:35 | Rahul Jayaraman (Cornell, Contributed) | Joint analysis of ZTF and TESS data: Constraints on early-time shock-cooling emission and late-time flaring |
| 9:50 | Nayana A.J. (UC Berkeley, Contributed) | Multiwavelength view of the most luminous fast blue optical transient - AT2024wpp |
| 10:05 | Leo Singer (NASA GSFC, Contributed) | Autonomous Surveys and Community ToOs on the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX): Towards a Science Operations Center without Humans in the Loop |
| 10:20 | Session Discussion | |
| 10:35 | BREAK | |
| Session: Rubin, Alerts, and Follow-up (Chair: Azalee Bostroem) | ||
| 10:50 | Eric Bellm (U. Washington, Invited) | Time-Domain Science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| 11:15 | Rachel Street (LCO, Contributed) | AEON+: Collaboration of Multiwavelength Observatories for Time Domain Science |
| 11:30 | Dan Avner (NOIRLab, Contributed) | GOATS: An end-to-end time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy platform |
| 11:45 | Katarzyna Z Kruszynska (LCO, Contributed) | OMEGA - the pathfinder for LSST follow-up |
| 12:00 | Session Discussion | |
| 12:15 | LUNCH | |
| Session: Kilonovae, MMA, Infrastructure (Chair: Sebastian Gomez) | ||
| 13:45 | Jillian Rastinejad (U. Maryland, Invited) | Catching Kilonovae and Other Fast Transients in the Era of Rubin and Roman |
| 14:10 | Shreya Anand (Stanford, Contributed) | The first Rubin Target-of-Opportunity search for a neutron star merger candidate counterpart |
| 14:25 | Natalya Johnson (Drexel, Contributed) | Low-latency Forecasts of Kilonova Light Curves for Rubin and ZTF |
| 14:40 | Griffin Hosseinzadeh (UCSD, Contributed) | The Multimessenger Treasure TROVE: A Tool for Rapid Object Vetting and Examination |
| 14:55 | Session Discussion | |
| 15:10 | Poster Flash | |
| 15:20 | BREAK | |
| Session: Radio and Optical Rapid Response (Chair: Wynn Jacobson-Galán) | ||
| 15:35 | Vikram Ravi (Caltech, Invited) | DSA |
| 16:00 | Gemma Elizabeth Anderson (CSIRO, Contributed) | TRACE-T: Automating rapid radio follow-up of transients |
| 16:15 | Catheirne Kelley (U. Amsterdam, Contributed) | AARTFAAC 2.0: Filling the Gaps in Low Frequency Radio Phase Space |
| 16:30 | Hank Corbett (UNC Chapel Hill, Contributed) | The Northern sky every second: Survey design and science plans for the Argus Array |
| 16:45 | Session Discussion | |
| 17:00 | End-of-Day Announcements | |
| Day 2: March 25 (Wednesday) | ||
| Session: Roman TDA I (Chair: Ryan Lau) | ||
| 9:00 | Jacob Jencson and Ben Rusholme (Caltech/IPAC, Invited) | Enabling Time-Domain Science for Roman with RAPID |
| 9:40 | Ori Fox (STScI) and Lin Yan (Caltech, Invited) | Roman hIgh-redshift transient SciencE (RISE): Enabling a Non-Cosmology Time-Domain Program |
| 10:00 | Gisella de Rosa (STScI, Invited) | Roman Research Nexus |
| 10:20 | Session Discussion | |
| 10:35 | BREAK | |
| Session: Roman TDA II (Chair: Anais Möller) | ||
| 10:50 | Rebekah Hounsell (NASA GSFC, Invited) | The Future of SN Ia Cosmology with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope |
| 11:15 | Kaili Cao (Ohio State, Contributed) | Hot-wiring the Roman Sky: Resolving the Undersampling Crisis with Fast IMCOM for Real-Time Discovery |
| 11:30 | Jillian Marie Paulin (UPenn, Contributed) | Hourglass 2: Updated Simulations for the Roman Space Telescope's High-Latitude Time Domain Survey |
| 11:45 | Neven Caplar (U. Washington, Contributed) | Scaling RAPID: HATS-Format Products and LSDB Workflows for the Dynamic Sky |
| 12:00 | Session Discussion | |
| 12:15 | Poster Flash | |
| 12:25 | LUNCH | |
| Session: MMA, coordination, prioritization (Chair: Matthew Graham) | ||
| 13:35 | Judith Racusin (NASA GSFC, Invited) | General Coordinates Network (GCN): NASA’s Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Alert System |
| 14:00 | Vidushi Sharma (NASA GSFC/UMBC, Contributed) | General Coordinates Network (GCN) Circulars: Large Language Model Driven Analysis |
| 14:15 | Samuel Wyatt (NASA GSFC, Contributed) | ACROSS: Enabling Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with NASA Missions |
| 14:30 | Gautham Narayan (UIUC, Contributed) | SCIMMA: Adding Value to Astrophysical Surveys with AI as a Service |
| 14:45 | Session Discussion | |
| 15:00 | BREAK | |
| Session: Broker Showcase (Chair: Mansi Kasliwal) | ||
| 15:10 | Jakob Nordin (Humboldt-U. Berlin, Invited) | AMPEL |
| 15:25 | Anais Möller (Swinburne U., Invited) | Fink |
| 15:40 | Chris Hernandez (U. Pittsburgh, Invited) | Pitt-Google |
| 15:55 | Monika Soraisam (NOIRLab/Gemini, Invited) | ANTARES |
| 16:10 | Matthew Graham (Caltech, Invited) | Boom/Babamul |
| 16:25 | Guillermo Cabrera-Vives (University of Concepción, Invited) | ALeRCE |
| 16:40 | Alert Broker Panel | |
| 17:00 | End-of-Day Announcements | |
| 18:00 | Workshop Dinner, El Portal Restaurant (695 E. Green St.) | |
| Day 3: March 26 (Thursday) | ||
| Session: ML, Anomalies (Chair: Ashish Mahabal) | ||
| 9:00 | Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie-Mellon, Invited) | Machine learning and scalable analysis of light curves |
| 9:25 | Clecio Bom (CBPF/Brasil, Contributed) | Chasing Cosmic Rarities: Intelligent Agents and SBI Physical Modeling for rapid Time-Domain analysis |
| 9:40 | Siddharth Nitin Chaini (U. Delaware, Contributed) | Transient hunting in large-sky surveys: using neural processes to tackle sparse, multi-wavelength light curves |
| 9:55 | Pablo Garcia-Martin (ESILV, Contributed) | Disentangling the Dynamic Sky: A Modular AI Framework for Distinguishing Extrasolar Transients from Solar System Science and Satellites |
| 10:10 | Session Discussion | |
| 10:25 | Poster Flash | |
| 10:35 | BREAK | |
| Session: Transients and their Host Galaxies (Chair: Matthew Graham) | ||
| 10:50 | Charlotte Ward (Penn State, Invited) | Better Together: A multi-survey modeling framework to generate light curves and characterize host galaxies across Rubin, Euclid, Roman and LS4 |
| 11:15 | Noah Franz (U. Arizona, Contributed) | The Open mulTiwavelength Transient Event Repository (OTTER) |
| 11:30 | Anya Elizabeth Nugent (Harvard, Contributed) | Exploring Transient Host Galaxies in the Big Data Era with FrankenBlast |
| 11:45 | Session Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Poster Flash | |
| 12:10 | LUNCH + Photo! | |
| Session: Stellar Transients and Variables (Chair: Ilaria Caiazzo) | ||
| 13:40 | Jan van Roestel (ISTA/Austria, U. Amsterdam, Invited) | Stellar Alerts: lessons from ZTF |
| 14:05 | Andrea Antoni (Flatiron Inst., Invited) | Hydrogen-rich gap transients in optical and infrared time-domain surveys |
| 14:30 | Priscila Jael Pessi (NCBJ/Poland, Contributed) | ELEPHANT Tracks: Identifying Hostless Transients in Real Time |
| 14:45 | Nabeel Rehemtulla (Northwestern, Contributed) | Automating real-time workflows for transient discovery and rapid response follow-up |
| 15:00 | Session Discussion | |
| 15:15 | BREAK | |
| Session: Hack Session I (Chair: Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Matthew Graham, Ashish Mahabal) | ||
| 15:30 | Hotwiring Hack Session | |
| 17:00 | End-of-Day Announcements | |
| Day 4: March 27 (Friday) | ||
| Session: Supernovae (Chair: Azalee Bostroem) | ||
| 9:00 | Dave Sand (U. Arizona, Invited) | The core collapse supernova landscape: infrastructure and science opportunities |
| 9:25 | Genevieve Schroeder (Cornell, Contributed) | Where Are All of the Off-Axis GRBs? A Late-Time Radio Campaign of Ic Broad Line Supernovae |
| 9:40 | Bhagya Madimugar Subrayan (U. Arizona, Contributed) | An Extensible TOM for the Time-Domain Era: SAGUARO as a Scalable Discovery Platform |
| 9:55 | Xander James Hall (Carnegie Mellon, Contributed) | Utilizing DESI as a Transient Discovery Machine |
| 10:10 | Session Discussion | |
| 10:25 | BREAK | |
| Session: Infrastructure: Coordination and Follow-up (Chair: Wynn Jacobson-Galán) | ||
| 10:40 | Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB, Contributed) | The Time Domain Ecosystem |
| 10:55 | Curtis McCully (LCO, Contributed) | HEROIC: A Realtime Observatory Coordination System |
| 11:10 | Joysankar Majumdar (U. Warsaw, Contributed) | BHTOM: Standardized, automated time-domain follow-up from a global volunteer telescope network |
| 11:25 | Felipe Nunes (U. Minnesota, Contributed) | Toward a Kilonova Foundation Model in the Rubin Era: Low-Latency Multimodal Classification and Parameter Estimation |
| 11:40 | David Trilling (Northern Arizona, Contributed) | Update on SNAPS, the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System -- A ZTF and LSST broker |
| 11:55 | Session Discussion | |
| 12:10 | LUNCH | |
| Session: Hack Session II (Chair: Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Matthew Graham, Ashish Mahabal) | ||
| 13:40 | Hotwiring Hack Session | |
| 15:10 | Closing Remarks | |