LBTO Software Meeting 2007 - Agenda

Sunday, Sep 30th 2007

• 17:00 Visit to "Villa Il gioiello", Galileo's home

Monday, 0ct 1st 2007

• 08:30 AM, 15 minutes: Welcome. Norm Cushing
  • Statement of workshop goals
    
  • Brief overview of the Agenda, etc.
  • Birds of a feather discussions (ICE, etc.)

• 8:45 AM, 15 minutes: Logistics and Infrastructure Issues. Luca Fini
  • Internet access, Restrooms, Coffee, Diet Coke, Workshop Dinner

• 9:00 AM, 90 minutes: IIF API. Jose Borelli
  • Significant commands that have significantly changed since the Spring of 2007

• 10:30 AM, 20 minutes: Coffee Break

• 10:50 AM, 60 minutes: Behavior and Sequencing of IIF Commands to support Lucifier and MODS. Norm Cushing, Dave Thompson + Luca Fini, Michele De La Pena, Torsten Liebold, and Chris Biddick
  • Command usage, order dependencies, etc. Concentrate on Preset, Guiding, Offset Pointing, AO, Binocular Operations, DD Access, other commands

• 11:50 AM, 60 minutes: (cont) Behavior and Sequencing of IIF Commands to support Lucifier and MODS. Michele De La Pena
  • Binocular operations.

• 12:50 PM, 70 minutes - Lunch

• 2:00 PM, 60 minutes: (cont) Behavior and Sequencing of IIF Commands to support Lucifier and MODS. Simone Esposito, Luca Fini
  • AO Q&A. Discussion on how AO is used by instruments.

• 3:00 PM, 60 minutes: IIF Command Error Handling, Recovery, and Side Effects. Chris Biddick with lessons learned offered by Andrea Di Paola having implemented the LBC software.

• 5:00 PM, 20 minutes - Coffee Break

• 5:20 PM, until end of day: Q&A Session

• 8:00 PM: Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, Oct 2nd 2007

• 8:30 PM, 20 minutes: Instrument Data Defaults and Parameters. Michele De La Pena and Titus Purdin
  • What is the data and what are its default values ?

• 8:50 AM, 50 minutes: Instrument Data to be Shared with Other Instruments. Wolfgang Gaessler
  • A suggested set of data to be published and shared among instruments Data name, description, value, range, etc.

• 9:40 AM, 50 minutes: What TCS Data is needed by the Instruments? Wolfgang Gaessler
  • a first draft of interesting data to share

• 10:30 AM, 20 minutes: Coffee Break

• 10:50 AM, 40 minutes: Computer networks. Norm Cushing
  • How to interface your instrument into the instrument and command networks (copper), and fiber allocation and usage.

• 11:30 AM, 45 minutes: LBTO Data Archive. Norm Cushing
  • What is it and what to expect.

• 12:14 PM, 45 minutes: Observatory Wide Guide Star Catalog Service. Norm Cushing
  • Free form discussion to explore the depths of issues raised earlier.

• 13:00 PM, 70 minutes: Lunch

• 2:10 PM, 60 minutes: Consistent "Units". Norm Cushing

• 3:10 PM, 60 minutes: "Q&A session"

• 4:10 PM, 20 minutes free time: get your coffee

• 4:30 PM, Go to Arcetri for AO lab tour. Luca Fini and other Arcetri personnel

Wednesday, Oct 3rd - Not part of Workshop - AO Discussion Day

• 9:00 AM: AO, AOS, TCS, Interferometry Interactions
  • Free form discussion as it pertains to TCS, AOS, AO, and Instrument Interactions with emphasis on Adaptive Optics and Interferometry.

Thursday, Oct 4th - Not part of Workshop - TCS and Arcetri Meetings

• 9:00 AM: TCS, AOS, and AO Meeting
  • Interface Discussions and Status
    Free form discussion, examples, demonstrations, etc.
    Participants: TCS, AOS, and AO groups