Technical and Observational Challenges for Future Time-Domain Surveys

Invited Talk
Event IAU Symposium 285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy Location Oxford, UK Date Sep 2011

Summary

Closing-day invited review on what future time-domain surveys demand beyond discovery: machine-learned real-bogus and variable-star classification and its limits, deciding what to follow up, and coupling electromagnetic and gravitational-wave searches.

An invited review in the symposium's closing session, “Preparing for the Future” (Friday, September 23), published in the proceedings (linked above). Earlier in the week he also spoke on SN 2011fe.