Scoping the Follow-up Effort

Summary

Discussion-opening talk arguing that discovery is not follow-up: as surveys like Pan-STARRS and LSST outstrip scarce follow-up resources, transient astronomy needs new ways to share events (VOEvent) and clear priorities for what to chase.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 5 pm, in the conference's closing session, just before the “Last Word”. KITP's talk page plays the 39-minute recording in sync with his 30 slides. He also coordinated the meeting's virtual poster session.