7:45 am – Registration Desk opens at Beckman Lecture Hall

8:30 am – Opening Comments – Dawn Gelino (Michelson Science Center)

8:45 am – Astrometry: Revealing the other two dimensions of Velocity Space (History and Basics) -  Harold McAlister (GSU)

9:45 am - Atmospheric Limits to Accuracy in Ground-Based Astrometry - Mark Colavita (JPL)

10:30 am – Break

11:00 am -  Optics for Astrometry: A brief introduction - Bill van Altena (Yale)

11:45 am - Transforming Measured to Standard Coordinates: Models for wide-field astrographs and simplifications for long-focus telescopes - Terry Girard (Yale)

12:30 pm – Lunch

1:45 pm - Astrometry and Photometry with CCDs - Bill van Altena (Yale)

2:30 pm – Drift Scanning (Time-Delay Integration) - Dave Rabinowitz (Yale)

3:10 pm – Break

3:40 pm - The Establishment of Astrometric Calibration Regions and the Determination of Positions for Objects Much Fainter than Existing Reference Stars - Terry Girard (Yale)

4:00 pm – Optical and Radio Interferometry – Wes Traub (JPL)

5:15 pm – Participant Questions


Tuesday, July 26: More Basics & Ground Based Astrometry

7:45 am – Registration Desk Opens

8:30 am – Review of Day 1 – Bill van Altena (Yale)

8:50 am – Astrometric Surveys: Modern astrometric catalogues - Carlos Lopez (University of San Juan)

9:30 am - Imaging Astrometry with HST – Jay Anderson (Rice University)

10:10 am – Break

10:40 am – General-Relativistic Effects in Astrometry -  Sergei Klioner for Michael Soffel (Dresden Tech Universität)

11:25 am - Reference Frames & Zonal Errors: Where do they come from and why do we care about them? – Ken Seidelmann (U of Virginia)

12:10 pm – Lunch

1:25 pm – Parameter Estimation (SAMSI advertisement) – Bill Jefferys (UT Austin)

2:10 pm – Astrometry: From proposals to science – Fritz Benedict (UT Austin)

3:10 pm – Break

3:40 pm - Ground-Based Parallax Programs – Todd Henry (GSU)

4:25 pm - LSST, Pan-STARRS, Prima – Dave Monet (USNO)

5:10 pm – Participant Questions


Wednesday, July 27:  Space Astrometry

7:45 am – Registration Desk Opens

8:30 am – Review of Day 2 – Dave Monet (USNO)

8:50 am – Astrometry with Hipparcos - Francois Mignard (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

9:35 am - How We Do Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope - Fritz Benedict (UT Austin)

10:20 am – Break

10:50 am – Astrometry with Gaia – Francois Mignard (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

11:35 am – Participant Questions

12:00 pm – Depart Caltech for Tour of Mt. Wilson;Subway box lunches including a 6” sandwich, chips, a cookie, and bottled water can be purchased beforehand for $5 

 
Thursday, July 28: Orbital and Physical Information from Astrometric Data

7:45 am – Registration Desk Opens

8:30 am - Review of Day 3 – Gerard van Belle (MSC)

8:50 am – Interferometric Astrometry from Space – Mike Shao (JPL)

9:35 am - Space-Based/Ground-Based Boundary: Accuracy problems and advantages in each case – Mike Shao (JPL; space) & James Lloyd (Cornell; ground)

10:35 am - Break

11:05 am – Planet Finding in Astrometric Data - Debra Fischer (SFSU)

11:50 am - Orbital Estimation of Binary Stars – Dimitri Pourbaix (ULB & Princeton)

12:35 pm – Lunch

1:50 pm - Combining Radial Velocity and Astrometric Data – Dimitri Pourbaix (ULB & Princeton)

2:35 pm – So What is Speckle Interferometry Good For, Anyway?  - Bill Hartkopf (USNO)

3:20 pm – Break

3:50 pm - (Long-Baseline) Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars – Andy Boden (MSC)

4:35 pm - Participant Questions

6:30 - 9:00 pm – Workshop Banquet at Burger Continental 535 S. Lake Ave.,
    $22 includes: appetizer buffet, served platters of food, soft drinks, tax, and gratuity
   Fee will be collected at the dinner.


Friday, July 29:  Case Studies/Practical Applications

7:45 am – Registration Desk Opens

8:30 am – Review of Day 4 – Dimitri Pourbaix (ULB & Princeton)

8:50 am – Turning Companions into Planets: HST Astrometry of Exoplanet Candidates – Fritz Benedict (UT Austin)

9:35 am - PHASES: The Palomar High-Precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems – Matthew Muterspaugh (MIT)

10:20 am - Break

10:50 am - Challenges in Facing Hundreds of Millions of Stars - Dimitri Pourbaix (ULB & Princeton)

11:35 am - Galactic Structure, Evolution and Merger Remnants - Dana Dinescu (Yale)

12:20 pm – Lunch

1:35 pm – Instrument Design and Performance Aspects of PTI, KI, and VLTI -  Mark Colavita (JPL; PTI & KI) & Andreas Quirrenbach (Leiden University; VLTI)

2:35 pm – The Future of Astrometric All Sky Surveys - Norbert Zacharias (USNO)

3:20 pm – Break

3:50 pm – STEPS: Stellar Planet Survey - Stuart Shaklan (JPL)

4:50 pm - Participant Questions

5:20 pm – Workshop Summary and Concluding Remarks – Dawn Gelino (MSC)

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 
July 25-29, 2005