Division B Days at the XXIX GA

Starting from 2015 each IAU Division will have Division Meetings during IAU General Assemblies. The triennial Division Meetings are scientific meetings with a duration of two days. They should not be confused with the usual business meetings of Divisions and/or Commissions which are organized as Splinter Meetings. Both oral sessions and poster papers are scheduled for the Division Meetings.

The following is the oral paper schedule (with the first author listed) for Division B. The links provide PDF versions of papers provided by the authors.

7 August 2015 FRIDAY

Session 1: Data Archiving & Processing

• An Hierarchical approach to Big Data by M.G. Allen
• Building Petascale Cyberinfrastructure and Science Support for Solar Physics: Approach of the DKIST Data Center by S. Berukoff
• CASDA: The CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive by J.M. Chapman
• Laboratory Molecular Astrophysics as an Invaluable Tool in understanding Astronomical Observations by H.J. Fraser
• Astronomical Data: Bridging the Gap between the Ancient and the Modern by E.M. Griffin

Session 2: Data Products I

• The Pan-STARRS Surveys by K.C. Chambers
• Version 1 of the Hubble Source Catalog by B. Whitmore
• Delivering Science from Big Data by P.J. Quinn
• The Definitive Johnson Kron-Cousins UBVRI Photometric System by A.U. Landolt

Session 3: Data Products 1, OIR Facilities 1

• The Palomar Transient Factory: Introduction and Data Release by J.A. Surace
• ANTARES: Hunting the "rarest of the rare" in the timedomain by G. Narayan
• Accelerating Astronomy & Astrophysics in the New Era of Parallel Computing: GPUs, Phi and Cloud Computing by E.B. Ford
• New wide field camera for Subaru Telescope: Hyper Suprime-Cam by S. Miyazaki
• Spectroscopic survey of LAMOST by Y. Zhao

Session 4: Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope

• The James Webb Space Telescope Mission by M. Greenhouse
• The Hubble Space Telescope at 25: Lessons Learned for Future Missions by J. Wiseman
• The Near Infrared Spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope: Instrument Overview and User Interface Development by K. Gilbert
• Internal polarization limits coronagraph contrast by J.B. Breckinridge

10 August 2015 MONDAY

Session 5: RMS Facilities 1

• ALMA: Millimeter/submillimeter Astronomy at high sensitivity and resolution by A. Wootten
• Jansky Very Large Array: technology advancing science by C. Carilli
• Next Generation Very Large Array: Centimeter Radio Astronomy in the 2020s by A. Hughes
• The LLAMA 12 m mm/sub-mm radiotelescope in the Andes by J. Lepine

Session 6: OIR Facilities 2, RMS Facilities 2

• The Progress of Science Preparation for the Five-hundredmeter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope by D. Li
• Science with SALT: the road from concept to reality by D.A. Buckley
• Enabling Astronomy in the Extremes: Developing the Antarctic High Plateau for Science by M. Burton
• The Antarctic Survey Telescopes AST3 and the AST3-NIR by X. Yuan
• The Cherenkov Telescope Array For Very High-Energy Astrophysics by P. Kaaret

Session 8: Square Kilometer Array (SKA), SKA Pathfinders

• The Square Kilometre Array: Current Status and Science Prospects by R. Braun
• The Australian SKA Pathfinder: First Science Results by L. Harvey-Smith
• The Murchison Widefield Array: Science, future plans & links to SKA developments by C.A. Jackson
• Detecting signatures of cosmological recombination and reionization in the cosmic radio background by R. Subrahmanyan
• The present status and the future of the European VLBI Network by M. Lindqvist

Poster Papers

The complete program for the General Assembly, including the Division B program, is available online at http://www.astronomy2015.org. The program includes abstracts for all the papers, including the accepted poster papers listed below.

• Curation and integration of observational metadata in ADS by A. Accomazzi
• Low Frequency Radio Data in the Virtual Observatory by B. Cecconi
• Developing the Planetary Science Virtual Observatory by B. Schmitt
• Bibliographies and Data Archives: a Rich Data Mining Tool by A.H. Rots
• Astrometry without Geometric Distortion by N. Wang
• AIRE-Linux by J. Zhou
• The Lightcurve Legacy of COS and STIS by J. Ely
• Cosmic Ray removal in single images for LAMOST by G. Li
• The Improvement of Automated Spectral Identification Tool ASERA by H. Yuan
• A pratical deconvolution algorithm in multi-fiber spectra extraction by H. Zhang
• Machine learning in infrared object classification - an allsky selection of YSO candidates by G. Marton
• Public Release of Pan-STARRS Data by H. Flewelling
• Data mining in big data sets of spectroscopic surveys by A. Luo
• Brown Dwarfs from the Pan-STARRS 1 3pi Survey by E.A. Magnier
• Mapping galaxy evolution in space - time with A-PLUS by C.L. Mendes de Oliveira
• Signal-noise separation based on self-similarity testing in 1D-timeseries data by P.A. Bourdin
• 4MOST - The new wide-field, high-multiplex spectroscopic survey facility for ESO's VISTA telescope by R.S. de Jong
• The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: Science, synergies, and development by A. McConnachie
• The Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre: a dedicated facility for large sky surveys by J. Cenarro
• Near-Infrared Surveys and the Potential of an Upgraded WFCAM on UKIRT by R.F. Green
• KMTNet: a network of 1.6-m wide field optical telescopes installed at three southern observatories by C. Lee
• The Evryscope: the first all-sky gigapixel-scale telescope by N.M. Law
• Multi-Object Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph: Observing Resolved Stellar Populations by K. Gilbert
• Observation of mutual phenomena of Jovian satellites by X. ZHANG
• Thirteen Years of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys : Calibration Update by N.A. Grogin
• T80Cam: a wide field camera for the J-PLUS survey by A. Marin-Franch
• JPCam: Status of the 1.2Gpixel camera for the J-PAS survey. by K. Taylor
• MOS spectroscopy with the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer by D.M. Karakla
• Planning and Developing JWST Coronagraphs Operations by C. Lajoie
• Progress on LAMOST High Resolution Spectrograph Project by K. Zhang
• The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer: Design and Project Status by R. Murowinski
• OCTOCAM: a fast multi-channel imager and spectrograph for the Gemini telescopes by A. de Ugarte Postigo
• The MATISSE instrument: resolving planet-forming regions in the mid-infrared by F. Millour
• The Precision Projector Laboratory: Detector Characterization and Astronomical Emulation by C. Shapiro
• Stellar Intensity Interferometry over Kilometer Baselines: Optical aperture synthesis with electronically connected telescopes by D. Dravins
• A new Speckle Imager and speckle observations at SHAO by Y. Ding
• Standardization of Observatories, Instruments and Reference Frames for Planetary Sciences by B. Cecconi
• Updates to the Performance and Calibration of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope by J. Ely
• The J-PAS filter system by A. Marin-Franch
• The 20-20-20 Airships NASA Centennial Challenge by A. Kiessling
• MACHETE: A transit Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope to survey half of the VHE gamma ray sky by R. López-Coto
• Global Optimization for the sites of future gravitational wave detectors by M.A. Hendry
• Satellite Tracking Astrometric Network (STAN) by M. Gai
• Low Frequencies on the NRAO VLA and the NRL VLA Low Band Ionospheric and Transient Experiment (VLITE) by N.E. Kassim
• Technology Advances at the NRAO Green Bank Telescope by F.J. Lockman
• Augmenting the Funding Sources for Space Science and the ASTRO-1 Space Telescope by J. Morse
• The UTMOST - rebirth of the Molonglo Radio Telescope by A.J. Green
• Enhancing the Radio Astronomy Capabilities at NASA's Deep Space Network by J. Lazio
• Greenland Telescope: Imaging Black Hole Shadow and THz Astronomy by S. Matsushita
• The CCAT 25m-class Submillimeter Telescope by D.A. Riechers
• The new 64m Sardinia Radio Telescope and VLBI facilities in Italy by G. Giovannini
• The recent progress of Chinese VLBI Network by W. Zheng
• Imaging nearby AGN with Space VLBI (RadioAstron) observations by G. Giovannini
• Pyramid wavefront sensor for image quality evaluation of optical system by Z. Chen
• On-sky tests of a high-power quasi-static pulsed-laser system for sodium laser guide star adaptive optics application at Xinglong Observatory by L. Feng
• World-wide deployment of Robo-AO visible-light robotic laser adaptive optics systems by C. Baranec
• The digital backend of FAST by X. Yu
• Analysis of Tracking Measuring Method of Focus Cabin of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST) by H. Yuan
• Three Specialized Innovations for FAST Wideband Receiver by X. Zhang
• High-energy follow-up studies of gravitational wave transient events by M. Razzano
• Fixed Delay Birefringence Imaging Interferometry for Spectral Drifting Surveys of an Astrocomb by Y. Zhai
• Hierarchical FringeTracking to increase sensitivity of optical long baseline interferometers by Z. Benkhaldoun
• Multi-baseline Bootstrapping and Imaging with the NPOI by A.M. Jorgensen
• The Tianlai 21cm intensity mapping experiment by X. Chen
• Novel technology for the the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope and MeerKAT by M. Kramer
• The Parkes Ultra-Wideband Receiver by R.N. Manchester
• Sloar Imaging with Mingantu Ultrawide SpEctral Radioheliograph (MUSER) by L. Chen
• Multiple-Aperture Based Solar Seeing Profiler by G. Zhao
• The Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter – POLAR onboard the China’s Spacelab “Tiangong-2” by M. KOLE
• Development of Wideband Feed by H. Ujihara
• R&D at JIVE: transforming the way VLBI is done by A. Szomoru
• Image Restoration of Y-type Fizeau Optical Synthetic Aperture Telescope by Z. Chen
• Numerical simulations of imaging satellites with optical interferometry by Y. Ding
• Self-calibration in optical/infrared interferometry by F. Millour
• Stereo imaging in astronomy with ultralong baseline interfereometry by A. Ray