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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After a nearly 5 year hiatus, Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe is returning with a bang!
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 241, 0);">Hotwiring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> VII will be hosted by the Dunlap Institute
at the University of Toronto, May 13-16 2024. Please find important information regarding the program, abstract submission, and registration below, as well as on the conference website: <a href="https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/hotwired7/" target="_blank" id="OWA6e6856e6-6501-b73b-bdaa-ecb7614438e9" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/hotwired7/</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Program</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">: This will be a WORKshop. Each day will have a mixture of
talks, hack sessions, code demos, and brainstorming new instruments and systems. The three main science pillars will be: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enabling GW astronomy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rubin and the deep time-domain optical sky</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Radio transient revolution</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sessions will focus on themes that span all three communities including challenges for effective follow-up (spanning everything from real-time alerts/brokers and rapid classification
to coordination across multiple facilities and post-facto host galaxy follow-up at scale), how to turn the coming flood of observations into scientific inference at scale, and the path towards the next generation of facilities. We will focus on software AND
hardware infrastructure. In addition, any attendee can suggest other topics for discussion during daily unconference sessions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Conference Dates:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our formal program will run 9:00am-5:00pm from Monday May 13 to Thursday May 16. However, we will be able to provide rooms in the Astronomy Building at the University
of Toronto on Friday May 17 for any groups who wish to continue hacking/working on projects (no food will be provided).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Abstract submission:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To submit an abstract for a talk and/or a poster, please fill out
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/88GBZmjuzrzJcuaE9" id="OWA191a26ac-364a-5575-33a3-df7a32e9925d" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://forms.gle/88GBZmjuzrzJcuaE9" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">this
form</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by Friday March 1. We plan to finalize the schedule and let everyone know of the status of their abstracts by Friday, March 15. In addition to traditional talks,
we welcome abstracts for topics that may be best suited as e.g. code demos or other technical demonstrations. Please note that except for extenuating circumstances we expect all speakers to attend in person.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">In-person Registration</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> To register for the conference, please go
to the Dunlap Institute </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hot-wiring-the-transient-universe-vii-tickets-815427103417" id="OWA5b72a2b9-7eb1-73fe-9e2d-03ca8ddc26e4" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hot-wiring-the-transient-universe-vii-tickets-815427103417" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">Eventbrite
page here</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Deadline for registration is Monday April 15 (or until we are full; we have capacity for 100 in-person attendees). General registration is $200, student
registration is $100.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Online Participation:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Our intention is to have a
<i>partially</i> hybrid meeting. In particular, we will live stream all talks on Zoom and provide moderators to ensure that online participants can ask questions. We will also add any interested online participants to the conference Slack. However, conference
organizers will not explicitly facilitate online participation during the unconference/breakout sessions. To express interest in online participation,
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/f4AAPwSGbb9DkgwC6" id="OWAbfd97472-b75e-fa15-aa7c-4f891414244d" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://forms.gle/f4AAPwSGbb9DkgwC6 " data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" data-ogsc="" style="margin: 0px;">please
fill out this form</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by Friday May 10 (we will use this to add participants to Slack and share the relevant Zoom links). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Summary of Important Dates</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">March 1: Abstract Submission Deadline.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">March 15: Notice of Abstract Status. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">April 15: Deadline for in person registration</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">May 10: Deadline for expression of interest in online participation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We hope to see you in May!</span></p>
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