FISSS2011

The format of the symposium will be four science sessions on two full days. Each session will have two invited talks, contributed talks and posters. Then, the Symposium will continue with sessions on the two following days covering current instruments, data reduction, and user feedback, as well as future science directions and operations modes in the era of LSST and other large surveys and telescope projects.

The Symposium schedule is listed in the Table below. Note that:

• Invited talks are expected to be 40 min long and oral contributions about 20 minutes long.
• Posters should remain fixed during the first three days of the event. They cannot be larger than 120 cm long and 90 cm wide. In the slot "Poster Presentations" of the table below, people who is presenting a poster will be invited to describe shortly (3 minutes at most) the most important aspects of his/her work.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Andrei Tokovinin (NOAO)

Brad Newton Barlow (UNC)

Bruno Castilho (LNA/MCT)

Catherine Kennedy (MSU)

Claudia M. de Oliveira (IAG/USP)

David Wittman (UCD)

Ed Loh (MSU)

José Henrique Groh (MPIfR)

Kepler Oliveira (UFRGS)

Mark Norris (UNC)

Ming Sun (U. of Virginia)