RAPID Response: Hot-wiring the Next Generation of Time-Domain Science

March 23-27, 2026 @ Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

This workshop will address the software infrastructure needed to pursue breakthrough science enabled by low-latency alters, multi-wavelength/messenger discovery, machine learning, and science platforms/alert brokers/marshals. Key questions include what lessons were learned from the existing alert streams and Rubin alerts, focusing in particular on being ready for Roman and beyond, how to optimize transient discovery with multi-wavelength and multi-messenger alert streams, how to effectively utilize machine learning for time-domain science, and what physics of stellar explosions/eruptions/variability can be revealed with rapid, multiwavelength/messenger observations. Science topics will focus on relativistic explosions, stellar variables, supermassive black hole transients, IR/”gap” transients, and supernovae.
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