Agenda for Great Surveys of Astronomy Workshop S. Myers - Final Version 2008-11-20 Dates: 19-22 November 2008 Venue: La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM Sponsored by the: LANL Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Associated Universities Inc. (AUI) =============================================================================== Timetable: * sessions are 90m, made up of 3x30m or 30m + 3x20m 30min talks = 20m + 10m discussion 20min talks = 15m + 5m discussion last session in each afternoon has some scheduled discussion time Breaks, Poster Viewing, and Bar will be in adjacent room =============================================================================== Agenda: (all events at La Fonda Hotel) Day 0: Wed Nov 19 __________________ 6:00-7:30pm Evening Reception and Registration (partly sponsored by AUI) Day 1: Thu Nov 20 "Great Surveys Now and Future" __________________ Coffee/Breakfast 0800 - 0900 provide coffee and some fruit/pastries AM Session 1 --- Thursday 20 Nov 0900 - 1030 --- Great Surveys in Astronomy --- 1.0 Steven Myers (NRAO) 0900 - 0905 Welcome and Kickoff [5m] 1.1 Michael Strauss (Princeton) 0905 - 0945 What We Want to Get From Great Surveys [40m] 1.2 Alex Szalay (JHU) 0945 - 1030 Common Data Challenges in the Great Survey Era [45m] Break 1030 - 1100 AM Session 2 --- Thursday 20 Nov 1100 - 1230 --- Surveys of the Universe --- 2.1 Jim Heasley (Hawaii) 1100 - 1130 Dealing with (Exo)Planet(oid) Giga-Surveys [30m] 2.2 Chris Carilli (NRAO) 1130 - 1200 The Other Side of Galaxy Formation: Deep Radio Surveys [30m] 2.3 Min Yun and Grant Wilson (UMass) 1200 - 1230 Star Formation Near and Far: Millimeter and Submillimeter Surveys [30m] Lunch (Not provided, on your own!) 1230 - 1400 PM Session 3 --- Thursday 20 Nov 1400 - 1530 3.1 Charles Lawrence (JPL) 1400 - 1430 CMB Surveys in the Planck Era and Beyond [30m] --- No Pain, No Gain: Lessons Learned --- 3.2 Don York (Chicago) 1430 - 1450 Time domain surveys: From SDSS to Dome C [20m] 3.3 Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) 1450 - 1510 From MUSYC to LST [20m] 3.4 Bradford Benson (KICP) 1510 - 1530 Sunyaev-Zeldovich Surveys, South Pole Telescope and Onward [20m] Break 1530 - 1600 PM Session 4 --- Thursday 20 Nov 1600 - 1730 4.1 Tom Vestrand (LANL) 1600 - 1620 Robotic Telescope Networks [20m] 4.2 Nikhil Padmanabhan (LBL) 1620 - 1640 From SDSS to JDEM [20m] --- Discussion --- 4.3 Guided Discussion Leader: Salman Habib (LANL) 1640 - 1730 Science Goals & Lessons Learned [50m] Open/Cash Bar (possibly partly sponsored by AUI) 1730 - 1900 Dinner (Not provided, on your own!) Day 2: Fri Nov 21 "Challenges for Great Surveys" __________________ AM Session 5 --- Friday 21 Nov 0900 - 1030 --- Time and Frequency Domains --- 5.1 S. G. Djorgovski (Caltech) 0900 - 0930 Exploring the Time Domain with Synoptic Sky Surveys [30m] 5.2 Joe Mohr (UIUC) 0930 - 1000 Future Multi-wavelength Surveys of Galaxy Clusters [30m] 5.3 Geoff Bower (Berkeley) 1000 - 1030 Future Radio Synoptic Surveys [30m] Break 1030 - 1100 AM Session 6 --- Friday 21 Nov 1100 - 1230 --- When Theory Confronts Surveys --- 6.1 Steve Furlanetto (UCLA) 1100 - 1130 Theoretical Perspectives on the Epoch of Reionization [30m] 6.2 Katrin Heitmann (LANL) 1130 - 1200 Great Cosmological Structure Simulations and the Dark Universe [30m] 6.3 Bhuvnesh Jain (Penn) 1200 - 1230 Weak Lensing from Galaxy Surveys [30m] Lunch (Not provided, on your own!) 1230 - 1400 PM Session 7 --- Friday 21 Nov 1400 - 1530 --- Surveys and Technology --- 7.1 Rogier Windhorst (ASU) 1400 - 1430 High-precision Galaxy Surveys and Catalogs: JWST and beyond [30m] 7.2 Trish Henning (UNM) 1430 - 1450 Future 21cm Galaxy Redshift Surveys [20m] 7.3 Andrew Connolly (UWash) 1450 - 1510 Data Management and Mining for Ultra-Large Photometric Surveys [20m] 7.4 Ron Ekers (CSIRO) 1510 - 1530 Technical and Operational Issues for Radio Surveys [20m] Break 1530 - 1600 PM Session 8 --- Friday 21 Nov 1600 - 1730 8.1 Robert Lupton (Princeton) 1600 - 1630 Peta-Scale: Software Challenges beyond 2015 [30m] --- Contributed Short Talks --- 8.2 Jasper Wall (UBC) 1630 - 1645 Radio Surveys for AGN [15m] 8.3 Licai Deng (NAO/CAS) 1645 - 1700 The LAMOST Survey [15m] --- Discussion --- 8.4 Guided Discussion Leader: Martin White (Berkeley) 1700 - 1730 Challenges for Surveys, Science, and Simulation [60m] Open/Cash Bar (possibly partly sponsored by AUI) 1730 - 1900 Dinner (Not provided, on your own!) Day 3: Sat Nov 22 "Bringing it all together" __________________ AM Session 9 --- Saturday 21 Nov 0900 - 1030 --- Cross-Cutting Strategies and Solutions --- 9.1 Dan Eisenstein (UA) 0900 - 0930 Stage III and Beyond: Dark Energy from Great Surveys [30m] 9.2 Alexandre Refregier (CEA Saclay) 0930 - 1000 Future Optical/Infrared Cosmology Surveys [30m] 9.3 Sangeeta Malhotra (ASU) 1000 - 1030 Space, The Final Frontier, and JDEM [30m] Break 1030 - 1100 AM Session 10 --- Saturday 21 Nov 1100 - 1230 --- Off the Beaten Path --- 10.1 Sarah Church (Stanford) 1100 - 1120 Future Ground-based CMB & SZ Intereferometry [20m] 10.2 Michelle Creech-Eakman (NMT) 1120 - 1140 Future Optical Intereferometry [20m] 10.3 Adam Stanford (LLNL) 1140 - 1200 Future Explorer-class Space Surveys [20m] --- Overcoming the Data Challenges --- 10.4 Don Backer (Berkeley) 1200 - 1230 21-cm Emission from the Epoch of Reionization: Experimental Progress & Future Challenges [30m] Lunch (Not provided, on your own!) 1230 - 1400 PM Session 11 --- Saturday 21 Nov 1400 - 1530 11.1 Przemyslaw Wozniak (LANL) 1400 - 1420 Technical Challenges for Transients [20m] 11.2 Kirk Gilmore (Stanford) 1420 - 1440 Future Focal Planes [20m] --- Great Survey Strategies --- 11.3 Josh Frieman (Chicago/FNAL) 1440 - 1510 Surveys and the Culture of Astronomy, Lessons Learned [30m] 11.4 Anthony Readhead (Caltech) 1510 - 1530 Observational Complementarity: Surveys & Follow-up [20m] Break 1530 - 1600 PM Session 12 --- Saturday 21 Nov 1600 - 1730 12.1 Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) 1600 - 1630 Time and Spectral Frontiers [30m] --- Discussion --- 12.2 Guided Discussion Leader: Steven Myers (NRAO) 1630 - 1730 Where do we go from here? [60m] Adjourn 1730 Thank You for Attending the Great Surveys of Astronomy Workshop!