Preliminary Agenda (last updated 3 January 2014):

9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Sunday January 5NRAO VLASS Science Planning Workshop
9:00 - 10:00
Poster Set Up & Meet and Greet (9:30am coffee arrives :-)
10:00 - 10:05 Tony Beasley (NRAO Director) - Welcome
10:05 - 11:35

Talks to Set the Stage - The Radio Wavelengths
(All Talks 12 minutes + 3 for questions)

10:05 - 10:20 Jim Condon (NRAO) - Nature of the Radio Sky
10:20 - 10:35 Rick White (STSCI) - Radio Surveys 101: How VLA Radio Surveys Differ from other Wavelength Surveys
10:35 - 10:50 Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) - Radio Transients
10:50 - 11:05 Jeroen Stil (Calgary) - Polarization of the Radio Sky
11:05 - 11:20 Anish Roshi (NRAO) - Spectral Lines in the Radio Sky
11:20 - 11:35 Joe Lazio (JPL) - Past and Planned Radio Surveys: A Census
11:35 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:30 Talks to Set the Stage - Surveys in the Multi-Wavelength Sky
11:45 - 12:00 Karl Menten (MPIfR) - MidIR/FIR/SubMM
12:00 - 12:15 Zeljko Ivezic (U Wash) - NIR/Optical/UV
12:15 - 12:30 Francesca Civano (Dartmouth/SAO) - Xray/Gamma Ray
12:30 - 1:30 VLASS White Paper SMASH (Stefi Baum, coordinator)
(Maximum Two Power Point Slides, 3 minutes per White Paper)
... Then - Break Into Science Discussion Groups

1:30 - 3:00 Lunch + Science Discussion Groups (2:30 afternoon coffee arrives :-)
3:00 - 4:00 Report Out from Science Discussion Groups (10 minutes each)
4:00 - 4:30 Jim Cordes (Cornell) - Unifying Themes, Guided Discussion and Workshop Summary
4:30 - 5:00

Lingering Discussions
*followed by retreat to bar, dinner, AAS reception at 7pm...*