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=============================================================================== Schedule for SDSS-II Collaboration Meeting (Nov 1-3, 2007) (followed by SDSS-III Collaboration meeting on Nov 4) Thursday, November 1: ------------------------------ Morning Session: Wilson Hall One West Conference Room (WH1W) 8.00am - 8.45am Registration 8.50am - 9.00am Welcome/Orientation/Logistics Douglas Tucker, Fermilab 9.00am - 10.30am Supernova Survey 1. Overview and Hubble Diagram (15 min) Gajus Miknaitis, Fermilab 2. Systematic uncertainties in supernova cosmology (15 min) Rick Kessler, Fermilab 3. SALT 2 Light-curve fitting for SDSS SN (10 min) Jake Vanderplas, Washington 4. SN Photometry (15 min) Jon Holtzman, NMSU 10.30am - 11.00am Coffee break 11.00am - 12.00pm Science talks 1. Big galaxies in the SDSS (15 min) David Hogg, NYU 2. Strong lenses and cosmological tests (15 min) Masamune Oguri, JPG/Stanford 3. Southern co-add (15 min) Jim Annis, Fermilab 12.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch Afternoon Session: Wilson Hall Ramsey Auditorium (WH-Ground Floor) 1.30pm - 2.15pm Survey Status 1. The State of the Survey (20 min) Rich Kron, Fermilab/Chicago 2. The State of SEGUE (20 min) Brian Yanny, Fermilab 2.15pm - 3.30pm Science talks 1. MgII Absorbers (15 min) Dan Nestor, Cambridge 2. Machine-gun Science (up to 15 2-minute, 1-overhead talks) a. Kinematics of Galaxy Clusters in SDSS and 2dFGRS Ho Seong Hwang, KIAS b. How Transparent is the Universe David Hogg, NYU c. Extreme ISW: Adding All the Data together Ryan Scranton, Google/Pittsburgh d. Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and its Environmental Dependence Niraj Welikala, Pittsburgh e. Galaxy-Mass Bias Constraints from the Main Galaxy Sample Cameron McBride f. Shrinking the Error on Covariance Estimates Adrian Pope, Hawaii g. Stripe 82 Variability and Proper Motion Catalogue Martin Smith, Cambridge 3.30pm - 4.00pm Coffee break (2nd Floor Crossover, WH2X) 4.00pm - 4.45pm SDSS and the World/Earth 1. Google Sky (15 min) Ryan Scranton, Google/Pittsburgh 2. World Wide Telescope (15 min) Jonathan Fay, Microsoft 3. The Galaxy Zoo (10 min) Daniel Thomas, Portsmouth 5.00pm - 6.15pm The Dark Energy Survey (1 hour talk + questions) Josh Frieman, Fermilab/Chicago Friday, November 2: ------------------------------ Morning Session: Wilson Hall Ramsey Auditorium (WH-Ground Floor) 9.00am - 10.00am Large Scale Structure and Clusters 1. Mass and M/L profiles of clusters (15 min) Tim McKay, Michigan 2. Weak lensing masses of nearby clusters (15 min) Albert Stebbins, Fermilab 3. Spin alignment of galaxies in SDSS filaments (15 min) Miguel Calvo, JHU 10.00am - 10.40am Galactic structure 1. Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: Stellar Number Density, Metallicity, and Kinematics (15 min) Mario Juric, IAS 2. The Milky Way Rotation Curve to 60 Kpc (15 min) Xiangxiang Xue, MPIA 10.40am - 11.15am Coffee Break 11.15am - 12.00pm Stars and Galactic Structure 1. White dwarfs (15 min) Evalyn Gates, USNO 2. Galactic substructure: Theory and Observation (15 min) Eric Bell, MPIA 12.00pm - 12.30pm Update on SDSS-III (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A) Daniel Eisenstein 12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch Afternoon Sessions: Various Conference Rooms in Wilson Hall 1.30pm - 3.30pm Galaxies WG (Dark Side Conference Room, WH6W) 2:00pm - 3:30pm Quasar WG (Theory Conference Room, WH3NE) 3.30pm - 4.00pm Coffee Break (2nd Floor Crossover, WH2X) 4.00pm - 6.00pm Quasar WG (Theory Conference Room, WH3NE) Clusters WG (The Racetrack Conference Room, WH7X) Saturday, November 3: ------------------------------ 9:00am - 5:00pm LSS WG (Curia II, WH2W) 9:00am - 5:00pm Supernova team meeting (The Racetrack Conference Room, WH7X) 9:00am - 5:00pm SEGUE/Stars WG (The Hornet's Nest Conference Room, WH8X) 9:45am - 10:15am Morning Coffee Break There is no scheduled Afternoon Coffee Break. Sunday, November 4: ------------------------------ SDSS-III meetings Morning Session: Curia II (WH2W) General topics: Daniel Eisenstein (8:30-8:50) Updates on the formation of the collaboration and fund-rasing Communication mechanisms within the collaboration Using the SVN archive Statement about definition of lunation Discussion of plate drilling Status reports from the teams: Connie, David, Jian, & Steve (8:50-9:30) Infrastructure: Jim Gunn (9:30-9:50) Review of the Fiber System Plans for telescope/instrument interface Anatomy of an Observation Coffee break (9:50-10:10) Data Handling: David Schlegel (10:10-10:40) What is needed to do the data releases? Information capture Outline of what we plan to do, schedule Data model Tasks for the next 6 months Hiring plan Science Requirements: David Weinberg, chair (10:40-11:15) Statement of what the requirement documents should be Reports from each team Target selection: David Weinberg, chair (11:15-12:00) Schedule for target selection Reports from each team Auxillary targets Lunch (12-12:30). Afternoon Sessions: Various Conference Rooms in Wilson Hall SEGUE/APOGEE/MARVELS joint issues: Daniel Eisenstein, chair (12:30-1; Curia II, WH2W) Calibration -- jointly-observed clusters Field selection, cadence SEGUE spectra of MARVELS targets Parallel session (1-2:15) Each survey should meet to identify tasks, respond to problems or suggestions that have been raised in the plenary time, and to divide work into groups. a. SSS (The Racetrack Conference Room, WH7X) b. ASEPS (The Dark Side Conference Room, WH6W) c. APO-LSS (Curia II, WH2W) d. APOGEE (The Hornet's Nest Conference Room, WH8X) Reports from the parallel sessions (2:15-3, Curia II, WH2W): Daniel Eisenstein, chair Groups should return to report on their progress in the parallel sessions. Questions that might have raised that require discussion or coordination with other surveys or with the central management can be discussed here. Adjourn at 3 pm ------------------------------ |