1. Agenda
2. Agenda

DECam Community Science Workshop 2018: Science Highlights, Coming Opportunities, LSST Synergies

May 21-May 22, 2018

Tucson, Arizona U.S.A.

Agenda

MONDAY

8:00	Breakfast
8:50	Session 1: DECam & its Data
	Tim Abbott – Session Chair
8:50	Bob Blum – Welcome, Goals
9:00	Alistair Walker – DECam Status & Future
9:20	Leah Fulmer – NOAO Data Lab: Overview, Applications with DECam, Next Steps
9:50	Douglas Tucker – The photometric and astrometric properties of DECam as enablers of precision science
10:20	break
10:40	Session 2: DESI and DES
	Ian Dell’Antonio – Session Chair
10:40	Martin Landriau – The DESI Imaging Legacy Surveys
11:10	Thomas McClintock – Weak Lensing Mass Calibration with DECam: The Most Precise Mass—Scaling Relation Measurement To Date
11:40	Dillon Brout – Cosmological Parameter Constraints from the DES Supernova Program Three Year Spectroscopic Sample
12:10	Yuanyuan Zhang – DECam at the Low Surface Brightness Limit: Detection of Diffuse Light in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
12:30	lunch
13:30	Session 3: Lots of Stars
	Kathy Vivas – Session Chair
13:30	Edward Schlafly – The DECam Plane Survey
13:50	Nora Shipp – Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
14:20	Abi Saha – Mapping the Reddening and Extinction towards the Galactic Bulge from Panchromatic Photometry of RR Lyrae Light Curves
14:40	David Nidever – Uncovering the SMASHed up Magellanic Clouds
15:00	break
15:20	Annalisa Calamida – DECam photometry covering the entirety of the puzzling Omega Cen globular cluster
15:40	Jeffrey Carlin – Probing the halo of the Milky Way beyond 100 kpc with RR Lyrae
16:00	Session 4: Galaxies Near and Very Far
	Clara Martinez-Vazquez – Session Chair
16:00	John Moustakas – Stellar Mass Growth of Massive Central Galaxies
16:20	Zhenya Zheng – The LAGER Project: Probing Reionization at z~7 with the First Narrowband Filter on DECam
16:50	Jinyi Yang – Exploring Reionization-Era Quasars with DESI Legacy imaging Survey and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

TUESDAY

8:00	Breakfast
9:00	Session 5: Transients & Variables
	Alistair Walker – Session Chair
9:00	Tim Abbott – Deeper, Wider, Faster: Using DECam to help chase the fastest bursts in the Universe
9:30	Marcelle Soares-Santos – Multi-messenger Astronomy with DECam
10:00	Lori Allen – Measuring the size distribution of small NEOs with DECam
10:20	Kathy Vivas – The variable star population in the Sextans dwarf spheroidal
10:40	break
11:00	Session 6: Other Tasty Things
	Dara Norman – Session Chair
11:00	William Dawson – DECam Microlensing Studies of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
11:20	Jorge Casares – A DECAM Survey to unveil the hidden Galactic population of quiescent black holess
11:40	Mehdi Rezaie – Mitigation of Photometric Systematics in Galaxy Clustering
12:00	Sangeeta Malhotra – Looking for Bubbles in LAGER
12:30	lunch
13:30	Session 7: Looking to the Future
	David Gerdes – Session Chair
13:30	Thomas Matheson – ANTARES: Time-Domain Discovery in the Era of ZTF and LSST
14:00	Meg Schwamb – Solar System Synergies in the Era of LSST
14:30	Adam Bolton – Summary and Next Steps from the DECam Data Splinter Meeting
14:45	Arjun Dey – Motivation for the DECam Future Discussion
15:00	break
15:20	Session 8: Round Table – DECam – the Future
15:20	Alistair Walker – Round Table and Post-Meeting Notes [84 KB PDF]
16:00	close

Poster:

• Stephen Ridgway – Transient Follow-up in the ZTF/LSST Era – an NCOA Initiative [938 KB PDF]