Schedule/Agenda

 

 

DECam at 10 years – Looking Back, Looking Forward
Tucson, September 12-14, 2022

Scientific Program

  INVITED TALK
Monday September 12
 
  08:00 - 08:50 Breakfast, Registration  
 
  08:50 - 09:00 Pat McCarthy Welcome, Goals
Chair: Kathy Vivas 09:00 - 09:15 Alistair Walker DECam - Status and Future
  09:15 - 09:50 Brenna Flaugher From High Energy to Dark Energy and the Creation of DECam
  09:50 - 10:25 Chihway Chang Cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey -- pushing boundaries, setting standards, and shaping the community
 
  10:25 - 10:45 Break  
   
Chair: Ting Li 10:45 - 11:20 Burçin Mutli-Pakdil The Milky Way Science Revolution: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  11:20 - 11:55 Pedro Bernardinelli Solar System science with the Dark Energy Survey
  11:55 - 12:15 Zhefu Yu Mapping the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes with DECam
  12:15 - 12:35 Yifei Luo The Merian Survey: Characterizing dark matter and feedback in 100,000 star-forming dwarf galaxies
 
  12:35 - 13:35 Lunch  
   
Chair: Knut Olsen 13:35 - 13:55 Yumi Choi SMASHing the Magellanic Clouds with DECam
  13:55 - 14:15 Pol Massana The synchronised star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
  14:15 - 14:35 Alex Drlica-Wagner The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE)
  14:35 - 14:55 Michael Jones Gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies in the field
  14:55 - 15:15 Stephen Hellmich Exploiting large astronomical data archives for space debris research
 
  15:15 - 15:35 Break  
   
Chair: Kyoungsoo Lee 15:35 - 15:55 Ting Li The Power of High Precision Photometry on Near Field Cosmology with DECam
  15:55 - 16:15 Clara Martínez-Vázquez RR Lyrae stars in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the era of the large surveys
  16:15 - 16:35 Kathy Vivas Variable Stars as tracers of the stellar population of diffuse satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
  16:35 - 16:55 Yuting Feng Discovering Distant RR Lyrae Stars in the Milky Way Halo with Sparsely Sampled Photometry Data
  16:55 - 17:15 Annalisa Calamida A wide view of different stellar sub-populations in NGC2808
 
  18:15 - Reception (NOIRLab patio)  
 
Tuesday September 13
 
  08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast  
   
Chair: Chihway Chang 09:00 - 09:35 Aaron Meisner DECaLS DR10: Updating the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey
  09:35 - 10:10 Stephanie Juneau The Siena Galaxy Atlas: Large Angular Size Galaxies from the DESI Imaging Legacy Surveys
  10:10 - 10:30 Aleksandr Mosenkov Edge-on galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
 
  10:30 - 10:50 Break - Group Photo  
   
Chair: Alejandro Clocchiatti 10:50 - 11:25 Paul Martini Synergies between DECam/DES and DESI
  11:25 - 11:45 David Schlegel Dynamic Observing for Uniform Surveys
  11:45 - 12:05 David Trilling The DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP)
  12:05 - 12:25 Ryder Strauss Constraints on the Shape Distribution of TNOs with DEEP
  12:25 - 12:45 Katie Fasbender A wide-scale search for solar system objects with DECam in the NOIRLab Source Catalog
 
  12:45 - 13:35 Lunch  
   
Chair: Clara Martínez-Vázquez 13:35 - 13:55 Andrew Saydjari The Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey 2 (DECaPS2): More Sky, Less Bias, and Better Uncertainties
  13:55 - 14:15 Mike Rich The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey
  14:15 - 14:35 David Sand Using DECam and Gaia to Identify Globular Clusters in the Local Universe: Substructure and Mass of Centaurus A
  14:35 - 14:55 Alison Crisp Measuring Hot Jupiter Occurrence Rates in High-Alpha Stellar Populations with DECam
  14:55 - 15:15 Vinicius Placco Searching for Chemically Pristine Stars with Narrowband Photometry
  15:15 - 15:35 Sean Points The DECam Magellanic Cloud Emission-Line Surveys
 
  15:35 - 15:55 Break  
   
Chair: Vinicius Placco 15:55 - 16:25   Poster "two minute" presentations
  16:25 - 17:00   Poster Viewing
 
Wednesday September 14
 
  08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast  
   
Chair: Monika Soraisam 09:00 - 09:35 Sangeeta Malhotra Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER)
  09:35 - 10:10 Eric Gawiser Blobs, Galaxies, and Protoclusters Found with Lyman Alpha: Early Science from ODIN
  10:10 - 10:45 Jim Annis TBA
 
  10:45 - 11:00 Break  
   
Chair: James Rhoads 11:00 - 11:20 Nora Sherman Searching for Kilonovae: Using DECam and the DESGW Data Pipeline in Pursuit of Optical Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Events
  11:20 - 11:40 Ian Dell'Antonio Low Redshift Clusters from SV to 2022B and Beyond
  11:40 - 12:00 Lucie Baumont Weighing the fgas giants with DECam Data
  12:00 - 12:20 Suchitoto Tabares-Tarquinio Strong Gravitational Lenses from DECam
  12:20 - 12:40 Matthew Penny DECam + Roman in the age of Rubin: Enhancing Roman's Microlensing Planet Haul
 
  1240-1340 Lunch  
   
Chair: Annalisa Calamida 13:40 - 14:00 Mario Juric The power of DECam, its archive, and novel algorithms: discovering tens of thousands of "undiscoverable" asteroids in the DECam data
  14:00 - 14:35 Jeff Carlin DECam’s Contributions to Rubin/LSST Now and in the Future
  14:35 - 15:10 César Briceño (remote) AEON on SOAR and Blanco: status and future perspectives
  15:10 - 15:30 Shemming Fu Processing DECam data using the Rubin LSST pipeline: LoVoCCS and MMA
 
  15:30 - 15:50 Break  
   
Chair: Lori Allen 15:50 - 16:20 Arjun Dey The NOIRLab 4m telescopes and their future
  16:20 - 17:00 Moderators Arjun Dey, Adam Bolton, Tim Abbott Round Table - discussion on the future

POSTERS

Felipe Almeida-Fernandes S-PLUS: 12-filter photometric survey observing ~9000 sq.deg. in the South Hemisphere
Raul Teixeira Characterization of Photometric Redshifts for Cosmic Shear in DELVE
Gene Leung The HETDEX/SHELA Photometric Catalog: Galaxy Evolution from the Cosmic Dawn to Noon
Jonah Medoff Searching for Dwarf Galaxies Around Isolated, Low Mass Hosts
Brendan O'Connor A search for hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes
Avi Patel DECam Deep Drilling Survey: Characterizing Variable Stars in the DECaPS-East field
Chin Yi Tan Photometric Calibration of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) Survey
Francisco Valdes The DECam Serendipitous Asteroid Program