US NGO workshops and splinter meetings at the AAS

NOIRLab regularly holds a series of mini-workshops and splinter meetings at the winter AAS meetings. These are intended to advocate for use of the Gemini facilities and data by the US community. If you have a suggestion for a topic and/or speaker contact the US NGO team.

2024 AAS Splinter Session: The Present and Future of Exoplanet Science with the Gemini Observatory

SOC: Vinicius Placco (Chair, NSF's NOIRLab/CSDC), Susan Ridgway (NSF's NOIRLab/CSDC), Siyi Xu (NSF's NOIRLab/Gemini), Emily Deibert (NSF's NOIRLab/Gemini), David Jones (NSF's NOIRLab/Gemini), Zachary Hartman (NSF's NOIRLab/Gemini)

• Meeting rationale
• Speakers TBD

2023 AAS Splinter Session: The Role of Gemini Observations in the Era of JWST

SOC: Letizia Stanghellini (Chair, NSF's NOIRLab/CSDC), Vinicius Placco (NSF's NOIRLab/CSDC), Janice Lee (NSF's NOIRLab/Gemini)

• Meeting rationale
• Jillian Rastinejad (CIERA Northwestern) - Building on the Neutron Star Merger Counterpart Diversity Revealed by Gemini Observatory with JWST
• Ryan Lau (NSF's NOIRLab) - Revealing and Resolving Dusty Stellar Outbursts with Gemini and JWST
• Alexandra Tetarenko (Texas Tech University) - Probing the dynamic environment near stellar-mass black holes with Gemini and JWST
• Adam McKay (Appalachian State University) - Gemini Observations of Active Centaurs Observed by JWST NIRSPEC
• Daichi Hiramatsu (CfA Harvard-Smithsonian) - Gemini-JWST Synergies for Revealing Progenitors and Mechanisms of Cosmic Explosions

2022 AAS Splinter Session on Stars and the ISM with Gemini’s Fast Turnaround (FT) observations

SOC: Letizia Stanghellini, Vinicius Placco, Janice Lee (NSF's NOIRLab)

The AAS #239 Meeting was cancelled due to the pandemic.

2021 AAS Splinter Session on Extragalactic Astronomy with Gemini Large and Long Programs (LLPs)

• AAS237 splinter meeting page
• Elizabeth Buckley-Geer (FermiLab) - Spectroscopic Confirmation of DES Strong Lensing Systems and Spectra for Photometric Redshift Calibration
• Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) - Rapid Spectroscopy of Elusive Transients and Young Supernovae
• Yue Shen (University of Illinois) - A GNIRS Near-IR Spectroscopic Survey of z>5.7 Quasars
• Michael Balogh (University of Waterloo) - The GOGREEN Survey of dense galaxy environments at 1<z<1.5
• Suresh Sivanandam (University of Toronto) - GIRMOS, and prospects for high redshift extragalactic astronomy in the future at Gemini
• Stephanie Juneau (NOIRLab) - Gemini LPs at the Data Lab science platform: Data & services to maximize scientific discoveries

2020 AAS Splinter Session on Planets, exoplanets, and planet formation with Gemini Large and Long Programs (LLPs)

• Program and talks abstracts
• Joseph Masiero (NASA Jet Propulsion Lab) - Chasing Near-Earth Asteroids at the Bottom of the Sky
• Henry Hsieh (Planetary Science Institute) - Oddball Snowballs: Gemini Observations of Main-Belt Comets
• Christine Chen (Space Telescope Science Institute) - Multi-Band Imaging of Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager
• Elizabeth Mattews (MIT Kavli Institute) - Validating TESS planets with AO imaging
• Evan Rich (University of Michigan) - Gemini-LIGHTS Survey: Herbig-Ae/Be protoplanetary disks imaged with GPI

2019 AAS Mini-workshop on The Resurgence of High-Resolution Spectroscopy at Gemini

• Ken Hinkle (NOAO) - Introduction and a brief history
• Jeff Carlin (LSST) - Science from the optical spectrograph GRACES (Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph)
• Hwi Kim (Gemini) - The First IGRINS Visit to Gemini
• Jacob Bean (Chicago) - MAROON-X: An Earth-Finder Spectrograph for the Gemini Observatory
• Steve Margheim (Gemini) - The Gemini High-Resolution Optical Spectrograph

2018 AAS Mini-workshop on Target of Opportunity Observing in the LSST Era

• Session Abstract
• Andy Adamson (Gemini) - Target of opportunity at Gemini Observatory
• Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) - Rapid response time-domain science with Gemini
• Todd Boroson (LCOGT) - Target of Opportunity Observing- the Las Cumbres Observatory Experience
• Bob Blum (NOAO) - A system for LSST

2017 AAS Mini-workshop on Mining Data Archives

• Session abstract | Speaker abstracts
• Andy Adamson and André-Nicolas Chené - Gemini Observatory Publications, Statistics, and Archive
• Harry Teplitz - Astrophysics Archives at IPAC
• Scott Fleming - Sailing the Archival Seas with MAST
• Knut Olsen - The NOAO Data Lab Project

2016 AAS Mini-workshop on AO data reduction

• Claire Max - Adaptive Optics for Astronomers: The Basics
• Tim Davidge - A0101: Considerations for Designing AO Observing Programs of Resolved Stellar Systems
• Frank Marchis - Processing and Data Analysis with AO Instruments. Challenges & Perspectives

2015 AAS Mini-workshop on IR data reduction

• Dick Joyce - An Introduction to Infrared Detectors
• Rachel Mason - Reducing GNIRS Cross-Dispersed Data

Last updated or reviewed November 1, 2022.