Agenda

Day 0 - Tuesday 17th May

Board Meeting (dinner at The Elephant Walk, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (617) 492-6900)


Day 1 - Wednesday 18th May

08.00 Registration opens

08.00 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

09.00 - 09.10 Welcome and Introduction.
Charles Alcock, Director of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Rosalind Reid, Executive Director of the Institute for Applied Computatonal Science

Morning Plenary

Session Chair: S.Smartt

09.10 - 10.45 Director's Report: Status of PS1 Survey and System (Ken Chambers) [ Talk ]

10.45 - 11.00 Q&A with Ken

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

11.30 - 12.00 News from the Board (Tim Heckman)

12.00 - 13.00 IPP report: Status of data products and software (Gene Magnier)[ Talk ]

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Plenary

14.30 - 17.00 PSPS Workshop (Jim Heasley). Will include 30min talk by Robert Senger (The Photometric Classification Server and interfacing with PSPS).

15:30-16:00 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

Note : IPP and PSPS can share the time between 12.00-17.00, as required

Day 2: - Thursday 19th May

Morning Plenary - Data analysis and data quality

08.00 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

Session Chair: Carlos Frenk

09:00 - 09.30 Nigel Metcalfe: A psphot analysis of MD04 and some estimates of the depth of 3p

09.30 - 10.00 Daniel Farrow : Data quality and detection efficiency I

10.00 - 10.25 Larry Denneau: MOPS and ISS: results, status and data issues

10.25 - 10.45 Matt Holman: OSS pipeline: results, status and data issues

10.45 - 11.00 Tim Spahr: Astrometry from MOPS : an outside perspective

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)


Session Chair: Wen-Ping Chen

11.30 - 12.00 Johannes Koppenhoefer: Pan-Planets : PS1 data analysis and data quality

12.00 - 12.30 Doug Finkbeiner: Progress on "ubercalibration"

12.30 - 12.55 Stephen Smartt: Transient Science Server : Status, results and plans

12.55 - 13.15 Harald Ebeling: eMACS: using PS1 imaging data to find the most X-ray luminous clusters

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon: Parallel breakout workshops

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

  1. Inner Solar System (KP1) MD319: Contact Richard Wainscoat
  2. Outer Solar System (KP2) MD221: Contact Matt Holman
  3. Galactic Structure (KP5) MD 123: Contact Nicolas Martin
  4. Transients (KP7,8, Transient Server) MD119, Contact S. Smartt
  5. Galaxy Properties (KP9) G135: Contact Tim Heckman
  6. High-z QSOs (KP10) G125: Contact Fabian Walter
  7. Lensing (KP11) MD223: Contact Alan Heavans
  8. Large Scale structure (KP12) G115: Contact S. Cole, S. Phleps


Evening: Banquet

Day 3: Friday 20th May

Morning Plenary - Data analysis and data quality

08.00 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

Session Chair: Chris Stubbs

09:00 - 09.30 John Tonry: MD data analysis, colour terms and throughput

09.30 - 10.00 Mark Huber: DRAG Report;: major concerns and issues with IPP data products

10.00 - 10.30 Nicolas Martin: Searching for Local Group Dwarfs in PS1 data

10.30 - 11.00 Roberto Saglia: Photometric redshifts and galaxy-star/quasar classifications in MD04

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)


Session Chair: Hans-Walter Rix

11.30 - 12.30 Gene Magnier/Bertrand Goldman: Brown dwarf searches with PS1

12.30 - 12.50 Short reports from the breakout sessions on high priority data issues

12.50 - 13.00 Closing Address - Ken Chambers

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch (on your own)

13.00 - 14.30 DRAVG lunch meeting at MD119

Afternoon: Parallel breakout workshops

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break (Maxwell-Dworkin Lobby)

  1. Low mass stars and BDs (KP3) MD221: Contact Gene Magnier
  2. Galactic Structure (KP5) MD123: Contact Nicolas Martin
  3. Transients (KP7,8, Transient Server) MD119: Contact S. Smartt
  4. Large Scale structure (KP12) G115: Contact S. Cole, S. Phleps

Day 4: Saturday 21st May (Note: Different location, CfA 60 Garden Street)

08.00 - 10.00 Continental Breakfast (60 Garden Street (CfA))

09.00 - 12.30 Science Council meeting (60 Garden Street, Philips auditorium)

13.00 - 17.00 Board meeting (60 Garden Street, Tea Room)

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break