Sloan Digital Sky Survey Meeting » Scientific Program
Monday, March 15
Registration - Room 317, Corbett Center - SEGUE session - Room 317, Corbett Center - LSS session - West Ballroom, Corbett Center - Registration 8:45 - 9:00 LSS/SEGUE I 9:00 - 10:15 Morning tea 10:15 - 10:35 LSS/SEGUE II 10:35 - 12:20 Lunch 12:20 - 1:30 Registration - Room 317, Corbett Center - Stars session - Room 317, Corbett Center - Galaxies session - West Ballroom, Corbett Center - Day hike at Dripping Springs 1:30 - 5:00 Registration 1:30 - 1:45 Galaxies/Stars I 1:45 - 2:30 Afternoon tea 2:30 - 2:50 Galaxies/Stars II 2:50 - 4:10 Afternoon tea 4:10 - 4:30 Galaxies/Stars III 4:30 - 5:10
Tuesday, March 16
Registration - Room 317, Corbett Center - Informal room - Room 317, Corbett Center - Full session - West Ballroom, Corbett Center - Registration 8:15 - 8:30 Nicole Vogt Welcome and Orientation 8:30 - 8:40 Bill Borosky June 2005 - Status 8:40 - 9:00 Jim Gunn Post 2005 - Possibilities 9:00 - 9:30 Heidi Newberg SEGUE Overview 9:30 - 10:10 Dan Eisenstein KAOS 10:10 - 10:15 Morning tea 10:15 - 10:35 Josh Frieman SN Overview 10:35 - 11:05 Bill Boroski Operational Plan 11:05 - 11:35 Jim Gunn Post 2005 - Software Needs 11:35 - 12:20 Lunch 12:20 - 1:30 Adrian Pope Parameter Estimation via Clustering 1:30 - 1:50 Kev Abazajian Two-point Correlation Function 1:50 - 2:10 Istvan Szapudi Higher-order Clustering 2:10 - 2:30 Afternoon tea 2:30 - 2:50 Adam Lidz Clustering in the Lyman-alpha Forest 2:50 - 3:10 David Hogg Galaxy Properties and Environment 3:10 - 3:40 Dan Zucker The Structure of M31 3:40 - 4:10 Afternoon tea 4:10 - 4:30 Hugh Harris White Dwarf Luminosity Function 4:30 - 4:50 Nicole Silvestri An M Dwarf-White Dwarf Sequence 4:50 - 5:10 Andrew West Magnetic Activity in Cool Stars 5:10 - 5:30
Wednesday, March 17
Informal room - Room 317, Corbett Center - Full session - West Ballroom, Corbett Center - Bill Boroski Public Release of DR2 8:30 - 8:45 Bill Boroski DR3 8:45 - 9:00 Ani Thakar Current Status of CAS 9:00 - 9:30 Jim Gunn Photometric Calibration Issues 9:30 - 10:15 Morning tea 10:15 - 10:35 Michael Strauss SDSS Collaboration Policies 10:35 - 11:15 Brian Yanny Spectroscopy Accuracy Concerns 11:15 - 11:45 Michael Strauss Fall 2004 - Observing Plans 11:45 - 12:15 Nicole Vogt Dinner Plans, APO Trip Update 12:15 - 12:20 Lunch 12:20 - 1:30 Chris Carilli Probing the Epoch of Reionization 1:30 - 2:30 Afternoon tea 2:30 - 2:50 Anatoly Klypin Satellite Galaxies 2:50 - 3:15 Don York Quasar Absorption Lines Catalog 3:15 - 3:45 Lei Hao The AGN Luminosity Function 3:45 - 4:05 Afternoon tea 4:05 - 4:25 Huan Lin The Low-z Galaxy Survey 4:25 - 4:45 Eric Bell SDSS and 2MASS 4:45 - 5:10 Fiona Hoyle Void Galaxies 5:10 - 5:30 Conference dinner at La Posta 6:30
Thursday, March 18
Apache Point Observatory visit 9:00 - 6:00 Informal rooms - Room 201, Astronomy Department - 8:30 - 5:30 - Room 119, Astronomy Department - 4:00 - 5:30 Afternoon tea - Room 207, Astronomy Department - 2:30 - 3:00
Please note: The program of the working group sessions will be put together by the working group chairs and is not listed here in detail. Attending chairs for the four working groups which will actively meet are listed below.
| Galaxies: | Dan Eisenstein |
| LSS: | Josh Frieman |
| SEGUE: | Heidi Newberg |
| Stars: | Suzanne Hawley and Heidi Newberg |