Workshop Program
PROGRAM [PDF]

 
May 30, 2012 - Wednesday
 Introduction
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMCraig Hogan, U. Chicago/Fermilab
DESpec in the landscape of large spectroscopic surveys [PDF, 1.29 MB]
 Overall Science session
Moderator: Jennifer Marshall
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMOfer Lahav, University College London
DESpec science: prospects and challenges [PDF, 14.23 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:20 AMDaniel Thomas, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Remote talk: Non-DE science with DESpec [PDF, 2.71 MB]
10:20 AM - 10:40 AMDarren L. DePoy, Texas A&M University
Instrument design of DESpec as informed by DESpec science [PDF, 4.13 MB]
10:40 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
 Photo-Z calibration session
Moderator: Steve Kent
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMJeffrey A Newman, U. Pittsburgh / Pitt-PACC
Photometric Redshift Calibration with Wide-Area Surveys [PDF, 4.16 MB]
11:20 AM - 11:35 AMHuan Lin, Fermilab
Photometric Redshifts, DES, and DESpec [PDF, 1 MB]
11:35 AM - 11:50 AMJennifer Helsby, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago
Photometric Redshifts, DES, and DESpec [PDF, 1.64 MB]
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMCarlos Cunha, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University
N-body-spectro-photometric simulations for DES and DESpec [PDF, 5.37 MB]
12:10 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
 Same sky session
Moderators: Josh Frieman, Ofer Lahav
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMDavid Weinberg, Ohio State University
Why Joint Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys are Good [PDF, 1.37 MB]
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMFrancisco J Castander, ICE, IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona
DESPec Science: Cross-correlation of spectroscopic and photometric surveys [PDF, 4.98 MB]
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMYanchuan Cai, Durham University
Combining photo-z and spec-z surveys: Constraint on linear growth [PDF, 1.77 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMBreak
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMDonnacha Kirk, Imperial College London
DES/DESpec WGL & RSDs on the same sky [PDF, 1.13 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMMolly Swanson, Harvard CfA
Probing Dark Energy with Weak Lensing and Redshift Space Distortions [PDF, 1.45 MB]
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMDiscussion
 
May 31, 2012 - Thursday
 Other surveys session
Moderator: Darren DePoy
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMBob Nichol, ICG Portsmouth
Remote talk: The latest from BOSS and eBOSS [PDF, 2.79 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:50 AMMichael A Strauss, Princeton University
Sumire and LSST [PDF, 24.73 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMAaron Roodman, KIPAC, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BigBOSS [PDF, 38.7 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:40 AMBreak
 Survey Strategy session
Moderator: Rich Kron
10:40 AM - 11:20 AMStephanie Jouvel, ICE/CSIC
Target Selection for DESpec: Mocks, Strategy and Future Steps [PDF, 3.19 MB]
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMRichard G. Kron, University of Chicago/KICP
Allocating fibers to other classes of sources [PDF, 3.33 MB]
11:40 AM - 12:00 PMDiscussion
12:00 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
 Hardware session
Moderator: Brenna Flaugher
1:30 PM - 1:50 PMH. Thomas Diehl, Fermilab
DESpec overview [PDF, 0.82 MB]
 Fiber positioners session
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMWill Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory
Mohawk - a 4000-fiber positioner for DESpec [PDF, 2.82 MB]
2:10 PM - 2:30 PMMichael Seiffert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) [PDF, 2.65 MB]
2:30 PM - 2:50 PMJeremy R Allington-Smith, Durham University
Fibre systems for cosmology [PDF, 4.4 MB]
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMBreak
 Optical design/ADC session
Moderator: Tom Diehl
3:10 PM - 3:30 PMStephen M Kent, Fermilab
DESpec optical design overview [PDF, 0.17 MB]
3:30 PM - 3:50 PMDavid Brooks, University College London
Design and Manufacture of the Optics [PDF, 1.39 MB]
3:50 PM - 4:10 PMDiscussion
 Spectrograph design session
4:10 PM - 4:30 PMJennifer L Marshall, Texas A&M University
The DESpec spectrographs as an evolution of VIRUS [PDF, 2.45 MB]
4:30 PM - 4:50 PMWill Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory
A fast new reflective design for fiber-fed spectrographs [PDF, 0.4 MB]
4:50 PM - 5:30 PMDiscussion
5:30 PMClosing