The workshop meetings will be held on September 3, 2015 in the Kersten Physics Teaching Center (KPTC) and the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR) at the University of Chicago.
September 3, 2015 - Thursday
Breakfast KPTC Lounge (206) | |
Science & Infrastructure Talks Part 1Chair: Nan LiKPTC 120 | |
Josh Frieman, Chicago/Fermilab Welcome | |
Stephen M Kent, Fermilab Reddening Law in the DES Survey Footprint | |
Eric Morganson, NCSA Examining Outer Milky Way Structures with PS1 and DES | |
Amanda Pagul, University of Chicago Counts in Cells: Constraining Galaxy Statistics | |
Zoheyr Doctor, UC Search for Kilonovae in DES Supernovae Fields | |
Discussion Buffer | |
Coffee Break KPTC Lounge (206) | |
Science & Infrastructure Talks Part 2Chair: Alex Drlica-WagnerKPTC 120 | |
Samuel Flender, ANL Measurements of the kSZ using DES + SPT | |
Thomas Diehl, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Results of a Search for Strong Gravitational Lenses in SVA1 and Y1A1 using ''Blue Near Anything'' | |
Michael Gladders, UChicago Thoughts on Strong Lensing from Sloan | |
Nan Li, KICP & Argonne Simulations of Cluster Scale Strong lensing | |
Discussion Buffer | |
Lunch KPTC Lounge (206) | |
Afternoon sessionChair: Lindsey BleemKPTC 120 Hacks in KPTC + LASR | |
Felipe Menanteau, NCSA, University of Illinois DES Data Access | |
Ravi Gupta, ANL DES at Adler After Dark (with Brian Nord) | |
Hack Session: Open Room | |
Carrasco Kind Matias, NCSA Hack Session: DES data access + Data Quality (with K. Bechtol & A. Drlica-Wagner) | |
Brian Nord, Fermilab Hack Session: DES outreach | |
Daniel Scolnic, KICP Hack Session: DES Calibration | |
Coffee Break KPTC Lounge (206) | |
Hack Review | |
Josh Frieman, Chicago/Fermilab DES Projections | |
Group brainstorming: New ideas + Discussion of papers to be completed in next year |