PROGRAM [PDF]
May 30, 2012 - Wednesday
| Introduction | |
| Craig Hogan, U. Chicago/Fermilab DESpec in the landscape of large spectroscopic surveys [PDF, 1.29 MB] | |
| Overall Science session Moderator: Jennifer Marshall | |
| Ofer Lahav, University College London DESpec science: prospects and challenges [PDF, 14.23 MB] | |
| Daniel Thomas, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth Remote talk: Non-DE science with DESpec [PDF, 2.71 MB] | |
| Darren L. DePoy, Texas A&M University Instrument design of DESpec as informed by DESpec science [PDF, 4.13 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Photo-Z calibration session Moderator: Steve Kent | |
| Jeffrey A Newman, U. Pittsburgh / Pitt-PACC Photometric Redshift Calibration with Wide-Area Surveys [PDF, 4.16 MB] | |
| Huan Lin, Fermilab Photometric Redshifts, DES, and DESpec [PDF, 1 MB] | |
| Jennifer Helsby, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago Photometric Redshifts, DES, and DESpec [PDF, 1.64 MB] | |
| Carlos Cunha, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University N-body-spectro-photometric simulations for DES and DESpec [PDF, 5.37 MB] | |
| Lunch | |
| Same sky session Moderators: Josh Frieman, Ofer Lahav | |
| David Weinberg, Ohio State University Why Joint Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys are Good [PDF, 1.37 MB] | |
| Francisco J Castander, ICE, IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona DESPec Science: Cross-correlation of spectroscopic and photometric surveys [PDF, 4.98 MB] | |
| Yanchuan Cai, Durham University Combining photo-z and spec-z surveys: Constraint on linear growth [PDF, 1.77 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Donnacha Kirk, Imperial College London DES/DESpec WGL & RSDs on the same sky [PDF, 1.13 MB] | |
| Molly Swanson, Harvard CfA Probing Dark Energy with Weak Lensing and Redshift Space Distortions [PDF, 1.45 MB] | |
| Discussion |
May 31, 2012 - Thursday
| Other surveys session Moderator: Darren DePoy | |
| Bob Nichol, ICG Portsmouth Remote talk: The latest from BOSS and eBOSS [PDF, 2.79 MB] | |
| Michael A Strauss, Princeton University Sumire and LSST [PDF, 24.73 MB] | |
| Aaron Roodman, KIPAC, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory BigBOSS [PDF, 38.7 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Survey Strategy session Moderator: Rich Kron | |
| Stephanie Jouvel, ICE/CSIC Target Selection for DESpec: Mocks, Strategy and Future Steps [PDF, 3.19 MB] | |
| Richard G. Kron, University of Chicago/KICP Allocating fibers to other classes of sources [PDF, 3.33 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Lunch | |
| Hardware session Moderator: Brenna Flaugher | |
| H. Thomas Diehl, Fermilab DESpec overview [PDF, 0.82 MB] | |
| Fiber positioners session | |
| Will Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory Mohawk - a 4000-fiber positioner for DESpec [PDF, 2.82 MB] | |
| Michael Seiffert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) [PDF, 2.65 MB] | |
| Jeremy R Allington-Smith, Durham University Fibre systems for cosmology [PDF, 4.4 MB] | |
| Break | |
| Optical design/ADC session Moderator: Tom Diehl | |
| Stephen M Kent, Fermilab DESpec optical design overview [PDF, 0.17 MB] | |
| David Brooks, University College London Design and Manufacture of the Optics [PDF, 1.39 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Spectrograph design session | |
| Jennifer L Marshall, Texas A&M University The DESpec spectrographs as an evolution of VIRUS [PDF, 2.45 MB] | |
| Will Saunders, Australian Astronomical Observatory A fast new reflective design for fiber-fed spectrographs [PDF, 0.4 MB] | |
| Discussion | |
| Closing |
