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June 27, 2018 - Wednesday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
 Morning Session 1Chair: Ting Li
9:00 AM - 9:10 AMTing Li, Fermilab/KICP
Welcome [PDF, 1.31 MB]
9:10 AM - 9:40 AMMatias Carrasco Kind, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
The Dark Energy Survey DR1 [PDF, 9.01 MB]
9:40 AM - 10:10 AMEddie Schlafly, LBL
DECaLS and DECaPS: DECam Surveys of the Northern Galactic Cap and Southern Galactic Plane [PDF, 11.75 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:30 AMNora Shipp, University of Chicago
Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey [PDF, 1.98 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
 Morning Session 2Chair: Jo Bovy
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMAna Bonaca, Harvard
What are the tidal streams constraining? [PDF, 5.07 MB]
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMNilanjan Banik, Leiden University/GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam
Distinguishing between warm and cold dark matter using gaps in stellar streams [PDF, 1.09 MB]
11:40 AM - 12:00 PMAdrian Price-Whelan, Princeton University
The Gaia DR2 view of the GD-1 stream [PDF, 13.07 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMTing Li, Fermilab/KICP
Tucana III Stream: a stream perturbed by LMC [PDF, 2.33 MB]
12:15 PM - 12:35 PMDiscussion: Streams
12:35 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon Session 1Chair: Brian Yanny
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMRobert Nikutta, NOAO
The NOAO Data Lab [PDF, 5.52 MB]
2:30 PM - 2:50 PMHeidi Jo Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The substructure of the stellar halo as measured with SDSS turnoff stars and MilkyWay@home [PDF, 3.85 MB]
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMCarl J Grillmair, Caltech/IPAC
FOSSILs in the Galactic Halo [PDF, 2.47 MB]
3:10 PM - 3:30 PMAdriano Pieres, Laboratorio Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - DES/Brazil
Fitting the Milky Way structural parameters using DES data [PDF, 2.92 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee Break
 Afternoon Session 2Chair: Heidi Newberg
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMNatalie Price-Jones, University of Toronto
Revealing the evolution of the Milky Way with chemical tagging [PDF, 1.84 MB]
4:20 PM - 4:40 PMVinicius Placco, University of Notre Dame
The Age Structure of the Milky Way Halo revealed by DES [PDF, 35.81 MB]
4:40 PM - 5:00 PMYumi Choi, University of Arizona
SMASHing the LMC [PDF, 8.6 MB]
5:00 PM - 5:20 PMPeter Ferguson, Texas A&M University
RR-Lyrae in the Dark Energy Survey [PDF, 1.29 MB]
5:20 PM - 5:40 PMLina Necib, Caltech
Dark Matter in disequilibrium, the local velocity distribution from SDSS-Gaia DR2 [PDF, 26.28 MB]
5:40 PM - 6:00 PMDiscussion: Milky Way Halo
6:00 PMWelcome Reception

 
June 28, 2018 - Thursday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
 Morning Session 1Chair: Jennifer Marshall
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMAlex Drlica-Wagner, Fermilab/KICP
Searching for Magellanic Satellites with DECam [PDF, 11.8 MB]
9:20 AM - 9:40 AMStacy Y Kim, Ohio State University
There is No Missing Satellites Problem [PDF, 3.4 MB]
9:40 AM - 10:00 AMEthan O Nadler, KIPAC/Stanford
Modeling Subhalos and Satellites in Milky Way-like Systems [PDF, 7.73 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:20 AMAndrew Pace, Texas A&M University
Proper motions of Milky Way Ultra-Faint satellites with Gaia DR2 × DES DR1 [PDF, 1.35 MB]
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMCoffee Break
 Morning Session 2Chair: David Sand
10:50 AM - 11:10 AMJennifer Marshall, Texas A&M University
Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way Satellites in DES [PDF, 1.52 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:30 AMAndrew S Graus, University of California, Irvine
Reionization and the radial distribution of satellites [PDF, 3.65 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:50 AMKristen McQuinn, University of Texas at Austin
Low-Mass Galaxies Discovered in the ALFALFA survey [PDF, 31.66 MB]
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMJeffrey L. Carlin, LSST
Near-Field Cosmology with Resolved and Unresolved Stellar Populations Around Low-Mass Local Volume Galaxies [PDF, 30.74 MB]
12:10 PM - 12:30 PMDiscussion: Dwarf Galaxies
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon Session 1Chair: Jeffrey Carlin
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMEric F Bell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A Lonely Giant: The Sparse Satellite Population of M94 Challenges Galaxy Formation [PDF, 12.59 MB]
2:20 PM - 2:40 PMDavid Sand, University of Arizona
Finding young star-forming galaxies in wide-field imaging datasets [PDF, 31.74 MB]
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMShany Danieli, Yale
Hunting Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Local Volume with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array [PDF, 11.02 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:20 PMLoay Khalifa, DePaul University
Probing the Non Linearity in Galaxy Clusters Through the Analysis of Fractal Dimension Via Wavelet Transform [PDF, 2.28 MB]
3:20 PM - 3:40 PMDenise M Schmitz, California Institute of Technology
Time evolution of intrinsic alignments of galaxies [PDF, 0.62 MB]
3:40 PM - 4:00 PMDiscussion: Beyond the Milky Way
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMCoffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMDES DR1 Data Access Tutorial and Hands-on

 
June 29, 2018 - Friday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
 Morning Tutorial SessionChair: Ting Li
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMNOAO Data Lab Data Access Tutorial and Hands-on
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMDECaLS Interactive Tools
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
 Hack SessionChair: Alex Drlica-Wagner
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMHack Overview
11:30 AM - 5:00 PMBreak Out Hack Sessions
Available rooms: 401, 419, 445 and the Schramm Lounge
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMLunch (Lunch Boxes)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMSpecial Friday SeminarSpeaker: Jo Bovy
Talk: Mapping the Milky Way in 6D with Gaia
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PMHack Tag-up