The Dark Energy Survey
International Collaboration Meeting
April 23-25, 2008
| Wednesday, April 23 (technical day) | |
|---|---|
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast at hotel |
| 09:00-09:45 | Overall Status Report: Peoples + Discussion |
| 09:45-10:30 | DES DECam Status: Brenna + Discussion |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | CTIO Upgrade Status: A. Walker |
| 11:30-12:00 | Revised/updated imaging and sensitivity performance estimates and report on engineering time on the CTIO 1m: DePoy |
| 12:00-12:45 | Report on Filters from the Filter and Calibration Strategy Workshop: Lin |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch at the Conference |
| 14:15-15:00 | Report on Calibration from the Filter and Calibration Strategy Workshop: Tucker/DePoy |
| 15:00-15:30 | Report from the Integration and Installation Meeting: Abbott |
| 15:30-16:00 | Report from the Front End Electronics Meeting: Schmidt/T. Shaw |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-18:00 | Science WGs meet with Simulations WG |
| 18:00-18:30 | Science WGs meet with Photo-z WG |
| Thursday, April 24 (science day) | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast at hotel |
| 09:00-09:30 | Report on progress for the Science Requirements: Annis |
| 09:30-10:00 | DES DM Status: Mohr / or someone from DM-team |
| 10:00-10:30 | DES Supernova Survey: Goals & Strategy: Marriner |
| 10:30-10:45 | Frieman/Lahav: Instructions to Science WGs |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15-13:15 | Parallel sessions for Clusters, LSS, Weak Lensing, and SN WGs |
| 12:15-13:15 | Photo-z WG |
| 13:15-14:45 | lunch at the conference |
| 14:45-18:30 | Plenary Science Sessions Plenary Science: Clusters WG: McKay/Mohr Plenary Science: SN WG: John Marriner Plenary Science: Weak Lensing WG: Bridle/Jain Coffee Break Plenary Science: LSS WG: Enrique Gaztanaga Plenary Science: Photo-z WG: Lin/Castander Plenary Science: Simulations WG: open |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday, April 25: | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast at hotel |
| 09:00-09:30 | DES non-core science and new science working groups: Frieman/Lahav |
| 09:30-10:00 | DECam Community Use Requirements: Smith |
| 10:00-10:30 | DECam Community Access and the VO: Miller |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee |
| 10:45-11:15 | The next six months: Peoples/Brenna |
| 11:15-12:00 | Discussion and official wrap-up. |
| 12:00-18:00 | Free afternoon for informal discussions, WGs, etc. |
| 13:00 | First LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |
| 14:05 | Second LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |
| 18:50 | Last LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |
| Saturday, April 26 (times subject to change) | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast at hotel |
| 09:30-15:00 | Tour of the Blanco and lunch (Blanco: 11:00-13:00; Lunch: 13:00 or 13:45 until 14:15 or 15:00 depending on location = Tololo or El Molle) |
| 16:30 | First LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |
| 18:50 | Last LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |
| Sunday, April 27 | |
| 11:40 | First LAN flight to Santiago (time subject to change) |


