“Probing the Dark Universe with Subaru and Gemini”

November 6-9, 2005 AGENDA Waikoloa, Hawaii

Waikoloa Beach Marriott

Sunday — November 6, 2005

Alli Ballroom Foyer

Opening Reception

5:00 — 7:00 pm

Monday — November 7, 2005

Alii Ballroom I & II

8:00 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am Welcome and Introductions
NOTE: presentations are PDF files of varying size
Naoshi Sugiyama

Session 1
“The Power of Wide-Field Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys”

8:40 am The scientific power of wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys Michael Strauss
9:20 am Historical perspectives on Dark Energy Yuzuru Yoshii
9:40 am An Introduction to WFMOS Matthew Colless
10:00 am HyperSuprime: design and current status Yutaka Komiyama
10:20 am Break

Session 2
“Theoretical and Observational Perspectives on Dark Energy”

10:35 am Theories for the Acceleration of the Universe Rocky Kolb
11:15 am Observational Evidence for Dark Energy Josh Frieman
11:45 am Complementarity in Dark Energy measurements Licia Verde
12:15 pm Plated Lunch, Alii Ballroom II

Session 3
“WFMOS and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations”

1:45 pm Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound Daniel Eisenstein
2:15 pm The WFMOS BAO survey Karl Glazebrook
2:45 pm Realistic simulations of acoustic oscillations in galaxy survey Carlton Baugh
3:15 pm Analyzing BAO in Galaxy Surveys Taka Matsubara
3:45 pm Break

Session 4
“HyperSuprime and Weak Lensing”

4:00 pm Theoretical/numerical predictions for weak lensing halo search Takashi Hamana
4:30 pm Weak Lensing Survey using Subaru Satoshi Miyazaki
5:00 pm Improving cosmological parameter estimates with HyperSuprime and WFMOS Masahiro Takada
5:30 pm Quadrupole spectrum, baryonic signature in 2dF QSO sample Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Tuesday — November 8, 2005

Alii Ballroom I & II

8:00 am Continental breakfast

Session 5
“Future BAO surveys”

8:30 am The theory of baryon oscillations Martin White
9:00 am AAT/AAOmega BAO surveys Michael Drinkwater
9:20 am Searching for BAO at z=1.5 by Subaru/FMOS Tomonori Totani
9:40 am Optimization of WFMOS BAO surveys David Parkinson
10:00 am Photometric BAO experiments Sarah Bridle
10:20 am Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Gary Hill
10:40 am Break

Session 6
“Future Weak-Lensing surveys”

11:00 am LSST surveys David Wittman
11:20 pm Dark Energy Forecasts for LSST and Possible Pre-cursor Weak Lensing Surveys Lloyd Knox
11:40 am The Pan-STARRS Wide-Field Survey Telescope Project Nick Kaiser
12:00 noon The Dark Energy Survey Chris Miller
12:20 pm Plated Lunch, Alii Ballroom II

Session 6 (continued)

1:45 pm New opportunities in wide field imaging with VISTA Gavin Dalton
2:05 pm Probing the Dark Universe with darkCAM Andy Taylor

Session 7
“Other Astrophysical Probes of The Dark Universe”

2:25 pm Studying Distant SNe with Subaru Mamoru Doi
2:55 pm Cosmology and Dark Energy with the DEEP2 Survey Marc Davis
3:25 pm The CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)—First Cosmology Results Chris Pritchet
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm The NASA/DoE Joint Dark Energy Mission Kim Griest
4:20 pm Precision Supernova Cosmology with SNAP and Ground Surveys Alex Kim
4:40 pm ESSENCE: Determining the Nature of Dark Energy Using High-Redshift Supernovae Ryan Foley
5:00 pm Bayesian evidence and complexity as statistical tools for dark energy Roberto Trotta
5:20 pm A test for variation in the fine structure constant with galaxy [OIII] emission lines Brian Gerke
6:30 pm Reception, Volcano Grounds
7:00 pm Banquet, Volcano Grounds

Wednesday — November 9, 2005

Alii Ballroom I & II

8:00 am Continental breakfast

Session 8
“Galaxy Evolution and Large Scale Structure Surveys”
[A] Galaxy Clustering and Evolution

8:30 am Optical/IR Surveys for Galaxy Clusters: Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution Howard Yee
9:00 am FMOS and galaxy evolution survey Kouji Ohta
9:30 am AGN surveys with FMOS and beyond Masayuki Akiyama
9:50 am Galaxy Evolution with the HyperSuprimeCam/WFMOS Tomotsugu Goto
10:10 am Probing dark energy using cosmological structure formation Will Percival
10:30 am Break

[B] Milky Way & Local Group Galaxies

10:45 am Unraveling the Early History of the Galaxy Joss Bland-Hawthorn
11:15 am Linking the Halo with its Surrounding Nobuo Arimoto

[C] Deep Surveys

11:45 am Perspectives from the Subaru Wide-Field Deep Survey Masami Ouchi
12:15 noon LAEs at z=7, R&D toward ELT in Japan Masanori Iye
12:35 pm Plated Lunch, Alii Ballroom II

Session 9
Conference Summary and Panel Discussion

2:00 pm Workshop summary Roger Davies
2:30 pm Panel Discussion led by the following:
  • Rocky Kolb
  • Roger Davies
  • Michael Turner
  • Naoshi Sugiyama
  • Masanori Iye