“Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT”

June 15-18, 2008

This page provides access to all the presentations made during the workshop. During the workshop, presentations alternated between panel discussions and science case presentations, but for convenience the panel discussion materials and the use case presentations are grouped together here.

Links to written science use cases, if provided by participants, are also listed after the the title of the talk.

Introductions and Status of Projects

• Welcome Address: Alan Dressler
• NSF Statement: Wayne Van Citters
• TMT Statement: Mike Bolte
• GMT Statement: Wendy Freedman
• GMT: Science Drivers & Design Philosophy: Steve Shectman/Pat McCarthy
• TMT: Science Drivers & Design Philosophy: Jerry Nelson/Charles Steidel
• E-ELT: Status of project: Markus Kissler-Patig

Panel Discussions

Lessons Learned: Operating Modes and TACs: Moderator: Mario Mateo

• David Silva: Operating Modes
• Letizía Stanghellini: TAC issues, TOO’s, program sizes, surveys, coordination with other facilities
• Summary of Presentations and Discussions

Astronomy’s Changing Scientific Culture: Moderator: Ata Sarajedini

• Alan Dressler – Private/Public Collaboration, goals and performance
• Mark Dickinson – Multi-wavelength, multi-collaborator, surveys
• David Silva: Data Products & Pipelines
• George Djorgovski – Archives & NVO
• Summary of Presentations and Discussions

Evolution of “the System”: Moderator: Charles Bailyn

• Caty Pilachowski: O/IR telescopes of 1-8-m
• Michael Strauss: Surveys and Time Domain astronomy (LST)
• Todd Boroson: Evolution of the System

Public Participation: Planning and Instrumentation: Moderator – Doug Simons

Instrumentation and Partnership Opportunities

• Luc Simard – TMT Instrumentation Program: Status and Opportunities
• Steve Shectman: Instrumentation and Partnership Opportunities: GMT

Wrap-up discussion

• Dave Silva: Wednesday Discussion

Science Use Case Presentations

Session 1:

• Knut Olsen: Star Formation History of Disk Galaxies | QuickTime movie file 1 | QuickTime movie file 2 | Science Use Case
• Michael Pierce: Quantifying the Assembly History of Elliptical galaxies
• Josh Simon: Constraining the Nature of Dark Matter with the Next Generation of Telescopes | Science Use Case

Session 2

• Verne Smith: Chemical Evolution in Resolved Stellar Populations in Nearby Galaxies
• Stephen Zepf: The M_BH - σ Relation at Low Masses | Science Use Case
• Shrinivas Kulkarni: Compact Objects
• John Middleditch: Pulsars, Cosmology, and Science with Giant Telescopes

Session 3

• Dave Jewitt: Solar System Studies
• James Graham: Direct Imaging of Exo-Planets

Session 4

• Joan Najita: High Resolution MIR Spectroscopy of Planet Formation Environments | Science Use Case | Science Use Case #2
• John Bally: 30-m ExAO Observations of protoplanetary Disks and protostellar Outflows

Session 5

• Alan Stockton: Outflows from Radio-Loud Quasars
• Chris Packham: Mid-IR Observations of AGN | Science Use Case
• Ken Chambers: Pan-STARRS as the “Finder Scope” for Giant telescopes
• Joss Bland-Hawthorn: Photonic OH-Suppressed Spectrograph: The Next Wave in Observational Cosmology | Science Use Case

Session 6

• Pat McCarthy: The Lyα Luminosity Function at z > 6 and Early Star Formation
• Betsy Barton: Observations of First Light in the Universe | Science Use Case
• Charles Steidel: IGM Tomography and the Galaxy GM/Interface
• Judy Cohen: High Resolution Spectroscopy with an ELT
• Jeff Cooke: Detection of 2 < z < 6 Type IIn Supernovae | Science Use Case

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