TMTSF

Program & Presentations

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Wednesday 16 July

18:00 to 20:00

Welcome reception

Thursday 17 July: Plenary Sessions

07:00	Continental breakfast, poster set-up
08:30	Welcome	Mark Dickinson (NOAO)
08:45	TMT in the Astronomical Landscape of the 2020s	David Silva (NOAO)
09:15	TMT Overview and Project Status	Gary Sanders (TMT)
10:00	Break / poster viewing

TMT and Space-based Facilities

10:30	The James Webb Space Telescope	Jason Kalirai (STScI)
11:00	TMT and Space-based Survey Missions	Daniel Stern (JPL)
11:30	X-ray Telescopes and the Next Generation Large Ground Based Telescopes	Giuseppina Fabbiano (SAO)
12:00	Space Exoplanet Missions	Greg Laughlin (UCSC)
12:30	Lunch

TMT and the Radio/mm Telescope Network

13:30	Nearby stars to distant galaxies: TMT-ALMA synergies	Kartik Sheth (NRAO) and Christine Wilson (McMaster)
14:00	Submillimeter Surveys with CCAT and Synergies with the TMT	John Carpenter (Caltech)
14:30	Synergy between the Jansky Very Large Array and the Next Generation Thirty Meter Telescopes	Stefi Baum (RIT)
15:00	The SKA and its pathfinders in the next decade: synergies with the TMT	Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College of Canada)

15:30	Break / poster viewing

TMT and Major Ground-based Optical/IR Facilities

16:00	LSST Science and Synergies With a TMT-like Facility	Beth Willman (Haverford)
16:30	The time domain and static sky science from the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys and implications for the TMT	Ken Chambers (Hawaii/IfA)
17:00	TMT Synergies with Subaru HSC+PFS and Other Facilities	Masami Ouchi (Tokyo)
17:30	Giant Magellan Telescope: Status and Opportunities for Scientific Synergy	Pat McCarthy (GMTO)
18:00	Status of the European Extremely Large Telescope	Jochen Liske (ESO)

18:30	End of sessions

Friday 18 July: Parallel Sessions

TMT Instrumentation Workshop (08:30 - 16:00)

07:00	Continental breakfast

08:30	Overview of TMT Instruments and science flow-down	Luc Simard (TMT)
09:00	First Light instrumentation – NFIRAOS Overview	Paul Hickson (UBC)
09:45	First Light instrumentation – IRIS overview	Anna Moore (Caltech)

10:30	Break / poster viewing

11:00	First Light Instrumentation – IRMS overview	Nick Konidaris (Caltech)
11:45	First Light Instrumentation – MOBIE overview	Matt Radovan (UCSC)

12:30	Lunch

13:30	TMT Systems Engineering for Instrumentation	Scott Roberts (TMT)
14:30	Building Instruments for TMT	Luc Simard (TMT)

15:30	Break / poster viewing

16:00	New instrument concept – MKIDs for TMT	Ben Mazin (UCSB)
16:20	New instrument concept – MICHI: A MIR instrument for the TMT	Chris Packham (UTSA)
16:40	New instrument concept – Science Application of MICHI’s IFU	Itsuki Sakon (Tokyo)

17:00	Open discussion, questions and answers

18:00	End of session

Parallel science sessions and ISDT working meetings (13:30 - 18:30)

These sessions include contributed science talks and working meetings of the TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs), and are open to all TMT Forum participants.

Salon C	Early Universe, Galaxy Evolution and the IGM + Fundamental Physics and Cosmology	Mark Dickinson, Tadayuki Kodama, Tommaso Treu
13:30	Feedback and the Physics of Star Formation Quenching	Crystal Martin
	Resolved spectroscopy of adolescent and infant galaxies (1 < z < 10)	Shelley Wright
	Strong Gravitational Lenses in the 2020s	Masamune Oguri
	Star Formation in High Redshift Galaxies with Cluster Lenses as Cosmic Telescopes	Marusa Bradac
	Scaling Relations of Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies: Similarities and Differences	Michael Pierce
	High resolution near-infrared deep fields with MCAO	Mark Lacy
	TMT-AGE: wide field of regard multi-object adaptive optics for TMT	Masayuki Akiyama
15:30	Break
16:00	Discussion

Salon J	Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies	Annapurni Subramaniam, Shude Mao
13:30	Exploration of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies: Summary of the ISDT proposals	Aruna Goswami
	The Milky Way, Andromeda, and Distant Galaxies: Insights from Deep Keck Spectroscopic Surveys	Raja Guhathakurta (UCSC)
	Star formation histories of the Local Volume: developing a key program for the TMT	Alan McConnachie
	Outward Bound with RR Lyrae Stars: Studies of the Outer Halo of the Milky Way	Judith Cohen (Caltech)
	The initial-final mass relation: 2.0	Jason Kalirai (STScI)
	TMT survey of planetary nebulae in the Local Universe	Xuan Fang (CSIC)
	Identifying Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters in External Galaxies	Caty Pilachowski
	Discussion

Salon K	Formation of Stars and Planets	Jessica Lu, Misato Fukagawa
13:30	Star Formation Studies with SOFIA and its Synergy with TMT	James De Buizer
	High-resolution, Mid-IR Spectroscopy on the Gemini North 8m	Matthew Richter
	Discussion
15:30	Break / poster viewing
16:00	Imaging Transitional Disks with TMT: Lessons Learned from the SEEDS Survey	Carol Grady
	Complicated Structure of Interacting Young Binary System: Outflows and Gas-Streams	Tae-Soo Pyo
	Direct Imaging Observations of Protoplanetary Disks with TMT	Takayuki Muto
	Discussion

Salon L	Solar System + Exoplanets	Feng Tian, Norio Narita
13:30	New Directions in Solar System Small Body Science with the TMT	Karen Meech
	Giant planet atmospheres at high spatial resolution	Mike Wong
	Exoplanet Science with TMT	Ian Crossfield
	TMT and Exoplanet Radial Velocity Surveys	Angelle Tanner
13:30	Break / poster viewing

Sabino	Supermassive Black Holes	Matt Malkan
13:30	Introductions
	Prospects for Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Masses with TMT	Tuan Do
	Nuclei of Interacting Galaxies	Vivian U
	Studies of high-z QSO host galaxies using high resolution deep imaging	Yiping Wang
	MICHI: A MIR Instrument for the TMT	Chris Packham
16:10	Break / poster viewing
16:25	Discussion
	Poster Summary - Study of galaxy properties with Super Massive Black Holes using both of SPICA and TMT/MICHI	Nagisa Oi
	Poster Summary - TMT-AGE: wide field of regard multi-object adaptive optics for TMT	Masayuki Akiyama
	Poster Summary – Accretion Disks and Particle Emission from Black Holes	Khalid Saiffulah
	Discussion

Santa Rita	Time Domain Science	Masaomi Tanaka
13:30	Summary of time-domain ISDT activity	Masaomi Tanaka
	The Swift mission as high-z explorer: the GRBs legacy for TMT	Antonino Cucchiara
	The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project: Probing the Evolution of Asymmetries in Supernovae	Jennifer Hoffman
15:35	Break / poster viewing
16:00	Summary of time-resolved/polarimetric science working group	Warren Skidmore
	Discussion

Rincon	Extra breakout space

Saturday 19 July: Plenary Sessions and Panel Discussions

07:00	Continental breakfast

ISDT reports / Detailed Science Case themes

08:30	Fundamental physics & cosmology	Ian Dell’Antonio (Brown)
08:50	Early universe, galaxy evolution & the intergalactic medium	Tadayuki Kodama (NAOJ), Mark Dickinson (NOAO)
09:10	Supermassive black holes	Matt Malkan (UCLA)
09:30	Milky Way & nearby galaxies	Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA)
09:50	Formation of stars & planets	Jessica Lu (IfA), Misato Fukagawa (Osaka)

10:10	Break / poster viewing


10:30	Exoplanets	Norio Narita (NAOJ)
10:50	Our solar system	Feng Tian (Tsinghua/NAOC)
11:20	Time domain science	Masaomi Tanaka (NAOJ)

11:40	Discussion: TMT Detailed Science Case; ISDT future directions

12:05	Across the World: A Vision for TMT Workforce Pipeline, Education, Public Outreach & Communications	Gordon Squires (TMT)

12:30	Lunch

13:30	Panel Discussion: Future directions for TMT planning

Moderator: Michael Bolte TMT key science programs Future instrumentation and ELT coordination TMT operations model, data management, and archiving US/NSF participation in TMT

15:30	Forum concludes

Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum