Program & Presentations
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Monday, July 22 | |||||
7:00am | Registration, poster set-up, staging of oral presentations to conference computer + continental breakfast | ||||
8:30am | Welcome | Mike Bolte (TMT); pdf (800 kb) | |||
8:35am | Developing a Model for Broad US Participation in TMT | Todd Boroson (NOAO); pdf (200 kb) | |||
8:50am | Project Summary/Status | Gary Sanders (TMT) | |||
9:50am | Galaxy Evolution from the Earliest Times | Michael Pierce (US), "Quantifying the (Late) Assembly History of Galaxies" pdf (0.5 MB) Masami Ouchi (Japan) pdf Jennifer Lotz (US); "HST Frontier Fields" pdf (25 MB) Brian Siana (US); "Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg; Dwarf Galaxies at High Redshift" pdf (12 MB) | Session Chair: Mark Dickinson 4 talks: 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
11:10am | BREAK (poster viewing) | ||||
11:30am | Galaxies cont. and AGN | Jiasheng Huang (China); "Identifying Red Galaxies at High Redshifts" pdf (21 MB) Yipeng Jing (China); "Merger Rates from Close Pair Counts" pdf (2 MB) Somak Raychaudhury (India); "Galaxy Evolution in Groups and on the Cosmic Web" pdf (2 MB) | Session Chair: Todd Boroson 3 talks - 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
12:30pm | LUNCH (poster viewing) | ||||
1:30pm | Special Guest Speaker: Chad K. Baybayan (POSTPONED) | ||||
1:30pm | AGN cont., Dark Matter, Dark Energy | Aaron Barth (UC); "Extragalactic Supermassive Black Holes in the TMT Era" pdf (4 MB) Tohru Nagao (Japan) pdf Tommaso Treu (UC) pdf Xiaofeng Wang (China); "Dark Energy from Supernova Survey" pdf (3.2 MB) | 4 talks - 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
3:00pm | BREAK (poster viewing) | ||||
3:30pm | Discussion: TMT Operations Model | Session Chair: Mike Bolte | |||
4:20pm | Discussion: Key Projects | 15 min | |||
4:40pm | Local Group Studies | Tim Davidge (Canada); "Resolving Stars in Nearby Galaxies with the TMT" pdf (1.9 MB) Masashi Chiba (Japan); "Exploring the Local Universe with TMT" pdf (2.6 MB) Raja Guhathakurta (UC) pdf Andrea Ghez (UC); "Galactic Center Science with the Thirty Meter Telescope" pdf (2.4 MB) | Session Chair: Caty Pilachowski 4 talks - 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
6:00pm | Adjourn (posters available till 9pm) | ||||
Tuesday, July 23 UPDATED with changes from Tuesday AM | |||||
7:00am | Registration, poster set-up, staging of oral presentations to conference computer + continental breakfast | ||||
8:30am | First-light Instrumentation | Brent Ellerbroek (TMT); "Adaptive Optics for the TMT" pdf (2 MB) James Larkin (US); "IRIS status" pdf (3 MB) Bahram Mobasher - IRMS pdf Luc Simard - MOBIE pdf (12.7 MB) | Session Chair: Luc Simard | ||
9:45am | DSC 1st-20-year Suite and Instrumentation Program Plans | Luc Simard (Canada); "Thirty Meter Telescope: Future Science Instrument Development" pdf (11 MB) | |||
10:30am | BREAK (poster viewing) | ||||
10:45am | Mauna Kea Synergies and Vision for Mauna Kea as Northern Hemisphere Astronomy Center | Robert McLaren (IfA) pdf | |||
11:15am | Extra-solar Planets | Stephen Kane (US) pdf Christian Marois (Canada) pdf Norio Narita (Japan) pdf Bruce Macintosh (Stanford) pdf | 4 talks: 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
12:35pm | LUNCH (poster viewing) | ||||
1:30pm | Special Guest Speaker: Chad K. Baybayan | ||||
2:00pm | Time Domain Science | Masaomi Tanaka (Japan) pdf | 1 talk: 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
2:20pm | Proto-planetary Disks/Solar System | Misato Fukagawa (Japan); "Star and Planet Formation; High Angular Resolution Study of Protoplanetary Disks" pdf (1.7 MB) Franck Marchis (US) pdf | 2 talks: 15 min + 5 min Q/A | ||
3:00pm | Detailed Science Case Updates and Plans Breakout Sessions of TMT International Science Development Teams | ||||
4:30pm | Forum Summary | Mike Bolte/Todd Boroson | |||
5:00pm | End | ||||
