TMT Science Forum

Program and Presentations

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TMT Science Forum 2016 Program

Tuesday, 24 May – Plenary Session at Event Hall / Posters All-day in Meeting Room No.2

09:30 Event Hall opens

09:45 – 09:55 (10m) Welcome – Toru Yamada (ISAS/JAXA)

Session 1. TMT Science #1

09:55 – 10:20 (20m+5m) TMT and International Astronomy – Ray Carlberg (U. Toronto) [Video]

10:20 – 10:45 (20m+5m) The Impact of TMT on Close Binary Research – Paula Szkody (U. Washington) [Video]

10:45 – 11:10 (20m+5m) TMT and Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Masaomi Tanaka (NAOJ) [Video]

11:10 – 11:40 (30m) Break

Session 2. TMT Project: Current Status and Future Strategy

11:40 – 12:15 (25m+10m) TMT Project Status – Christophe Dumas (TMT) [Video]

12:15 – 12:30 (10m+5m) TMT SAC Activities: Scientific cooperation across the TMT partnership (Mark Dickinson, NOAO) [Video]

12:30 – 14:00 (90m) Lunch

Session 3. TMT Instrumentation #1

14:00 – 14:30 (25m+5m) TMT Instrumentation: First Light & Beyond – Luc Simard (TMT) [Video]

14:30 – 14:50 (15m+5m) NIR High-resolution spectrographs for the TMT – Naoto Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) [Video]

14:50 – 15:10 (15m+5m) MICHI (未知), A Thermal IR Instrument Concept for the TMT – Chris Packham (UT San Antonio) [Video]

15:10 – 15:40 (30m) Break

Session 4. TMT Science #2

15:40 – 16:05 (20m+5m) Solar-System Observations from the TMT – Glenn Orton (JPL) [Video]

16:05 – 16:30 (20m+5m) TMT High-Contrast Exoplanet Science – Mike Fitzgerald (UCLA) [Video]

16:30 – 16:55 (20m+5m) Star and planet formation studies with TMT – Manoj Puravankara (TIFR) [Video]

16:55－17:20 (20m+5m) Stellar abundances in stars and ISM: probes of stellar physics and Galaxy formation – T. Sivarani (IIA) [Video]

17:20－17:45 (15m+10m) TMT Key Program Science – Tommaso Treu (UCLA) [Video]

17:45 End of first day’s sessions

18:45 Reception / Dinner at the Miyako Hotel

Wednesday, 25 May – Plenary Session at Event Hall / Posters All-day in Meeting Room No.2

09:00 Event Hall opens

Session 5. TMT Instrumentation #2

09:15 – 09:35 (15m+5m) The European Extremely Large Telescope – Michele Cirasuolo (ESO) [Video]

09:35 – 09:55 (15m+5m) The Instrumentation Program for the Giant Magellan Telescope – George Jacoby (GMTO) [WebEx] [Video]

09:55 – 10:15 (15m+5m) Planet Detection and Characterization at High Contrast – Ben Mazin (UC Santa Barbara) [Video]

10:15 – 10:35 (15m+5m) TMT-AGE: AO-assisted wide field multi object spectrograph concept – Masayuki Akiyama (Tohoku Univ.) [Video]

10:35 – 10:55 (30m) Break

Session 6. TMT Instrumentation #3

10:55－11:15 (15m+5m) High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy in the ELT Era – Cynthia Froning (UT Austin) [Video]

11:15 – 11:50 (35m) Discussion: Prioritizing and developing TMT’s future-generation instrumentation [Video]

Session 7. Education and Community Outreach

11:50 – 12:10 (15m+5m) TMT Workforce, Education, Public Outreach and Communications – A Global Plan – Gordon Squires (TMT) [Video]

12:10 – 12:30 (15m+5m) Developing an international training program for TMT – Lisa Hunter (UC Santa Cruz) [Video]

12:30 – 14:00 (90m) Lunch

Session 8. TMT Science #3

14:00－14:25 (20m+5m) Time-Domain Sciences in the Era of TMT – Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua University) [Video]

14:25－14:50 (20m+5m) Supermassive Black Holes – Lei Hao (SHAO) [Video]

14:50 – 15:15 (20m+5m) The Resolved Stellar, Chemical, and Gaseous Contents of High-Redshift Galaxies – Naveen Reddy (UC Riverside) [Video]

15:15 – 15:40 (20m+5m) Does the Stellar IMF Evolve with Redshift?: Insights from GRBs and Field Galaxies – Ranga-Ram Chary (IPAC/Caltech) [Video]

15:40 – 16:10 (30m) Break

Session 9. TMT Operations and Cross-partnership Planning

16:10 – 16:35 (20m+5m) Effective Strategies for TMT Operations – Christophe Dumas (TMT) [Video]

16:35－17:00 (20m+5m) International Collaboration for Astronomy in Asia - Strategy of Subaru Telescope – Nobuo Arimoto (Subaru Telescope, NAOJ) [WebEx] [Video]

17:00 – 17:45 (45m) Discussion: Coordinated science planning throughout the TMT partnership

17:45 End of second day’s sessions

Thursday, 26 May – Parallel Sessions

The parallel sessions will comprise a mix of contributed talks and moderated discussion sessions.

09:45－12:30 Session 10. Topical Scientific Splinter Sessions

(4 breakout rooms available, capacity: 80, 50, 34, 34)

The morning breakout sessions are organized by the TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs). All conference participants are welcome to attend any session. There will be contributed talks, and discussion of scientific priorities for second- (and future-) generation TMT instrumentation and AO systems.

Sessions and organizers/moderators:

Solar System (T. Sekiguchi) / Exoplanets (N. Narita) / Star & Planet Formation (G. Herczeg)
Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (E. Peng) / Stars, Stellar Physics and the ISM (T. Sivarani) / Supermassive Black Holes (T. Do)
Early Universe, Galaxy Formation and the IGM (M. Dickinson, T. Kodama)
Fundamental Physics and Cosmology (T. Treu) / Time Domain Science (M. Tanaka)

Detailed session schedules:

A. Star & Planet Formation / Exoplanets / Solar System

09:45 – 10:00 Mothohide Tamura – Steps toward Second Earth Imager with TMT (SEIT)

10:00 – 10:15 Olivier Guyon – A Fast Path to Imaging and Characterizing Habitable Exoplanets around the Nearest Stars with TMT

10:15 – 10:30 Andy Skemer – Thermal Imaging of Gas Giants and Rocky Planets with TMT

10:30 – 10:40 break

10:40 – 10:55 Jun Takahashi – Feasibility of Spectro-Polarimetric Detection of Atmospheric Components of Exoplanets

10:55 – 11:10 Shota Notsu – Infrared Spectroastrometric Imaging of the Water Snowline and C/O Ratio Distributions in Protoplanetary Disks

11:10 – 11:25 Wen-Ping Chen – Characterization of brown dwarfs and planetary mass objects in young star clusters

11:25 – 11:40 Thomas Greathouse – Tracking Jupiter’s Quasi-Quadrennial Oscillation and Mid-Latitude Zonal Waves with High Spectral Resolution Mid-Infrared Observations

11:40 – 12:30 Discussion of science priorities for 2nd generation instrument

B. Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies / Stars, Stellar Physics and the ISM / Supermassive Black Holes

09:45 – 10:00 Wako Aoki — Stellar physics and galactic archaeology with high resolutions spectroscopy

10:00 – 10:15 Michael Rich — The Study and Search for Intermediate and massive Black Holes in the Local Group/Volume

10:15 – 10:30 Letizia Stanghellini – Radial metallicity gradients form MOS observations of emission-line probes: Constraining galactic chemical evolution

10:30 – 10:45 Caty Pilachowski – Stars, Gas, and the Milky Way: Science for 2nd Gen Instruments

10:45 – 11:00 break

11:00 – 11:15 Ryan Lau – Unraveling the Nature of Dust Production from Wolf-Rayet Binaries

11:00 – 11:15 Tim Davidge – Some Considerations for High Resolution IR Spectroscopy at the TMT

11:15 – 11:30 Enrique Lopez Rodriguez – Morphology and Composition of the Dusty Torus in Active Galactic Nuclei

11:30 – 11:45 Summary of 2nd-gen instruments and ISDT feedback

11:45 – 12:30 Discussion on 2nd generation instruments

C. Early Universe, Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium

09:45 – 10:00 Nimish Hathi – Exploring the nature of Lyman alpha galaxies at z~2-6 using large VLT spectroscopic surveys: A prelude to TMT science

10:00 – 10:15 Ikko Shimizu – Theoretical prediction for the detectability of z > 7 nebular lines

10:15 – 10:30 Mariko Kubo – Morphologies and building blocks of galaxies at high redshift

10:30 – 10:45 Matthew Bayliss – Science In the Era of the 30m With the Brightest Lensed Galaxies In the Observable Universe

10:45 – 11:00 Khee-Gan Lee – Mapping the z=2-4 Intergalactic Medium with Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography

11:00-11:45 Discussion: TMT Key Projects for galaxy evolution

with short presentations by John O’Meara, Marie Lemoine-Busserole, Mike Pierce, Mark Dickinson (R. Chary in plenary session)

11:45 – 12:30 Discussion: Future-generation instrumentation

D. Fundamental Physics & Cosmology / Time Domain

09:45 – 10:10 Nao Suzuki – Cosmology with Time Domain TMT observations

10:10 – 10:35 Pete Roming – TMT Observations of GRBs & SNe as Early Universe Probes

10:35 – 10:50 Lucas Macri – Prospects for the Extragalactic Distance Scale with TMT

10:50 – 11:05 Vishal Kasliwal – Probing accretion processes through variability

11:05 – 11:20 Ran Li – Constraining dark matter identity with strong gravitational lensing

11:20 – 11:35 Ian Dell'Antonio – TMT Capabilities and Instrumentation for Galaxy Cluster Cosmology

11:35 – 11:50 Joseph Jensen – The Future of Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distance Measurements

11:50 – 12:30 Discussion of science priorities for II generation instrumentation

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:30 Session 11. Instrument Concept Splinter Session

(4 breakout rooms available, capacity: 80, 50, 34, 34)

The afternoon breakout sessions are organized by instrumental capability. They will feature a mix of contributed talks and discussion about capabilities needed for future TMT science, and technologies that can enable those capabilities.

Sessions and organizers/moderators, and contributed talks:

IRMOS / IRMS / Super-WIRC / etc. (near-IR multi-object spectroscopy; wide-field AO imaging; + other concepts) (M. Akiyama, B. Mobasher, T. Do, S. Wright)
NIRES-R / MIRES (thermal-IR imaging and spectroscopy) (C. Packham, M. Honda, N. Kobayashi)
PFI (high-contrast observations) (O. Guyon, A. Skemer, B. Mazin)
HROS / NIRES-B (high resolution optical/near-IR spectroscopy) (T. Sivarani, C. Froning)

Contributed talks, session A (times TBD by session organizers):

Christopher Martin — A TMT Cosmic Web Imager (TCWI)

Michael Pierce — GAS: the Galaxy Assembly Spectrograph

Etsuko Mieda — HeNOS, the NFIRAOS AO simulator at NRC-Herzberg

Khee-Gan Lee — Fiber-Fed Optical MOS for Giant Telescopes

16:30 – 17:30 Summary of Splinter Sessions / Closing Discussion (Room Capacity ~ 80)

Thirty Meter Telescope Science Forum

May 24, 2016 - May 26, 2016

Program and Presentations