TMT Science Forum 2018

December 10 - 12, 2018 • Pasadena, CA

Agenda

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Below is listed the schedule for the Forum plenary sessions (also available in PDF). Information about the organization of the ISDT-led splinter sessions (also called "breakout sessions) is available at this link.

 

Monday Dec. 10

Time

 Presenter(s)

 Title

8:00 -

9:00

 

 Registration

9:00 -

9:10

 

 Welcome + SOC/LOC details

9:10 -

9:20

 Soifer, T. (Caltech)

 News from TIO Board of Directors

9:20 -

9:40

 Dumas, C. (TMT)

 Project status

9:40 -

10:10

 Abraham, R. (U. Toronto)

 Instrumentation 101 for Giant Telescopes

10:10 -

10:40

 Espaillat, C. (Boston U.)

 Tracking Planet Footprints in Dusty Disks

10:40 -

11:00

 

 Coffee break

11:00 -

11:30

 Treu, T. (UCLA)

 Exploiting the power of TMT to probe the dark universe via strong lensing

11:30 -

12:00

 Jensen-Clem, R. (UC Berkeley)

 Exoplanet Imaging and Spectroscopy with the TMT

12:00 -

12:30

 Squires, G. (TMT) & Hunter, L. (UCSC)

 News from TMT "Workforce-Education-Public-Outreach-Communication"

12:30 -

14:00

 

 Lunch break

14:00 -

14:20

 Wright, S. (UCSD)

 IRIS: 1st light instrument workhorse for the TMT

14:20 -

14:40

 Steidel, C. (Caltech)

 WFOS: Also a 1st light instrument workhorse for the TMT

14:40 -

15:05

 Ramsay, S. (ESO)

 The European ELT: science and instrumentation

15:05 -

15:30

 Bernstein, R. (GMTO)

 GMT Science and instrumentation

15:30 -

15:55

 

 Coffee break

15:55 -

16:15

 Poster presenters

 1-min/1-slide: Poster introductions

16:15 -

16:45

 Dickinson, M. (NOAO)

 US-ELT program and Key-Science-Projects

16:45 -

17:15

 Walsh, J. (Texas A&M)

 Exploring the Supermassive Black Hole - Galaxy Connection

17:15 -

17:45

 

 *Poster* session I

 

   

 

18:00 -

20:00

 

 TMT technical Lab visit (Monrovia) OR PSI/MICHI workshop (TMT Project Office)

 

Tuesday Dec. 11

Time

 Presenter(s)

 Title

 7:30 -

9:30

 

 TMT technical Lab visit (Monrovia)

 9:30 -

10:00

 

 Coffee/Tea/Pastries & Registration

 10:00 -

10:30

 Graham, Melissa (U. Washington)

 TMT & LSST: Data Infrastructures for Time-Domain Science

 10:30 -

10:50

 Carilli, Chris (NRAO)

 ng-VLA

 10:50 -

11:20

 Inoue, Akio (Osaka Sangyo U.)

 Latest observations of very high-z galaxies and prospects of TMT

 11:20 -

11:50

 Trilling, David (NAU)

 Observing the Solar System with TMT

 11:50 -

12:20

 Zheng, Xianzhong (Purple Mountain Obs.)

 The formation of low-mass galaxies: puzzles and requirements of TMT

 12:20 -

14:00

 

 Lunch break

 14:00 -

15:30

 

 Splinter session I

 15:30 -

16:00

 

 Coffee break

 16:00 -

17:30

 

 Splinter session I

 17:30 -

18:00

 

 *Poster* session II

 

   

 

 18:30 -

until end

 Forum Banquet at Santorini Restaurant

       

Wednesday Dec. 12

 Time

 Presenter(s)

 Title

 9:00 -

10:15

 

 Splinter session II

 10:15 -

10:45

 

 Coffee break

 10:45 -

12:00

 

 Splinter session II

 12:00 -

13:30

 

 Lunch break

 13:30 -

15:30

 

 Debrief on splinter sessions (plenary)

 15:30 -

16:00

 

Coffee break

 16:00 -

17:00

 

 Discussion on splinter sessions, Astro2020, concluding remarks