Agenda
Tuesday June 18
9:00 George Helou - Welcome
9:10 Lee Armus - Logistics
9:20 Julie McEnery - WFIRST: Project Overview and Status
9:50 David Nidever - Deciphering the Magellanic Clouds with WFIRST
10:25 coffee break/poster viewing
11:00 Yumi Choi - SMASHing the Magellanic Clouds: Imprints of Tidal Interactions between the Clouds in the Galactic Structures
11:15 Roeland Van der Marel - New Gaia Insights into the Dynamics of the Local Group
11:30 Paul Zivick - Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in the Era of Hubble, Gaia, and WFIRST
11:45 Sergio Fajardo-Acosta - Stellar Proper Motion Studies Through Joint Processing of WFIRST, LSST, and Euclid Observations
12:05 lunch
13:25 Matthew Penny - The WFIRST Microlensing Survey for Exoplanets
13:55 Scott Gaudi - Auxiliary Science with the WFIRST Microlensing Survey
14:10 Samson Johnson - The WFIRST Microlensing Survey: Predictions of the Free Floating Planet Detection Rate
14:25 Casey Lam - Finding isolated stellar mass black holes with WFIRST
14:40 Tuan Do - Observing the Galactic Center with WFIRST
15:15 coffee break/poster viewing
15:50 Jessica Lu - The Inner Milky Way with WFIRST
16:05 Sebastiano Calchi-Novati - Galactic distribution of Planets with Spitzer as a precursor of the WFIRST microlensing survey
16:20 Geoff Bryden - UKIRT Microlensing Survey as a Pathfinder for WFIRST
16:35 Aparna Bhattacharya - The WFIRST Microlensing Pipeline and Applications to Local Group
16:50 Dave Bennett - Community Involvement in the WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey
Wednesday June 19
9:00 Ting Li - Dwarf galaxies and Stellar Streams in the Era of Gaia and WFIRST
9:30 Sal Wanying Fu - The Dynamical History of the the Feeble Giant, Crater II
9:45 Carl Grillmair - Probing Galactic Structure with WFIRST Proper Motions
10:00 Sean Fillingham - Characterizing Satellite Quenching in the Local Group
10:15 Karoline Gilbert - The Power of Wide Fields for Revealing the Past, Present and Future of the Andromeda Galaxy
10:35 coffee break/poster viewing
11:05 Poster Pop Ups
11:15 David Hendel - Analysis of stellar halo substructure morphology with WFIRST
11:30 Lydia Elias - Stellar Halos in Illustris and the Milky Way Merger with Enceladus
11:45 Andrew Wetzel - Simulating the Milky Way
12:00 Ethan Jahn - Ultra-faint dwarf companions of LMC analogs in FIRE
12:20 lunch
13:40 Andrew Graus - Using dwarf galaxy stellar age gradients to understand stellar feedback in the era of WFIRST
13:55 Laura Sales - The formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies by tidal disruption and their globular clusters content
14:10 Omid Sameie - Self-Interacting Dark Matter Subhalos in the Milky Way’s Tides
14:25 Discussion - Getting the Best Science out of WFIRST - chair: Scott Gaudi
15:30 coffee break/poster viewing
16:05 Rachel Beaton - Distances Here, There, and Everywhere
16:35 Raja GuhaThakurta - WFIRST and Ground-based Spectroscopy: A Powerful Combination for Near-field Cosmology
16:50 Benjamin Williams - The WFIRST Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey
Thursday June 20
9:00 Adam Burgasser - Cold Candles & Clocks: Galactic Star Formation and Chemical Enrichment History Traced by WFIRST Brown Dwarfs
9:30 Tom Megeath - Surveying Star Forming Regions in the Near-IR with <100 AU Resolution: Lessons from HST Surveys of Nearby Molecular Clouds
9:45 Lea Hagen - Modeling Stars and Dust with the BEAST
10:00 Jacob Jencson - Opportunities for Transient Science in the Local Group with WFIRST
10:35 coffee break/poster viewing
11:10 Vanessa Bailey - Overview of the CGI instrument and exoplanet science
11:40 Tiffany Meshkat - A deep search for giant, self-luminous planets in dusty systems on Solar system scales
11:55 John Debes - Studying Disks at High Resolution with WFIRST/CGI
12:30 lunch
13:50 Julien Girard - The 2019 WFIRST Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge
14:05 Sergi Hildebrandt - SISTER: Imaging Exoplanets with Starshade
14:20 Bryan Holler - Revolutionizing Solar System Science with WFIRST
14:50 Roberta Paladini - Solar System Science in the context of the Joint Survey Processing
