As in the previous two collaboration meetings, the meeting will follow a 3 day + 1 day format. The first three days will feature plenary sessions in the morning and breakout sessions in the afternoons. The additional fourth day is reserved for survey and working group meetings. The Program Overview below lists sessions for all four days, with detailed schedules for each day beneath.
We are using three different technologies to allow remote access to the meeting for those unable to attend in person. The table below shows the remote participation methods. Scroll down to the session names below and click on the appropriate symbol from the table below to participate in that session.
Symbol | Technology | Description |
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Space Telescope Webcast | All plenary sessions will be broadcast online with the professional webcasting facilities at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Questions can be asked by remote attendees during each talk's question-and-answer period by emailing the questions to Jordan Raddick at raddick@jhu.edu; Jordan will read your question to the speaker, and you will hear their answer. To view the webcast, click the STScI symbol, then click on the orange banner to start. | |
Adobe Connect | Parallel sessions featuring science talks will be broadcast using Adobe Connect. You can view the broadcast in your web browser, although you may need to download a plugin to do so. Connect includes a "Raise Hand" option where you can indicate you have a question or comment. You can then ask by chat or microphone. To get to the Connect broadcast for a session, scroll down to the session you wish to join and click the Connect icon. | |
Google Hangout | Parallel sessions featuring interactive discussion will be open for remote participation via private Google Hangouts. There is a limit of 9 people per hangout, and remote participants will need to be individually invited. To request an invitation to any APOGEE sessions, email Jennifer Johnson. To request an invitation to any Education or Data Access sessions, email Jordan Raddick (raddick@jhu.edu). |
Time | Tuesday June 11th | Wednesday June 12th | Thursday June 13th | Friday June 14th |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Plenary I Welcome CPWS/CPMS Reports SDSS-IV Overview Machine Gun Talks |
Plenary III APOGEE Data Tutorial APOGEE Science Extra Spring 2014 Time |
Plenary V BOSS Science DR10 Education and Outreach |
Extra-Day Meetings |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |||
11:00 - 12:30 |
Plenary II SEGUE-2 APOGEE BOSS MARVELS |
Plenary IV MARVELS Science SEGUE-2 Science |
Plenary VI The Final Year Joining SDSS-IV Visualizations |
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12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |||
1:30 - 3:00 |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Papers I APOGEE Writing Teams DR10 Documentation Lensing Lyman-alpha I |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Science I Citizen Science Galaxy Clustering I Quasars I |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Papers III APOGEE Writing Teams Galaxy Evolution K-12 Education MARVELS I SEGUE-2 I |
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3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee break | |||
3:30 - 5:30 |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Papers II APOGEE Writing Teams Data Access Tools Lyman-alpha II |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Science II Astronomy 101 Labs Galaxy Clustering II Quasars II |
Parallel Sessions APOGEE Papers IV APOGEE Writing Teams Educational Evaluation MARVELS II Red Quasars SEGUE-2 II |
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5:30 | Buses leave for banquet | Travel to baseball game | ||
6:00 | Banquet Maryland Science Center |
Dinner on your own | Thanks for a great meeting! | |
7:00 | Optional social event Baltimore Orioles vs. Boston Red Sox |
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8:00 | ||||
9:00 | Buses return to hotel |
Session chair: Brice Ménard
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | Welcome to Baltimore | Local Organizing Committee Daniel Reich (JHU) Matt Mountain (STScI) |
9:15 | Director's Welcome | Daniel Eisenstein |
9:25 | Spokesperson's Welcome, Summary, and CPWS/CPMS Reports | Michael Wood-Vasey Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
9:55 | SDSS-IV Overview and Status | Mike Blanton |
10:05 | Machine Gun Talks | Assorted Speakers (Chair: Ian McGreer) |
10:30 | Coffee break in the STScI lobby |
Session chair: Jennifer Johnson
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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11:00 | SEGUE-2 Overview | Young Sun Lee |
11:20 | APOGEE Summary | Steve Majewski |
11:40 | BOSS Summary | David Schlegel |
12:00 | MARVELS Summary | Jian Ge |
12:30 | Lunch with the CPMS |
Box lunches will be served in the Bloomberg lobby, and can be eaten anywhere. Several rooms are available for lunch, and there are many pleasant outdoor spots around campus.
The Committee on the Participation of Minorities in the SDSS (CPMS) will hold an informal lunchtime discussion on Tuesday. The location of the CPMS lunch will be announced on Tuesday morning.
Time | Topic | Location |
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1:30 | DR10 Papers Workshop | Bloomberg 462 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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1:30 | APOGEE Writing Team | Bloomberg 511 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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1:30 | Data Documentation | Bloomberg 378 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | SLACS for The Masses: Extending to Low Masses | Yiping Shu |
1:45 | Strongly Lensed Lyman-Alpha Emitters in BOSS Spectroscopy | Adam Bolton |
2:00 | Supernova Lensing on Stripe 82 | Bob Nichol |
2:15 | Lensing and clustering measurement in Stripe 82 | Jean-Paul Kneib |
2:30 | Intrinsic Alignments of Cluster Galaxies | Elisa Chisari |
2:45 | Discussion | Team Discussion |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | DR10 BAO Analysis | Volunteer from the FPG |
2:00 | BAO in cross-correlations | Ross O'Connell |
2:30 | Discussion: DR10/DR11 BOSS Publications | Team Discussion |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | DR10 Papers Workshop | Bloomberg 462 |
5:30 | Buses leave for banquet |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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3:30 | APOGEE Writing Team | Bloomberg 511 |
5:30 | Buses leave for banquet |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | Data Access Tools | Bloomberg 475 |
Session chair: Ross O'Connell
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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3:30 | MgII - Galaxy Correlation | Ignasi Pérez |
3:50 | CaII / MgII in the Circumgalactic Medium | Guangtun Zhu |
4:10 | Metal Absorption Lines in BOSS Spectra | Brice Ménard |
4:30 | Probing Galaxy Halos with UV, Optical, and IR Galaxy-Gas Correlations | Ting-Wen Lan |
4:50 | A DR10 Catalog of Narrow Metal Absorption Lines | Britt Lundgren |
5:10 | Discussion | Team Discussion |
5:30 | Buses leave for banquet |
The conference banquet will be held on Tuesday evening at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore's famous Inner Harbor. Buses leave for the banquet at 5:30 and return to the hotels at 9:00. See the Social Events page for more information.
Session chair: Jonathan Bird
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | APOGEE Data Example Tutorial | Jon Holtzman |
9:20 | Chemical Cartography with SDSSIII-APOGEE | Michael Hayden |
9:30 | Understanding Stars Inside and Out: A Look at Abundances and Asteroseismology | Courtney Epstein |
9:40 | Tracing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium in APOGEE Spectra | Gail Zasowski |
9:50 | Chemical Abundances of 15 elements in the old metal-rich Cluster NGC6791: Results from Manual analysis of Apogee spectra as calibration for ASPCAP | Katia Cunha |
10:00 | Radial Velocity Survey of APOGEE M Dwarfs | Rohit Deshpande |
10:10 | Extra Spring 2014 Time | Daniel Eisenstein |
10:30 | Coffee break in the STScI lobby |
Session chair: Gail Zasowski
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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11:00 | Follow-up Study of MARVELS Brown Dwarf Candidates at Kitt Peak | Bo Ma |
11:10 | MARVELS Brown Dwarf Summary | Nathan De Lee |
11:20 | MARVELS-1: An Even More Cautionary Tale | Arpita Roy |
11:30 | A MARVELS Look at the Solar Neighbourhood: Atmospheric Parameters from Spectral Indices | Luan Ghezzi |
11:40 | Progress on the new MARVELS Data Pipeline | Rui Li |
11:50 | Substructure in the Milky Way halo out to 100 kpc: from the SEGUE K giants | Heather Morrison |
12:00 | The Vertical Metallicity Structure of SEGUE Cool Dwarfs in the Milky Way Disk | Katie Schlesinger |
12:10 | BOSS Ultracool Dwarfs | Sarah Jane Schmidt |
12:20 | MAPping the Milky Way with SEGUE | Jo Bovy |
12:30 | New Graduate Student Lunch with Leadership Roundtable Lunch with Observers |
Box lunches will be served in the Bloomberg lobby, and can be eaten anywhere. Several rooms are available for lunch, and there are many pleasant outdoor spots around campus.
New SDSS-III graduate students are invited to join the SDSS-III Management Council for lunch on Wednesday.
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | ASPCAP Upgrades | Carlos Allende Prieto |
1:55 | Empirical Calibrations of DR10 Data Based on Clusters | Szabolcs Meszaros |
2:20 | Automatic Stellar Abundance Determination with ASPCAP | Nick Troup |
2:40 | Precise Masses Of Kepler Eclipsing Binaries With APOGEE | Scott Fleming |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Location |
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1:30 | Citizen Science | Bloomberg 475 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Session Chair: Ashley Ross
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Session chair: Ashley Ross | ||
1:30 | Reconstruction on DR9/DR10 | Antonio Cuesta |
1:45 | Improving Reconstruction | Mariana Vargas |
2:00 | RSD and DR10 | Shirley Ho |
2:15 | FKP P(k) and Cosmological Constraints | Francesco Montesano |
2:30 | Cosmological Constraints from DR10 Anisotropic Galaxy Clustering | TBA |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | Broad Absorption Line Quasars with Redshifted Troughs: High Velocity Infall at Small Radii? | Niel Brandt |
2:00 | BAL Variability | Nur Filiz Ak |
2:30 | BAL Composite Spectrum | Isabelle Pâris |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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3:30 | Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries | Jason Jackiewicz |
3:50 | Testing the Physics of Stars with APOKASC | Marc Pinsonneault |
4:10 | A Treasure Trove: Unlocking the APOKASC Catalog | Courtney Epstein |
4:20 | Insights into Stellar Rotation with APOKASC | Jennifer van Saders |
4:40 | The Detailed Chemical Abundance Distribution in the Peculiar Cluster NGC 6791 from APOGEE Spectra | Verne Smith |
5:00 | Substellar Companions Detected with APOGEE | David Nidever |
5:20 | Probing the Red Giant Binary Population with APOGEE | Joleen Carlberg |
5:40 | Rapidly Rotating Cool Red Giants in APOGEE | Dmitry Bizyaev |
Time | Topic | Location |
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1:30 | Citizen Science | Bloomberg 475 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Session Chair: Antonio Cuesta
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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3:30 | DR10 BAO and RSD in Red/Blue | Ashley Ross |
3:45 | DR10 CMASS Bispectrum | Roman Scoccimarro |
4:00 | QPM Mock Galaxy Catalogues | Cameron McBride |
4:15 | Clustering and Bias in Planck Cosmology | Paco Prada |
4:30 | Luminosity Functions in CMASS | Antonio Montero-Dorta |
4:45 | Blue Galaxies in CMASS | Ginerva Favole |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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3:30 | Candidate Type II quasars at 2.0 < z < 2.4 in the SDSS-III | Rachel Alexandroff |
4:00 | Dust-reddened Quasars | Fred Hamann |
4:30 | Starburst Quasars in BOSS | Carolin Villforth |
5:00 | Extremely Red Quasars | Nic Ross |
Session chair: Antonio Montero-Dorta
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | SDSS-III/BOSS Quasar Science | Isabelle Pâris |
9:10 | Large-scale structure from high-redshift absorption spectra: A new era started by BOSS | Jordi Miralda |
9:20 | Large-scale clustering | Cameron McBride |
9:30 | Inflationary Fossils in the Galaxy Distribution | Marc Kamionkowski |
9:40 | A Preview of Data Release 10 | Ben Weaver |
10:00 | SkyServer Voyages: A New Way for Teachers to Use SDSS-III Data | Kate Meredith |
10:30 | Coffee break in the STScI lobby |
Session chair: Ashley Ross
Abstracts (on SDSS-III TRAC wiki)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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11:00 | Press, Education, and Citizen Science | Jordan Raddick |
11:10 | The Final Year of SDSS-III | Daniel Eisenstein |
11:20 | SDSS-IV: How to Get Involved | Jennifer Johnson |
11:35 | Data Visualization | Miguel Aragón y Calvo, Brice Ménard |
Box lunches will be served in the Bloomberg lobby, and can be eaten anywhere. Several rooms are available for lunch, and there are many pleasant outdoor spots around campus.
Time | Topic | Location |
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1:30 | DR10 Papers Workshop | Bloomberg 462 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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1:30 | APOGEE Writing Team | Bloomberg 511 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | Galaxy Evolution | TBA |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Location |
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1:30 | K-12 Education | Bloomberg 378 |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | MARVELS | TBA |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
The first SEGUE-2 parallel session of Thursday afternoon will consist of remote presentations and discussion through a Google Hangout.
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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1:30 | Constraining Milky Way Formation and Evolution From the SEGUE Survey | Andre Martins |
1:45 | TBD | Anne Robin |
2:00 | TBD | Dorothee Brauer |
2:15 | A New Disc Chemo-Dynamics Model: Comparison to Observations | Ivan Minchev |
2:30 | The Distribution of [Ca/Fe] in F and G Stars Determined from SEGUE Spectra | Emma Fernandez |
2:45 | Discussion | Team Discussion |
3:00 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | DR10 Papers Workshop | Bloomberg 462 |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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3:30 | APOGEE Writing Team | Bloomberg 511 |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | Educational Evaluation | Bloomberg 378 |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | MARVELS | Bloomberg 475 |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
Time | Topic | Location |
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3:30 | Red Quasars | Bloomberg 361 |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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3:30 | TBD | Lauren Palladino |
3:45 | Perfect Blackbody Spectra | Nao Suzuki |
4:00 | SEGUE Giants, What we Found and What we Missed | Paul Harding |
4:15 | Disk Dynamics with SEGUE | Jo Bovy |
4:30 | CEMP Stars in SEGUE | Young Sun Lee |
4:45 | [α/Fe] in the Milky Way Halo: Streams and Smooth Halo Stars | Heather Morrison |
5:00 | Discussion: New projects, APOGEE/SEGUE cross-calibration, status of the SEGUE-2 paper | Team Discussion |
5:30 | Leave for baseball game |
On Thursday evening, a group of SDSS-III/-IV attendees will attend a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Bawstun Red Sawx. Tickets are $29, and can be pre-ordered through Friday, May 24th. See the Social Events page for more information on this optional social event.
Friday will consist entirely of working group meetings, held at various locations in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. See the table below for locations. Breakfast and lunch will be served in the Bloomberg lobby.
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | Priorities for ASPCAP for DR11 | Team Discussion |
10:00 | Priorities for observing in the final year | Team Discussion |
11:00 | DR10 Documentation Lagniappe | Team Discussion |
12:30 | Lunch in Bloomberg Lobby | |
1:30 | Simulations of the APOGEE RV survey: A Testing Ground for Galactic Dynamics | Jon Bird |
1:50 | Yields, Delays, & Mixing in Chemical Evolution Models | Brett Andrews |
2:10 | APOGEE's "gold sample" and RAVE comparison | Cristina Chiappini |
2:30 | APOGEE Abundance Gradients from Open Clusters | Peter Frinchaboy |
3:00 | Coffee break in Bloomberg Lobby | |
3:30 | Metallicity Distribution Function in the Bulge | Ana García Pérez |
3:50 | APOGEE observations of Sgr dSph | Sten Hasselquist |
4:10 | Young Clusters in APOGEE | Kevin Covey |
4:30 | Seriously You Guys, TP-AGB Stars | Demitri Muna |
4:40 | New Red Jewels in Coma Berenices | Suvrath Mahadevan |
4:50 | Discussion | Team Discussion |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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9:00 | Education | Bloomberg 378 |
Session chair: David Weinberg
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | 1-D Power Spectrum | Nathalie Palanque or Christophe Yèche |
9:20 | Cosmological Simulations Grid | Arnaud Borde |
9:40 | Lyman-alpha and Massive Neutrinos | Graziano Rossi |
10:00 | Flux PDF and Constraints on IGM Thermal parameters | K.-G. Lee |
10:20 | Reconstruction of the IGM | Melih Özbek |
10:30 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby | |
11:00 | Modeling intermediate scale LyaF clustering | David Weinberg |
11:20 | QSO-correlated LyaF Mocks | Yu Feng |
11:40 | New Method to Generate LyaF Mocks | Julian Bautista |
12:00 | Discussion on Mocks/Simulations | Team Discussion |
12:30 | Lunch in Bloomberg Lobby |
Time | Topic | Speaker |
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9:00 | A Glance at the Host Galaxy of High-redshift Quasars Using Strong DLAs as Coronographs | Hayley Finley |
9:30 | The k-correction of Quasars | Shadab Alam |
10:00 | Probing the initial conditions of the universe using large scale structures | Nishant Agrawal |
10:30 | Probing the initial conditions of the universe using large scale structures | Nishant Agrawal |
10:30 | Coffee Break in Bloomberg Lobby | |
11:00 | The SDSS-DR10 Quasar Catalog | Isabelle Pâris |
11:00 | Quasar Flux Calibration | Nao Suzuki |
Time | Working Group | Location |
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9:00 | SEGUE-2 | Bloomberg 475 |
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