SDSS Collaboration Meeting at Fermilab

March 30 - April 2, 2001

Agenda

Friday, March 30

Registration: all day long outside room 1 West

Morning  (Room: WH7X Racetrack)

9.00 - 12.00 Informal meetings:
9.00 -  9.55 

10.00 - 10.55

 QSO Absorption Line Systems 

Gravitational Lensing 
11.00 - 12.00 Angular Correlations 
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch

Afternoon

1.00 -2.00 Demonstration of Access to the Early Data Release (Chris Stoughton, FNAL and 
Damian Christian, STScI; Room: 1 West) 
2.00 - 3.30 Working group sessions: in parallel 1st Tutorial session on SX usage and Data guru meeting with Matt Crawford
 
 
Galaxies 

chair: M. Strauss, PU 
 

Room: 1 West

 Serendipity

chair: S. Anderson, UW
           W. Voges, MPE

Room: WH2SW Curia II

 1st Tutorial session on SX 

experts available for help:
 

Room: WHG 
            E-mail Center
 

 Data guru meeting (at 3 pm) 

chair: B. Lee, FNAL
 

Room: WH7X Racetrack

 
3.30 - 3.55 Afternoon coffee break
4.00 - 5.00 Joint Experimental/Theoretical Seminar on SDSS (A. Szalay, JHU)
7.00 - 8.00 Public Lecture ($5) : Living with a star (Dr. George Withbroe, NASA)

Saturday, March 31

Morning

8.30 - 8.55 Breakfast
9.00 - 10.25 Working group sessions: in parallel 2nd Tutorial session on SX usage
 
 
Galaxy Clusters 

chair: N. Bahcall, PU
 

Room: WH2SW Curia II

 QSOs 

chair:  X. Fan, PU
            G. Richards, PSU

Room: 1 North

 2nd Tutorial session on SX 

experts available for help:
 

Room: WHG
           E-mail Center
 
10.25 - 10.30 Collaboration photo shoot in the atrium
10.30 - 10.55 Morning coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Working group sessions: in parallel 3rd Tutorial session on SX usage
 
 
Large-Scale Structure 

chair: A. Szalay, JHU

Room: WH2SW Curia II

 Stars 

chair: J. Pier, USNO

Room: 1 North

 3rd Tutorial session on SX 

experts available for help:

Room: WHG
            E-mail Center
 
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch including:
  • CoCo meeting in Small Dining Room
  • Photometric calibration working lunch (S. Kent, FNAL)

Afternoon  (Room: 1 West)

1.30  Plenary sessions begin (Chair: B. Yanny, FNAL):
1.30 - 1.40  GRB010222 (B. Lee, FNAL)
1.45 - 1.55  SDSS1226-0006 The First Probable Lensed QSO from SDSS (N. Inada, Tokyo) 
2.00 - 2.25  Clusters (J. Annis, FNAL)
2.30 - 2.55 ROSAT sources in SDSS (W. Voges, MPE)
3.00 - 3.25 Lyman-Alpha Forest Power Spectrum (L. Hui, Columbia U.)
3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon coffee break
4.00 - 4.25 Dwarf spheroidals  (M. Odenkirchen, Heidelberg)
4.30 - 5.00 Early-type galaxies  (R. Sheth, FNAL)
5.00 - 5.45 Early Data Release Plan & Testing (C. Stoughton, FNAL)
6.00 -  Dinner provided at Users' Center

Sunday, April 1

Morning (Room: 1 West)

8.30 - 8.55 Breakfast: Krispy Kreme
9.00 SDSS Pipeline Updates begin (Chair: B. Lee, FNAL):
9.00 - 9.15 Photo 5_3 and 6 (R. Lupton, PU) 
9.20 - 10.00 Photometric calibration (D. Hogg, NYU)
10.05 - 10.30 Target selection (D. Vanden Berk, FNAL)
10.30 - 11.00 Morning coffee break
11.00 - 11.20 Spectroscopic pipeline (M. Subbarao, UofC)
11.25 - 12.00 Discussion of Spokesperson Election (M. Turner, UofC)
Discussion of Collaboration policies and their applicability vis à vis Released Data
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch (lunch provided)

Afternoon (Room: 1 West)

1.00  Coordination with Other projects (Chair: S. Kent, FNAL):
1.00 - 1.20 Calar Alto SDSS follow-up (E. Grebel, MP-Heidelberg)
1.25 - 1.45 SDSS/2dF collaboration (B. Boyle)
1.50 - 2.10 Lamost (X. Fan, IAS)
2.15 - 2.45 Plans for the Southern Survey (R. Lupton, PU)
2.50 - 3.30 Early QSO Science Results (dry run for June AAS session): Richards, Vanden Berk, ....
3.30 - 3.55 Afternoon coffee break
4.00 - 5.30 Machine gun Science: short talks (Chair: D. Vanden Berk)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6.00 - 

 Duplicate spectra: qa and science?!  (S. Kleinman, APO)
GRBs in the SDSS  (B. Lee, FNAL)
Hot white dwarfs  (J. Beacom, FNAL)
Evolution of galaxies in the spectroscopic sample (M. Blanton, FNAL)
Indicators for emission line  (C. Tremonti, JHU)
Galaxies in the SDSS  (E. Peng, JHU)
Galactic halo  (W. Dehnen, MPI-MPE)
Galactic stellar background as a function of anything and everything  (C. Rockosi, UofC)
Higher order statistics  (I. Szapudi, U. Hawaii)
Low mass stars and brown dwarfs  (S. Hawley, UWA)
Update of galaxy M/L measurements from weak lensing studies  (E. Sheldon, UM)
Plucking Supernovae from SDSS Color Space (D. Vanden Berk, FNAL)

Dinner on your own

Monday, April 2

Morning  (Room: 1 West)

8.00 - 8.25 Breakfast
8.30 - 10.30 Working group reports (Chair: J. Peoples, FNAL; 10-15 min per WG):
  • current projects & science plans for the next year
  • feedback on SX and early data release
QSOs: X. Fan (PU) and G. Richards (PSU)

Galaxies: V. Narayanan (PU)

Galaxy Clusters: N. Bahcall (PU)

Large-Scale Structure: A. Szalay (JHU)

Serendipity: S. Anderson (UW) and W. Voges (MPE)

Stars: J. Pier (USNO)
 
10.30 - 10.55 Morning coffee break
11.00 - 12.00 Computing Technique Seminar: Databases meet Astronomy
J. Gray, Microsoft Corp. 
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch

Afternoon  (Room: 1 West)

1.00 - 2.00 State of the Survey & Future Uses of the SDSS Facilities
  • J. Peoples  (FNAL)
  • J. Gunn  (PU)
2.00 Adjourn
2.30 - 3.30 Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar (B. Yanny, FNAL; Room: WH2SW Curia II)

NOTES:

Participants wishing to give a short talk presentation should indicate this in the SDSS registration form or send e-mail to Dan Vanden Berk (danvb@fnal.gov)

If you wish to organize an extra parallel session yourself or if you have useful suggestions, contact Chris Stoughton (stoughto@fnal.gov). 

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