Preliminary Meeting Program: (To be updated with speakers)

Sunday Nov. 6

• Workshop Reception at the hotel
  

Monday Nov. 7

• Session 1: "The Power of Wide-Field Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys"
  • Introductory talk on wide-field survey astronomy
  • Talks on WFMOS and HyperSuprime Cam (two talks)
• Session 2: "Theoretical and Observational Perspectives on Dark Energy"
  • Theoretical (i.e. physics) perspectives (two talks)
  • Observational (i.e., astrophysics) perspective (two talks)
• Session 3: "Probes of The Dark Universe: WFMOS and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations"
  • BAO theory talk
  • BAO survey talk
  • BAO simulation talk
  • Short contributions on future galaxy redshift surveys, including AAOmega, FMOS etc.
    

Tuesday Nov. 8

• Session 4: "Probes of The Dark Universe: HyperSuprimeCam and Weak Lensing"
  • WL theory talk
  • WL observational perspective (two talks)
  • Short contributions on future WL and imaging surveys, including LSST, PanSTARRS, DES,
  • VISTA, VST etc.
• Session 5: "Other Probes of The Dark Universe"
  • Contributions on other methods to probe the dark universe including supernovae experiments, cluster counts, etc.
  • Workshop banquet at the hotel
    

Wednesday Nov. 9

• Session 6: "Related and Extra Science"
  • Contributions from attendees including talks on galaxy evolution, large-scale structure, test of fundamental physics, galactic dynamics etc.
• Session 7: Conference Summary and Panel Discussion