“Cosmology Near and Far: Science with WFMOS”

A Joint Workshop of Subaru, Gemini, NOAO, JSPS and UK STFC

May 19-21, 2008 AGENDA : Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Waikoloa, Hawaii

 
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Sunday, May 18 
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17:00-19:00  Reception on Paniolo Terrace 
               drinks and appetizers provided
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Monday, May 19 
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 8:30- 10:30    Continental Breakfast served in meeting room

*** Introductions: Chair Y.Suto ***

 9:00- 9:20    D. Simons, S. Miyama: Welcome address
 9:20-10:00    J.Jensen: An Introduction to the WFMOS Project

10:00-10:20		  coffee

*** Galactic archeology 1: Chair R. Ibata ***

10:20-11:00   R.Wyse:  Cosmology with the Thin and Thick Disks
                          of the Milky Way
11:00-11:40   K.Freeman: Elements in the Disk
11:40-12:20   M.Chiba: Near-field cosmology: formation of the stellar halo
12:20-12:40   C.Kobayashi: Chemodynamical Simulation of the Milky Way
                                  Galaxy for Galactic Archaeology

12:40-13:00    Group photograph

13:00-14:40		 lunch


*** Galaxy surveys 1: Chair R.Ellis ***

14:40-15:20   T.Yamada: Towards Deep and Wide-Field High-Redshift
                              Surveys with WFMOS
15:20-15:40   L.Sodre: Spectral Analysis of WFMOS Galaxy Spectra

15:40-16:00		coffee


16:00-16:20   Y.Koyama: Wide-field observation of distant clusters
                              of galaxies
16:20-16:40   A.Fritz: The Evolution of Cluster Early-Type Galaxies
                         Since z=1
16:40-17:00   H.Yee: The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey


17:00-          Dinner on your own - see conference organizers for
                            suggestions, if desired.

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Tuesday, May 20
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 8:30-11:00     Continental Breakfast served in meeting room

*** Galaxy surveys 2: Chair K.Ohta ***

 9:00- 9:40   N.Tamura: FMOS: An overview of a very near-future 
                   instrument for wide-field NIR MOS and scientific objective
 9:40-10:00   G.Dalton: Science with VISTA
10:00-10:20   M.Ouchi: WFMOS Studies of Galaxy Formation and
                           Reionization: Synergistic Effects on
                              HyperSuprime, JWST, and ELT Surveys
10:20-10:40   T.Kodama: The Ultimate Studies of Environmental 
                   Effects in the Cosmic Webs in the Distant Universe

10:40-11:00		  coffee

*** Galactic archeology 3: Chair G. Lewis ***

11:00-11:40   R.Ibata: M31 & M33: Clues to Galaxy Formation
11:40-12:00   V.Smith: Useful Abundance Ratios for Chemically
                          Identifying Stellar Populations
12:00-12:20   A.Bunker: The History of Star Formation and Metal Enrichment

12:20-14:00		 lunch

*** Auxiliary science 1 : Chair M.Doi ***

14:00-14:40   P.McDonald: IGM 
14:40-15:00   A.Dey:   Tracing the Formation, Evolution and Assembly
                          of Massive Galaxies
15:00-15:20   S.Sharma: Searching for Groups with WFMOS Eyes
15:20-15:40   T.Goto: z>7 QSO search and z=1 cluster counts: 
                            synergy with HyperSprimeCam

15:40-16:00		coffee

*** BAO 1: Chair M. Takada ***

16:00-16:40   T.Matsubara: Recent progress in theory of BAO 
                       with galaxy surveys
16:40-17:20   D.Eisenstein: BOSS 
17:20-17:40   A.Taruya: Accurate modeling for matter power spectrum
                         and baryon acoustic oscillations
17:40-18:00   N.Yoshida: Simulations of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations


19:00  -	conference banquet


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Wednesday, May 21
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8:30- 11:00     Continental Breakfast served in meeting room

*** Auxiliary science 2 : Chair N.Yoshida ***

 9:00- 9:40   S.Miyazaki: Hyper Suprime-Cam Project Status
 9:40-10:00   Y.Komiyama: HSC Camera Design
10:00-10:40   M.Takada: A prospect for constraining neutrino mass with WFMOS

10:40-11:00		  coffee

***  Dark energy : Chair N.Sugiyama ***

11:00-11:40   E.Linder: Current Efforts in Dark Energy
11:40-12:20   K.Glazebrook: w from WiggleZ to WFMOS

12:20-14:00		 lunch

*** BAO 2 : Chair M. Iye ***

14:00-14:40   G.Hill: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy
                             Experiment (HETDEX)
14:40-15:00   Y.Matsuda: WFMOS follow-ups of a HSC narrow-band BAO survey
15:00-15:20   D.Parkinson: Optimising Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Surveys

***  Modified gravity: Chair A. Taruya  ***

15:20-16:00   K.Koyama:   Modified Gravity
16:00-16:20   K.Yamamoto: Testing gravity with large galaxy redshift surveys

16:20-16:40		coffee

***   Panel discussion:  Chair Y. Suto  ***

16:40-18:00  Panel discussion 
              (D.Simons, M.Hayashi, R.Ellis, A.Dey, N.Arimoto)
              Presentations (Arimoto, Ellis-Day, Kodama)


***   Posters   ***

 T. Hiramatsu:   Cosmological power spectra in a closure theory
 M. Ishigaki:    Kinematics and chemical abundance of metal-poor stars in the outer Galactic halo
 T. Nishimichi:  Systematic effects on BAO measurements
 S. Saito:       Probing neutrino masses through nonlinear matter power spectrum with WFMOS survey
 R. Takahashi:   Covariance Matrix for Baryon Acoustic Oscillation from Numerical Simulations