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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