Astronomy in the 2020s: Synergies with WFIRST
About Event
Location
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
Description
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), expected to launch in in the mid-2020’s, is a NASA mission currently under Phase A development whose primary goals are to study the nature of dark energy, detect and characterize exoplanets, and have a robust guest observing program. With an advanced coronagraph and an optical-NIR imaging field of view over 100 times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, WFIRST will be a powerful tool for discovery and exploration across a broad range of astrophysics.
In this workshop, we will explore the “big questions” in astrophysics that will be addressed by WFIRST over the lifetime of the mission. Many of these questions are bigger than any one mission, and the workshop will therefore bring together experts from a variety of backgrounds to discuss the scientific synergies between WFIRST and the other major astronomical facilities of the next decade and explore the power of multi-wavelength, multi-domain studies.
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Workshop Fee: $75.00
Important Dates
| April 1 | Abstract Submission Period Expires |
| May 1 | Abstract Selection Notifications Sent |
| May 26 | Hotel Special Rate Expires |
| May 30 | Registration Closes |
Accordion
| Date | Event | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, June 26, 2017 | Workshop | 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Workshop | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Special Public Talk - Dark Energy and New Worlds: NASA's WFIRST Mission (Amber Straughn) | 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | Workshop | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Please see the Workshop Agenda for a full breakdown of sessions.
Julianne Dalcanton (University of Washington)
Mark Dickinson (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
Steve Finkelstein (University of Texas)
Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)
Leslie Rogers (University of Chicago)
Vernesa Smolčić (University of Zagreb)
David Spergel (Princeton University)
Risa Wechsler (Stanford University)
David Weinberg (Ohio State University)
Al Wootten (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
We will have ~50" 16:9 (landscape) monitors connected to an iPad that will be available for participants to make digital "poster" presentations throughout the workshop. Presenters can assume that they will be able to show single-screen PDFs similar to standard poster presentations. The iPad will also be connected to the internet, so they may be capable of showing additional multimedia files hosted on the web (e.g., youtube or personal webpages). If you are planning on a digital PDF presentation, please email to WFIRSTSynergies2020@stsci.edu by June 10th so that we can collate them and make them available on a single webpage that all workshop participants can access.
Posters will be available during morning and afternoon breaks as well as during lunch breaks.
Speaker: Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Title: Searching for supernovae at the reionization era with WFIRST and Subaru/HSC
Speaker: Courtney Sol (Columbia University)
Title: What might WINGS See?
Speaker: Meredith Durbin (University of Washington)
Title: Recovering Ages and Metallicities of Stellar Halos with WFIRST
Speaker: Ori Fox (STScI)
Title: An Infrared Search for Dust-Extinguished SNe in ULIRG Galaxies
Speaker: Amy Secunda (Columbia University)
Title: The WFIRST View of the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Speaker: Rebekah Hounsell (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title: Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey
Speaker: V Tilvi (Arizona State University)
Title: Probing Cosmic Reionization using Grism Observations
Speaker: Russell Ryan (STScI)
Title: The Effect of Atmospheric Cooling on the Galactic Distributions of Brown Dwarfs
Speaker: David Rubin (STScI)
Title: WFIRST: A Convergence of Parallels. Simulating NIR Imaging and IFC Spectrophotometry of LSST SNe
David Law (co-chair, STScI)
Molly Peeples (co-chair, STScI)
Rachel Akeson (California Institute of Technology)
Rachel Bean (Cornell University)
James Bullock (University of California, Irvine)
Peter Capak (California Institute of Technology)
Karoline Gilbert (STScI)
Neil Gehrels (WFIRST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Kelsey Johnson (University of Virginia)
Jason Kalirai (STScI)
Jeremy Kasdin (WFIRST/CGI Adjutant Scientist, Princeton University)
Jason Rhodes (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
David Spergel (WFIRST/WFI Adjutant Scientist, Princeton University)
Those selected to present a talk or submit a poster must fill out and affix their signature to a Consent and Release Form prior to the workshop start date. The form should be returned to Martha Devaud, Event Planner, as a PDF using the contact information above.
Space permitting, workshop talks are open to astronomers from all local (Maryland and Washington, DC) institutions without registering. However, seating is not guaranteed in the auditorium without registering for the workshop. Locals attending the workshop are requested to refrain from partaking in the refreshments. Locals wishing to partake in the refreshments will need to register and will receive a badge for admission after payment of the registration fee.
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