ACS High-Latitude Survey Workshop

Space Telescope Science Institute

March 22-23, 2001

Program

Thursday, March 22

Background/Motivation/Constraints 
8:30  Introduction/Motivation  Steve Beckwith
9:00  Major science issues -- cosmology/dark-matter  Ed Turner
9:25  Major science issues -- high-z supernovae  Greg Aldering
9:50  Major science issues -- normal galaxies  Richard Ellis
10:15  Major science issues -- AGN  Meg Urry
10:40  Break 
11:10  Major science issues -- Stars, galactic structure  Neill Reid
11:35  The ACS technical characteristics  Mark Clampin
11:55  The default ACS pure-parallel program  Bill Sparks
12:10  ACS GTO program  Holland Ford
12:30  LUNCH
1:30  Scheduling issues (campaigns/CVZ/SN search)  Harry Ferguson
1:45  WFC3 capabilities  Rogier Windhorst 
Complementing other high-latitude surveys 
2:00  High-energy  Riccardo Giacconi
2:30  UV/optical  Buell Jannuzi
3:00  NIR/IR  Carol Lonsdale
3:30  Break
3:50  Radio and Sub-mm surveys  Eric Richards
Survey Requirements (e.g. bands, depth, area, timing, coordination...)
4:20  Instructions for splinter groups  Mauro Giavalisco
4:30  Splinter sessions
Cosmology/lensing/supernovae
Galaxy evolution - "wide-area" science
Galaxy evolution - "deep-fields" science
AGN evolution
Stars/solar system
6:00  Regroup...brief discussion on procedure
6:30  Dinner at the Colonnade 

Friday, March 23

8:30  Splinters regroup
9:15  Splinter group summaries
10:30  Break
10:50  Science summary  Roger Blandford
11:10  Science summary  Sandra Faber
11:30  Structured discussion: survey options ... attempt at a synthesis
12:40  Closing remarks  Steve Beckwith