Astronomy in the 2020s: Synergies with WFIRST

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David Law, Molly Peeples (Co-Chairs)
Rachel Akeson, Rachel Bean, James Bullock, Peter Capak, Neil Gehrels, Karrie Gilbert, Kelsey Johnson, Jason Kalirai, Jeremy Kasdin, Jason Rhodes, David Spergel

Talk Schedule

Monday, June 26

Session 1: Setting the Stage

Moderators: David Law and Molly Peeples
9-9:15AM: Ken Sembach - Welcome from STScI (Video)
9:20-9:30AM: Dominic Benford - Welcome from the WFIRST project (Video)
9:30-10:15AM: David Weinberg - From Planets to Dark Energy: Forecasting the Astronomical Landscape for WFIRST (Video, PDF)

Session 2: High-z science/cosmology

Moderator: Peter Capak
10:45-11:15: Steve Finkelstein - A Large-Scale View of Reionization with WFIRST HLS and GO Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys (Video, PDF)
11:15-12:15: 3 contributed talks:
Dan Scolnic - Supernova Surveys In The 2020s (Video)
Rychard Bouwens - The Brightest z>=8 Galaxies: From Current Samples to Future Science with WFIRST, JWST, ALMA, and the ELTs (Video)
Jeffrey Newman - A Southern Spectroscopic Survey Instrument: Synergies with WFIRST (Video, PDF)
12:15-12:30: Lightning poster talks (Video)

Session 3: Wide Area Surveys

Moderator: Molly Peeples
1:30-2:00PM: David Spergel - Surveying the Sky with WFIRST (Video)
2:00-2:30PM: Zeljko Ivezic - The synergies between LSST and WFIRST (Video, PDF)
2:30-3:30PM: 3 contributed talks:
Ben Granett - Mapping the dark universe with Euclid (Video)
Nao Suzuki - Optimizing WFIRST survey with LSST and Subaru/PFS: The Golden Triangle (Video)
Peter Melchior - A multi-band deblender for LSST and WFIRST (Video)

Session 4: Nearby Galaxies and the Local Group

Moderator: Karoline Gilbert
4:00-4:30: Julianne Dalcanton - The Near-Field at Wide-Field: Stellar Population Studies with WFIRST (Video)
4:30-5:30: Contributed talks:
Benjamin Williams - The WFIRST Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey (Video, PDF)
Robyn Sanderson - Astrometry with the WFIRST WFI (Video, PDF)
Andrew Graus - What Do We Measure When We Measure Star Formation Histories? (Video)

Tuesday, June 27

Session 5: Time Domain Surveys

Moderator: Jeremy Kasdin
09:00-09:30: Jennifer Yee - Planet Populations with Microlensing (Video)
09:30-10:30: Contributed Talks:
Will Dawson - Testing Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter with WFIRST and LSST (Video, PDF)
Radek Poleski - Harnessing combined power of WFIRST and LSST for exoplanet characterization (Video)
Aparna Bhattacharya - Developing WFIRST Microlensing Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method (Video)

Session 6: Planets and Disks

Moderator: Rachel Akeson
11:00-11:30: Leslie Rogers - Exoplanets and Exodisks in the 2020s (Video)
11:30-12:30: Contributed talks:
Stefanie Milam - Observing the Solar System with WFIRST (Video, PDF)
Benne Holwerda - The Brown Dwarfs of the Milky Way Halo and Disk (Video, PDF)
Roberta Paladini - Constraining the Population of Galactic Young Stars with WFIRST (Video)

Session 7: Narrow field facilities

Moderator: Aparna Bhattacharya
1:30-2:00: Al Wootten - Synergies between WFIRST and ALMA (Video, PDF)
2:00-2:30: Vernesa Smolcic - Long wavelengths and the SKA (Video, PDF)
2:30-3:00: Mark Dickinson - Synergies between the ELTs and WFIRST (Video, PDF)

Session 8: Break out sessions and demos:

Gerard Lemson - CASjobs / sciserver (part of Archives SIT)
Joseph Long - WFIRST simulation tools at STScI
Annika Peter and Leonidas Moustakas - fundamental dark matter physics with WFIRST and other facilities
Tim Eifler, Michael Schneider - Synergies with LSST
Rachel Akeson - Exploring non-exoplanet science with WFIRST's CGI
Leslie Rogers - Synergies with WFIRST's CGI and other coronagraphs
Others as arise a la "unconference" session

Special public talk: Amber Straughn - Dark Energy and New Worlds: NASA's WFIRST Mission (Video)

Wednesday, June 28

Session 9: Simulations

Moderator: Jason Rhodes
9-9:30AM: Risa Wechsler - Synergies with Simulations in the 2020s (Video)
9:30-10:50AM: Contributed talks:
Michael Schneider - Hierarchical Probabilistic Cosmic Shear (Video, PDF)
Tim Eifler - Systematics mitigation strategies for WFIRST cosmology (Video, PDF)
Elena Massara - Designing a cosmology emulator with on demand simulations (Video)
Melanie Simet - Cluster mass calibrations with future data sets (Video)