Program & Speakers

Invited Speakers

Michael Balogh
Michele Bannister
Geoff Clayton
Jean-Michel Désert
Wes Fraser
Avishay Gal-Yam
Denise Gonçalves
Mario Hamuy
Steven Kahn
Mukremin Kilic
Myung Gyoon Lee
Bruce Macintosh
Franck Marchis
Alan McConnachie
Thaisa Storchi Bergmann
Chris Tinney
Jessica Werk
Nadia Zakamska

Program

All events will be at the Radisson Admiral Hotel Toronto-Harbourfront, except the conference dinner.

Invited talks are 15 minutes long, plus 5 additional minutes for questions.

Contributed talks are 12 minutes long, plus 3 additional minutes for questions.

Sunday, June 14
5:00PM	*Welcome Reception*	The View - 5th floor - 5 PM to 7 PM

Monday, June 15
Introduction – Chair, Paul Martini
9:00 AM	Markus Kissler-Patig	Welcome, State of the Observatory
9:25 AM	Invited Speaker Michael Balogh	Board perspectives and future vision
9:45 AM	Nancy Levenson	Science Highlights
10:00 AM	Rachel Mason	Fast Turnaround Program
10:15 AM	*Break*
Solar System – Chair, Paul Martini
10:45 AM	Invited Speaker Franck Marchis	Gemini Observatory Adaptive Optics contributions to Planetary Science
11:05 AM	Invited Speaker Michele Bannister	It Takes Two: Simultaneous Exploration of the Outer Solar System with CFHT and Gemini
11:25 AM	Invited Speaker Wesley Fraser	Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
11:45 AM	Rosemary Pike	The 5:1 Neptune Resonance: Dynamics and Population
12:00 PM	Lunch Optional: GRACES Discussion
Partner Highlights and Perspectives – Chair, Nancy Levenson
1:45 PM	Roy Gal	University of Hawaii
2:00 PM	Guillermo Bosch	Argentina
2:15 PM	Stuart Ryder	Australia
2:30 PM	Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann	Brazil
2:45 PM	Craig Heinke	Canada
3:00 PM	Franz Bauer	Chile
3:15 PM	*Break*
3:45 PM	Narae Hwang	KASI
4:00 PM	Letizia Stanghellini	United States
4:15 PM	*Lightning Poster Introductions*
5:00 PM	*Wine and Cheese Poster Viewing Reception*

Tuesday, June 16
Future Instrumentation – Chair, Michael Balogh
9:00 AM	Scot Kleinman	Development Program and Instrument Procurement Update
9:25 AM	Ruben Diaz	Instrumentation Upgrades: Small Projects
9:40 AM	Andrew Sheinis	An Update on the Gemini High Resolution Optical Spectrograph (GHOST)
Active Galactic Nuclei – Chair, Michael Balogh
9:55 AM	Invited Speaker Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann	Mapping Feeding and Feedback Processes of Supermassive Black Holes with Gemini Integral Field Spectrographs
10:15 AM	Davide Lena	Gas kinematics in the inner kiloparsec of NGC 1386 and NGC 1365: bipolar outflows, rotation and...an equatorial outflow!?
10:30 AM	*Break*
11:00 AM	Invited Speaker Nadia Zakamska	Observations of quasar feedback
11:20 AM	Rogério Riffel	The near-infrared stellar populations of galaxies: models constraints from observations of active galaxies
11:35 AM	Rogemar Riffel	Feeding vs. Feedback in AGNs probed with Near-IR Integral Field Spectroscopy
11:50 AM	Dinalva Sales	Discovery of two nuclei in the process of merging in the OH Megamaser Galaxy IRAS17526+3253
12:05 PM	Mischa Schirmer	Quasar ionization echos
12:20 PM	Lunch Optional: Instrumentation Discussion
Cosmic Explosions – Chair, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
2:00 PM	Invited Speaker Mario Hamuy	Gemini: Cosmology from Type II Supernovae
2:20 PM	Invited Speaker Avishay Gal-Yam	Supernova flash spectroscopy: a new observational window into stellar death
2:40 PM	Craig Heinke	Recent Gemini results on X-ray Binaries
2:55 PM	Armin Rest	Spectrophotometric Evolution of Eta Carinae's Great Eruption
3:10 PM	Invited Speaker Geoffrey Clayton	Studying Dust Formation in Core-Collapse Supernovae with Gemini/GMOS
3:30 PM	Franz Bauer	An X-ray Transient Goes Bump in the Night
3:45 PM	Yi Cao	Declining Ultraviolet Emission From a Newborn Type Ia Supernova
4:00 PM	*Break*
Current Partnerships – Chair, Markus Kissler-Patig
4:30 PM	Markus Kissler-Patig	Current Gemini Partnerships
4:40 PM	Nobuo Arimoto	Future Plans of Subaru for Operations and Instruments
5:00 PM	Hilton Lewis	Keck Observatory: Current Status and Future Plans
5:20 PM	Panel discussion on Synergy

Wednesday, June 17
Exoplanets – Chair, Franck Marchis
9:00 AM	Invited Speaker Bruce Macintosh	Science with the Gemini Planet Imager
9:20 AM	Jeffrey Chilcote	The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey
9:35 AM	Invited Speaker Chris Tinney	Brown Dwarf & Exoplanet Science with Gemini
9:55 AM	Invited Speaker Jean-Michel Désert	Probing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with Gemini/GMOS
10:15 AM	Mark Ammons	Astrometric Limits from GeMS on the Presence of Exoplanets in the Luhman 16AB System
10:30 AM	*Break*
11:00 AM	Thayne Currie	Characterizing Imaged Exoplanetary Systems with Gemini
Additional Topics – Chair, Franck Marchis
11:15 AM	Chad Trujillo	The Future of Gemini Adaptive Optics
11:40 AM	Steven Kahn	The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
12:00 PM	Joseph Masiero	Follow-up of low-albedo NEOWISE discoveries with Gemini-South/GMOS-S
12:15 PM	Lunch Optional: Hands-on Data Analysis Workshop
Galactic Astronomy – Chair, Letizia Stanghellini
2:10 PM	Invited Speaker Alan McConnachie	A high resolution view of resolved stellar populations with the Gemini Observatories
2:30 PM	Tobias Fritz	Probing the dark halo of the Milky Way with GeMS/GSAOI
2:45 PM	Invited Speaker Mukremin Kilic	The ELM Survey: Searching for the Shortest Period Binary White Dwarfs
3:05 PM	Ana Elisa Collado	Using Gemini poor-weather time to search for binary systems among faint Galactic WN stars
3:20 PM	*Break*
Gemini Instrument Feasibility Studies (GIFS) – Chair, Letizia Stanghellini
3:50 PM	Gemini Observatory	Introduction to GIFS
4:00 PM	GIFS project presentations
	Alan McConnachie	MOVIES: A combined optimized target of opportunity and workhorse large wavelength coverage spectrograph for the Gemini telescopes
	Antonio de Ugarte	OCTOCAM: A fast optical/NIR multi-channel imager and spectrograph
	Massimo Robberto	GMOX: A wide-bandwidth, moderate-resolution, MEMS-based multi-object spectrograph
	Nicholas Konidaris	GEONIS: Gemini Efficient Optical and Near-infrared Imager and Spectrograph
5:20 PM	Panel discussion on Gen 4#3 instrument
7:15 PM	*Conference Dinner: CN Tower 360 Restaurant*

Thursday, June 18
Nearby Universe – Chair, Pauline Barmby
9:00 AM	Invited Speaker Denise Gonçalves	The universal mass-metallicity relation for Local Group dwarf galaxies
9:20 AM	Invited Speaker Myung Gyoon Lee	Tracing the history of merger remnant early-type galaxies
9:40 AM	Roberto Bertoldo Menezes	The molecular H2 emission and the stellar kinematics in the nuclear region of the Sombrero galaxy
9:55 AM	Carlos Escudero	The extremely populated globular cluster system of the lenticular galaxy NGC6861
10:10 AM	Rachel Mason	The near-IR spectral properties of nearby galaxy nuclei
10:25 AM	*Break*
10:55 AM	Ricardo Salinas	Dark matter and globular cluster systems of isolated ellipticals
11:10 AM	John Blakeslee	Multiconjugate Fluctuations: Measuring Surface Brightness Fluctuations with GeMS
Distant Galaxies – Chair, John Blakeslee
11:25 AM	Invited Speaker Jessica Werk	Where Accretion Meets Feedback: The Large Gaseous Halos Around Galaxies
11:45 AM	Roberto Abraham	Eppur si muove’
12:00 PM	Lunch Optional: Public Information and Outreach Discussion
2:00 PM	Robert Bassett	The Stellar Properties of Turbulent Disks at z~1 Using GMOS-IFS
2:15 PM	Inger Jørgensen	Dead galaxies not so dead – galaxy evolution over the last 8-9 Gyr
2:30 PM	Elizabeth Buckley-Geer	A Gemini Large and Long Program for Dark Energy Survey Strong Lensing and Photometric Redshift Spectroscopic Follow-Up
2:45 PM	Mark Brodwin	The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS)
3:00 PM	Michael Balogh	Galaxy groups and clusters at 0.8
3:15 PM	*Break*
3:30 PM	Adam Muzzin	The Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS)
3:45 PM	Sarah Sweet	An adaptive optics view of the morphological evolution of galaxies during 1 < z < 2
4:00 PM	Panel and Participant Discussion: Future Vision for Gemini
5:00 PM	Conference Ends

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