Sunday, July 22
1:00 PM Data Reduction Workshop
Introduction to GMOS IFU data reduction: How to get the data, standard reduction, and a few essential tips and tricks
Sunday, July 22
5:00 PM Welcome Reception
Monday - Thursday, July 23-26
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM: General Session
Monday, July 23
After last general meeting session: Speed Collaboration
Tuesday, July 24
Lunch time: "Under the Hood" Talks
12:10 PM Rosemary Pike: Col-OSSOS: discoveries, implications, and the practicalities of observing Solar System objects
12: 30 PM Jonelle Walsh: An Overview of Gemini/NIFS Data Reduction
12:50 PM Mark Brodwin: Distant Galaxy Cluster Imaging and Spectroscopy with Gemini
1: 10 PM Yen-Chen Pan: DES Supernova Cosmology with Gemini
1: 30 PM Michael Balogh: Seeking the Poisson limit with GMOS
Wednesday, July 25
7:00 PM Conference Dinner, McCormick and Kuleto's
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Sunday, July 22 |
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1:00 PM | Data Reduction Workshop | Sign-up required https://www.gemini.edu/Seg2018/program#workshops |
5:00 PM | Welcome Reception | Bristol Lounge, 1st floor, 5:00 to 7:00 PM |
Monday, July 23 |
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Introduction | Chair: John Blakeslee | |
9:00 AM | Letizia Stanghellini/Terry Lee | Welcome/Logistics |
9:05 AM | Laura Ferrarese | State of the Observatory |
9:30 AM | Andy Adamson | Introduction to Modes and Metrics, Cover notes - modes and metrics |
9:45 AM | Rene Walterbos | Evolution of Gemin Observatory: Perspective from the Board |
10:00 AM | Laura Parker | STAC Perspective |
10:15 AM | Joanna Thomas-Osip | Community-Centered User Support |
10:30 AM | Break | |
Solar System | Chair: Joanna Thomas-Osip | |
11:00 AM | Invited Speaker, Karen Meech | Follow-up of the First Known Interstellar Asteroid |
11:25 AM | Invited Speaker, Yoonyoung Kim | Gemini Observations of Active Asteroid 354P/LINEAR (2010 A2) |
11:50 AM | Elliott Horch | High-Resolution Imaging with 'Alopeke's Wide Field Mode |
12:10 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 PM | Invited Speaker, Rosemary Pike | z-Band Photometry Reveals Three Distinct TNO Surface Types |
Review of GPI Science and Possible Upgrades | Chair: Stephen Goodsell | |
2:25 PM | Bruce Macintosh | State of the GPIES Survey |
2:45 PM | Invited Speaker, Laurent Pueyo | Characterizing 51 Eri b from 1 to 5 _m: A Partly Cloudy Exoplanet |
3:10 PM | Rusian Belikov | Direct Imaging of Alpha Centauri A and B with the Gemini Planet Imager |
3:30 PM | Break | |
4:00 PM | Invited Speaker, Christine Chen | Results from LP Program Characterizing Dusty Debris Disks with the Gemini Planet Imager |
4:25 PM | Invited Speaker, John Monnier | GPI Large Program: Scattered Light Imaging of Young Stellar Objects |
4:50 PM | Tom Esposito | Debris Disk Campaign Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey |
5:10 PM | Evolution of GPI Discussion | Introduction by Bruce Macintosh. Facilitated by Stephen Goodsell, Bruce Macintosh, John Monnier, Christine Chen, and Rene Walterbos |
5:55 PM | Adjourn for the day | |
6:00 PM | Speed Collaboration | Facilitator: Jessica Werk |
Tuesday, July 24 |
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Invited Session: Strategic plan for Gemini in the 2020s |
Chair: Laura Parker |
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9:00 AM | Eric Bellm | Gemini in the LSST Era |
9:20 AM | Todd Boroson | Las Cumbres Observatory in the Landscape of the 2020s |
9:40 AM | Tom Matheson | Building the Infrastructure for Time-domain Science (ANTARES) |
10:00 AM | Bryan Miller | ToO Follow-up Network: Gemini Perspective |
10:20 AM | Break | |
10:50 AM | John Blakeslee | Gemini Strategic Plan |
11:10 AM | Discussion | Facilitated by Laura Parker, Todd Boroson, John Blakeslee, Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, and Henry Roe |
12:00 PM | Lunch | |
"Under the Hood" Lunch Talks Chair: Matt Bayliss |
Rosemary Pike, Jonelle Walsh, Mark Brodwin, Yen-Chen Pan, Michael Balogh | |
Extrasolar Planets | Chair: Henry Roe | |
2:00 PM | Invited Speaker, Jacqueline Faherty | Population Properties of Brown Dwarf Analogs to Exoplanets |
2:25 PM | Steve Howell | Revealing the Fundamental Properties of Exoplanets and their Host Stars with 'Alopeke |
2:45 PM | Invited Speaker, Carlos Saffe | Signatures of Rocky Planet Engulfment in HAT-P-4. Implications for Chemical Tagging Studies |
Galactic Astronomy | Chair: Narae Hwang | |
3:10 PM | Invited Speaker, Sukanya Chakrabarti | Discovery of a Group of Coherently Receding Variable Halo Stars |
3:35 PM | Break | |
4:05 PM | Invited Speaker, Kim Venn | GRACES Spectroscopy of Metal-poor Stars |
4:30 PM | Doug Geisler | Deep GeMS Imaging of Obscured Bulge Globular Clusters |
4:50 PM | Thiago Gonçalves | Quenching or Bursting? Physical Processes in Green Valley Galaxies and the Star Formation Acceleration |
5:10 PM | Invited Speaker, Ken Hinkle | Cosmic Survivors: Symbiotic X-ray Binaries |
5:35 PM | Break | |
5:50 PM | Special Announcement | |
6:30 PM | Adjourn for the day | |
Wednesday, July 25 |
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Invited Session: Observatory Synergies | Chair: Laura Ferrarese | |
9:00 AM | Beth Willman | Plans for the National Center for Optical/IR Astronomy |
9:25 AM | Michitoshi Yoshida | Subaru Telescope: Current Status and Future |
9:50 AM | Gaitee Hussain | ESO in 2018 |
10:15 AM | Doug Simons | CFHT Status Report and Future Plans (select "slide show" to view presentation) |
10:40 AM | Break | |
Lightning Poster Introductions | Chair: Kim Venn | |
11:10 AM | Lightning Poster Introductions | Lilia Bassino, Andre-Nicolas Chene, Escudero Faifer, Tom Geballe, Bejamin Gerard, Yijung Kang, Heeyoug Oh, Eric Steinbring, Thomas Puzia |
12:00 PM | Lunch | |
Instrument Development | Chair: Sandy Leggett | |
2:00 PM | Scot Kleinman | Gemini Instrumentation and AO Development Activities |
2:15 PM | Steve Margheim | GHOST Overview |
2:30 PM | Alexander van der Horst | SCORPIO Overview |
2:45 PM | Gaetano Sivo | GeMS 2.0 Begins: Results of a Successful New Laser Commissioning and Beyond |
Nearby Galaxies | Chair: Lilia Bassino | |
3:00 PM | Invited Speaker, Sabrina Stierwalt | Direct Evidence of Hierarchical Assembly of Low Masses From Isolated Galaxy Groups |
3:25 PM | Guillermo Bosch | Multiple Component Kinematical Analysis on the SDSSJ0838 'Green Pea' Starburst Galaxy: Strong Outflows and a Hidden Rotating Disk. |
3:45 PM | Break | |
4:15 PM | Invited Speaker, Jonelle Walsh | Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes |
4:40 PM | Irina Ene | Insights from Stellar Kinematics of Early-type Galaxies from the MASSIVE Aurvey |
5:00 PM | Favio Faifer | The Past and the Present of NGC 1316 Through Gemini + GMOS |
5:20 PM | Thaisa Storchi Bergmann | Gas Inflows and Outflows Around Nearby AGN Mapped with Gemini IFUs |
5:45 PM | Roberto Bertoldo Menezes | Deep IFS View of Nuclei of Galaxies Survey: First Results |
6:05 PM | Adjourn for the day | |
7:00 PM | Conference Dinner: McCormick & Kuleto's Seafood Restaurant | |
Thursday, July 26 |
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Visitor Instruments | Chair: Alison Peck | |
9:00 AM | Suresh Sivanandam | Gemini Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph |
9:15 AM | Frederic Zamkotsian | BATMAN@Gemini, a Visiting DMD-based Spectro-Imager: Instrumentation and Science Cases |
9:30 AM | Jacob Bean | MAROON-X |
9:45 AM | Nicolas Scott | 'Alopeke - Evolution of an Instrument Line and Capabilities |
10:00 AM | Hwihyun Kim | The First IGRINS Visit to Gemini Observatory |
10:15 AM | Break | |
Cosmic Explosions | Chair: Verne Smith | |
10:45 AM | Invited Speaker, Ryan Chornock | The Gemini Perspective on Neutron Star Mergers |
11:10 AM | Invited Speaker, Ryan Foley | DES Supernova Cosmology Results |
11:35 AM | Steve Margheim | The Kepler Supernova Experiment |
11:55 AM | Brenda Frye | Using Gemini/GMOS to Understand One Massive Lensing Cluster and One QSO Host Galaxy |
12:15 PM | Lunch | |
Galaxies and Cosmology | Chair: Rodrigo Carrasco | |
2:00 PM | Analía Smith-Castelli | Low Surface Brightness Galaxies: Challenging Gemini Observational Limits? |
2:20 PM | Janaina Nascimento | The First 62 AGN Observed with MaNGA : Gas Excitation and Surface Mass Density Distribution |
2:40 PM | Invited Speaker, Michael Balogh | Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich Early Environments (GOGREEN Survey) |
3:05 PM | Matt Bayliss | The SPT-GMOS Spectroscopic Survey: Velocity Dispersions and Velocity Segregation of ~100 Massive Galaxy Clusters |
3:25 PM | Break | |
3:55 PM | Invited Speaker, Mark Brodwin | MaDCoWS: The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey |
4:20 PM | Invited Speaker, Yongjung Kim | Discoveries and Properties of High-redshift Quasars with IMS |
4:45 PM | Woong-Seob Jeong | Nature of High-Redshift Dust-Obscured Galaxies in the ADF-S |
5:05 PM | Conference Closes |