Name: BigBOSS Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2012-10-08T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-10-10T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Institut Henri Poincaré

BigBOSS Collaboration Meeting

de lundi 8 octobre 2012 (08:00) à mercredi 10 octobre 2012 (18:00)

lundi 8 octobre 2012

08:45 Registration - Coffee
Registration - Coffee
08:45 - 09:30
09:30 (Ch. Yeche)
(Ch. Yeche)
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

09:30 Welcome - Christophe Yeche (CEA Irfu/SPP) Ursula Bassler (CEA-Saclay Irfu/SPP)

09:40 BigBOSS overview - David Schlegel

10:05 BigBOSS progress and plans - Michael Levi

10:30 Spectrograph expertise in France - Jean-Gabriel Cuby
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 (M. Levi)
(M. Levi)
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 BAO with galaxy - Will Percival

12:00 BAO with Ly-alpha - Nicolas Busca (APC - Université de Paris 7)
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Salle 201
Contributions

14:00 Spectrograph design - Pat Jelinsky (UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab)

14:35 Spectral Extraction Pipeline Needs - Stephen Bailey

14:55 Mayall Spectrograph Environment - Robert Besuner (UC Berkeley/Space Sciences Lab)

15:10 Through-the-Telescope Calibration - Michael Schubnell

15:25 Saclay Cryostat Development - Pierre-Henri Carton
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

14:00 Bonus cosmological applications of BigBOSS - Pengjie Zhang (Shanghai)

14:25 Topology and expansion history of the Universe: prospects for BigBOSS - Graziano Rossi

14:50 Reconstruction for BAO in Galaxy and Lyman Alpha Forest - Mariana Vargas (Carnegie Mellon)

15:15 fnl constraints from SDSS3 data - Shirley Ho (Carnegie-Mellon)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 18:00
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

16:15 BigBOSS data management systems & practices - Ben Weaver

16:30 Extraction & galaxy-redshift reduction-software challenges - Adam Bolton (The University of Utah)

16:45 Lyman-alpha science reduction-software requirements - Nicolas Busca (APC - Université de Paris 7)

17:00 Stellar spectral analysis reduction-software requirements - Carlos Allende-Prieto

17:15 2D spectral data simulations - Stephen Bailey

17:30 Work planning session (moderated discussion) - Adam Bolton (The University of Utah) Stephen Bailey
16:15 - 18:00
Contributions

16:15 French organization to deliver spectrograph - Jean-Gabriel Cuby

16:50 Feedback on spectrograph concept - Sebastian Vives

17:20 MUSE development - Alban Remillieux

17:40 PFS development philosophy - David Le Mignant
18:00 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
18:00 - 19:00
mardi 9 octobre 2012
09:00 (D. Schlegel)
(D. Schlegel)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical challenges for precision cosmology - Carlos Frenk

09:30 Dark Energy with SN - Pierre Astier

10:00 Quasar Science - Patrick Petitjean
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 (C. Bebek)
(C. Bebek)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 BigBOSS instrument: Spectrograph - Patrick Jelinsky

11:30 BigBOSS Instrument: Corrector-Telescope - Peter Doel

12:00 BigBOSS Instrument: Positioner-Fibers - Chao Zhai
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Salle 201
Contributions

14:00 Optical Design, 0402 corrector, changes, overall schedule - Mike Sholl

14:30 Lens manufacturing, Lens cell design, Alignment strategy - Peter Doel

14:55 Corrector barrel mechanical design and deflection predictions - Paul Perry

15:20 Corrector barrel DES lessons learned, and implications for BigBOSS design - Gaston Gutierrez
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

14:00 Force photometry - Dustin Lang

14:20 Lessons from BOSS - Ashley ROSS

14:50 PTF, ZPTF - Peter Nugent

15:20 Image quality studies, status of DES - Arjun Dey
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 18:00
Room: 201
Contributions

16:15 Fiber System Communication - Jeremy Allington-Smith

16:35 Fiber Front End & Cable Activity - Graham Murray

16:50 Fiber Cable Routing Design - Jerry Edelstein (University of California Berkeley)

17:00 Fusion Splicing Results - Jerry Edelstein (University of California Berkeley)

17:10 Fiber performance Models - Jeremy Allington-Smith

17:25 Fiber performance Measures - Jerry Edelstein (University of California Berkeley)

17:45 Activity Plan - Jerry Edelstein (University of California Berkeley)
16:15 - 18:00
Contributions

16:15 PS1 - Eddie Schlafly

16:35 PTF for variability studies - Eric Armengaud (CEA)

16:55 ELG simulation; Tests with PTF data - Nick Mostek (LBNL)

17:15 ELGs in COSMOS data - Johan Comparat (LAM)

17:40 LRG target selection with WISE - Jeff Newman
20:00 Dinner Cruise
Dinner Cruise
20:00 - 23:00
mercredi 10 octobre 2012
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

09:00 Detecting Lya emission from IGM through cross-correlation with Lya absorption - Jordi Miralda-Escudé (ICREA)

09:20 BigBOSS and the Milky Way - Carlos Allende Prieto (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

09:40 BigBOSS calibration fields & Galaxy Evolution - Arjun Dey (NOAO)

10:00 Application of SZ tomography in BigBOSS - Jiawei Shao (Shaghai Astronomical Observatory)

10:15 Mapping dark matter with cosmic magnification - Xinjuan Yang
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Salle 201
Contributions

09:00 LBNL & COBRA Fiber Positioners - Besuner

09:25 IAA/AVS Fiber Positioner Progress - Sanchez

09:50 Positioner Interfaces - LBNL

10:10 Positioner Communication - GLEZ. de Rivera
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Amphi Darboux
Contributions

11:00 Cosmological constraints from simulations of redshift space distortions - Carlton Baugh (Durham)

11:20 Determination of the abundance of cosmic matter via the cell count moments of the galaxy distribution - Julien Bel (CPT Marseille)

11:40 Primordial non-Gaussianity with BigBOSS - Dragan Huterer (Michighan)

12:00 Measuring sigma8 using the correlators of the galaxy density field - Crhistian Marinoni (CPT Marseille)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Salle 201
Contributions

11:00 Positioner Communications (LAMOST) - Chao Zhai (USTC)

11:10 Focal Plate/Focal Plate Demonstrator - Santiago Becerril (IAA)

11:30 Guide/Wave Front Sensors - Robert Besuner (UC Berkeley/Space Sciences Lab)

11:40 Focal Plate Layout - Paul Perry (LBNL)

12:00 Focal Plane Fiber Management - Robert Besuner (UC Berkeley/Space Sciences Lab)

12:20 Planning & Schedule - Michael Sholl (SSL/UC Berkeley)
14:00 (J.-P. Kneib)
(J.-P. Kneib)
14:00 - 16:30
Contributions

14:00 4m Multi Object Spectroscopic Telescope: the future of VISTA - Piercarlo Bonifacio

14:30 Target Selection in BigBOSS - Nick Mostek

15:00 Survey strategy in BigBOSS - Jeremy Tinker

15:30 Data reduction and Data management in BigBOSS - Adam Bolton

16:00 Conclusions - David Schlegel Michael Levi
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00

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