4th PFS collaboration meeting

  1. Date:
    • public lecture for citizens: 24 March 2013
    • all-hands meeting: 25 -- 26 March 2013
    • small-group meetings: 27 -- 28 March 2013
  2. Venue: Hongo campus of Univ of Tokyo

Agenda

Monday, 25 March

Time Name Title
9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:30 Masahiro Takada Welcome and some logistics information
9:40 Hitoshi Murayama Overview:
  • Updates
  • High-level Issues for the whole project (including data policy and possible new partners)
  • Timeline
10:20 Hajime Sugai Updates from PFS Project Manager:
  • Updates since last Aug
  • Report of the PDR
  • Issues after PDR
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Richard Ellis Science Issue:
  • High-level science issues
  • Tasks and things to be done after PDR, and toward PFS SSP
11:45 Masahiro Takada HSC updates
12:00 Discussion
12:15 Lunch
14:00 Naoyuki Tamura System requirements from the view of PFS System Engineer:
  • Science requirements to subsystems
  • Tasks and issues after PDR
14:40 Updates from Science WG
14:40 Masahiro Takada, Chris Hirata Cosmology
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Masashi Chiba GA
16:40 Discussion
18:00 banquet at Sanjo Conference Hall

Tuesday, 26 March

Time Name Title
9:00 Galaxy evolution studies and sky subtraction issues
9:00 Jenny Greene Introduction and Outstanding issues
9:10 John Silverman, Masami Ouchi High-z galaxy evolution aspects
9:40 Jim Gunn Calibration system (including a possible modification of telescope)
10:10 Genevieve Graves Intermediate redshift galaxy evolution studies and a simulation of galaxy spectra
10:40 Discussion
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Robert Lupton, Steve Bickerton, Atsushi Shimono, Chris Hirata Data reduction pipeline/software
Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Updates for each systems
14:00 Tania Dominici Fiber
14:20 Charlie Fisher Positioner
14:40 Mark Schwochert,Youichi Ohyama PFI
15:00 Youichi Ohyama Metrology Camera
15:20 Sebastien Vives Spectrograph
15:40 Jim Gunn Detector & Dewer
16:00 Coffee
16:15 Discussion (lead by Takada, Ellis, Tamura)
  • Tradeoff studies
  • Tasks and issues to be done for science team
  • Planning the rest of the meeting for Day 3 and 4

Participants List