5th PFS collaboration meeting

  1. Date:
    • all-hands meeting: 4 -- 5 November 2013
    • small-group meetings: 6 -- 7 November 2013
  2. Venue: Unicersity of São Paulo

Agenda

Monday, 4 November:
General session - Overview of current status and plans forward

Time Name Title
9:30 Coffee/tea
10:00 Tamura (IPMU) Meeting overview & some announcements
10:05 Sodre Jr. (USP) Opening remarks
10:25 Murayama (IPMU) PFS collaboration -- high-level overview
10:45 Takada (IPMU) Science perspectives and survey plans
11:15 Sugai (IPMU) Project status and progress report
11:45 (Lunch)
(12:00 PFS steering committee)
13:10 Tamura (IPMU) Instrument and system design
Instrument subsystem overview
13:40 Fisher (JPL) Fiber positioner system
14:05 Schwochert (JPL), Wang (ASIAA) PFI
14:30 Wang (ASIAA) Metrology camera
14:55 Oliveira (LNA) Fiber system
15:20 (Coffee/tea break)
15:40 Le Mignant (LAM) Spectrograph system
16:05 Gunn (Princeton) Detector & cryostat
16:30 Shimono (IPMU) Software system
16:50 Bickerton(IPMU), Le Fevre (LAM) Data reduction pipeline
16:15 Gunn (Princeton) Calibration system
16:40 Takada (IPMU) HSC current status
18:05 (End)

Tuesday, 5 November:
Discussion session

Time Name Title
9:30 Coffee/tea
Survey plans -- Recent updates & discussion
10:00 Takada (IPMU) Cosmology
10:45 Greene (Princeton) Galaxy & AGN evolution
11:30 Chiba (Tohoku) Galactic Archaeology
12:15 Photo session
12:30 Lunch
Contributed talks
13:45 Claudia Mendes de Oliveira (USP) JPAS project - an update and synergy with PFS
14:02 Roderik Overzier (Obs. Nacional) Probing the epoch of massive galaxy cluster formation with the PFS
14:24 Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (IF-UFRGS) Feeding and Feedback in nearby active galaxies from Integral Field Spectroscopy
14:50 Strauss (Princeton) SDSS survey design & operation: Inputs for PFS
15:35 (Coffee/tea break)
Discussion of requirements for science operation to the system software
15:55 Shimono (IPMU) Current status and action items
16:25 Break-up sessions
18:00 (End)

Participants List