| Thursday, June 14: Plenary Sessions
(Wilson Hall, 2nd Floor, Curia II) |
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| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 8:30-5:00 | Posters | |
| 8:45 | Welcome | Scott Dodelson |
| 8:55 | Workshop Practicalities | Douglas Tucker |
| 9:00 | General Overview | Chris Kochanek |
| 10:00 | The 8 O'Clock Arc | Sahar Allam |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | The Detection of Einstein Rings in the CFHTLS | Raphael Gavazzi |
| 11:30 | Modeling Strong Gravitational Lenses | Randall Wayth |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 | Lensing Statistics in Large, Low-Redshift Surveys | Priya Natarajan |
| 1:30 | Micro- and Milli-lensing as a Tool for Studying Dark Matter in Lensing Galaxies | Paul Schechter |
| 2:00 | Long Wavelength Observations of Strongly Lensed Galaxies | Andrew Baker |
| 2:30 | Strong Lenses in the RCS | David Gilbank |
| 3:00 | Searching for Strong Lenses in the SDSS Imaging Data | Joe Hennawi |
| 3:30 | Director's Coffee Break (2nd Floor) | |
| 4:00 | Strong Lensing and Cosmological Models | Chuck Keeton |
| 4:30 | Future Surveys: LSST/SNAP | Phil Marshall |
| 5:00 | Adjourn for the day | |
| 6:00 | Informal Dinner: Grillfest at Chris and Sue Stoughton's place (Directions, starting just outside Fermilab's east gate) | |
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| Friday, June 15: Parallel Sessions
(Wilson Hall, Various Locations) |
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| 8:30-5:00 | Posters | |
| 8:30 | Parallel Session 1
An opportunity for small groups (e.g. individual collaborations) to meet on their own |
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break | 7th Floor Crossover |
| 10:30 | Parallel Session 2 | 2a: Search Techniques
---- Wavelet Filtering for Automated Arc Searches (David McGinnis) ---- Fast Automatic Arc Detection (Gregor Seidel) ---- Direct Detection of Galaxy Strong Lensing in SDSS Images (Min-Su Shin) ---- Search for Large Separation Lensed Quasars (Eran Ofek) |
"The Darkside" (6th Floor, West side) |
| 2b: Current and Future Surveys I
---- The Sextet Arcs: The Strongly Lensed LBG Behind A1689 (Brenda Frye) ---- Searching for Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lenses in the Deep Lens Survey (Jeff Kubo) ---- J0316+4328: A New Gravitational Lens (Edward Boyce) ---- Lensing Induced Biases in the Gravitational Lens Population Due to Halo Triaxiality (Eduardo Rozo) |
"The Racetrack" (7th Floor Crossover) | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 | Parallel Session 3 | |
| 3a: Lens Theory and Modeling
---- Lensing Probabilities for Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Lenses (Greg Dobler) ---- The Lensed Arc Production Efficiency of Galaxy Clusters (Assaf Horesh) ---- Predicting the Number of Gravitational Arcs in Clusters (Martin Makler) ---- Chromaticity Study in Q2237+0305 (Ana Maria Mosquera) ---- Galaxy Haloes and Dark Matter Substructure from Strong Lensing in A1689 (Stella Seitz) |
"The Darkside" (6th Floor, West side) | |
| 3b: Current and Future Surveys II
---- Search for Bright Strongly-Lensed High-z Galaxies in the SDSS (Huan Lin) ---- The HST Archive Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Lens Search (Phil Marshall) ---- The Lensing Cluster SDSS J1004+4112 (Keren Sharon) ---- Strong Lensing in the DES (Jim Annis) |
"The Racetrack" (7th Floor Crossover) | |
| 2:45 |
General Discussion
(Topics: review of the parallel sessions; prospects and challenges for the future) |
Curia II (2nd Floor, West side) |
| 3:30 | Director's Coffee Break | 2nd Floor Crossover |
| 4:00 | Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar Talk:
Mapping Dark Matter in the Universe with Gravitational Lensing |
"One West" (1st Floor, West Side)
Speaker: Jean-Paul Kneib |
| 5:00 | Meeting adjourns | |
| Contributed Posters (as of June 13) | |
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| Jeff Blackburne | Zooming in on Quasar Accretion Disks through Chromatic Microlensing |
| Liz Buckley-Geer | Application of Gravitational Lensing Models to the Brightest Known Strongly Lensed Lyman Break Galaxy |
| Donna Kubik | Strong Gravitational Lensing Systems found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR5 |
| Wayne Lundberg | Dark Matter as Signature of Supermassive AdS Spaces |
| Vic Scarpine | A Systematic Search for High Surface Brightness Giant Arcs in a Sloan Digital Sky Survey Cluster Sample |
| J. Allyn Smith | IRTF Observations of the 8 O'Clock Arc and 8 O'Clock Clone |
Contributed talks will be presented in the parallel sessions on the second day and will typically be allocated 20 minutes each (15 min presentation + 5 min questions).
Contributed posters can be posted at 8:30 on the first day and remain up until 5:00PM on the last day of the meeting.