Searching For Strong Lenses in Large Imaging Surveys

Hosted by the Center for Particle Astrophysics, Fermilab

June 14 & 15, 2007

Agenda (version: 13 June 2007)

Thursday, June 14: Plenary Sessions
(Wilson Hall, 2nd Floor, Curia II)
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)

Friday, June 15: Parallel Sessions
(Wilson Hall, Various Locations)
8:30-5:00 Posters
8:30 Parallel Session 1
An opportunity for small groups (e.g. individual collaborations) to meet on their own
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)
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.