SUNDAY 6pm-8pm Welcome Drinks and Canapes.
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MONDAY Moderators David Schlegel and Ravi Sheth
9am Welcome - Tamara Davis
9.10am Talks
Recent and upcoming BAO results
WiggleZ (Chris Blake)
6dFGS (Florian Beutler) - pdf
GAMA (Aaron Robotham)
BOSS results and BigBOSS projections (David Schlegel)
Density-field reconstruction (Nikhil Padmanabhan)
AAT + UK Schmidt timeline and capabilities (Matthew Colless)
SDSS 2.5m timeline and capabilities (David Schlegel)
10.40am Coffee
11.10am Discussion
Breakout groups for 40 mins. Entire group for 40 mins.
12.30pm Lunch
2.00pm Talks (12+3mins each)
RSD challenges (Ravi Sheth)
Building density maps (Mike Hudson) - pdf
Disentangling D_A & H (Eyal Kazin) – pdf
Combining BAO & RSD (David Parkinson)
Solving the simulation challenge (Greg Poole)
3.15pm Discussion (possibly break-out sessions, including but not limited to:)
Breakout groups for 40 mins. Entire group for 40 mins.
7pm Communal dinner fiesta
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TUESDAY Moderators Mike Hudson and Nick Kaiser
9am Talks (12+3mins each, except 6dFGS)
Results from recent peculiar velocity data
The 6dFGS Peculiar Velocity Field (Mould (pdf) & Magoulas (pdf) & Springob (pdf) )[joint 30mins + 5mins questions]
2MRS: data release and reconstructed density/velocity fields (Lucas Macri)
SNe (Mike Hudson) – pdf
Homogeniety (Morag Scrimgeor) – pdf
10.05am Coffee
10.30am Discussion Resolving current controversies / issues
Breakout groups for 40 mins. Entire group for 40 mins. Free discussion for remaining time.
12.30pm Lunch
2pm Talks (12+3mins each) Newer methods / theory
kSZ with galaxies (Guilhem Lavaux) – pdf
SDSS peculiar velocities (Matt George) – pdf
Type Ia Supernova in the near-infrared: The best known standard candle (Chris Lidman) – pdf
Theory (Francisco Kitaura) – pdf
Predictions for pec vel constraints (Jun Koda) – pdf
3.15pm Discussion What do we do we need to improve on, both on data and modelling sides?
Breakout groups for 40 mins. Entire group for 40 mins.
7pm Conference Dinner
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WEDNESDAY Moderators Nikhil Padmanabhan and Greg Poole Pre-Wednesday Homework :
– participants should think of at least one well defined question/calculation that they think should be explored. These should be broadly characterized into “theory”, “analysis” and “future” projects (see below). These could be circulated as a single slide to the convenors… for shotgun discussions during the last two sessions.
Wednesday schedule :
9:00am – 10.30am : Discussion of future surveys.
Talks should be limited to 10 minutes (under pain of being attacked by some suitably ferocious creature from the forest) and should highlight challenges and open questions as well as a brief summary of the survey.
SkyMapper (Brian Schmidt)
PanStarrs (Nick Kaiser)
WALLABY (Lister Stavely-Smith)
TAIPAN (Heath Jones)
FastSound (Karl Glazebrook)
Big/e-BOSS (David Schlegal)
Summary and Discussion – Led by Poole/Padmanabhan covering: 1. Are there parts of survey parameter space that are not being covered? 2. What are the common challenges for all these surveys, and how are they being addressed? 3. Is there interesting overlap between these (and other) surveys and how best to leverage this?
10.30am – 11.00am : Coffee 11.00am – 11.45am : The future of Theory
Discussion
11.45am – 12.15pm : Break
12.15 – 1.00 : The future of Analysis
Discussion
