DES Chicagoland Meeting

Monday 6 Mar 2017, 10:00 → 20:00 US/Central

IARC Conference Room (Fermilab)

Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Ting Li (Fermilab), Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermilab)

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) Chicagoland meetings are an opportunity for DES collaborators from Fermilab, KICP, UChicago, UIUC, NCSA, Argonne, and the greater Chicagoland area to meet and collaborate. This meeting is the 6th in a continuing series that rotates through the participating institutions every three to four months. The Chicagoland meetings aim to foster collaboration between the various institutions, encourage new projects, and to bring new members up to speed on DES activities.
The private docdb page for talks can be found here: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/DisplayMeeting?conferenceid=1405
A reminder about the DES Statement on Collaboration Culture, Ethics, Inclusivity, and Diversity: http://des-docdb.fnal.gov:8080/cgi-bin/ShowDocument?docid=8803
This meeting will be held at the new *IARC building* at Fermilab (see map below) on March 6th, 2017. Directions to IARC can be found here (click for the link) and parking can be found across the street.
When entering the Fermilab site, be prepared to show a driver's licence/government issued ID.




The ongoing Dark Energy Survey is designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe and help uncover the nature of dark energy by measuring the 14-billion-year history of cosmic expansion with high precision. Learn more about the survey at http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/

10:00 → 11:05 Session 1

Chair: Alex Drlica-Wagner

10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)

10:05 DES Status

Speaker: Dr Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

10:20 Y3A1 Overview

Speaker: Brian Yanny (FNAL)

10:35 Y1KP Overview

Speaker: Dr Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)

10:50 SPT-3G

Speaker: Dr Bradford Benson (Fermilab)

Slides 2017_03_06_Benson_SPT3G_Deployment.key

11:05 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:15 Session 2

Chair: Lindsey Bleem

11:30 A Cluster Mass Proxy for Y1 Redmapper Clusters

Speaker: Antonella Palmese (Fermilab/UCL)

11:45 Splashback in Clusters

Speaker: Dr Chihway Chang (University of Chicago)

12:00 Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Hsin-Yu Chen (University of Chicago)

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:40 Session 3

Chair: Marcelle Soares-Santos

13:30 DECam BLISS Survey

Speakers: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

13:45 Chromatic Corrections and the SNIa Hubble Diagram

Speaker: Mr James Lasker (University of Chicago)

14:00 Variable Objects in the DES SN Fields

Speaker: Eric Morganson (NCSA)

14:15 Deep Learning Applications to Cosmology

Speaker: Dr Brian Nord (Fermilab)

14:30 Hack Overview

Speaker: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 17:30 Hack Sessions

15:00 BLISS Hack Session

Speaker: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

15:00 Cluster Radial Profile Hack

Speakers: Antonella Palmese (Fermilab/UCL), Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab), Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermilab)

15:00 Machine Learning Hack

Speakers: Dr Brian Nord (Fermilab), Dr Irshad Mohammed (Fermilab), Dr Nan Li (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:00 Survey and Data Processing Papers

Speakers: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Eric Morganson (NCSA/UIUC)

17:00 Hack Summary

Speaker: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)

17:30 → 18:30 Social Hour

Informal gathering at the Fermilab Users' Center.