Dark Energy Survey Chicagoland Meeting

Tuesday 9 Dec 2014, 06:20 → 18:00 US/Central

Bldg 241, D172 (Argonne National Laboratory)

Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory), Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory), Vinu Vikraman (HEP)

This 1-day long Chicagoland-based DES meeting creates a common discussion platform for those who work on Dark Energy Survey at Fermilab, KICP, UChicago, UIUC, NCSA, and Argonne. 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/. The meeting kicks off a continuing series, with a meeting to be held at one of the participating institutions every two or three months. The first meeting will be held at Argonne National Laboratory on 9th December. The meeting aims to update and discuss various science/infrastructure projects that are going on in Chicagoland and provide a channel for interested people to join ongoing/new projects.

Meeting Photos DES_Photos.pdf

Site Map Site_Map.pdf

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

Speakers: Dr Joshua Frieman (Fermilab), Dr Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:05 → 10:35 Session 1

All talks 12+3 minute discussion

09:05 Supernova 1

Speaker: Stephen Kuhlmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Kuhlmann_DES_Mt_2014_12.pdf

09:20 Supernova Host Galaxy Identification in DES

Speaker: Dr Ravi Gupta (ANL HEP)

Slides DES-Chicagoland_ANL_Gupta.pdf

09:35 From the Weeds to Cosmology with SNIa

Speaker: Daniel Scolnic (KICP)

Slides scolnic_argonne.pdf

09:50 Gravitational Waves 1

Speaker: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

Slides Soares-Santos_DESGW_DESChicagolandMeeting_Dec2014.pdf

10:05 Gravitational Waves 2

Speaker: Hsin-Yu Chen (University of Chicago)

Slides des2014dec_revised-Chen.pdf

10:20 Discussion

10:35 → 11:05 Break

11:05 → 12:20 Session 2

11:05 Cluster Studies with SPT and DES

Speaker: Dr Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides LB_DES_Argonne.pdf

11:20 Cluster 2

Speaker: Prof. Bradford Benson (Fermilab)

Slides 2014_12_09_Benson_SPT_DES_Clusters.pdf

11:35 X-ray Properties of Typical-Richness RedMaPPer Clusters

Speaker: Adam Mantz (KICP/UChicago)

Slides X-ray_Properties_of_Typical-Richness_RedMaPPer_Clusters.pdf

11:50 DES Strong Lens Searches

Speaker: Conor Donnelly (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

Slides Nord.pdf

12:05 Discussion

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch: Talk/Demonstration

During lunch Katrin and Lindsey will talk/demonstrate about Argonne based simulation (S) and NERSC computing facility

slides How_to_run_python_on_nersc.pdf NERSC-DES.pdf

13:20 → 14:50 Session 3

13:20 Galaxy clustering with photometric redshift probability distributions

Speaker: Jacobo Asorey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides ArgonneDecember.pdf

13:35 Clustering in the LSS Benchmark sample

Speaker: Francisco Sanchez (Fermilab)

Slides benchmark_argonne-Sanchez.pdf

13:50 Galaxy Clustering + Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing

Speaker: Youngsoo Park (KICP/UChicago)

Slides DESChicagoland_GGLensing+Clustering_Park.pdf

14:05 Weak Lensing 2

Speaker: Vinu Vikraman (Argonne National Lab)

Slides argonne_DES_Meeting_dec9.odp argonne_DES_Meeting_dec9.pdf

14:20 Probabilistic photometric redshifts

Speaker: Matias Carrasco Kind (NCSA, University of Illinois)

Slides Talk_Matias.pdf

14:35 Discussion

14:50 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 17:00 Session 4

15:20 Strong Lensing & Galaxy Evolution

Speaker: Jaoquin Vieira (University of Illinois)

Slides JV_SPT_DES_Argonne_Dec14.pdf

15:35 Star-galaxy classification update

Speaker: Nacho Sevilla Noarbe (UIUC (CIEMAT))

Slides sg_update_Argonne.pdf

15:50 Infrastructure 2

Speaker: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab)

Slides SciRelease_Dec_8_2014.pdf

16:05 Infrastructure 3

Speaker: Dr Felipe Menanteau (University of Illinois)

Slides Menanteau-DES-Chicagoland.pdf

16:20 Closing Discussions

16:50 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)