Dark Energy Survey Chicagoland Meeting

Monday 23 Feb 2015, 02:00 → 19:00 US/Central

Wilson Hall, One West (Fermilab)

Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Brian Nord (Fermilab), Elise Jennings (Fermilab), Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

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/.
This meeting is the 2nd of a continuing series of meetings held at one of the participating institutions every two or three months. It will be held at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on February 23rd, 2015. 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.

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome

10:15 → 11:45 Science & Infrastructure Talks

10:15 Status Report on SPT, and Preliminary Comparisons of the SPT-DES Cluster Catalogs

Speaker: Dr Bradford Benson (Fermilab)

10:30 Photometric Calibrations of Y1A1

Speaker: Douglas Tucker (Fermilab)

Slides DES_Chicagoland-20150223-dtucker.pdf DES_Chicagoland-20150223-dtucker.ppt

10:45 Search for satellite galaxies in Y1A1

Speakers: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Keith Bechtol (KICP, University of Chicago)

11:00 The DES System Throughput

Speaker: Dr William Wester (Fermilab)

Slides DECal_DES_Chicago.pdf DECal_DES_Chicago.ppt

11:15 CMB Lensing Tomography with the DES SV Galaxies

Speaker: Ross Cawton

11:30 Gravitational Waves EM followup strategies

Speaker: Hsin-Yu Chen

11:45 → 12:00 Intro to Breakout Sessions

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

12:30 → 13:30 Lunchtime Seminar: Abigail Vieregg (KICP): Probing the Ultra-High Energy Universe with the Greenland Neutrino Observatory

Abigail Vieregg

12:30 Probing the Ultra-High Energy Universe with the Greenland Neutrino Observatory

Speaker: Dr Abigail Vieregg (Harvard University)

13:30 → 14:00 Breakout Prep

14:00 → 15:15 Breakout Session F1

14:00 Coffee

14:00 → 15:15 Cosmosis

14:00 → 15:15 Data Access

Workshop on DES data access and data visualization:

https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/desdmug/wiki/DESDM_Workshop_-_Chicagoland_20150223

Organizers: Matias Carrasco, Nacho Sevilla, Alex Drlica-Wagner

14:00 → 15:15 Education

14:00 → 15:15 Gravitational Waves

14:00 → 15:15 Y2 Software Integration Workshop

Technical working meeting on the integration of science software into the Y2 data processing pipeline.

Organizers: Brian Yanny & Robert Gruendl

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 17:00 Breakout Session B2

15:45 → 17:00 Breakout Session D2

15:45 → 17:00 Breakout Session F2

15:45 → 17:00 Cosmosis

15:45 → 17:00 Data Visualization

Workshop on DES data access and data visualization:

https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/desdmug/wiki/DESDM_Workshop_-_Chicagoland_20150223

Organizers: Matias Carrasco, Nacho Sevilla, Alex Drlica-Wagner

15:45 → 17:00 Y2 Software Integration Workshop

Technical working meeting on the integration of science software into the Y2 data processing pipeline.

Organizers: Brian Yanny & Robert Gruendl

17:00 → 18:00 Closeout Session