Dark Energy Survey Chicagoland Meeting

Monday Feb 23, 2015, 2:00 AM → 7:00 PM 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.

Welcome

Science & Infrastructure Talks

1 Status Report on SPT, and Preliminary Comparisons of the SPT-DES Cluster Catalogs

Speaker: Dr Bradford Benson (Fermilab)

2 Photometric Calibrations of Y1A1

Speaker: Douglas Tucker (Fermilab)

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

3 Search for satellite galaxies in Y1A1

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

4 The DES System Throughput

Speaker: Dr William Wester (Fermilab)

Slides DECal_DES_Chicago.pdf DECal_DES_Chicago.ppt

5 CMB Lensing Tomography with the DES SV Galaxies

Speaker: Ross Cawton

6 Gravitational Waves EM followup strategies

Speaker: Hsin-Yu Chen

Intro to Breakout Sessions

12:00 PM Lunch

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

Abigail Vieregg

7 Probing the Ultra-High Energy Universe with the Greenland Neutrino Observatory

Speaker: Dr Abigail Vieregg (Harvard University)

Breakout Prep

Breakout Session F1

2:00 PM Coffee

Cosmosis

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

Education

Gravitational Waves

Y2 Software Integration Workshop

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

Organizers: Brian Yanny & Robert Gruendl

3:15 PM Coffee Break

Breakout Session B2

Breakout Session D2

Breakout Session F2

Cosmosis

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

Y2 Software Integration Workshop

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

Organizers: Brian Yanny & Robert Gruendl

Closeout Session