Date: 20 May, 2010
Time: Noon-5:00 pm
Location: Caltech, 370 Cahill
Agenda
- 12:20 – Lunch is served
- 12:30 – Introductions
- 12:35 – Welcome – Shri Kulkarni
- 12:45 – Robo-AO: what you need to know (with demo via live link to lab)
- Brief overview of system, capabilities, performance and types of observations – Christoph Baranec
- How an observation will work (software architecture) – Reed Riddle
- Schedule of Robo-AO on sky – Christoph Baranec
- 1:20 – The demo period: what can we do? – Law
- 1:30 – Current science ideas/talks
- Extragalactic
- Lensed quasars – Eran Ofek
- PTF/transients – Mansi Kasliwal
- Other ideas (floor open)
- Extragalactic
- 2:15 – Coffee break
- 2:30 – More science ideas/talks (10 mins per slot inc. questions/comments)
- Planets
- Transit survey follow-up – Tim Morton
- Astrometry (planets) – Nick Law
- Ca H&K transits, spectrograph feeding – John Johnson
- Coronagraphs – Sasha Hinkley
- Discussion
- Stars & Clusters
- Binarity survey – Nick Law
- White dwarf multiplicity – Marten van Kerkwijk
- Astrometry (clusters) – Jessica Lu
- Asteroseismology – Reed Riddle
- Discussion
- General ideas
- Robo-AO + interferometry – Theo Brummelaar
- Planets
- 4:15 – Floor open for free discussion and more ideas
- 5:00 – Robo-AO testbed tour