Program
The conference schedule is now available. Speakers have been given a 20 minute time slot (ideally 15 minutes for talk + 5 minutes for questions). Invited speakers 20 + 5. We plan to post all talks in pdf or ppt format on this webpage for future use.
As of August 10th. Minor update will be done as needed.
Friday, August 7, 2015
| Welcome Reception | ||
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| 18:00-22:00 | Registration - Koa room | |
| 19:30-22:00 | Welcome Reception | |
Saturday, August 8, 2015 (Day 1)
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration (in the meeting room) | 8:30-8:35 | Nemanja Jovanovic, Anna Moore | Welcome and Introduction |
| 8:35-8:50 | John Storey | SCAR AAA and its objective |
| Session 1 Site-testing & Automated Facilities (Chair: Anna Moore) | ||
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| 8:50-9:10 | Eric Steinbring | Status of Astronomy from Ellesmere Island |
| 9:10-9:30 | Yi Yang | First results from The Gattini South Pole UV Experiment |
| 9:30-9:50 | Michael Ashley | Update on the PLATO project, and its future development |
| 9:50-10:10 | Matthew Freeman | Measuring the infrared sky at the Antarctic Plateau |
| 10:10-10:30 | Discussion | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break - Koa room | |
| Session 2 CMB/Sub-mm (Chair: Philip Lubin) | ||
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| 10:45-11:05 | Zeeshan Ahmed | CMB polarization at 90deg S |
| 11:05-11:25 | Lorenzo Moncelsi | SPIDER: Probing The Dawn Of Time From Above The Clouds |
| 11:25-11:45 | Nicholas Galitzki | BLAST-TNG: High Resolution Measurements of Polarized Dust Emission |
| 11:45-12:10 | Nathan Lourie | BLAST-TNG: Telescope Overview and Status |
| 12:10-12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch - Crater Dim Cafe (Lunch box) | |
| Session 3 Optical/Near-Infrared (Chair: Michael Burton) | ||
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| 13:30-13:50 | Lifan Wang | Time Domain Survey from Antarctica –from Optical to Near Infrared |
| 13:50-14:15 | Nicholas Law | The Antarctic Evryscope: Continuously Observing the Entire Southern Sky |
| 14:15-14:35 | Jeremy Mould | The Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey |
| 14:35-14:55 | Anna Moore | Gattini-IR: A Synoptic IR Survey from the South Pole |
| 14:55-15:10 | Discussion | |
| 15:10-15:25 | Coffee Break - Koa room | |
| Session 4 Exoplanets/Optimizing for Antarctica (I) (Chair: Naruhisa Takato) | ||
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| 15:25-15:50 | Olivier Guyon | Directly imaging of exoplanets and disks from ground and space-based observatories, and scientifific potential of an Antartic-based facility |
| 15:50-16:10 | Peter Tuthill | Towering Ambition: Planet Formation Imager and the High Antarctic Plateau |
| 16:10-16:30 | Gil Moretto | How to capitalize the unique Antarctica site performance for astronomy |
| 16:30-16:50 | Nemanja Jovanovic | Astrophotonics: the ideal toolkit for Antarctic observatories |
| 16:50-17:05 | Discussion | |
| Conference Dinner | ||
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| 17:30 | Transportation to dinner | |
| 17:45-18:30 | Volcanologist talk | |
| 18:45-20:45 | Conference Dinner - Volcano House | |
Sunday, August 9, 2015 (Day 2)
| 8:45-8:50 | Announcements | |
| Session 4 Exoplanets/Optimizing for Antarctica (II) (Chair: John Learned) | ||
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| 8:50-9:10 | Guoliang Li | Explore Point Spread Function Combing Star and Galaxy Images |
| Session 5 Neutrinos & Cosmic Rays (Chair: John Learned) | ||
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| 9:10-9:30 | Jennifer Adams | IceCube Astrophysical Neutrinos |
| 9:50-10:10 | Jarred Roberts | The Search For the Ghosts of the Deep |
| 10:10-10:30 | Discussion | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break - Koa room | |
| Session 6 Site Updates (Chair: Nemanja Jovanovic) | ||
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| 10:50-11:10 | Sites 1 (10 min each) | McMurdo/LDB (Moncelsi), South Pole (Ahmed) |
| 11:10-11:30 | Sites 2: (10 min each) | Arctic (Steinbring), Dome C (Moretto) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Sites 3: (10 min each) | Dome A (Lifan), Ridge A (Kulesa), Dome F (Okita) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch - Lehua room | |
| 13:50 | Group Photo | |
| Excursion | ||
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| 14:00 | Group excursion, bus departure time | |
| 14:00-17:45 | Hike Kirauea Iki trail and lava tube | |
| 19:30-21:30 | 10-pin bowling | |
Monday, August 10, 2015 (Day 3)
| 8:45-8:50 | Announcements | |
| Session 7 Future Facilities and Collaborations (Chair: Gil Moretto) | ||
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| 8:40-9:00 | Simon Radford | Submm Observing Conditions |
| 9:00-9:20 | Craig Kulesa | Terahertz (THz) Astronomy from Antarctica: New opportunities for groundbreaking science |
| 9:20-9:40 | Philip Lubin | Future Surveys: Fundamental Limits and Global Site Statistics |
| 9:40-10:00 | Break for accommodation checkout | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Ming-Tan Chen | The Greenland Telescope |
| 10:20-10:40 | Andrea Richichi | Astrophysics at NARIT and potential for collaborations in Antarctica |
| 10:40-11:00 | Jessica Zheng | Progress on AST3_NIR camera design |
| 11:00-11:30 | Discussion | |
| Session 8 Workshop session: toward the Antarctic facilities of 2025 (Chair: Anna Moore) | ||
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| Session 9 White paper to SCAR (Chair: John Storey) | ||
| 11:30-12:30 | John Storey | SCAR AAA Tasks for today |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch - Crater Rim Cafe | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Group Discussion by Working Group Topics | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Working group presentations (10mins each x 3) | |
This is a SCAR Scientific Research Program meeting.