WFIRST Meeting

Mar 2, 2020, 8:30 AM → Mar 4, 2020, 6:00 PM America/New_York

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (Flatiron Institute, 2nd Floor)

Flatiron Institute
162 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10010

Transportation:
Train: The Flatiron Institute is a 10-15 minute walk from Penn Station.  For those on the Northeast corridor, this is the fastest and easiest route.
Air: Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia are all roughly the same distance from Flatiron Institute

Nearby Hotel Suggestions:
The Marcel At Gramercy Hotel 
201 East 24th Street New York, NY 10010 
Tel: 212.696.3800

The Evelyn Hotel
7 E 27th St, New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212.545.8000

The Redbury New York
29 E. 29th Street New York, New York, 10016
Tel: 212.689.1900

Zoom Information:
Only the WFIRST - Science Jamboree (March 2nd) will be streamed publicly. To join the webinar please click here.
To join via telephone:
US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 469 497 277
International numbers available: https://simonsfoundation.zoom.us/u/agJNn89bu

Mon, March 2

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Science Jamboree: Session 1

9:00 AM Introduction to WFIRST (Jeffrey Kruk)

9:25 AM The 2019-2020 Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge, What Have We Learned So Far? (Julien Girard)

9:40 AM WFIRST Coronagraph Exoplanet Scene Simulations (Junellie Gonzalez Quiles)

9:55 AM High-Contrast Imaging of Binary Stars with WFIRST (Dan Sirbu)

10:10 AM The Frequency of Free-Floating Planets and Earth-Analogs from Microlensing (Samson Johnson)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Science Jamboree: Session 2

11:00 AM Stellar Streams from Globular Clusters in the Local Universe (Sarah Pearson)

11:15 AM Potential Systemics from Standardizing Our Standard Candles (Benjamin Rose)

11:30 AM Lensing Effects of Dark Matter Substructure with WFIRST Astrometry (Siddharth Mishra-Sharma)

11:45 AM WFIRST Mock Data Generation and Forward Modeling of SN IA Observations (Aleksandar Cikota)

12:00 PM Poster Overview

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Science Jamboree: Session 3

2:00 PM A New View of the Galaxy Size - Stellar Mass Distribution (Tim Miller)

2:15 PM Astrometry with the WFIRST WFI (Robyn Sanderson)

2:30 PM Galaxy Burstiness with H Alpha (Adam Broussard)

2:45 PM Statistical Properties of z > 0.4 Halpha, [oiii], and [oii] Emitters: Implications for WFIRST (Ali Ahmad Khostovan)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:30 PM Science Jamboree: Session 4

3:30 PM Added Speaker: Cyrille Doux

3:45 PM Semi-Analytic Forecasts for JWST-WFIRST Synergy (L.Y. Aaron Yung)

4:00 PM Probing Patchy Reionization with the VPF in Simulated Laes at z=6.5 (Lucia Perez)

4:15 PM LYA Emitters at Cosmic Dawn with Deep WFIRST Grism Survey (Isak Wold)

4:30 PM Insights from WFIRST on the Origin of the First Black Holes (Priya Natarajan - remote)

4:45 PM Mapping High-Redshift Cosmic Web Filaments with Intrinsic Alignments of Elongated Protogalaxies (Viraj Pandya)

5:00 PM Preparing for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology in the WFIRST Era (Kyle Dettman)

5:15 PM WFIRST Conclusions, Games and Prizes

Tue, March 3

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome (Jeff Kruk / David Spergel / Jeremy Kasdin)

9:10 AM → 10:30 AM Mission Status

9:10 AM Update from HQ (Dominic Benford / Paul Hertz)

9:50 AM Update from Project (Jeff Kruk)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plans for Addressing Actions from APMC

WSAT / CGI tiger team, etc...

11:00 AM Observatory / WFI Plans Forward (Dave Content)

Access Dave's slides below. Authorized members only.

Dave's Slides

11:45 AM CGI Plans Forward (Vanessa Bailey)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 5:35 PM CGI Breakout

Session located in 162, 5th Floor Classroom

1:30 PM Welcome / Agenda (Jeremy)

1:40 PM Impact of Bad DM Actuators & Unilluminated Actuator Drop (Hanying Zhou - remote)

2:00 PM Turnbull Update (Maggie Turnball)

2:30 PM Macintosh Update (Bruce Macintosh - remote)

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM OS 9 Description, Modeling Flow, and Results from Speckle Timeseries and Analytic Models (John Krist - remote)

4:15 PM Flatfield Approach (Mark Colavita - remote)

4:35 PM Exozodi (John Debes / Ewan Douglas)

4:50 PM CGI vs Future Missions (Laurent)

5:00 PM Quick Highlights (ExCam FOV, filter params,…) (Vanessa Bailey)

5:20 PM Discussion

2:00 PM → 6:00 PM WFI Breakout

Can start at 1:30pm if needed

2:00 PM How to Maximize Potential for Archival Research? (Julie McEnery / All)

2:30 PM HLS Optimization Study Results (Tim Eifler)

3:00 PM Maximizing Return from the Microlensing Survey (Scott Gaudi / Dave Bennett)

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM HLS Image Simulation Pipeline (Michael Troxel)

4:30 PM Joint Processing of LSST, Euclid, WFIRST (Jason Rhodes / Peter Melchior - remote)

5:00 PM SPHEREx & WFIRST / SPHEREx Synergies (Olivier Doré)

5:30 PM Requirements Validations

Continuation of project plan forward if needed

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Group Dinner

Wed, March 4

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Phase C Plans

9:00 AM Reports from Breakouts (Jeremy Kasdin / David Spergel)

9:30 AM Concepts for Future Science Collaboration Structures (Julie McEnery)

10:10 AM AAS and Other Outreach (Claire Andreoli / Elisa Quintana)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:15 PM Phase C Plans continued

11:00 AM Ground System Update (Ken Carpenter / Roeland van der Marel (remote)/ Lee Armus)

12:00 PM SOC S/W Workshop (Steve Crawford)

Summary - Workshop itself in afternoon & later at STScl

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM James Rhoads

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 5:05 PM WFI Breakout #2

WFI: SOC S/W Workshop
First segment of the SOC-SIT workshop

1:30 PM Organizational Meeting for WFIRST Day on the Hill (David Spergel)

1:45 PM David Bennett

1:55 PM Introduction to the Data Management Concept for WFI (Erica Kolatch)

2:40 PM Demonstration of the Science Platform and Introduction to the Calibration Software (Steve Crawford)

3:25 PM PM Coffee Break

3:40 PM Discussion of Design Concepts for SIT Software Functionality for DMS (Russell Ryan)

4:25 PM Discussion on Software Contribution Standards (Steve Crawford)