Name: WFIRST Meeting
Start: 2020-03-02T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2020-03-04T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Flatiron Institute, 2nd Floor

Monday, March 2, 2020

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
9:00 AM Session 1
Session 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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 AM Coffee Break
AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
11:00 AM Session 2
Session 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
2:00 PM Session 3
Session 3
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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 PM Coffee Break
PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
3:30 PM Session 4
Session 4
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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

9:50 AM Update from Project (Jeff Kruk)
10:30 AM AM Coffee Break
AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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

11:45 AM CGI Plans Forward (Vanessa Bailey)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 5:35 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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)

3:30 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
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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)

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
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Group Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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 AM Coffee Break
AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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

12:00 PM SOC S/W Workshop (Steve Crawford)
12:15 PM

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium
Contributions

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)

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

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