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 Breakfast

Science Jamboree: Session 1

1 Introduction to WFIRST (Jeffrey Kruk)

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

3 WFIRST Coronagraph Exoplanet Scene Simulations (Junellie Gonzalez Quiles)

4 High-Contrast Imaging of Binary Stars with WFIRST (Dan Sirbu)

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

10:30 AM AM Coffee Break

Science Jamboree: Session 2

6 Stellar Streams from Globular Clusters in the Local Universe (Sarah Pearson)

7 Potential Systemics from Standardizing Our Standard Candles (Benjamin Rose)

8 Lensing Effects of Dark Matter Substructure with WFIRST Astrometry (Siddharth Mishra-Sharma)

9 WFIRST Mock Data Generation and Forward Modeling of SN IA Observations (Aleksandar Cikota)

10 Poster Overview

12:30 PM Lunch

Science Jamboree: Session 3

11 A New View of the Galaxy Size - Stellar Mass Distribution (Tim Miller)

12 Astrometry with the WFIRST WFI (Robyn Sanderson)

13 Galaxy Burstiness with H Alpha (Adam Broussard)

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

3:00 PM PM Coffee Break

Science Jamboree: Session 4

15 Added Speaker: Cyrille Doux

16 Semi-Analytic Forecasts for JWST-WFIRST Synergy (L.Y. Aaron Yung)

17 Probing Patchy Reionization with the VPF in Simulated Laes at z=6.5 (Lucia Perez)

18 LYA Emitters at Cosmic Dawn with Deep WFIRST Grism Survey (Isak Wold)

19 Insights from WFIRST on the Origin of the First Black Holes (Priya Natarajan - remote)

20 Mapping High-Redshift Cosmic Web Filaments with Intrinsic Alignments of Elongated Protogalaxies (Viraj Pandya)

21 Preparing for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology in the WFIRST Era (Kyle Dettman)

22 WFIRST Conclusions, Games and Prizes

Tue, March 3

8:30 AM Breakfast

Welcome (Jeff Kruk / David Spergel / Jeremy Kasdin)

Mission Status

23 Update from HQ (Dominic Benford / Paul Hertz)

24 Update from Project (Jeff Kruk)

10:30 AM AM Coffee Break

Plans for Addressing Actions from APMC

WSAT / CGI tiger team, etc...

25 Observatory / WFI Plans Forward (Dave Content)

Access Dave's slides below. Authorized members only.

Dave's Slides

26 CGI Plans Forward (Vanessa Bailey)

12:30 PM Lunch

CGI Breakout

Session located in 162, 5th Floor Classroom

27 Welcome / Agenda (Jeremy)

28 Impact of Bad DM Actuators & Unilluminated Actuator Drop (Hanying Zhou - remote)

29 Turnbull Update (Maggie Turnball)

30 Macintosh Update (Bruce Macintosh - remote)

3:00 PM Break

31 OS 9 Description, Modeling Flow, and Results from Speckle Timeseries and Analytic Models (John Krist - remote)

32 Flatfield Approach (Mark Colavita - remote)

33 Exozodi (John Debes / Ewan Douglas)

34 CGI vs Future Missions (Laurent)

35 Quick Highlights (ExCam FOV, filter params,…) (Vanessa Bailey)

36 Discussion

WFI Breakout

Can start at 1:30pm if needed

37 How to Maximize Potential for Archival Research? (Julie McEnery / All)

38 HLS Optimization Study Results (Tim Eifler)

39 Maximizing Return from the Microlensing Survey (Scott Gaudi / Dave Bennett)

3:30 PM Break

40 HLS Image Simulation Pipeline (Michael Troxel)

41 Joint Processing of LSST, Euclid, WFIRST (Jason Rhodes / Peter Melchior - remote)

42 SPHEREx & WFIRST / SPHEREx Synergies (Olivier Doré)

43 Requirements Validations

Continuation of project plan forward if needed

6:00 PM Group Dinner

Wed, March 4

8:30 AM Breakfast

Phase C Plans

44 Reports from Breakouts (Jeremy Kasdin / David Spergel)

45 Concepts for Future Science Collaboration Structures (Julie McEnery)

46 AAS and Other Outreach (Claire Andreoli / Elisa Quintana)

10:30 AM AM Coffee Break

Phase C Plans continued

47 Ground System Update (Ken Carpenter / Roeland van der Marel (remote)/ Lee Armus)

48 SOC S/W Workshop (Steve Crawford)

Summary - Workshop itself in afternoon & later at STScl

James Rhoads

12:30 PM Lunch

WFI Breakout #2

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

49 Organizational Meeting for WFIRST Day on the Hill (David Spergel)

50 David Bennett

51 Introduction to the Data Management Concept for WFI (Erica Kolatch)

52 Demonstration of the Science Platform and Introduction to the Calibration Software (Steve Crawford)

3:25 PM PM Coffee Break

53 Discussion of Design Concepts for SIT Software Functionality for DMS (Russell Ryan)

54 Discussion on Software Contribution Standards (Steve Crawford)