Name: Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs
Start: 2013-11-18T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2013-11-19T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Physics Department

Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs

from Monday 18 November 2013 (08:00) to Tuesday 19 November 2013 (17:00)

Monday 18 November 2013

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Physics Department, Seminar Lounge
09:00 Welcome - Berndt Mueller (Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)
Welcome
- Berndt Mueller (Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)
09:00 - 09:10
Room: Large Seminar Room
09:05 Introduction - Chris Stubbs (Harvard)
Introduction
- Chris Stubbs (Harvard)
09:05 - 09:35
Room: Large Seminar Room
09:35 Precision Astrometry and Photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 - Gene Magnier (University of Hawaii)
Precision Astrometry and Photometry from Pan-STARRS 1
- Gene Magnier (University of Hawaii)
09:35 - 10:05
Room: Large Seminar Room
10:05 On-sky performance and calibration of the Dark Energy Camera - Gary Bernstein (Penn)
On-sky performance and calibration of the Dark Energy Camera
- Gary Bernstein (Penn)
10:05 - 10:35
Room: Large Seminar Room
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Lounge
11:00 Hyper Suprime-Cam and HPK CCDs - Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ)
Hyper Suprime-Cam and HPK CCDs
- Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
11:30 Discussion and workshop photo
Discussion and workshop photo
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Large Seminar Room

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Building 488
13:30 LSST sensors: how will dark energy be constrained with lensed photo-conversions? - Andy Rasmussen (SLAC)
LSST sensors: how will dark energy be constrained with lensed photo-conversions?
- Andy Rasmussen (SLAC)
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
14:00 Challenges for precision shape measurements - Michael Jarvis (Penn)
Challenges for precision shape measurements
- Michael Jarvis (Penn)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
14:30 PhoSim: A Code to Simulate Telescopes One Photon at a Time - John Peterson (Purdue)
PhoSim: A Code to Simulate Telescopes One Photon at a Time
- John Peterson (Purdue)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Seminar Lounge
15:30 Consequences of thick CCDs on Image Processing - Robert Lupton (Princeton)
Consequences of thick CCDs on Image Processing
- Robert Lupton (Princeton)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
16:00 Shear estimators in Weak Lensing - Erin Sheldon (BNL)
Shear estimators in Weak Lensing
- Erin Sheldon (BNL)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
16:30 Discussion
Discussion
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Large Seminar Room

17:30 Poster Session
Poster Session
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Large Seminar Room

19:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Tuesday 19 November 2013
09:00 Emulating Weak Gravitational Lensing Measurements in the Lab - Chaz Shapiro (JPL)
Emulating Weak Gravitational Lensing Measurements in the Lab
- Chaz Shapiro (JPL)
09:00 - 09:20
Room: Large Seminar Room
09:20 Using a Fast Beam (f/1.2) to Characterize Thick CCD's - Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)
Using a Fast Beam (f/1.2) to Characterize Thick CCD's
- Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)
09:20 - 09:40
Room: Large Seminar Room
09:40 Tree rings and other sensor effects in Dark Energy Camera - Andres Plazas Malagon (BNL)
Tree rings and other sensor effects in Dark Energy Camera
- Andres Plazas Malagon (BNL)
09:40 - 10:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminar Lounge
10:30 The brighter-fatter effect and pixel correlations - Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
The brighter-fatter effect and pixel correlations
- Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
11:00 Testing the Shrinking Pixel Hypothesis - Roger Smith (Caltech)
Testing the Shrinking Pixel Hypothesis
- Roger Smith (Caltech)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
11:30 Discussion
Discussion
11:30 - 12:20
Room: Large Seminar Room

12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:30
Room: Building 488
13:30 Fully Depleted Imager Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Vyshi Suntharalingam (Lincoln Lab)
Fully Depleted Imager Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Vyshi Suntharalingam (Lincoln Lab)
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
14:00 Physics of depleted CCDs - Steve Holland (LBNL)
Physics of depleted CCDs
- Steve Holland (LBNL)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
14:30 Dark Matter searches with fully depleted CCDs - Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
Dark Matter searches with fully depleted CCDs
- Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Large Seminar Room
15:00 Spectral extraction of BOSS fully-depleted CCD data - Julien Guy (LBNL)
Spectral extraction of BOSS fully-depleted CCD data
- Julien Guy (LBNL)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Large Seminar Room
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Lounge
16:00 Summary - Jim Gunn (Princeton)
Summary
- Jim Gunn (Princeton)
16:00 - 16:40
Room: Large Seminar Room
16:40 Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
16:40 - 16:50
Room: Large Seminar Room

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