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Summer Workshop on Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys: New Astrophysics Frontiers
Aspen Center for Physics. Image Copyright 2007 Rene Rivera
Scientists are sponsoring a summer workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics June 15-July 3, 2009. The Aspen Center for Physics, which has been a venue for creative informal workshops for the past 46 years, accepted the LSST proposal for Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys: New Astrophysics Frontiers this summer. The Aspen Center for Physics is a non-profit corporation funded by grants and contributions from NSF, DOE, NASA, foundations, corporations, government research laboratories, and individuals.
The three-week workshop will host approximately seventy astrophysics theorists, observers, experimentalists and computational scientists to discuss the exceptional opportunities and challenges driven by the new technologies of large aperture and wide field survey telescopes and powerful data processing systems, as well as the transformative science they enable. Temporal evolution of astrophysical systems is of both fundamental importance to astrophysics and a principle observational challenge. The new technologies surpass the traditional observational paradigm and promise discoveries of unanticipated phenomena. The outcomes of the workshop will be refinement of the goals and priorities for the wide-fast-deep survey community, providing input to the National Academy of Sciences’ Astro2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey.
Workshop Agenda
- Weeks I and II: Review and discussion of known and speculative science and how these new survey’s contribute to them
- Weeks II and III: Discussion of how to optimize the system for time-domain discovery, in terms of survey strategy and analysis methodology.
Tony Tyson (LSST Director, University of California, Davis) is leading the organizing effort. Other workshop organizers are Zeljko Ivezic (LSST System Scientist, University of Washington), Michael Strauss (Chair of LSST Science Advisory Council, Princeton University), Bob Nichol (University of Portsmouth) and Josh Frieman (Fermilab).
Applications to attend the workshop are now open on http://www.aspenphys.org. The deadline for applications is January 29, 2009.
For more information, visit http://aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer09.html
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