Schedule

note: food/coffee will be available at 8:45am and 3:45pm but lunch is not provided.

Mon Jun 21
Morning: Lya Sessions
9:00  am
      Kyle Dawson          - Summary overview

      Jean-Marc Le Goff - Simulation of power spectrum reconstrution and  continuum effect. (remote  presentation)
      Isabelle Paris        -Automatic procedures for continuum fitting and mean flux evolution with BOSS
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
      Anze Slosar          - Lya clustering and redshift distortions   
      Shirley Ho             - Redshift distortions and fnl
      Nicolas Busca       - Simulation of correlation function reconstruction
      David Weinberg    - Data quality and how we assess it, followed by open-ended discussion
 12:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon: Lya Sessions
2:00  pm
      Adam Bolton          - Ly-a Science Requirements for Spectroscopic Calibration
                                       and Data  Reduction

                                    - followed by open discussion on Ly-a science
                                      requirements as they feed in to spectro pipeline
                                     development calibration, and data deliverables   
      Kyle Dawson         -TBA
3:45  pm Break
4:15  pm
      Bill Carithers         -wavelength calibration studies and possibly noise studies
      Nao Suzuki            -The use of PCA eigenspectra for quasar ID, contiuum fit, mock and target selection.

      Part (1 of 2) discussions of Lya projects with first year data. What is needed? Mocks, analysis codes, catalogs.

5:30  pm Session end

Tue Jun 22
Morning: Lya Sessions
9:00  am
      Britt Lundgren        -absorption lines
      K.G. Lee                  -Measuring properties of the z~2 IGM with a new
                                       2-point statistic
      Matt Pieri                -TBA
      Rupert Croft            -QSO-lya clustering
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
      Shirley Ho                   -Small-scale power in the forest
      Pat McDonald              -TBA
      Jordi Miralda-Escude -Mock spectra for errors+ effects of DLAs

      Christophe Yeche       -1D Lya power spectrum from BOSS data  
12:30 pm Lunch
    Afternoon: Quasar sessions
2:00  pm
        Nic Ross            - BOSS Quasar Survey overview and Target Selection
                                     update
        Eric Aubourg      - BOSS Year One Data recap
        Adam Myers      - Defining a uniform sample for Quasar statistics
3:45  pm Break
4:15  pm
        Gabor Worseck   - GALEX far-UV color selection of UV-bright
                                       high-redshift quasars
         M. Wood-Vasey  - Pan-STARRS update(?)
5:30  pm Session end

6:30pm Shuttle leaves from outside conference room (4405) to Church Brew Works   Shuttle returns at 10:00pm

Wed Jun 23
   
    Morning: Joint QSO/Lya session followed by Lya session

9:00  am
     Discussion of issues common to Lya and Quasars:
     Including data repositories, NERSC computing, joint publications.
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
      Lya session:

      Part (2 of 2) discussions of Lya projects with first year data. What is
      needed? Mocks, analysis codes, catalogs.

      Discussion of research timelines.

12:30 pm Lunch
      Afternoon:  QSO session
2:00  pm
      Christophe Yeche    -Detection of QSO with their Variability
      Gordon Richards      -Quasar Luminosity functions
      Niel Brandt              -Large-Scale Investigations of Quasar Winds with
                                       the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III
3:45  pm Break
4:15  pm
5:30  pm Session end

Thu Jun 24
      Morning:   QSO session
9:00  am
10:30 am Break
10:45 am
12:30 pm Lunch + formal workshop end
     
      Afternoon: Informal break out sessions