Unless noted otherwise, all talks are 10 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions.
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| Time | Speaker or Event | Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 8:50 | Ryan Foley | Welcome and Introductions | UC Santa Cruz |
| Session I | Session Chair: Tom Prince | ||
| 9:00 | Hilton Lewis | State of Keck Observatory | W.M. Keck Observatory |
| 9:30 | Erik Petigura | The California-Kepler Survey | Caltech |
| 9:45 | Marusa Bradac | Reionisation and First Galaxies with Keck | UC Davis |
| 10:00 | Kelly Kosmo O'Neil | Improving Estimates of Orbital Parameters for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors | UCLA |
| 10:15 | Emma Ryan-Weber | Galaxies and Intergalactic Carbon at Redshifts 4 to 6 | Swinburne University of Technology |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| Session II | Session Chair: Jean Brodie | ||
| 10:50 | Pieter van Dokkum | Properties of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies | Yale University |
| 11:05 | Rachel Smith | A Survey of Protoplanetary Carbon in Young Stellar Systems Using Keck-NIRSPEC | Appalachian State Univ. and N. Carolina Museum of Nat. Sciences |
| 11:20 | Nicha Leethochawalit | On the Evolution of stellar MZR: Cl0024+1654 Stellar Metallicities | Caltech |
| 11:35 | Charles Kilpatrick | Uncovering the Progenitors of Core-collapse Supernovae with Keck Adaptive Optics and High-Resolution Spectroscopy | UC Santa Cruz |
| 11:50 | Jeff Cooke | The first z > 2 supernova spectra in outburst: A first look at their far-UV, their classification, and a puzzle | Swinburne University of Technology |
| 12:05 | Lunch | ||
| Session III | Session Chair: Bob Kirshner | ||
| 1:15 | Anne Kinney | Update from Time Domain Astronomy Workshop | W.M. Keck Observatory |
| 1:30 | Marta Bryan | Constraining the Origin of Young Planetary-Mass Companions Using Planetary Spin | Caltech |
| 1:45 | Andrey Vayner | Quasar hosts Unveiled by high Angular Resolution Techniques (QUART) | W.M. Keck Observatory |
| 2:00 | Grant Hill | Modeling the Colliding Wind Spectra of WR 113 | W.M. Keck Observatory |
| 2:15 | Ann Merchant Boesgaard | Light Element Abundances in the Hyades Cluster | IfA, University of Hawaii |
| 2:30 | "Poster Pop" | Poster Presentations | |
| 3:00 | Break/Posters | ||
| Session IV | Session Chair: Mike Bolte | ||
| 3:45 | Mark Chun | `imaka: Exploring wide field ground-layer adaptive optics on Maunakea | IfA, University of Hawaii |
| 4:00 | Leo Alcorn | The Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2 | Texas A&M University |
| 4:15 | Marie Wingyee Lau | Quasars Probing Quasars: the circumgalactic medium surrounding z ~ 2 quasars | UC Santa Cruz |
| 4:30 | Ben Mazin | KRAKENS: A Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector based IFS for Keck I | UC Santa Barbara |
| 4:45 | Tiffany Meshkat | Occurrence of giant planets around stars with dusty debris disks | Caltech |
| 5:00 | Nikki Nielsen | The MgII Circumgalactic Medium in Group Environments | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Time | Speaker or event | Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Session V | Session Chair: Karl Glazebrook | ||
| 9:00 | Michitoshi Yoshida | Director's Report | Subaru Telescope |
| 9:30 | Brian Hayden | See Change: The Supernova Cosmology Project High-z Cluster Supernova Survey | UC Berkeley |
| 9:45 | Evan Sinukoff | Exploring the Compositional Diversity of Small Exoplanets from K2 | IfA, University of Hawaii |
| 10:00 | Judy Cohen | Keck Helping Euclid, a Status Report for the C3R2 Project | Caltech |
| 10:15 | Matthew Hosek | The Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster | IfA, University of Hawaii |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| Session VI | Session Chair: Judy Cohen | ||
| 10:50 | Masato Onodera | ISM properties of star-forming galaxies at z~3.3 from MOSFIRE spectroscopy | Subaru Telescope |
| 11:05 | David Bennett | Measuring the Cold Exoplanet Mass Function with Keck AO | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 11:20 | Asher Wasserman | Measuring Dark Matter in Massive Galaxies | UC Santa Cruz |
| 11:35 | Thayne Currie | Multi-Wavelength Characterization of Keck-Discovered Directly-Imaged Exoplanets | Subaru Telescope |
| 11:50 | Alex Krolewski | CLAMATO: Mapping the z~2 universe with 3D Lyman-alpha forest tomography | UC Berkeley |
| 12:05 | Lunch | ||
| Session VII | Session Chair: Marusa Bradac | ||
| 1:15 | Jean Brodie | Keck White Papers: Introduction | UC Santa Cruz |
| 1:21 | Jessica Lu |
Enhancing Multi-Object Spectroscopy with Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics | UC Berkeley |
| 1:33 | Dimitri Mawet | NIRC2 Upgrade | Caltech |
| 1:45 | James Larkin | New AO IFS design | UCLA |
| 1:57 | Claire Max | UCO White Papers | UC Observatories |
| 2:00 | Don Neill | KCWI Update | Caltech | 2:10 | Ji Wang | Detecting Methane In HR 8799 c with High Dispersion Spectroscopy Aided By Adaptive Optics | Caltech |
| 2:25 | Adam Tomczak | The Galaxy Stellar Mass Function: Glimpsing the Effect of Local Environment | UC Davis |
| 2:40 | David Fisher | DYNAMO: An upclose view of turbulent disk galaxies | Swinburne University of Technology |
| 2:55 | Break | ||
| Session VIII | Session Chair: Claire Max | ||
| 3:15 | Anna Ciurlo | Gas Dynamics at the Galactic Center | UCLA |
| 3:30 | Stephanie Pointon | The Impact of the Group Environment on the OVI Circumgalactic Medium | Swinburne University of Technology |
| 3:45 | Dimitri Mawet | Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: status update | Caltech |
| 4:00 | Gregory Walth | Using Cosmic Telescopes to Study the Nebular Emission of Gravitationally Lensed Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies with Keck | UC San Diego |
| 4:15 | Hassen Yesuf | Studying Galactic Winds, Stellar populations, and Gas Metallicities with Deep Keck Spectroscopy | UC Santa Cruz |
| 4:30 | Devin Chu | Investigating the binarity of the short period star S0-2 in orbit around the Galactic center supermassive black hole | UCLA |
| 4:45 | Calen Henderson | Using AO Follow-up to Characterize Microlensing Exoplanets | Caltech |
The meeting will take place at The Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, CA. The address is 611 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. For driving directions click here.
There are a number of lodging options in the City of Santa Cruz, some of which provide discounts for UCSC affiliates.
Parking is complimentary for registered participants of the Keck Science Meeting 2017 and the TDA workshop at Hotel Paradox.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided at Hotel Paradox on both days of the meeting.
For dinners, Santa Cruz has a lively restaurant scene. There are many restaurants downtown in walking distance to Hotel Paradox, please view some restaurant recommendations here.
