Draft Plan Schedule for SDSS-II Collaboration Meeting (March 23-25, 2006) La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe Wednesday, March 22: -------------------- Evening reception/registration (snacks and cash bar followed by various dinner options). Thursday, March 23: [Plenary Session I] --------------------------------------- 8.00am - 9.00am Breakfast/Registration 9.00am - 9.15am Welcome/Orientation/Logistics [Habib] 9.15am - 10.15am Survey Status/Overview Rich Kron Jim Gunn Jim will either cover ubercalibration or donate some of his time to someone else to discuss it 10.15am - 10.45am Coffee Break 10.45am - 11.15am A Night in the Life of an SDSS Observer Steph Snedden 11.15am - 12.30pm Legacy Science Three 15-minute talks plus 30 minutes for discussion 1. Dan Zucker, M31 and its Companions 2. Nikhil Padmanabhan, Power Spectrum of SDSS LRGs 3. Andreas Berlind, Groups and Environment 12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch Break 2.00pm - 3.15pm Legacy Science Three 15-minute talks plus 30 minutes for discussion 1. Gordon Richards 2. Mike Warren 3. Yipeng Jing 3.15pm - 3.45pm Machine Gun Science Ten 2-minute, 1-overhead talks 3.45pm - 4.15pm Coffee Break 4.15pm - 5.45pm Supernova Science and Survey Josh Frieman to organize Overview talk, 3 science talks, plus discussion? Supernova team may continue discussion following end of plenary session >>6.30pm - Public Talk by SDSS-II participant (TBD) << Friday, March 24: [Plenary Session II] -------------------------------------- 9.00am - 10.45am Galactic Structure and SEGUE Science Five 15-minute talks, plus 30 minutes discussion 1. Vasily Belokurov Stellar Streams in the SDSS 2. Heather Morrison Probing the stellar halo with K-giants 3. Sebastian Lepine Proper motion subdwarfs and the local kinematics of the Galactic halo 4. Jennifer Johnson Crowded field photometry for SEGUE [5. Allyn Smith SEGUE Open Cluster Survey He may not be able to make this time, in which case we can either shift the pre-lunch items up by 15 minutes or add a SEGUE overview talk.] 10.45am - 11.15am Coffee Break 11.15am - 11.45am Collaboration policy discussion Led by David Weinberg 11.45am - 12.45pm Education/Public Outreach session Led by Julie Lutz 12.45pm - 2.30pm Lunch Break 2.30pm - 4.30pm Future Plans Presentations based on white papers. Discussion moderated by Rich Kron. 4.30pm - 5.00pm Coffee Break 5.00pm - 6.00pm Invited colloquium Ken Chambers, PAN-STARRS Project Scientist >>Meeting Dinner at La Fonda<< Saturday, March 25: [Working Groups] ------------------------------------ 9.00am - 10.00am Database demo Ani Thakar 10.00am - 10.30am Machine Gun Science Ten 2-minute, 1-overhead talks 10.30am - 11.00am Coffee Break 11.00am - 12.00pm Working Group Meetings start Parallel sessions: Large Scale Structure Quasars Stars 12.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch (Working groups can schedule lunch as they see fit.) 1.00pm SEGUE meeting starts 1.30pm - 5.00pm Working Groups continue First parallel sessions continue until 2:30 Second set begins at 2:30 Galaxies Supernovae