MCAO Science Workshope Goals and Agenda

Questions about the meeting ? Contact Francois Rigaut, Jennifer Purcell or Paula Towle.

Goals of the Workshop

To insure the maximum efficiency in the workshop discussions, the number of participants have been restricted to approximately 50. Again, to increase the productivity of such a meeting, the attendees are expected to come up at the workshop with their own science case proposal (see science case form). Preliminary discussions, through e-mail exchanges, are expected to be carried out prior to the workshop. These discussion forums are grouped around three main science themes (Distant Galaxies, Nearby Galaxies and Star formation in the Milky Way) and coordinated by Simon Morris/Simon Lilly (Distant Galaxies), Bob Schommer/Taft Armandroff/Tod Lauer (Nearby Galaxies) and Pat Roche/Steve Strom (Star Formation in the Milky Way). The goal of these forums is (a) to allow science participants to get familiar with the MCAO capabilities, (b) to foster exchanges on MCAO-related science and (c) to steer the modelling effort started in the community under the Gemini support.

Agenda

S.O.C.	Francois Rigaut, Jean-Rene Roy, Robert Schommer, Pat Roche, Simon Morris, Taft Armandroff, Steve Strom, Tod Lauer, Simon Lilly, Jerry Nelson and Michael Bolte
L.O.C.	Michael bolte, Paula Towle and Jennifer Purcell

University of California, Santa Cruz
Center for Adaptive Optics,Kerr Hall

Monday, 23 October 2000
Room 283

9:00 am	Welcome (Jerry Nelson/Sandra Faber, CfAO/U of C, Santa Cruz)
9:15 am	Why MCAO for Gemini ? (Matt Mountain, Gemini)
9:30 am	The MCAO for Gemini South: Principles, Instrument Description and Performance (Francois Rigaut/Brent Ellenbroek, Gemini)
10:30 am	BREAK
11:00 am	Laser guide stars - what is happening with lasers? (Celine d'Orgeville/Brent Ellenbroek)
11:30 am	Instrumentation studies and MCAO spectrograph concept (Gillian Wright/Ray Sharples)
12:00 pm	LUNCH
1:15 pm	MCAO and the Gemini Instrumentation Program (Doug Simons)
1:25 pm	The NIFS Science Case and Performance (Peter McGregor)
1:45 pm	MCAO modeling results (Eric Steinbring, Chip Kobulnicky, Ivan Baldry) - including comparison with classical AO approach
3:00 pm	Brief discussion of MCAO instrument concept and charge to subgroups (Jean-Rene Roy)
3:30 pm	Group I meeting (Simon Morris and Simon Lilly) Room 283 - contributions as led by SM Group II meeting (Taft Armandroff and Tod Lauer) Room 307 - contributions as led by TA, TL Group III meeting (Pat Roche and Steve Strom) Room 61 - contributions as led by PR, SS
5:30 pm	End of the day
6:30 pm	Workshop Dinner at the West Coast Santa Cruz Hotel, 175 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. Twelve Winds Room (6:30pm: Cocktail, 7:00pm, Dinner)

Tuesday, 24 October 2000

9:00 am	General session: First summary of discussion by group leaders Room 283
10:20 am	BREAK
11:00 am	Group I meeting (Simon Morris and Simon Lilly) - contributions as led by SM Group II meeting (Taft Armandroff and Tod Lauer) - contributions as led by TA, TL Group III meeting (Pat Roche and Steve Strom) - contributions as led by PR
12:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 p.m	Group meetings resume - preparation of draft written version of key MCAO spectroscopic and imaging science cases - desired MCAO spectrograph concept and capabilities
3:30 pm	BREAK
4:00 pm	General session: draft science cases presented by Group Leaders
5:30 pm	Private meeting of team leaders

Wednesday, 25 October 2000

9:00 am	Group meetings: finalize science case and science requirements - Implications for instrument concept and MCAO - role of MCAO vs classical AO vs competition
10:30 am	BREAK
11:00 am	Final general session - reports of the sub-groups science cases - draft recommendations on the MCAO spectrograph and imager concepts
12:30 pm	LUNCH
2:00 pm	Group leaders meeting - draft written scientific rationale and justification - required instrument capabilities - basic spectrograph concept description
4:00 pm	End of the Workshop

Last update October 5, 2000; Francois Rigaut