programme |
Day 1: December 10 |
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| (Venue: Bhaskara 3, IUCAA) | |
| Session 1 (09:00 - 10:30) : TMT - General (Chair: Ram Sagar) |
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| 09:00 – 09:15 | Inauguration (Ajit Kembhavi) |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | TMT Project (Gary Sanders) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Science with TMT (Tomonori Usuda) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea / Coffee |
| Session 2 (11:00 - 12:50) : TMT - General (Chair: R. Srianand) |
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| 11:00 – 11:40 | Adaptive Optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope (Brent Ellerbroek) |
| 11:40 – 12:20 | Thirty Meter Telescope: First-Light and Future Science Instruments (Luc Simard) |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | TMT-India (Eswar Reddy) |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 3 (14:00 - 15:20) : Science (Chair: Shude Mao) |
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| 14:00 – 14:20 | Metal poor and first stars (Aruna Goswami) |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Hydrogen deficient stars (Gajendra Pandey) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Exploring the outer halo of the Milky Way (Judy Cohen) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | The Resolved Stellar Content of Nearby Galaxies (Tim Davidge) |
| 15:20 – 15:50 | Tea / Coffee |
| Session 4 (15:50 – 17:10): Science (Chair: Masayuki Akiyama) |
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| 15:50 – 16:10 | Galaxy formation and evolution (Swara Ravindranath) |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | First galaxies and cosmic reionization (Nobunari Kashikawa) |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Quasars and the early universe (R. Srianand) |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Dark energy with TMT (Tommaso Treu) |
Day 2: December 11 (Venue: Bhaskara 3, IUCAA) |
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| Session 5 (09:00 – 10:30) : New Avenues (Time Resolved, Polarimetry and Astrometry) (Chair: Tim Davidge) |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Summary of Time Resolved and Polarimetry WG (Warren Skidmore : Video) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Stars: In Formation, In Motion (Jessica Lu) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | TMT Astrometry Working Group Update (Matthias Shoeck) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| Session 6 (11:00 – 12:30): New Avenues (Chair: Charles Telesco) |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 | Polarimetry of Comets and Asteroids (Asoke Sen) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Spectropolarimetry of self luminous exo-planets (Sujan Sengupta) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | GRBs and supernovae (Shashi Pandey) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | TMT Polarimetry for Supernovae and Related Objects (Koji Kawabata) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 7 (14:00 – 14:50): New Avenues (Chair: Tommaso Treu) |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Time-Resolved Photometry and Spectroscopy of Transiting Exoplanetary Systems (Norio Narita) |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Chinese astronomy and examples of TMT science (Shude Mao) |
| Session 8 (14:50 – 16:20) : Synergy with other facilities (Chair: Nobunari Kashikawa) |
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| 14:50 – 15:20 | TMT Observations of Distant Galaxies (Sandra Faber) |
| 15:20 – 15:50 | Compact objects (ASTROSAT sources) (Dipankar Bhattacharya) |
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Synergy of TMT with GMRT and SKA (Ishwar Chandra) |
| Session 9 (16:50 – 17:30) Panel Discussion I |
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| Specific questions from Indian community (G.C. Anupama) | |
| Discussion for action items and plans of TimeR, Polarimetry, and Astrometry science cases for SRD & DSC (Tomonori Usuda). | |
| 18:30: Chandra Public Lecture Modern Genesis and the Limits of Cosmic Knowledge by Sandra Faber |
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Day III: December 12 (Venue: Bhaskara 3, IUCAA) |
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| Session 10 (9:00 – 10:50): Science Instruments (Chair: Luc Simard) |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Accretion Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and Co-evolution with Galaxies |
| (Masayuki Akiyama) | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Exploring Protoplanetary Disks In the Mid-infrared (Charles Telesco) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | MICHI: Key Science Cases & Instrument Design (Chris Packham) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Generation of an IR Guide Star Catalogue for the TMT (Smitha Subramaniam) |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Tea/Coffee |
| Session 8 (11:20 – 13:00) Panel Discussion II (Tomonori Usuda, G.C. Anupama) |
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| 13:00 Lunch and close of Workshop | Day IV: December 13 TMT SAC Meeting (Closed Session) (Venue: Conference Room, IUCAA) |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Project Manager Report (Gary Sanders) |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Board Report (Mike Bolte : Video) |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | NSF Report (Mike Bolte: Video) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Discussion of US Community Engagement Plan |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Tea/Coffee |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Telescope Design Updates & Current issues (Scott Roberts: Video) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Discussion of Telescope Design Updates |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | AO Report & Discussion (Brent Ellerbroek : Video) |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Instrument Report & Discussion (Luc Simard) |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Partner Updates (Canada : Video, Japan, China, India) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | SAC recommendations to the Board |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | AOB and next meetings |
| 16:30 | Adjourn |
| Note: 08:30 = 12:00 (JST) = 17:00 (HST) = 19:00 (WST) 12:30 = 16:00 (JST) = 21:00 (HST) = 23:00 (WST) 17:30 = 21:00 (JST) = 02:00 (HST) = 04:00 (WST) |
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