2nd GMT High Resolution Spectroscopy Workshop

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Presentation slides can be found at http://www.gmto.org/meetings/workshop4/. For access, please contact jimum@astro.as.utexas.edu.


Friday, January 16

9:00

Welcome

David Lambert

9:05

Introduction and Logistics

Bill Cochran

 

GMT AND INSTRUMENTATION

9:10

GMT Overview

Pat McCarthy

9:30

GMTNIRS

Dan Jaffe

9:50

PHOENIX-Overview and Lessons Learned

Ken Hinkle

10:10

Key Science Using IGRINS

Soojong Pak

10:30

--BREAK--

11:00

Possibilities for a GMT high resolution optical spectrograph

Phillip MacQueen

11:20

Spectrograph Fibre Feeds

Roger Haynes

11:35

Discussion of Instrumentation

12:00-
13:00

--LUNCH--

 

SOLAR SYSTEM

13:00

Planets and Satellites

Tommy Greathouse

13:15

Comets: Clues to the Origins of our Solar System

Anita Cochran

 

STAR FORMATION AND YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS

13:30

Molecular Spectroscopy of Star and Planet Forming Regions

John Lacy

13:45

Probes of circumstellar disk composition and evolution

Alycia Weinberger

14:00

Uncovering the Central Star in Young Stellar Objects

Chris Johns-Krull

14:15

YSO RVs: Dynamics, Masses, and the First Generation of Planets

Lisa Prato

 

EXOPLANETS

14:30

Extrasolar Planet Research in the GMT Era

David Latham

14:45

Characterizing Exoplanets in the GMT Era

Bill Cochran

15:00

Wavelength Calibration Using Lasers

A. Szentgyorgyi

15:15-
15:45

Discussion of Star Formation and Planets

15:45-
16:15

--BREAK--

 

STARS IN OUR GALAXY

16:15

Probing stellar populations in the Galactic Center and Bulge

Katia Cunha

16:30

Stellar Astrophysics with QSPEC and GMTNIRS - A miscellany

David Lambert

16:45

The GMT and the lowest metallicity stars

Chris Sneden

17:00-
17:20

Discussion of Stars in Our Galaxy

17:20-
18:00

Summary discussion of Day 1

 

--GROUP DINNER--
at Clay Pit Restaurant, 1601 Guadalupe St.


Saturday, January 17

 

RESOLVED STELLAR POPULATIONS

9:00

Multi-fiber spectroscopy in the Galactic bulge

Ken Freeman

9:15

Mass Assembly Merger Debris in the Milky Way

Inese Ivans

9:30

Globular Cluster Integrated-Light Abundances

Andy McWilliam

9:45

Low Metallicity Stars in the Milky Way Outer Halo

Ian Roederer

10:00

Globular clusters with multiple populations

David Yong

10:15-
10:45

--BREAK--

10:45

Abundances for Stars in the Local Group in the GMT era

Matthew Shetrone

11:00

Abundance Ratios as Tools to Characterize Distinct Stellar Populations

Verne Smith

11:15-
11:45

Discussion of Stellar Populations

12:00-
13:00

--LUNCH--

 

EXTRA-GALACTIC AND COSMOLOGY

13:00

Near-field cosmology and a multi-object HROS

Joss Bland Hawthorne

13:15

QSO Absorption Line Spectroscopy

Michael Rauch

13:30-
13:45

Discussion of Extra-galactic and Cosmology

13:45

Summary discussion of Day 2