STEP Workshop 2005: Schedule |
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STEP Workshop | Schedule | Travel to JPL | Accommodation | Participants |
Monday 25th July
DAY 1 : Shear measurement methods
Session 1: 9.00 - 10.30JPL Welcome | 15 mins | |
STEP Introduction | Jason and Catherine | 5 mins |
KSB+ Overview | Henk Hoekstra | 25 mins |
E & B modes in the DPS in the context of STEP1 | Marco Hetterscheidt | 15 mins |
RRG | Jason Rhodes | 20 mins |
K2K | Hakon Dahle | 20 mins |
Shapelets 1 | Richard Massey | 20 mins |
Shapelets 2 | Konrad Kuijken | 20 mins |
Im2shape | Sarah Bridle | 20 mins |
Ellipto | Vera Margoniner | 20 mins |
BJ02 | Gary Bernstien | 20 mins |
Testing the accuracy of weak lensing analysis: The case for BJ02 | Reiko Nakajima | 25 mins |
REGLENS | Rachel Mandelbaum | 20 mins |
General methods discussion and summary lead by Gary Bernstein
Tuesday 26th July
DAY 2 : STEP results and workshop discussion
Session 1: 9.00 - 10.30Introduction to SkyMaker and the STEP 1 simulations | Ludovic Van Waerbeke | 20 mins |
Introduction to Shapelet morphology and the STEP 2 simulations | Richard Massey | 20 mins |
Update on the shapelet space-based simulations | Will High | 10 mins |
A summary of the results from STEP 1 | Catherine Heymans | 15 mins |
The preliminary results of the STEP 2 analysis; Catherine Heymans.
Discussion on the STEP 2 results lead by Richard Massey.
Discussion on the future of STEP lead by Catherine Heymans
Discussion on future weak lensing surveys lead by Jason Rhodes.
Please bring a few paper
slides with you to describe any upcoming projects that you are involved with. Are there any new concepts and ideas for surveys that aren't already in the pipeline?
Wednesday 27th July
DAY 3: Statistics and Theory
Session 1: 9.00 - 10.30Higher order statistics and diagnostic statistical tools | Ludovic Van Waerbeke | 30 mins |
Weak lensing simulations | Martin White | 25 mins |
Session 2: 10.50 - 12.00
Ray Tracing simulations | Bhuvnesh Jain | 25 mins |
Weak lensing to distinguish dark energy. Plus new work on the non-linear power spectrum | Eric Linder | 25 mins |
N-body simulations
STEP Party: Evening, time TBD during meeting
Location: Chez Ellis, Pasadena
The SNAP meeting will continue on Thursday and Friday (28th-29th July) including a public lecture (Friday 12.00 - 13.00) by Gary Bernstein
STEP Workshop at JPL organised by:
Jason Rhodes: jrhodes[at]mail.jpl.nasa.gov
Catherine Heymans: heymans[at]mpia.de