2015 Program

Wednesday, Setpember 30

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Dinner Available for Guests Staying at Asilomar
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Welcome Reception

Thursday, October 1

7:30 am – 8:50 am: Breakfast
8:50 am – 9:20 am: Welcome – Conroy (5 min) and Science opening talk – Rockosi (20+5 mins)
9:20 am – 10:30 am: New Facilities Overview (Conroy) – Bernstein (25+5 mins), Willman (15+5 mins), Kalirai (15+5 mins)
10:30 am – 10:50 am: Break
10:50 am – 11:50 pm: Galaxy halos – Johnston, Deason, Cunningham (15+5 mins each)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm: Machine gun posters I
1:50 pm – 3:10 pm: Novel Tools & Techniques – Read, Kallivayalil, Beaton, Toloba (15+5 mins each)
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm: Break
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm: Machine gun posters II
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Milky Way Satellites – Drlica-Wagner, Nidever, Strigari (15+5 mins each)
5:30 pm: Buses depart for aquarium
6:00 pm: Conference Banquet

Friday, October 2

7:30 am – 8:50 am: Breakfast
8:00 am – 10:20 am: Near Field Cosmology I – Weisz, Gallart, Griffen, Sand (15+5 mins each)
10:20 am – 10:50 am: Break
10:50 am – 11:50 am: Near Field Cosmology II – Romanowsky, Wheeler, Ting Li (15+5 mins each)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lessons from M31 and Sombrero – Ferguson, Lewis, Steiner (15+5 mins each)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Galactic Archeology I – Stello, Kunder, Lee (15+5 mins each)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm – 4:50 pm: Galactic Archeology II – Bland-Hawthorn, Christlieb, Ting, Yong (15+5 mins each)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Wine & Cheese – Cross-Facility Breakout Discussion Sections
6:00 pm: Dinner

Saturday, October 3

7:30 am – 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:00 am: Breakout reporting
10:00 am – 10:20 am: Break
10:20 am – 11:40 pm: Feedback vs. Environment – Boylan-Kolchin, Munshi, Wetzel, Steinmetz (15+5 mins each)
11:45 am – 12:15 pm: Conference Wrap-Up – Kravtsov
12:15 pm: Lunch offered in to-go boxes