Objective: Build a community @ UT Austin between Astronomy, Physics, Statistics and Data Science departments that will become the world leader in the new era of Astrophysics.
Schedule:
Day 1. Future Observational Landscape
13:00-13:10 Deirdre Shoemaker - Welcome
13:10-13:50 Aaron Zimmerman - Gravitational Waves (25 min. talk + 15 min. Q&A)
13:50-14:30 Steve Finkelstein - Electromagnetic Observatories for the 2020-2040 Era (25 min. talk + 15 min. Q&A)
14:30-14:50 Break
14:50-15:30 Kim Boddy - Cosmology (25 min. talk + 15 min. Q&A)
15:30-16:10 J. Craig Wheeler - Transient Astrophysics (25 min. talk + 15 min. Q&A)
16:10-16:50 Paul Shapiro – Cosmology and Gravity @UT (25 min. talk + 15 min. Q&A)
16:50-17:00 Q&A
Day 2. Data, Statistics & Computing on Large Scale
13:00-13:45 Arya Farahi - Physics of population diversity, statistical inference, and machine learning in Astronomy (25 min. talk + 20 min. Q&A)
13:45-14:30 Niall Gaffney - TACC (25 min. talk + 20 min. Q&A)
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-15:30 Omar Ghattas - Integration of large scale data and complex models via Bayesian inversion and HPC (25 min. talk + 20 min. Q&A)
15:30-16:15 Erin Mentuch Cooper - Big Sky, Big Data, Big Computing (25 min. talk + 20 min. Q&A)
16:15-17:00 Brainstorm
Day 3. Building and Enabling Collaboration
13:00-13:20 Dan Jaffe (15 min. + 5 min. Q&A)
13:20-13:40 Pablo Laguna (15 min. + 5 min. Q&A)
13:40-14:00 Volker Bromm (15 min. + 5 min. Q&A)
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-15:00 Establishing Collaborations and Preparing to respond to grant solicitations
15:00-16:00 Volunteers to commit to certain topics - small paragraphs for google docs
16:00-17:00 Closing remarks and social time