SOAR 2020 workshop

SOAR 2020 workshop schedule

*Monday March 13 – Day 1*
8:30	9:30	Rio	B. Castilho	Welcome and Purpose
8:40	9:40	UNC/ Clemens	C. Clemens	Welcome
8:50	9:50		J. Elias	SOAR overview: current capabilities and plans
9:20	10:20		C. Briceno	SOAR science: overview and highlights
9:50	10:50	Both	—	Coffee break
10:05	11:05	UNC/ Elias	A. Bolton	LSST and the OIR System in the 2020s
10:35	11:35		R. Street	Time Domain Astronomy in the 2020s
11:05	12:05		J. Burt	TESS Mission and SOAR
11:35	12:35	Both	—	Lunch
13:05	14:05	UNC/ Strader	R. Margutti M. Gennaro S. Kannappan	Eruptions, disruptions and Stellar Explosions: news from the Universe fourth dimension (20m) Enabling new science with the SAM Multi-Object Spectrograph (SAMOS) (20m) The REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) Survey (20m)
15:20	16:20	Both	—	Coffee break
15:35	16:35	TBD	TBD	Review of discussion groups
15:50	16:50	Both	TBD	Discussion groups
17:20	18:20	Both	—	End of day
*Tuesday March 14 – Day 2*
Posters can be set up in the morning for viewing during breaks: Rio & UNC
8:30	9:30	Both	Castilho Clemens	Announcements
8:40	9:40	Rio/ Baptista	B. Quint A. Tokovinin A.M. Magalhaes C .Rodrigues A. Candal	Preliminary results obtained at the Science Verification of the SAM-FP Mode (15 min) Diffraction-limited observations at SOAR: present and future (20 min) Linear Polarimetry in the Near Infrared with SOAR (15 min) SPARC4 – Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in 4 bands (15 min) The physical characterization of small Solar System bodies with SOAR (15 min)
10:05	11:05	Both	—	Coffee break
10:20	11:20	UNC/ Elias	C. Thomas C. Ziegler D. Fischer J. Strader	Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS): Photometry and Spectroscopy Results (20 min) Robo-SOAR and Robo-AO Observing of Planet Candidates (PDF version) (15 min) SORCERESS: a high-resolution spectrograph for exoplanet discovery at SOAR (PDF version) (20 min) Gamma-Ray Loud Compact Binaries and the Origin of Millisecond Pulsars (20 min)
11:35	12:35	Both	—	Lunch
13:05	14:05	Rio/ Castilho	A. Ardila M. Marinello D. Pauletti M Makler U. Barres S.O. Kepler	Active Galactic Nuclei research with SOAR: present and upcoming capabilities (20 min) Unraveling the Excitation Mechanisms of Super-Strong FeII Emitting AGNs (15 min) Spectroscopic mapping of the physical properties of supernova remnant N49 using the SOAR telescope (15 min) Cosmology and fundamental physics from a superconducting camera at SOAR (15 min) Potential synergies on MWL science between the future CTA observatory and SOAR (15 min) White Dwarfs and Subdwarfs with SOAR (20 min)
14:45	15:45	Both	—	Coffee break
15:00	16:00	UNC/ Briceno	S. Torres N. Law	SOAR Data Reduction Pipelines Progress Report (PDF version) (20 min) Evryscope time-domain followup (20 min)
15:40	16:40	Both	TBD	Discussion group logistics
15:45	16:45	Both	TBD	Discussion groups
17:15	18:15	Both	—	End of day
*Wednesday March 15 – Day 3*
8:30	9:30	Both?	TBD	Announcements
8:40	9:40	Rio/ Castilho	R. Diaz	Gemini Instrument Program as an opportunity for collaborations at Cerro Pachon (20 min)
8:55	9:55	Both	Group reps.	Discussion group summaries RIO FIRST (10 min each )
10:30	11:30	Both	—	Coffee break
10:45	11:45	UNC/ Law	C. Briceno J. Fuchs E. Dennihy	SOAR AO Discovery of a Parsec-Scale Herbig-Haro Jet from a Brown Dwarf (15 min) Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs with the Goodman Spectrograph (15 min) White Dwarf exo-planetary disk dynamics as revealed by the Red Camera (15 min)
11:30	12:30	UNC	C. Clemens	Workshop wrap-up (PDF version)
12:00	13:00	Both	—	End of workshop!