8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

Breakfast

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM

WELCOME
Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost of The University of Chicago

GALAXIES
Chair: Hsiao-Wen Chen (KICP, University of Chicago)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Sandra M. Faber, UC Observatories, Lick Observatory
Invited Talk: Galaxy Formation Made Simple [PDF]

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Michael R. Blanton, New York University
Invited Talk: Galaxy Properties in the SDSS [PDF]

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Adam Bolton, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
The Sloan Lens ACS Survey [PDF]

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

David Schiminovich, Columbia University
New lessons from panchromatic (UV-IR) observations of the SDSS main galaxy sample [PDF]

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Coffee

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

David A. Wake, University of Durham
The evolution of the most massive red galaxies: A problem for hierarchical galaxy formation? [PDF]

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Genevieve J. Graves, UCO/Lick Observatory
Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories vs. Structural Parameters [PDF]

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Steven P. Bamford, University of Portsmouth
Galaxy Zoo: the independence of morphology and colour [PDF]

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Guinevere A.M. Kauffmann, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Invited Talk: The Co-evolution of Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes: the view from SDSS [PDF]

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Donald G. York, University of Chicago
Director's Perspective 1 [PDF]

QUASARS, ABSORPTION SYSTEMS, AND THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM
Chair: Brian Yanny (Fermilab)

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Scott M. Croom, University of Sydney
Invited Talk: Answers and Questions from Quasar Surveys [PPT]

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Gordon Richards, Drexel University
Invited Talk: Quasars and the SDSS [PDF]

3:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Coffee

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

Nicholas Ross, Pennsylvania State University
The clustering of redshift z<2.2 SDSS Quasars [PDF]

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Naohisa Inada, RIKEN
The SDSS Quasar Lens Search [PDF]

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

Varsha P. Kulkarni, University of South Carolina
Evolution of Metals and Dust in Galaxies: Damped and Sub-damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers from SDSS [PDF]

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM

Ryan C. Hickox, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Clustering and evolution of radio, X-ray, and IR-selected AGN [PDF]

5:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Francesco Shankar, The Ohio State University
Constraining the evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes [PDF]

5:50 PM

Close

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

THE MILKY WAY AND ITS NEIGHBORS
Chair: Connie Rockosi (UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory)

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Kathryn V. Johnston, Columbia University
Invited Talk: The Milky Way and Near-Field Cosmology [PDF]

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Heidi Jo Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Talk: Milkyway Substructure [PDF]

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Properties of the smallest galaxies [PDF]

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Mario Juric, Institute for Advanced Study
Dissecting the Milky Way with SDSS [PDF]

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Coffee

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Kevin C. Schlaufman, Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Stellar Accretion History of the Milky Way Through SEGUE Observations of Halo Substructure [PDF]

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Heather Morrison, CWRU
The nature of the Monoceros overdensity [PDF]

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Bart P. Wakker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Distances to high-velocity clouds using SDSS stars [PDF]

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

John Peoples, Fermilab
Director's Perspective 2 [PDF]

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM

Stephen Kent, Fermilab
Poster Review [PDF]

STARS
Chair: Jeff Pier (National Science Foundation)

2:25 PM - 2:55 PM

Pierre Bergeron, Universite de Montreal
Invited Talk: White Dwarf Stars in the SDSS: Exploring the Tail of the Distributions [PDF]

2:55 PM - 3:25 PM

Timothy C. Beers, Michigan State University
Invited Talk: Stars [PDF]

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Coffee and Poster Viewing

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

John Bochanski, University of Washington
Exploring the Local Milky Way: The Low-Mass Stellar Luminosity and Mass Functions [PDF]

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

David K. Lai, UC Santa Cruz
The Abundances of Metal-poor Stars in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way [PDF]

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM

Juna A. Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories/Princeton Univeristy
High Velocity Stars in the SDSS [PDF]

5:30 PM

Close

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Simon D.M. White, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Invited Talk: Cosmic Structure Formation [PDF]

LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE AND GALAXY CLUSTERS (I)
Chair: David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Ofer Lahav, University College London
Invited Talk: Large Scale Structure in 2dF, SDSS, and beyond [PDF]

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona
Invited Talk: Measuring Cosmic Distances with the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations [PDF]

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Coffee

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Jeremy Tinker, University of Chicago
Cosmology with Cluster Mass-to-Light Ratios [PDF]

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Changbom Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Morphology and Luminosity Segregation by Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions in Clusters of Galaxies [PDF]

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Bob Nichol, ICG Portsmouth
Latest from the ISW [PDF]

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

Richard G. Kron, The University of Chicago
Director's Perspective 3

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE AND GALAXY CLUSTERS (II)
Chair: Natalie Roe (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Will Percival, University of Portsmouth
Observing BAO in the SDSS [PDF]

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

Andrey V. Kravtsov, KICP, The University of Chicago
Modeling spatial distribution of galaxies in the SDSS [PDF]

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Martin G. Haehnelt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Measuring the small scale matter power spectrum with Lyman-alpha forest data [PDF]

3:00 PM

Close

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM

SDSS-III Collaboration Meeting

5:45 PM

Kanan Banquet Cruise: Shuttle boards at Marriott Residence Inn

6:00 PM

Shuttle departs Marriott Residence Inn

6:15 PM

Shuttle boards at Holiday Inn Mart Plaza

6:15 PM

Shuttle boards at Renaissance Hotel

6:30 PM

Shuttle departs Renaissance Hotel

6:30 PM

Shuttle departs Holiday Inn Mart Plaza

7:00 PM

Kanan Banquet Cruise
After-dinner speaker Ann Finkbeiner: How the SDSS Happened

10:00 PM

Shuttles board at Navy Pier

10:00 PM

Boat returns to Navy Pier (guests depart boat)

10:15 PM

Shuttles return to Marriott Residence Inn, Renaissance Hotel & Holiday Inn Mart Plaza

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Chair: Jeff Munn (U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station)

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
Invited Talk: Solar System Astronomy with SDSS and LSST [PDF]

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Alex Parker, University of Victoria
The Size Distributions of Asteroid Families in the SDSS MOC 4 [PDF]

SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA COSMOLOGY
Chair: Michael S. Turner (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories
Invited Talk: The Carnegie Supernova Survey [PDF]

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Mark Sullivan, University of Oxford
Invited Talk: The Supernova Legacy Survey [PDF]

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Josh Frieman, Fermilab and U. Chicago
Invited Talk: The SDSS-II Supernova Survey [PDF]

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

Ryan Foley, UC Berkeley / CfA
The Keck/SDSS Supernova Sample [PDF]

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

Peter Garnavich, University of Notre Dame
The Nature of Type Ia SN from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey [PDF]

12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Lunch

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM

Andreas A. Berlind, Vanderbilt University
Poster Review [PDF]

THE NEAR FUTURE
Chair: Evalyn Gates (KICP)

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Huan Lin, Fermilab
The Dark Energy Survey [PDF]

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Kenneth C. Chambers, Institute for Astronomy
The Pan-STARRS 1 Science Mission

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

David H. Weinberg, Ohio State University
SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems [PDF]

3:40 PM - 4:20 PM

Coffee and Poster Viewing

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM

James E. Gunn, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences
Invited Talk: Conference Summary [PDF]

4:50 PM

Close

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

SDSS-II Working Group Meetings, at University of Chicago