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SDSS SPRING COLLABORATION MEETING

Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)

Heidelberg, Germany, March 21 - 23, 2002

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MEETING webpages:

   http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/SDSS/meeting/

Please note:  The program of the WG sessions will be put together by the WG
chairs themselves and is not listed here in detail.

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WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2002

18:30    Informal dinner at "Kulturbraeuerei" in downtown Heidelberg
         (see meeting webpages for instructions and please note that
         this restaurant does not accept credit cards)

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THURSDAY, March 21, 2002

Time     Topic/Activity                                Duration  Speaker/Chair
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 8:15    Bus pick-up downtown
 8:45    Registration

 9:15    Welcome & Announcements                                 Rix/Grebel


      I. Science plenaries to set the scene               Chair: Weinberg 

 9:25    [Galaxy halo masses from weak lensing]        20+5      McKay
 9:40    [General QSO presentation & target sel.]      30+5      Vanden Berk
10:15    Asteroids                                     20+5      Ivezic

10:40  BREAK


       II. Technical talks: EDR/Photo                     Chair: Rockosi

11:10    Science Ready Data Products                             Stoughton
11:40    Photo 5.3                                               Ivezic
12:40    Final photometric calibration                           Lee


13:00  LUNCH


       III. Technical talks: Data releases, data access   Chair: Yanny

14:10    Early Data Release and Data Release One                 Stoughton
14:40    Data Access Tools and Usage                             Stoughton
15:10    Migration of SX to SQL Server                           Thakar/Pope
         and Upcoming Data Model Changes

15:50  BREAK


       IV. Southern survey                                Chair: Peoples

16:20    Southern survey spectroscopy: Review of experiences     Eisenstein
16:40    Southern survey photometry                              Ivezic
17:00    Southern survey and QSOs                                Vanden Berk
17:20    Southern survey: plans for assembling a program         Kron

17:50    [What can we do with other survey instruments?] Discussion Meiksin,
                                                                 Loveday,
                                                                 Eisenstein

18:30    Return to hotels (bus)

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FRIDAY, March 22, 2002

 8:15    Bus pick-up downtown
 8:45    Registration cont.


       V. Science plenaries: Stars and Galactic structure  Chair: McGehee

 9:15    New SDSS, Calar Alto, and ESO results on Pal 5  20+5    Odenkirchen
 9:40    White Dwarfs, and Status of Proper Motions      20+5    Harris 
10:05    The Schizophrenic Luminosity of Faint SDSS      20+5    Margon
         Carbon Stars: Population III at Last?

10:30  BREAK


       VI. Stars WG

11:00    Stars WG session      (Auditorium)              2 hrs   Hawley
                                                                 Newberg

                    *** IN PARALLEL, beginning at 12:00  ***

         Tiling/Masks Data Model Changes                 1 hr    Pope
         Discussion            (Seminar room)


13:00  LUNCH


       VII. Science plenaries: Galaxies                   Chair: Okamura

14:20    Galaxy rotation curves & Tully-Fisher           20+5    Rix  
14:45    Stellar masses of galaxies                      20+5    Kauffmann
15:10    LSB galaxies in the SDSS: First results         20+5    Kniazev
15:35    Satellite galaxies                              20+5    Vitvitska

16:00  BREAK


       VIII. Galaxies WG and Serendipity WG

16:30    Galaxies WG session  (Auditorium)               2 hrs   Meiksin

                         *** IN PARALLEL ***

         Serendipity WG    (Seminar room)                1 hr    Anderson
                                                                 Voges



18:30    Return to hotels (bus)

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SATURDAY, March 23, 2002

 8:15    Bus pick-up downtown
 8:45    Registration cont.


       IX. Science plenaries                              Chair: Boehringer

 9:15    QSO follow-up results (ESO)                     15+5    Pentericci
 9:35    [Summary on cluster work]                       30+5    McKay


       X. Survey status and future

10:10    Survey footprint (discussion)                   30      Kron    
         + southern survey + plans for 
         assembling a program

10:40  BREAK
                                                          Chair: White

11:10    Survey status and progress                      30      Peoples
11:40    Collaboration affairs (discussion)                      Kron


13:00  LUNCH


       XI. Science plenaries and QSO WG                   Chair: Vanden Berk

14:20    Compact Groups in the SDSS                      15+5    Tucker    

14:40    QSO WG                                          1 hr    Vanden Berk

15:40  BREAK


       XII. Science plenaries and southern survey 
            WG session                                    Chair: Stubbs

16:10    SNe                                             15+5    Miknaitis
16:30    Transients/burst sources                        15+5    Wilhite

16:50    Southern WG       (Auditorium)                  1 hr    Stubbs   

       XIII. Outlook

17:50    Summary of Plans for Future Work                30      Weinberg

18:30    Return to hotels (bus)

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