All presentations will be in the Hameetman Auditorium in the Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics. Unless noted otherwise, all talks are 12 minutes long with 3 minutes for questions.
| Time | Speaker or Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| Session I | Chair: Mansi Kasliwal | |
| 9:00 (25+5) | Hilton Lewis (Invited) | State of WMKO |
| 9:30 | Evan Kirby | DEIMOS Measurements of Iron-Peak Abundances and Sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae |
| 9:45 | Tiffany Hsyu | Searching for the Lowest Metallicity Galaxies in our Local Universe |
| 10:00 | Lauren Weiss | Patterns in Kepler's Multi-Planet Systems Revealed by Keck-HIRES |
| 10:15 | Abhimat Gautam | Photometric detection of a candidate low-mass giant binary system at the Milky Way Galactic Center |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| Session II | Chair: Brad Hansen | |
| 10:50 | Sarah Blunt | HD 120066b, a Planet with 65-year Orbital Period and High Eccentricity |
| 11:05 | Peter Wizinowich | Keck All Sky Precision Adaptive Optics |
| 11:20 | Dimitri Mawet | Deep exploration of exoplanetary systems with direct imaging and spectroscopy |
| 11:35 | Ragnhild Lunnan | A Circumstellar Shell around a Superluminous Supernova Revealed in a Light Echo |
| 11:50 | Aparna Bhattacharya | Developing the WFIRST Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method with the Keck Key Strategic Mission Support Observations |
| 12:05 | Lunch and Breakout Sessions with Support Astronomers | *SEE TOPICS AND LOCATIONS |
| Session III | Chair: Tucker Jones | |
| 1:30 | Shri Kulkarni (Invited) | Keck & the Zwicky Transient Facility |
| 1:45 | Carolyn Jordan | The Target of Opportunity Process at Keck Observatory |
| 2:00 | Brittany Miles | Methane in Analogs of Young Directly Imaged Exoplanets |
| 2:15 | Aaron Romanowsky | Unlocking the mysteries of the ultra-diffuse galaxies |
| 2:30 | Poster Blasts | |
| 3:00 | Break/Posters | |
| Session IV | Chair: Karl Glazebrook | |
| 3:30 | Sebastiano Cantalupo | Illuminating the Cosmic Web around quasars with KCWI |
| 3:45 | Nina Hernitschek | The Caltech/Carnegie Survey of the Outer Halo of the Milky Way |
| 4:00 | Siyao Jia | The Galactic Center: Improved Relative Astrometry for Velocities, Accelerations, and Orbits near the Supermassive Black Hole |
| 4:15 | Aida Behmard | HiCannon: Application of The Cannon to Keck/HIRES For Data-Driven Spectroscopy of Cool Stars |
| 4:30 | B.J. Fulton | A Public Radial Velocity Pipeline for HIRES |
| 4:45 | Tom Stallard (Invited) | Infrared observations of Saturn's aurora in support of the Cassini mission |
| 5:00 | Premier of Keck Video: “The Impossible Telescope” in honor of Keck’s 25th anniversary of first Science, followed by reception |
Please join us after the short movie in the Cahill patio for a wine and cheese reception celebrating Keck’s 25th Science anniversary. |
| Time | Speaker or event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Breakfast | |
| Session V | Chair: Christoph Baranec | |
| 9:00 (25+5) | Michitoshi Yoshida (Invited) | State of Subaru Observatory |
| 9:30 | Charlotte Bond (Invited) | A new wave-front sensor for Keck: Integration and testing of a near infrared Pyramid WFS |
| 9:45 | Anna Ciurlo | Gas dynamics at the Galactic Center: G-like objects and other gas features |
| 10:00 | Rachel Theios | Dust Attenuation, Star Formation, Metallicity, and Outflow Kinematics in z~2-3 Galaxies from KBSS-MOSFIRE |
| 10:15 | Andrew Howard | Exoplanet Masses and Radii from K2 and a NASA-Keck Key Project |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| Session VI | Chair: Andrew Howard | |
| 10:50 | John O'Meara | Spatially mapping star forming gas with KCWI |
| 11:05 | Nicole Wallack | Modeling LkCa 15 in the Search for Planets |
| 11:20 | Anowar J. Shajib | Spatially resolved kinematics of lens galaxies from OSIRIS to improve time-delay cosmography |
| 11:35 | Ariel Graykowski | Color survey of the Irregular Satellites |
| 11:50 | Anne Medling | Rewriting the AGN Feedback Story with the Highest Resolution Observations |
| 12:05 | Lunch and Breakout Sessions with Support Astronomers | *SEE TOPICS AND LOCATIONS |
| Session VII | Chair: Judy Cohen | |
| 1:30 | Emily Cunningham | HALO7D: Disentangling the Milky Way Accretion History with Observations in 7 Dimensions |
| 1.45 | Daniel Masters | The C3R2 Survey: Keck Enabling Weak Lensing Cosmology with Euclid and WFIRST |
| 2:00 | Najmeh Emami | Keck/MOSFIRE measurements of the ionizing photon production efficiency of lensed dwarf galaxies at 1.3<z<2.7 |
| 2:15 | Keck Science Steering Committee (Brodie/Steidel) | Successful white papers and preparation for the Decadal Review. |
| 3:15 | Break | |
| Session VIII | Chair: Tom Greene | |
| 3:35 | Sean Fillingham | Measuring the Efficiency of Satellite Quenching over Cosmic Time with Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy |
| 3:50 | Jacob Jencson | Hunting for Hidden Supernovae with SPIRITS |
| 4:05 | Alabi Adebusola | Insights on mass distribution in early-type galaxies from KECK/DEIMOS |
| 4:20 | Nadia Blagorodnova | Spectroscopy of tidal disruption events |
| 4:35 | Courtney Dressing (Invited) | Probing the Compositions of Small Planets with Keck, Kepler/K2, and TESS |
| 4:50 | Howard Isaacson | A Year of Nights with HIRES |
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