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Workshop

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Roman Science Team Community Briefing

November 15th – 19th, 2021

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Monday, November 15

Mission Overview

Moderators: Russell Ryan, Max Mutchler

9:00AM
Julie McEnery
Roman Mission Overview
9:20AM
Josh Schlieder
Wide Field Instrument status and capabilities
9:40AM
Harry Ferguson
Science Support at SOC/STScI
10:00AM
Lee Armus
Science Support at SSC/IPAC

Studying the Milkyway with Roman

Chair: Jason Tumlinson
Moderators: Richard Cosentino, Andreea Petric

11:00AM
Jason Tumlinson (JHU)
Intro
11:05AM
Emily Levesque (UW)
Highly Evolved Stars with Roman
11:25AM
Jessica Lu (Berkeley)
Stars and Remnants with Roman Microlensing
11:45AM
Aaron Dotter (CfA/Dartmouth)
The MIST Stellar Models
12:00PM
Jason Tumlinson & Anna Wright (JHU)
Simulated Milky Way and Mock Data for Roman
12:15PM
Roberta Paladini (IPAC)
MW Disk Survey Concept and White Paper


Nearby Galaxies (WINGS)

Chair: Adrien Thob
Moderators: Russell Ryan, Max Mutchler

1:00PM
Ben Williams
Roman Nearby Galaxies Science Overview
1:10PM
Adrien Thob
The Roman Crowded Field Photometry Pipeline
1:20PM
Leo Girardi
Stellar Models in the Roman Bands
1:30PM
Martha Boyer
AGB Studies with Roman
1:40PM
Anil Seth
Optimizing Roman Star Cluster Observations
2:00PM
Eric Bell
The Roman Background and Stellar Halos
2:10PM
Dave Sand
Characterizing Dwarf Satellite Galaxies with Roman
2:20PM
Robyn Sanderson
Simulating Roman Star Catalogs
2:30PM
Shifra Mandel
Finding Structures in Stellar Halos with Roman
2:40PM
Chris Kervick
Measuring the Binary Star Separation Function With Roman









Tuesday, November 16

Exoplanet microlensing studies with the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey

Chair: Scott Gaudi
Moderators: Andreea Petric, Sebastian Gomez, Russell Ryan, Richard Cosentino

9:00AM
Scott Gaudi
Introduction & Welcome
9:10AM
David Bennett
Motivation for the RGES Survey and SIT
9:30AM
Matthew Penny, Samson Johnson
Survey Yield and Optimization
9:50AM
Geoff Bryden
The UKIRT Microlensing Survey
10:10AM
Aparna Bhattacharya
Microlensing Mass Measurements
11:00AM
Sebastiano Calchi-Novati
Roman Detector Simulations
11:20AM
Radek Poleski, Jennifer Yee
Outreach and MulensModel
11:40AM
Matthew Penny
Microlensing Data Challenge
12:00PM
Scott Gaudi
Summary and Future Work


Exploiting Roman Data Archives

Chair: Marc Postman
Moderators: Richard Cosentino, Sebastian Gomez

1:00PM
Marc Postman
Session Introduction
1:10PM
Hayden Smotherman
Maximizing Science in Big Data Astronomy
1:30PM
Gerard Lemson
Intro to SciServer
1:40PM
Bridget Falck
Overview of Indra, a Peta-scale Suite of Cosmological Simulations
1:50PM
Arik Mitschang
Use of the Spark Distributed Computing Engine to Enhance SciServer Capabilities
2:00PM
Swara Ravindranath
Roman Space Telescope Grism simulation code on SciServer
2:10PM
Ani Thakar
Summary








Wedneseday, November 17

Cosmology with the High Latitude Survey

Moderators: Carol Christian, Max Mutchler, Richard Cosentino

9:00AM
Olivier Doré (JPL/Caltech)
HLS introduction and SIT highlights
9:10AM
Chris Hirata (OSU)
HLS survey design
9:30AM
Mike Jarvis (Penn), Heyang Long (OSU), Jahmour Givans (Princeton), Chien-Hao Lin (Duke), Masaya Yamamoto (Duke), Michael Troxel (Duke)
Realistic image simulations: Framework, Applications, Products, and Joint simulations with Rubin
10:10AM
Dan Masters, Shoubaneh Hemmati (Caltech/IPAC)
Photometric redshift plans
10:40AM
Yun Wang (Caltech/IPAC)
HLS spectroscopic survey overview
11:00AM
Zhongxu Zhai (Waterloo), Anahita Alavi, James Colbert (Caltech/IPAC)
Roman HLSS: galaxy and grism simulations
11:20AM
Heidi Wu (BSU), David Weinberg (OSU)
Galaxy clusters cosmology
11:40AM
Tim Eifler (UA), Vivian Miranda (Brookhaven), Elisabeth Krause (UA), Eric Huff (JPL), Pranjal Rajendra (UA), Jiachuan Xu (UCB), Lado Samushia (KSU), Alice Pisani (Princeton)
Cosmological forecast status: Multi-probe inference; Next Gen Pipeline - Cocoa; 2D+3D

Kinematic Lensing concept and overview; KL measurement with Keck and HST; KL with Roman; Higher-order statistics; Voids based cosmology
12:10PM
Henry Gebhardt (JPL), Kris Pardo (JPL), Lukas Wenzl (Cornell) & Cyrille Doux (Penn), Shirley Ho (CCA, NYU), Bhuvnesh Jain (Penn)
HLS research highlights: Novel clustering statistics for Roman; Measuring DM substructures with Roman; Synergies with Roman and CMB lensing from SO; Simulating Roman with ML; Roman and ML-based cosmology


Roman Detectors and Calibration

1:00PM
Bernie Rauscher
Understanding Roman WFI Detectors and Calibration: Overview
1:15PM
Stefano Casertano, Neil Zimmerman
Calibration working group activities
1:45PM
Greg Mosby
Testing of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s H4RG-10s








Thursday, November 18

Supernova Cosmology

Moderators: Russell Ryan, Max Mutchler, Carol Christian

9:00AM
David Jones
Cosmology Today
9:10AM
Ben Rose
Survey Overview
9:35AM
David Rubin
Use of Prism
9:50AM
Tri Aastratmadja
SNe+Galaxy Spect. Sims
10:00AM
Bhavin Joshi (STScI)
Spectroscopic Redshifts
10:10AM
Phil Macias
Light Curve Sims
10:25AM
Kevin Wang
Image Sims
11:00AM
Susana Deustua
Calibration Requirements
11:10AM
Greg Aldering
Flux Standards
11:25AM
Mi Dai, Justin Pierel, Stephen Thorp, Kyle Boone, Mitchell Karmen, Matt Siebert, Helen Qu
Lightning talks:
Systematics Overview, SALT2/3 - BYOSED, BayeSN, Twinning, Applying Twinning to Roman, VCR , Photometric Classification
12:00PM
Michael Wood-Vasey
Synergies


Studying Cosmic Dawn with Roman

Moderators: Andreea Petric, Richard Cosentino

1:00PM
James Rhoads
Introducing Cosmic Dawn Studies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
1:15PM
Erik Zackrisson
Population III stars and direct collapse black holes with RST
1:30PM
Wei Leong Tee
Predicted quasar yields for Roman Space Telescope
1:40PM
L. Y. Aaron Yung
Light Cones for Roman Space Telescope Simulated Observations
1:50PM
Micaela Bagley
UV luminosity functions at z=6-9 in Roman deep fields
2:00PM
Yuichi Harikane
Searching for Redshift z>10 Dropouts with Roman
2:15PM
Austen Gabrielpillai
Roman grism simulations with multiple orders and distortions
2:25PM
Isak Wold
Recovering emission lines from deep Roman grism data
2:40PM
Lucia Perez
Probing Reionization with Voids in Lyman Alpha Emitters
2:50PM
Ali Khostovan
Measurements of H⍺Equivalent Width Distributions:
The Second Tool to Roman Grism Survey Planning
3:00PM
Sangeeta Malhotra
Slitless Spectroscopy at Cosmic Dawn: A Fruitful Past and a Bright Future






Friday, November 19

Extragalactic Survey Science with Roman

Moderators: Russell Ryan, Max Mutchler, Carol Christian

9:00AM
Brant Robertson (UCSC)
Introduction: Roman Extragalactic Potential Observations (EXPO) Science Investigation Team
9:10AM
Nicole Drakos (UCSC)
Deep Realistic Extragalactic Model (DREaM): Simulating a Roman Ultra Deep Field
9:25AM
Mark Dickinson / Nicole Drakos (UCSC)
Notes on Deep Roman WFI Grism Survey Observations
9:40AM
Harry Ferguson (STScI)
Nearish-field Cosmology With Semi-Resolved Dwarf Galaxies
9:55AM
Allison Strom / Jenny Greene (Princeton)
Spectroscopic Signatures of Galaxy Formation with Roman
10:10AM
Adam Trapp (UCLA)
Constraints on Galaxy Populations with Roman
10:30AM
Steve Furlanetto (UCLA)
Learning Galaxy Physics During the Epoch of Reionization With Roman Deep Fields
10:45AM
Ryan Endsley (Arizona)
A Wide-area View on Reionization: Identifying and Mapping the Largest Ionized Bubbles
11:00AM
Alice Shapley (UCLA)
EXPO-Keck Spectroscopic Campaign
11:15AM
Takashi Moriya (NAOJ)
Discovering Supernovae at Epoch of Reionization with Roman
11:30AM
Ryan Hausen (UCSC)
Morpheus Model Tutorial: Deep Learning Galaxy Classifications for Roman
11:55AM
Brant Robertson (UCSC)
Summary / Conclusion



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