CfA OIR Division Seminars
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 10:30 am, Pratt Conference Room

The Future of the MMT

The goal of this meeting is to begin the process of planning for the future of the MMT, with an initial emphasis of what we might do in the next 5 years. We will have 11 short talks of about 5 min each, in which we will hear from various CfA scientists about the research they would like to carry out at the MMT in the future as well as brief presentations of background for the planning process. The short talks will be followed by a discussion.
Dan Fabricant:Introduction
Scott Kenyon:Local operations: Scheduling, Oversubscription, etc.
Warren Brown:Spectroscopy in General
Brian McLeod:MMIRS
Joseph Hora:Near-IR survey camera for the MMT
Edo Berger:Transient-Cam
Ryan Chornock:Transient Science at the MMT
Dave Charbonneau:Planet finding
Matt Walker:MW Dwarfs with Hectochelle
Soren Meibom:Power of Hectochelle to define star cluster populations
Daniel Eisenstein:TBD
Discussion