WISE at 5: Legacy and Prospects
February 10-12, 2015
Agenda
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Tuesday, February 10
- 9:00 am: Welcome (view presentation)— Peter Eisenhardt (JPL)
- 9:15 am: WISE Overview (view presentation)— Ned Wright (UCLA)
- 9:45 am: NEOWISE Overview (view presentation)— Amy Mainzer (JPL)
- 10:15 am: Morning Break
Discoveries - 10:45 am: Brown Dwarfs in the WISE Era (view presentation)— Michael Cushing (University of Toledo)
- 11:10 am: Discovery of the Most Luminous Galaxies in the Universe with WISE (view presentation)— Chao-Wei Tsai (JPL)
- 11:35 am: Search for star-forming regions in the extreme outer Galaxy with WISE data (view presentation)— Natsuko Izumi (University of Tokyo)
- 12:00 pm: Lunch
- 1:30 pm: Searching for Brown Dwarfs Near the Sun with WISE Proper Motions (view presentation)— Kevin Luhman (Penn State)
- 2:00 pm: Debris Disks with WISE (view presentation)— Deborah Padgett (NASA GSFC)
- 2:25 pm: The Angular Clustering of WISE-selected Active Galactic Nuclei: Different Halos for Obscured and Unobscured Active Galactic Nuclei (view presentation)— Lin Yan (IPAC)
Time Domain I - 2:50 pm: Binary Candidates in the Jovian Trojan and Hilda Populations from NEOWISE Lightcurves (view presentation)— Sarah Sonnett (JPL)
- 3:15 pm: Afternoon Break
- 3:45 pm: Machine-learned classification of eclipsing and pulsating variable stars detected by WISE (view presentation)— Frank Masci (Caltech)
- 4:10 pm: Cometary Dust Tails in NEOWISE (view presentation)— Emily Kramer (JPL)
- 4:35 pm: The NEOWISE-Reactivation Proper Motion Survey - Methods and Initial Result (view presentation) — Adam Schneider (University of Toledo)
- 5:00 pm: Adjourn
Wednesday, February 11
Data Tips and Techniques I - 9:00 am: The NEOWISE 2015 Data Release (view presentation)— Roc Cutri (IPAC)
- 9:30 am: Demonstration of IRSA's latest tools using WISE data (view demos on YouTube) — Luisa Rebull (IPAC)
- 10:00 am: A Novel application of WISE PAH maps as a spatial prior for a 3D dust map (view presentation)— Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard)
- 10:25 am: Morning Break
Future Uses - 10:55 am: Future Uses Interactive Session — Jackie Faherty (Carnegie DTM)
- 12:10 pm: Lunch
Data Tips and Techniques II - 1:40 pm: Dusty WISE sources interpreted with wise DUSTY models (view presentation)— Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington)
- 2:10 pm: WISE: Revealing the large scale distribution of star formation in the Milky Way (view presentation)— Xavier Koenig (Yale)
- 2:35 pm: unWISE: new WISE coadds, and WISE photometry for 400 million SDSS objects (view presentation)— Dustin Lang (Carnegie Mellon)
- 3:00 pm: Learning algorithms at the service of WISE survey (view presentation)— Katarzyna Malek (NCBJ Poland)
- 3:25 pm: Afternoon Break
Follow-up Observations - 3:55 pm: Finding the nearest and faintest warm debris disks with WISE (view presentation)— Rahul Patel (Stony Brook)
- 4:20 pm: The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (view presentation)— Anthony Gonzalez (University of Florida)
- 4:45 pm: AGN unification tested with WISE and CLUMPY torus models (view presentation) — Robert Nikutta (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
- 5:10 pm: Adjourn
- 7:00 pm: Conference Dinner at El Cholo
Thursday, February 12
- 9:00 am: Feedback from Future Uses Interactive Session — SOC
Time Domain II - 9:30 am: Asteroid Thermophysical Modeling (view presentation)— Tom Statler (Ohio University)
- 10:00 am: Obscured AGN in WISE (view presentation)— Roberto Assef (Universidad Diego Portales)
- 10:25 am: Morning Break
Extreme Sources - 10:55 am: WISE quasars (view presentation)— Nadia Zakamska (Johns Hopkins University)
- 11:25 am: The Best and Brightest Metal-poor Stars (view presentation)— Kevin Schlaufman (MIT)
- 11:50 am: Lunch
Synergy with Other Surveys - 1:20 pm: Albedos of asteroids and asteroid families from WISE/NEOWISE and optical data (view presentation)— Joseph Masiero (JPL)
- 1:45 pm: The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions (view presentation)— Loren Anderson (West Virginia University)
- 2:10 pm: Using WISE to Find Obscured AGN Activity in SDSS Mergers and Interactions (view presentation)— Madalyn Weston (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
- 2:35 pm: WISE as the cornerstone for all-sky photometric redshift samples (view presentation)— Maciej Bilicki (U. of Cape Town & U. of Zielona Gora)
- 3:00 pm: Pinpointing Transitioning Galaxies through a New Lens: a Prominent Bifurcation in WISE Colors (view presentation) — Katherine Alatalo (IPAC)
- 3:25 pm: Afternoon Break
Future Uses II - 3:55 pm: Cosmicflows with WISE (view presentation) (view Laniakea Nature video)— Brent Tully (University of Hawaii)
- 4:20 pm: Searching for Ultracool Subdwarfs Using the AllWISE Motion Survey (view presentation)— Kendra Kellogg (IPAC)
- 4:45 pm: WISE Synergy with JWST (view presentation)— Jon Gardner (NASA GSFC)
- 5:15 pm: Adjourn
Questions? WISE5@ipac.caltech.edu
last updated Feb. 19, 2015