8:20 - 8:25

8:25 - 8:30



8:30 - 9:00

9:00 - 9:10

9:10 - 9:30

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome, Introductions, any LOC issues

Welcome to 'Imiloa Astronomy Center



ngCFHT Feasibility Study overview

Board perspective

ngCFHT in the Context of the Mauna Kea Observatories

ngCFHT design I. Mechanical/Structural

Alan McConnachie

Ka'iu Kimura
Director, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center

Pat Coté

Greg Fahlman

Doug Simons

Kei Szeto

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30


11:30 - 12:00

ngCFHT design II. Optical

Science overview I: The Galaxy and resolved stellar populations

Science overview II: Galaxies and Cosmology

Paolo Spano

Rodrigo Ibata


Michael Balogh

12:00 - 13:30

13:30 - 13:50

13:50 - 14:10

14:10 - 14:25


14:25 - 14:45

14:45 - 15:00

Gaia and its synergies with ngCFHT

The Interstellar Medium

HESP: a High Resolution SPectrometer for the 2m
HCT

Stellar Astrophysics with ngCFHT

SkyMapper

Catherine Turon

Maryvonne Gerin

Sunetra Giridhar


Kim Venn

Martin Asplund

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 15:50

15:50 - 16:10

16:10 - 16:30

16:30 - 16:45


16:45 - 17:00

The Gaia-ESO Survey

Milky Way Halo Dynamics

Dwarf galaxy kinematics

Wide Field Spectroscopic Campaign of Star Clusters in Nearby Galaxies

Open discussion / End of day

Martin Asplund

James Bullock

Mario Mateo

Narae Hwang

8:30 - 8:50


8:50 - 9:10

9:10 - 9:25

9:25 - 9:45

9:45 - 10:00

Study the Milky Way and beyond with GSJT--What we learn from the pilot survey

Extragalactic Star Cluster Systems

The Andromeda Galaxy

SKA pathfinders

VIRUS as a model for replication

Chao Liu


Myung Gyoon Lee

Nicolas Martin

Claude Carignan

Sarah Tuttle

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:50

10:50 - 11:10

11:10 - 11:30


11:30 - 11:50

SuMIRe

Possible Science Synergies with eROSITA

Spectroscopic requirements for calibrating photometric redshifts

Wide-Field Spectroscopy in the LSST Era

Hitoshi Murayama

Guenther Hasinger

Carlos Cunha


Michael Strauss

11:50 - 13:30

13:30 - 13:45

13:45 - 14:00


14:00 - 15:00

Status of the LAMOST

Data processing and release of LAMOST
Pilot Survey

On the development of ngCFHT

Yongheng Zhao

Ali Luo


David Crampton

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

Open discussion on ngCFHT development

Summary of community interests

Workshop Dinner - 17:15 Cocktails; 17:45 Dinner, Sky Garden Cafeteria, 'Imiloa Center

8:25 - 8:45

8:45 - 9:05


9:05 - 9:25


9:25 - 9:45

9:45 - 10:00

Extremely Metal-Poor stars

HERMES: the Galactic archaeology survey
spectrograph

A chemical view of substructures in the
Milky Way halo

Galactic Bulge Science

The case for higher resolution

Wako Aoki

Joss Bland-Hawthorn


Else Starkenburg


Ken Freeman

Ken Freeman

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:05

11:05 - 11:25

11:25 - 11:45


11:45 - 12:05

Nearby Galaxies and Clusters with ngCFHT

Galaxy Redshift Surveys

PANSTARRS, ATLAS, and ngCFHT

Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey

Mapping the Lowest Metallicity Galaxies with Emission Line Surveys

Michael Hudson

Karl Glazebrook

John Tonry

Laura Ferrarese


Len Cowie

13:30 - 13:50


13:50 - 14:10


14:10 - 14:30


14:30 - 14:50

Active Galactic Nuclei and the InterGalactic
Medium

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift
Space Distortions

Supernovae and Wide-Field Spectroscopic
Surveys

Cosmological forecasts for ngCFHT

Patrick Hall


Carlo Schmid


Peter Garnavich


Kendrick Smith

15:10 - 15:25

15:25 - 15:35

Open discussion

Workshop summary

TBD

1. Jiasheng Huang - Emission line galaxy survey with MegaCam
2. Vishal Solanki - TBD
3. Ji Hoon Kim - Specific ang. momentum distribution of galaxies
4. Zhu Yongtian - TBD
5. Mario Mateo - The southern spectroscopic survey telescope