Location: 155 Arms, Caltech campus
8:30 Coffee
AM - chair Akeson
8:45 Welcome, Review of Agenda - Soifer, Brodie
9:00 Keck Budget Overview - Armandroff
9:30 Efficient Operations -
30 min - Major inefficiencies and WMKO approach to
addressing issues - Goodrich
30 min - Discussion topic: what do people really think is needed to
improve their observing
10:30 Break
11:00 Future of NIRC/ESI
20 min - observatory background: why retire instruments, why NIRC,
ESI are candidates for retirement - Armandroff
5 min - review of NIRC usage survey - Soifer
20 min - discussion
11:45 Lunch
PM - chair Brodie
13:00 Next Generation Adaptive Optics (NGAO)- Wizinowich, Max, et al
60 min - Science Capabilities of NGAO: what it will do that current AO
system cannot
30 min - Technical status
30 min - discussion
15:00 What's missing at WMKO
30min - presentation - Kulkarni
30min - discussion
16:00 Break
16:15 Keck strategy for Decadal Review
30min - thoughts - Bolte
Some topics for possible discussion:
future of interferometry at WMKO
role of federal support at WMKO
role of private philanthropy at WMKO.
All of this leads to the question: what should our position
be regarding Decadal Review
30min - discussion
17:15 Wrap-up (Soifer, Brodie)
17:30 End