Transcript Project Manager Presentation to the TMT Board

Closing Remarks
Tomo Usuda
SAC Chair
October 17, 2013
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SAC’s Roles (parts)
(1) Establish and maintain the top-level science requirements of
the observatory.
(2) Develop and maintain a scientific strategic plan. This plan will
identify and describe key TMT scientific capabilities.
(3) Advise the Board on the selection of capabilities, including
adaptive optics, for further study and ultimately on the
selection of instruments and adaptive optics systems to be
built.
(4) Act as a liaison with the TMT partner communities regarding
science requirements, prioritization of capabilities and
operations modes. Work to engage and inform the
communities about the capabilities and scientific potential of
the observatory.
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SAC membership (2013 Oct.1)
Partner
Member
Member
California Garth Illingworth Mike Bolte
Lori Lubin
Tommaso Treu
Caltech
Chuck Steidel
Shri Kulkarni
Chris Martin
Judy Cohen
Canada
Paul Hickson
Ray Carlberg
Tim Davidge
TBD
China
Shude Mao
Suijian Xue
Xiaowei Liu or Taotao Fang or
Jiangsheng Huang
India
G.C. Anupama
B.E. Reddy
R. Srianand
Shashi Pandey
Japan
Tomonori Usuda Masanori Iye
Nobunari
Kashikawa
Masayuki Akiyama
NSF
Yale
Co-chair
Mark Dickinson
Board
V.Pankonin or
D.Silva or
Ian Dell'Antonio
C.Pilachowski
Pieter van
Dokkum
Marla Geha
Jennifer Lotz
Closing Remarks
TMT SAC’s roles (parts):
(1)Establish and maintain the top-level science requirements of
the observatory.
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(2)Develop and maintain a scientific strategic plan. This plan will
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(3)Advise the Board on the selection of capabilities, including
Japanese communities are interested.
adaptive optics, for further study and ultimately on the
selection of instruments and adaptive optics systems to be
built.
Important to keep such activities.
(4)Act as a liaison with the TMT partner communities regarding
science requirements, prioritization of capabilities and
operations modes. Work to engage and inform the
communities about the capabilities and scientific potential of
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the observatory.
1st TMT Forum in 2013 @Waikoloa
International Science Development Team (ISDT)* launched
Call for membership open to all PhD scientists scheduled on
late January 2014.  schedule delayed
*) ISDTs have been established to foster scientific collaboration across the TMT
partnership and beyond, into the broader astronomical community. The ISDTs will
provide scientific input and feedback to the TMT project, stimulate scientific
planning for future observing programs using TMT, and help build connections
between TMT and the international astronomical community.
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Current ISDTs with aliases
• tmt-isdt-cosmology: Fundamental physics & cosmology
(R.Carlberg & T.Treu)
• tmt-isdt-highz: Early universe, galaxy formation & the
intergalactic medium (M.Dickinson & T.Kodama)
• tmt-isdt-smbh: Supermassive black holes (TBD)
• tmt-isdt-galaxy: Stellar populations of nearby galaxies (C.Li &
A.Subramaniam)
• tmt-isdt-mw: Structure of the Milky Way & its satellites (M.Ghea
& S.Mao) galaxy and mw has been merged
• tmt-isdt-spf: Formation of stars & planets (M.Fukugawa & J.Lu)
• tmt-isdt-exoplanet: Exoplanets (B.Macintosh & N.Narita)
• tmt-isdt-solar: Our solar system (T.Feng & T.Sekiguchi)
• tmt-isdt-timed: Time domain science (G.C.Anupama & M.Tanaka)
@tmt.org
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1st TMT Forum in 2013 @Waikoloa
International Science Development Team (ISDT) launched
Call for membership open to all PhD scientists scheduled on
late January 2014.
 schedule delayed
SAC will discuss the timeline and more detail roles tomorrow.
Please be ready to be a member of ISDT
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Acknowledgements
We really appreciate
– All participants from abroad and across the nation
Acknowledgements
We really appreciate
– All participants from abroad and across the nation
and
– SOCs (Mitsuhiko Honda, Hideyuki Izumiura, Nobunari
Kashikawa, & Koji Kawabata)
Acknowledgements
We really appreciate
– All participants from abroad and across the nation
and
– SOCs (Mitsuhiko Honda, Hideyuki Izumiura, Nobunari
Kashikawa, & Koji Kawabata)
– LOCs (Wako Aoki, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Nobunari
Kashikawa, Takaaki Miyashita, Shinobu Ozaki, Ryuji
Suzuki, Takuya Yamashita, Chiyu Yamaguchi, Miyuki
Haranaka, Hitomi Kuwata, Masami Takamoto, Akihito Kozu,
TU) and Graduate Students