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**Science Themes for Future Sky Surveys**

 * 4:30-5:30 PM on Wednesdays, Green Hall 0-S-9 (in the basement)**

We can have two talks per day. Please indicate your name, and your topic.

Wednesday, February 4: Michael Strauss, Introduction to LSST

Wednesday, February 11: Joshua Wallace Kuiper belt objects (dynamics, not chemistry/colors. Someone could still do KBO/TNO colors) Kristina Pardo, Globular Clusters

Wednesday, February 18: Jose Garmilla, Finding the faintest galaxies in the Local Group Johnny Greco, planetary transits

Wednesday, February 25: Ai-Lei Sun, photo-z Naoki Arakawa, Galaxy merger

Wednesday, March 4: Emmanuel Schaan: BAO and the cosmic distance scale Simone Ferraro: Gravitationally lensed AGN, time delays, and cosmology

Wednesday, March 11: Semyeong Oh: Galactic halo structure Munan Gong: Stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds, dwarf companions  to the Milky Way, and other nearby galaxies.

Wednesday, March 18: Cristobal Petrovich: Stellar dynamics via proper motions Alex Howe: Nearby stars, brown dwarfs, and the measurement of parallax.

Wednesday, March 25: David Vartanyan: determination of orbits + near Earth asteroids Chris White: superluminous supernovae, hypernovae, and the connection to GRBs

Wednesday, April 1: Cole Holcomb: Identifying supernovae Brandon Hensley: Light echoes

Wednesday, April 8: Sasha Philippov: AGN variability, tidal disruption events. Wendy Ju: AGN selection, AGN populations

Wednesday, April 15: Kedron Silsbee: Binary stars and what can be learned from them Melinda Soares-Furtado: Searching for planets via microlensing

Wednesday, April 22: Andrea Kulier: Probing galaxy evolution through cosmic time. Pete Pattarakijwanich: Galaxy Luminosity Function Will Coulton: Constraints on neutrino masses.

Wednesday, April 29: Viraj Pandya: PFS, LSST, and Euclid: Synergies and Observational Predictions Chelsea Huang: zoo of periodic variables

Wednesday, May 6: Jesus Hinojosa: Near-Earth Asteroids and Potentially Hazardous Asteroid John Hoffman: Non-linear clustering and probes of primordial non-Gaussianity Cody O'Neil: TPF and biosignature detection

Wednesday, May 13: (3 timeslots) Maggie Thompson: WFIRST Lile Wang: MS-DESI (BigBOSS): Its life and time Sudhir Raskutti: TBD