Strategic Planning Session

The goals of the Strategic Planning Session are
  1. To make the community more aware of the existing plans and budgets.
  2. To seek input from the broader scientific community in order to develop a better roadmap for the future.
There will be a small number of invited presentations to set the stage and then ample time for discussion, and question & answer sessions.

Your participation is extremely important.

Please review the current version of the Strategic Planning Document before the meeting.

Schedule

Keck Strategic Planning Workshop 2004 -- Preliminary Agenda
UCLA, Saturday, September 18, 2004


Session 1:  Setting the stage, observatory constraints and competition
                       Chairs: I. McLean & G. Djorgovski

8:30 am     Welcome - I. McLean

8:35 am     Introduction to the Strategic Planning Meeting - G. Djorgovski
        		- The purpose and goals of this workshop
        		- Summary of the current SSC Vision document
        		- The evolving astronomy environment, including the advent of the TMT and other ELTs
        		- Our perceived strengths and weaknesses

8:55 am     Instrumentation & Facilities at 8-10m telescopes - I. McLean
        		- A brief report on current plans for Keck, VLT, Subaru & Gemini

9:10 am     Observatory & Fiscal Constraints - F. Chaffee
        		- The total budget, sources of funding
        		- How is it allocated, the staff, etc.
        		- What happened to the instrumentation budget?

9:30 am     NASA's strategic priorities for Keck - C. Pilcher (*) or designate

9:45 am     Question & Answer Session

10:00 am    COFFEE BREAK


Session 2:  Scientific vision, prospects, and needs
        	           Chairs: J. Miller & R. Ellis 

10:30 am    The future of AO at Keck (and elsewhere) - M. Brown
10:45 am    Q&A

10:50 am    The future of interferometry at Keck and elsewhere - S. Kulkarni
11:05 am    Q&A

11:10 am    The TMT science vision - M. Bolte & C. Steidel

11:30 am    Discussion:
        		- How do we want the Keck capabilities to evolve, from now to the TMT era?
        		- What is the upcoming, Keck-specific, non-TMT science?
        		- What is the right balance of what we need to do our science now, and over the next decade, vs. evolving towards
          		    TMT complementarity?

12:00 pm    LUNCH BREAK


Session 3:  Defining the priorities
        	          Chairs: G. Djorgovski & I. McLean

Open Discussion - moderated by SSC Co-chairs:

1:30 pm     1. What are our science priorities?
            		- open the floor to all participants 
            		- make a list
            		- is it realistic?
            		- AO vs. non-AO
            		- how much interferometry?

3:00 pm      2. How do these priorities translate into upgrades and/or new instruments?
            		- short term gains
            		- long term strategy
            		- smaller instrument projects (special purpose, cheaper, faster, disposable?) vs. true facility class

3:30 pm    Summary & Conclusions

4:00 pm    ADJOURN

(*) Speaker(s) to be confirmed
Created by Mark McGovern
Last Updated: September 2, 2004