SCP Meeting Notes

Sorted from newest to oldest:

• January 17, 2001

  • General News
  • News from the AAS meeting
  • Rob Knop - HST photometry (from AAS talk)

• July 12, 2000

  • Michael Wood-Vasey - NEAT/SNfactory update
  • Brenda Frye - CTE update
  • Meetings next week

• July 05, 2000

  • Alex Kim - A brief message from our sponsors
  • Peter Nugent - Modeling very early/hot Type II supernovae
  • Dan Kasen - Dust and Type II supernovae

SCP Collaboration Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 2000

• 2000-Jun-12 09:30

  • Preliminary Foo-Faa and The Plan
  • Isobel on Gemini
  • Chris on La Silla and the VLT
  • Other Telescopes

• 2000-Jun-12 14:30

  • HST Update
  • Brainstorm Lists of What We Want to Get
    • The Plan (for next Spring)
    • Coming fall

• 2000-Jun-13 10:30

  • Ariel on Cosmology at FYSIKUM, SU (including his extensive modeling software)
  • Gabriel on the Stockholm Group
  • Gaston on NOT SN Spectral Reduction
  • Serena on Systematic Effects in Reduction and Problems
  • Planning Issues- questions for HST Proposal and Spring run.

• 2000-Jun-13 14:30

  • Reynald and Delphine French Group Overview
  • Delphine on French Software Development
  • Stuff going on at LBL
    • Brenda, HST Data from 1998 SNe
    • Alex Conley on HST Transformations
    • Michael Wood-Vasey on Subtraction Software
    • Dan Kasen on Spectrum Modelling
  • Catch up on SNAP
  • Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I Love Ya, Tomorrow, You're Only A Day Away

• 2000-Jun-14 10:00

  • The Ever-Famous Task List [TM]

• 2000-Jun-14 14:30

  • Rules Discussion
  • Ana on What's Going On in Portugal
  • Spring 1999 Nearby Search Status
  • Greg on SN Factory
  • Gerson's Paper
  • Aside about Alex Lewin
  • Ariel on Spectral Comparisons
  • HST Brainstorming (Revisited)
  • Assigning Tasks
  • Meeting Dates (for upcoming propsals)

• February 2, 2000

• February 16, 2000

• March 1, 2000

• March 22, 2000

• April 11, 2000

• April 19, 2000

• April 23, 2000

• January 26, 2000

  • Mark Phillips and the LCO IR Supernova Survey
  • Supernova Correlations with Host Environments (M. Hamuy)
  • Rob Talks about SSH

• January 19, 2000

  • Summer Student Deal

• November 17, 1999

  • Killing Time With an Opposition Poll
  • Carl's Announcements
  • Late-Time Supernovae Templates
  • Hung Chung's Final Word on K-Corrections

• November 11, 1999

  • Tom York's Final Summary About Dust

• October 13, 1999

  • CFHT Supernovae Update

• October 6, 1999

  • Don: Early Supernova Lightcurves
  • CFHT Search Update
  • Pseudoscience: Black Holes, Proton Absorption, and Cosmology

• September 22, 1999

  • CFHT/Keck Run Plan

• September 1, 1999

  • Rob Whines About Meetings Getting Started
  • Peter: Rise Time Difference Paper

• August 25, 1999

  • Proposal Update
  • Dan Kasen's Satellite Simulations

• August 18, 1999

  • Peter Yokem [sic?] & People Coming Back
  • Costs and CCDs
  • Random & a Rob Whine
  • Energy/Counts and 1+z in K-Corrections
  • Gerson's Template Thing
  • HOU
  • Funding Death for Supernova Scientists
  • Upcoming Proposal Season (Long & Involved)

• August 11, 1999

  • Hung Chung and K-corrections
  • Adam Reiss Rise-Time Stuff

• August 4, 1999

  • Saul's News
  • Dylan and Aperture Photometry Code
  • Kirsten: Matching Spectra

• July 21, 1999

  • Miscellaneous
  • Greg's Conference Report: SN Cosmology, Rise Time, PSF Fitting
  • HST Photometry
  • Michael W-V's Subtraction/Scanning Investigations
  • Searching for Eclipsing White Dwarves in NEAT Data
  • Alex Conley's HST Update

• July 7, 1999

  • K-corrections
  • Miscellaneous Updates
  • Subtraction Software
  • Data Reduction
  • Satellite Simulator
  • Supernova Rise-Time Issues
  • Satellite Manpower Etc.
  • Fall 1999 CFHT Search
  • SN Factory Funding

The 1999 June Collaboration Meeting in Berkeley

• 1999 June 03

  • Introductory Folderol and Stuff About Our 42 SNe
  • More Detail on Problems and Question Marks
    • Dust
      • Using SNe II to Measure Dust
  • Organization
  • Inspirational Talk: Pie in the Sky, or the Satellite
  • Lunch
  • Evolution
    • Peter and Progenitor Metallicity Models
    • Rise/Fall Time
    • Gerson's Composite Lightcurve Stuff
    • Drell
  • Nap Time
  • Upcoming Analysis Problems
  • Overview of Current Projects
    • High-Redshift Supernovae
      • Spectra in General
      • HST
    • Very High Redshift
      • Rates

• 1999 June 04

  • Low-Redshift Spring Search
  • Intermediate Redshift Survey in the Spring
  • Very Low Redshift Survey
  • Instrumentation Plans
    • Discussion
  • Lunch
  • The Future: the Next Low Redshift Search
  • Next Semester
    • Nearby?
    • Intermediated z Search
    • Very Distant Search
  • Ariel's Daydream
    • How Good Can We Get
    • Part II: What is the Nature of Dark Matter?
  • Other Things (Tools) We Need That Somebody Else Could Work On
  • Priorities for the Future
    • Proposals

• 1999 June 11

  • Chris Lidman
  • Carl Japan Satellite
  • Saul's SNAP Update
  • Alex Kim: the Insider Word from France

• May 12, 1999

  • Yet Another Update on the Gerson/Don New Template
  • CCD Update
  • Preliminary Nearsearch Lightcurves
  • MLCS vs. Template Fitting
  • Our Goof in Color Limits
  • Omega/Lambda with Many Fake Supernovae
  • B-I and Grey Dust
  • Etc.

• April 28, 1999

  • A Letter from Bill
  • Nearby Searches: Susana and Shawn, LDRD, Etc.
  • Important Facts Without Whose Archiving We Cannot Live
  • CCD Update
  • Preliminary Quick Nearby Lightcurves
  • Omega/Lambda from Dark Side Supernovae
  • White Dwarf
  • Alex Conley & HST
  • Dust
  • Rob's Attention Starts to Drift
  • A Possible Problem With Our 42SNe Reddening Analysis
  • Rob's Attention Drifts Again

• March 24, 1999

  • Chew's Ridge
  • Maria and Ana
  • CFHT/Keck/VLT Plans
  • Long-term Nearby Searches: The Horror, The Horror (With Interludes about the Current Nearby Search)
  • HST Update
  • Omega/Lambda Plots with Fake Data
  • Dust
  • White Dwarves (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho)
  • Mentioning Albinoni in Passing
  • The Future of Nearby Searching: The Horror, The Horror, Still

• February 9, 1999

  • Wanton Introductions
  • Chew's Ridge
  • Chicago Meeting
  • Yet More on Gerson's Paper
  • Nearby Status
  • Misc
  • CCD Update
  • HST Morphology

• January 27, 1999

  • NEAT
  • Other Nearby Issues
  • HST Calibration Woes
  • HST Transformations and Astrometry
  • Miscellaneous

• January 20, 1999

  • Deep SN Final Refs Update
  • HST Snapshot Status
  • Extinction of our Deep SNe
  • Alex Conley and the HST
  • Nearby Campaign Preparation
  • Miscellaneous
  • CCD Update
  • The Continuing Lightcurve/Stretch Paper Story

• January 13, 1999

  • The Gerson/Don Template
  • Mike's White Dwarf Search
  • Chew's Ridge Status
  • Alex Lewin and the Dark Side's Supernovae
  • Nearby Search Preparation Blurbs
  • Something Rob Should Have Done
  • Saul's AAS Report

• Decmeber 2, 1998

  • Paper Acception
  • Composite Lightcurve and Stretch Stuff
  • People Should Start Using Our Cosmology!!
  • Misc Albinoni Updates
  • Nearby Search Stuff, with a Gravitational Arc Interlude
  • Misc

• November 25, 1998

  • Dust in the 42SNe Paper
  • The British Analysis of our Data
  • Yet More on the Gerson/Don Stretch/Lightcurve Paper
  • Automated Search Telescope Update
  • Upcoming Nearby Campaign Update
  • Using Our Data for Other Science
  • CCD Update
  • Much Miscellany

• November 18, 1998

  • Laguna Telescope
  • CCD Trips
  • The Kuiper Belt Object
  • HST and Albinoni
  • HST and Alexconley
  • Mike's White Dwarf Search
  • Rates of Type II Supernovae
  • Albinoini Rate Paper
  • Greg Says Several Things
  • Calendars and Scheduling and SNMinuit and Mixed Discussion
  • SN Rise Time
  • Felicitations from a Frong: Sebastien
  • Paper Status
  • Leuschner

• October 2, 1998

  • SN Rise Time
  • Upcoming Keck run and strategy
  • Markus: Software and Adieu
  • The Age of the Universe
  • Indian Protests of the Automated Search Telescope
  • Don's CCD Report

• September 2, 1998

  • Preliminary Discussion and the Age of the Universe
  • Mike's Centering Algorithms
  • Markus and Predicting Supernovae Magnitudes
  • HST Issues
  • Miscllaneous
  • Don and CCD Progress

• August 26, 1998

  • Mike and Centroiding
  • Gerson and the Future of Cosmology
  • Marcus' Cosmology Integrals
  • Miscellaneous Updates (Robert, Rob)
  • Don's CCD Update
  • What To Do with HST
  • Paper

• August 20, 1998

  • Bombing Sudan and Afghanistan
  • Keck Proposals
  • Gemini
  • HST
  • Theory and the Stretch/Magnitude Relationship
  • SEAM
  • Matthew's Statuts and the Flatfield Software
  • Lou Strolger's Visit and the Option of Becoming a Software Company
  • Miscellaneous Updates (Including the Paper)

• August 12, 1998

  • Proposals, the Butt-Deep Search, and What To Do With Keck
  • Other Proposals
  • Miscellaneous Updates
  • The Chew's [sic?] Ridge Telescope
  • The Neverending Paper Story
  • Postscript (Not the Printer Language)

• July 22, 1998

  • Keck Images and Upcoming Keck Search Rate Estimate
  • Kirsten's Code and SN Spectrum Fitting
  • Fear and Loathing in the Deepearch Database
  • Peter's Tiny Update
  • Nearby Search: Problems with Time We Didn't Get
  • Getting Readmed Out of HST Time
  • Having Fits about the Fits
  • Rates
  • Miscellaneous Updates
  • Carl, the Space Station, and the Nearby Search
  • Don's Update on the CCDs
  • The Most Important Part of the Meeting

• July 15, 1998

  • Patricia and Nelson (4d fit) Updates
  • K-corrections: Energy or Counts?
  • Alex Faking Supernovae on Keck Test Images
  • Mark Phillips' HST Deep Field Supernovae, and an HST Search
  • Kirsten and Spectra Fitting
  • Gerson's Time-Dilaton Paper
  • The Automated Nearby Search Telescope
  • Misc: Conference Proceedings, Host Galaxies
  • HST Final Refs and an HST Search

The 1998 May-June Collaboration Meeting in Paris

• Atendees

• May 30
  • A Lame Excuse
  • Some Sort of Overview of What We Do
  • The INT mid-z Search
  • CFHT and Keck (etc.) High-Z stuff
  • The Massive Low-z Effort
  • Proposal Writing With Random Discussion Mixed In
  • We Have a Plan!
  • FROGS
• May 31
  • Agenda Determination and Unfocused Startup Talk
  • A Bug in the Paper's Data
  • Current HST Supernovae
  • Upcoming Papers on our "Finished" SNe
    • Rates
    • (Aside)
    • Time Dilation etc.
    • Spectroscopy
    • Photometry
  • Important Personnel Announcement
  • The Truly Giant Task List
  • Data Sharing
  • Communication, or Lack Thereof
• June 2
  • K-corrections
  • Untranscribed Miscellaneous
  • Gerson's Time Dilation et al. Paper

• February 5, 1998:
  • Omega-Lambda Fits and Unphysical Omega_M
  • Our Next Search Run (March 1998)
  • Malmquist Bias
  • Stretch vs. Galaxy Type
  • Our Intermediate Search Project (Next Fall)
• January 29, 1998:
  • SN97236
  • Color Terms
  • B-V vs. Stretch
  • Resampling Omega-Lambda Fits
  • Fitting in Flux vs. Magnitude Space
  • Sadness About Fiducials and Cleaning
  • Intermediate z Search: Our Next Project?
• January 21, 1998:
  • Peter's Monte Carlos
  • Nature Reprints
  • Passing out the AAS figure
  • How much extinction do we really have?
  • CMBR's Error Ellipse
  • The Next Paper
  • Observing, IRAF, NICMOS, Hamuy, Fringing, and Misc

Older notes which I haven't put in the above index form yet:

• July 9, 1997
• July 16, 1997
• July 23, 1997
• July 30, 1997

• August 13, 1997
• August 26, 1997

• September 3, 1997
• September 17, 1997
• September 24, 1997

• October 8, 1997
• October 15, 1997
• October 22, 1997
• October 29, 1997

• November 5, 1997
• November 11, 1997