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July 18: Beijing

08:00-08:30

Registration

08:30-09:00

Opening Remarks (Hesheng Chen/Ji Yang/Jianshen Chen)

09:00-09:30

CMB Frontiers (Smoot)

09:30-10:00

Kunlun Station (Yuansheng Li)

10:00-10:30

Break (Conference Photo)

10:30-11:00

Antarctica Plateau (John Storey) (pdf)

11:00-11:30

PLATO (Michael Ashley)

11:30-12:00

THz (Ji Yang)

12:00-13:45

Lunch

13:45-14:15

Time Domain (York) (pdf)

14:15-14:45

DeepSky (Peter Nugent) (pdf)

14:45-15:15

Infrared Frontier (Helou) (pdf)

15:15-15:30

Break

15:30-16:15

Pre-HEAT (Craig Kulesa)

16:15-16:45

4-meter wide area telescope at Dome A (Xiangyan Yuan) (pdf)

16:45-17:15

CCAA (Lifan Wang) (pdf)

17:15-18:30

New Science Enabled - Discussions on Infrared Sciences (Helou, Huang, Yan)

19:00

Banquet (Peking Duck)

July 19: Beijing

08:30-09:30

Discussions on Future Surveys and what Dome A may contribute

Travel to LAMOST via Great Wall; Alternative NAOC Tour

Night train to Nanjing

July 20: Nanjing/Suzhou

13:00-14:30

PMO Lab Tour

15:00-16:30

NIAOT Lab Tour

17:00

Bus to Suzhou (2 hr)

19:30

dinner

July 21: Suzhou

09:00-12:00

Compelling Science Opportunities

09:00-09:30

Supernova Opportunities (A. Kim) (pdf)

09:30-10:00

BAO/LSS and Dark Energy (Schlegel, Zhan) (pdf)

10:00-10:30

Weak Lensing (Rhodes) (pdf)

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:15

Dark Energy (Linder) (pdf)

11:15-11:45

Infrared (Zheng Wei) (pdf)

11:45-12:15

BOSS/BigBOSS (Schlegel) (pdf)

14:00-14:30

Spectroscopy at Dome A (Saunders) (pdf)

14:30-15:00

Dark Energy and CPT Test with CMB Polarization (Xinmin Zhang) (pdf)

15:00-15:30

Science Case for Submm/THz Telescope in Dome A (Qizhou Zhang) (pdf)

15:30-16:00

Terahertz (Shengcai Shi/Ji Yang) (pdf)

16:30-17:00

Dark Energy at Dome A (Hu Zhan) (pdf)

17:00-18:30

Public Event/Dinner/Larger Audience Including Invited Guests

20:00

Smoot public talk

21:00

end

July 22: Suzhou

08:21-(09:36)-10:59

Total Solar Eclipse viewing in Suzhou or Hangzhou

Possibly see world's largest tidal bore at 11:30

Sightsee Hangzhou/Suzhou

Possibly meet with high level officials in Suzhou re IYA 2009

July 23: Suzhou Synergies (Spectroscopy + Imaging, Optical + IR, CMB)

08:30-12:00

Discussion on Implementing Opportunities in Antarctica

14:00-15:00

Form science working groups

July 24:

Transfer to Shanghai, or

Fly to Beijing PEK from Shanghai SHA (7:55-10:20, 8:15-10:35, 8:55-11:15, 9:05-10:55)

Or fly to Beijing PEK from Hangzhou HGH (7:55-9:50, 7:55-10:05, 9:00-11:05)

(Note: Suzhou-Shanghai 40 min bullet train, Suzhou-Hangzhou ~2 hr)