The Spring 2007 SDSS-II Collaboration Meeting

Thursday, March 29th - Saturday, March 31, 2007

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104

For the SEGUE team, the meeting will continue on Sunday, April 1st at the University City Sheraton (the main hotel for the meeting).

Please see the links to the left for Hotel and Travel information and for Registering for the meeting itself.

Participants must book their hotels by Monday, February 26th. Those that register for the meeting by that date will have a $55 registration fee. After Monday, February 26th, it will increase to $60. Grad students, however, are encouraged to pay upon arrival as we may be able to offer a lower student registration fee.

These Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration Meetings are typically held twice a year in the Spring and Fall and rotate between the SDSS institutions. Recent meetings were in Seoul, Korea; Santa Fe, NM; Portsmouth, UK; and Pittsburgh, PA. SDSS-II is formally 3 projects, the so-called Legacy Survey (which is completing the original SDSS area of sky), a Supernova survey (aimed at measuring the acceleration of the Universe), and the SEGUE survey (which is probing the distribution of stars in our own Galaxy). Traditionally the first two days of the meeting are filled with plenary science talks and updates on technical aspects of the survey. The final day is when the various science "working groups" (large-scale structure, quasars, stars, galaxies, clusters, etc.) get together in smaller groups.

While you are in Philadelphia, in addition to the exploring the Drexel campus, you might check out: