W M Keck Observatory Community Scientific Strategic Planning

W. M. Keck Observatory Community Scientific Strategic Planning Meeting September 18, 2009

Strategic Plan “Excellence by choice” • WMKO Mission (2010 -2020) – High angular resolution astrophysics – Faint object, high-precision & highly-multiplexed spectroscopy from UV through K. – Highly efficient operations – Flexibility to exploit emerging opportunities – Training the future leaders of the field • WMKO Mission (2020+? )

Strategy “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. ” Winston Churchill

Strategy “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ” Sun Tzu

Strategy “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. ” Michael Lebeouf

Strategy “You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. ” Leon Trotsky

Strategy You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ” Charles de Gaulle

Enlightened Criticism

Enthusiastic Endorsement

Introduction & Goals of Meeting • Has the strategic planning process produced the right answer? • What is the role of Keck in the next 5, 10, and 20 years? • Does our outlook balance short, medium, and long-term priorities? • Are we trying to do too much? Too little? • How can the planning process be improved?

Banned • • • Stakeholders “Out of the box” Viable alternative Fall-back position Bend the cost curve Synergy

Agenda • 8: 30 Introduction and Objectives of Meeting [Martin] (15 min) • 8: 45 Overview of Strategic Planning process & resulting Strategic Plan [Brodie] (45 min) • 9: 30 Keck and the System, Astro 2010 activities [Bolte/Kulkarni/Armandroff] (30 min) • 10: 00 The future of WMKO in the TMT era [Bolte/Kulkarni] (30 min) • 10: 45 Resource outlooks [Armandroff] (Federal, Development, Time trades) (45 min) • 11: 30 Flow-down of Strategic Priorities to Annual and 5 -year WMKO Plan [Armandroff/Lewis] (30 min) • Key Initiatives – – – • • 1: 00 NGAO [Max, Wizinowich, Morris, NSAT] (80 min) 2: 20 KCWI [Martin] (25 min) 2: 45 Highly efficient operations [Armandroff/Lewis/TBD] (25 min) 3: 10 Flexibility/Time-Domain Astronomy [Prochaska] (10 min) 3: 20 High resolution LRIS upgrade [Cohen] (10 min) 3: 30 Wide-field spectroscopy [Brodie/Bernstein] (25 min) 4: 00 Summary of community input, responses to-date, and planned future responses [Prochaska, TBD] (15 min) 4: 15 Contributed talks & visions, discussion of submitted questions open discussion [Martin/Brodie] (75 min) 5: 30 Wrap-up [Martin/Brodie] (15 min) 5: 45 Reception (90 min)