I spent the day at the APOGEE meeting at OCIW in Pasadena. The talks varied between science results and technical issues. Highlights for me included the following: Madore and Kollmeier both gave nice talks about RR Lyrae variables. They showed infrared calibrations of the period–luminosity relation and highly efficient spectroscopic methods for doing fast surveys. This could have a big impact on Milky Way substructure projects. Udalski showed outrageously awesome results from OGLE, including free-floating planet discoveries. Law showed the beautiful and highly encouraging first-light images from the MANGA instrument built on the BOSS spectrograph. Hearty and Wilson gave great talks about the issues involved in moving the APOGEE spectrograph to the Las Campanas Observatory, which is part of the plans for APOGEE-II. I love engineering!
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