1 INTRODUCTION

2 THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY

3 SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE WITH DES
3.1 Near-Earth Objects
3.2 Main-Belt Asteroids
3.3 Distant Solar System Objects

4 STELLAR, MILKY WAY, AND LOCAL GROUP SCIENCE

5 SEARCH FOR OPTICAL COUNTERPARTS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EVENTS

6 GALAXY EVOLUTION
6.1 Stellar population properties
6.2 Galaxy environment
6.3 Luminosity and stellar mass functions of galaxies
6.4 Galaxies at high redshifts
6.5 Galaxy Structure and Morphology
6.6 Evolution of galaxy properties in clusters
6.7 Measurement of the intracluster light
6.8 Galaxy biasing and halo modeling
6.9 Galaxy Intrinsic Alignments

7 CLUSTER PROPERTIES
7.1 Cluster Evolution
7.2 AGN Evolution and Feedback
7.3 Cluster Sub-populations

8 STRONG GRAVITATIONAL LENSING

9 QUASARS
9.1 Expected Numbers of Quasars
9.2 Quasars at the Epoch of Reionization
9.3 Space Density Evolution
9.4 Black-Hole Mass Calibration via Reverberation Mapping
9.5 Quasar Host Galaxies

10 SUPERNOVAE AND TRANSIENTS
10.1 Core-Collapse SNe
10.2 Superluminous SNe
10.3 Exotic Thermonuclear Transients
10.4 Tidal Disruption Events
10.5 Gamma Ray Bursts

11 SUMMARY