Midwest Cosmic Visions Meeting

US/Central
Curia II/Hornets Nest (Wilson Hall)

Curia II/Hornets Nest

Wilson Hall

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
Description
The Office of High Energy Physics of the US Department of Energy has issued a call for  ideas for cosmic projects that will follow after DESI and LSST. The HEP office of DOE has set up a group to study the scientific reach of future cosmic surveys. The group will collect and coordinate ideas from the HEP community for research activities, experiments, projects or facilities that will complement, build on, and extend beyond the current program planned for the 2020s in the 2014 P5 report (DESI, LSST, CMB-S4) in investigating the physics probed by surveys. The group was charged to produce a white paper in January 2016 that will include diverse ideas for the future relevant to the HEP program, ranging from blue sky methods to new project concepts to further use of facilities.
 
With this charge in mind, the Midwest Cosmic Visions workshop will be a one day meeting with three sessions:
1] Enhancing the output from DESI/LSST
2] Science projects beyond DESI/LSST
3] Instrumentation and R&D geared to these science goals.
 
We shall be aiming to build on the East Coast Cosmic Visions workshop held in October. For reference you can access all of the talks given at that meeting at: https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1406
Agenda
Participants
  • Albert Stebbins
  • Alex Drlica-Wagner
  • Bradford Benson
  • Brenna Flaugher
  • Brice Ménard
  • Brittany Kamai
  • Craig Hogan
  • Daniel Eisenstein
  • David Weinberg
  • Dragan Huterer
  • Elise Jennings
  • Eric Huff
  • Erik Shirokoff
  • Eve Kovacs
  • Faustin Carter
  • Gaston Gutierrez
  • James Annis
  • Josh Frieman
  • juan estrada
  • Karen Byrum
  • Katrin Heitmann
  • Klaus Honscheid
  • Kyle Dawson
  • Lindsey Bleem
  • Liz Buckley-Geer
  • Marcelle Soares-Santos
  • Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira
  • Mustapha Ishak
  • Nan Li
  • Nick Gnedin
  • Nilanjan Banik
  • Rik Yoshida
  • Ritoban Basu Thakur
  • Salman Habib
  • Scott Dodelson
  • Steve Kuhlmann
  • Vic Scarpine
  • Vinu Vikraman
  • William Wester
    • 09:30 10:00
      Welcome Coffee Service Curia II

      Curia II

      Wilson Hall

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
    • 10:00 12:00
      Session I - Enhancing DESI/LSST Curia II

      Curia II

      Wilson Hall

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
      • 10:00
        Welcome : Scott Dodelson 5m
      • 10:05
        Clustering‐based redshift estimation: Brice Menard 20m
        Slides
      • 10:25
        Simulations: Katrin Heitmann 15m
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Discussion 20m
      • 11:00
        Post-2024 Science Opportunities with DESI: Daniel Eisenstein 30m
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Synergies between LSST (DESI) and EUCLID/WFIRST: David Weinberg 30m
        Slides
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Wilson Hall Cafe

      Wilson Hall Cafe

      Wilson Hall

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
    • 13:00 15:00
      Session II - Blue Sky: Beyond DESI/LSST Hornets Nest

      Hornets Nest

      Wilson Hall

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
      • 13:00
        Beyond DESI: High density optical spectroscopy: Kyle Dawson 20m
        Slides
      • 13:20
        Kinematic weak lensing: Eric Huff 20m
        Slides
      • 13:40
        Cosmology with gravitational waves in future cosmic surveys: Marcelle Soares Santos 15m
        Slides
      • 13:55
        The coming era of radio cosmology: Albert Stebbins 15m
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Huge-volume LSS surveys and fundamental cosmology: Dragan Huterer 15m
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Discussion 35m
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m Hornets Nest

      Hornets Nest

      Wilson Hall

      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois
    • 15:30 17:30
      Session III Moving South & Moving Forward: Spectroscopy in the South and R&D Hornets Nest

      Hornets Nest

      Wilson Hall

      • 15:30
        Some Considerations for Southern Wide-Field Spectroscopy: John Frieman 20m
        Slides
      • 15:50
        Moving or Cloning DESI: Klaus Honscheid 10m
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Discussion 30m
      • 16:30
        R&D Overview: Klaus Honscheid 10m
        Slides
      • 16:40
        MKIDs as a Tool for Dark Energy: Juan Estrada 25m
        Slides
      • 17:05
        Ring Resonator Development for Dark Energy Science: Steve Kuhlmann 25m
        Slides