CMB-S4 Meeting

5 Mar 2018, 08:00 → 7 Mar 2018, 18:00 US/Central

APSConference Center (Argonne, Building 402)

NOTE that both registration forms to the left need to be completed
The registration deadline is February 21, 2018

The CMB-S4 Collaboration Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory will continue the series of workshops for the CMB community, meant to define the 'Stage-4' ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment. The meeting will be held on the Argonne site March 5-7th, 2018, with full-day meetings March 5th and 6th, and splinter meetings the morning of March 7th. This meeting comes at an exciting time for the CMB-S4 community. Following the August 2017 Harvard workshop and 6 months of working group meetings, we will work to establish the formal CMB-S4 Collaboration. Following the acceptance of the report of the CMB-S4 Concept Definition task force, we will work toward the conceptual design and preparations for the Decadal Survey, as well as continuing explorations of next-generation hardware technologies. 

The meeting is open to all members of the CMB community and thanks to the support received from Argonne National Laboratory and KICP, there is no registration fee.

            

CMB-S4 ICCC
LOC
Amy Bender
Lindsey Bleem
John Carlstrom
Clarence Chang
Tom Cecil
Marcel Demarteau
Stephen Kuhlmann
Samantha Tezak
Gensheng Wang

Argonne Map Argonne_Map_(with_closure).pdf

Monday, 5 March

08:00 → 08:30 Registration/Coffee

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome Remarks

Morning goals: Establishing Collaboration

09:00 → 10:30 Block 1: Plenary

Governance Bylaws and Discussion
[Coordinators: ICCC co-chairs]
[Speakers: ICCC, governance wg leads]

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Block 2: Plenary

Definitions and procedures for Governance Bylaws ratification, positions and nominations, voting, etc.nominating, etc; What is an ombudsperson? What is a X? What is a science council? …
[Coordinators: see block 1]
[Speakers: governance wg leads, election organizer/method, experts on roles for what is an “x”]

12:30 → 12:45 Group Photo

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Block 3: Plenary

01:30 - 03:30 Block 3 Plenary
Project Planning: pPDG, Timeline and Milestones, Preparing for Decadal Survey, science and documents
[Coordinators: pPDG chair Yeck, ICCC co-chairs, pPDG chair Yeck]
[Speakers: pPDG,role of agencies, Yeck; CDT member to review strawman plan xx?; Milestones and timeline XX or in one of other talks; Decadal prep and DID, reference design vs options, need for expanded science, plan for parallel sessions; Planning for 2nd edition of Science Book; Talk on an overview of the expanded science case]

Lessons learned from Stage 3, Simons Obs, PICO for planning CMB-S4 (TBD)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Block 4: Plenary

Technology Development Working Group update: goals, status, timeline; relation to simulations and forecasting groups
[Coordinator: Brad Benson]
[Speakers: Ahmed, Suzuki, Clarence, TD wg leads… ; relation to sims/forecasting Knox?]

17:30 → 20:00 Reception & Poster Session

Tuesday, 6 March

08:00 → 08:30 Coffee Available

08:30 → 08:45 Announcement

08:45 → 09:45 Block 5: Parallel Sessions

P1-1 Detectors [T. Cecil]
P1-2 Telescopes and Mounts [Coordinator: N. Halverson]
P1-3 Extending the Science case for the Decadal CDR [TBD]
P1-4 Forecasting - Delensing [Coordinators: C. Pryke & B. Sherwin]

09:45 → 10:45 Block 6: Parallel Sessions

P2-1 Readout [Coordinator: A. Bender]
P2-2 Cryostat and cold optics [Coordinator: A. Vieregg]
P2-3 Forecasting - the extended science case for the Decadal [Coordinators: N. Battaglia & C. Hill]

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:30 Block 7: Parallel Sessions

P3-1 Status of reference design overview from P1 and P2 [Coordinator: J. Ruhl]
P3-2 Forecasting - Instrumentation / systematics for the Decadal input document [Coordinator: C. Bischoff]
P3-3 Forecasting - Sky Modeling [Coordinator: R. Flauger]

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Block 8: Plenary

Reports from parallel sessions

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Block 9: Plenary