Name: Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors and Cosmology: Scientific Motivation, Recent Achievements and Planned Experiments
Start: 2013-08-26T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2013-08-27T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors and Cosmology: Scientific Motivation, Recent Achievements and Planned Experiments

from Monday, 26 August 2013 (08:00) to Tuesday, 27 August 2013 (18:00)

Monday, 26 August 2013

08:00

08:00 - 09:00
Room: WH 3NW - Elevator Lobby Area
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Welcome / Motivation - Gaston Gutierrez (Fermilab)

09:30 Intro to MKIDs - Seth Meeker (UCSB)

10:00 Data analysis experience - Chris Stoughton (Fermilab)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: WH 3NW - Elevator Lobby Area
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 Synergy with DES/LSST - James Annis (Fermilab)

11:20 Improving photoz's with MKIDs - Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

11:40 MKIDs camera for the SOAR 4m telescope - Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

12:00 Simulations for MKIDs Surveys - Brian Nord (Fermilab)

12:20 Discussion
13:00

13:00 - 14:30
Room: Wilson Hall Café

13:15

13:15 - 14:15
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Theory Conference Room WH3NW
Contributions

14:30 MKIDs for UVOIR Astrophysics - Ben Mazin (UCSB)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: WH 3NW - Elevator Lobby Area
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 X-ray MKIDs at Argonne - Orlando Quaranta (ANL)

16:30 A two-side-buttable design concept - Greg Derylo (Fermilab)

16:45 Readout system for large MKID arrays - Gustavo Cancelo (Fermilab)

17:00 Status of R&D effort at UCSB - Paul Szypryt (UCSB)
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, 27 August 2013

09:00

09:00 - 10:30
Room: SiDet

10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: WH 3NW - Elevator Lobby Area
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 Observing SNe with MKIDs - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

11:20 MKIDs co-observing Fast Radio Bursts - Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)

11:40 MKIDs in the UK: status and plans for time resolved studies on Black-hole X-ray binaries - Kieran O'Brien (Oxford)

12:00 Discussion - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Wilson Hall Café
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

13:30 Dark Matter searches with MKIDs - Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University)

13:50 Search for Cosmic Background Neutrino Decay with STJ detectors - Yuji Takeuchi (Tsukuba)

14:10 MKIDs and CMB - Clarence Chang (University of Chicago)

14:30 Discussion
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: WH 3NW - Elevator Lobby Area
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH 3NW - Theory Conference Room
Contributions

16:00 Summary - Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

17:00 Discussion