Organizing Committee Related Websites
  • CMBPol, CMBPol Mission Concept Study
  • Astro2010, The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey
  • PPPDT, Primordial Polarization Program Definition Team
PROGRAM   July 1, 2009 - WednesdayPosters will be on display during breaks and lunch.

8:30 am - 9:00 am

BREAKFAST

 

INTRODUCTION

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Clement L. Pryke, University of Chicago
Opening remarks [PDF]

9:10 am - 9:50 am

Daniel Baumann, Harvard University
Theory Review [PDF]

9:50 am - 10:20 am

Joanna Dunkley, Oxford University
Foreground review [PDF]

10:20 am - 10:40 am

Stephan Meyer, University of Chicago
Summary of Mission Concept Study Reports [PDF]

10:40 am - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT EXPERIMENTS

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Gary Hinshaw, NASA Goddard
Polarization Systematics in WMAP [PPT]

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Colin Bischoff, University of Chicago / KICP
CAPMAP [PDF]

11:45 am - 12:05 pm

Clement L. Pryke, University of Chicago
Systematics in the QUaD experiment [PDF]

12:05 pm - 12:30 pm

Hsin Cynth Chiang, Princeton University
Measurement of CMB Polarization Power Spectra from Two Years of BICEP Data [PDF]

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

LUNCH

 

STATUS, PLANS AND PROSPECTS OF UPCOMING EXPERIMENTS (I)

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm

Andrew E. Lange, California Institute of Technology
PLANCK hardware and status [PDF]

2:10 pm - 2:40 pm

Akito Kusaka, University of Chicago, KICP
QUIET [PDF]

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

Amber Miller, Columbia University
EBEX [PDF]

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm

TEA BREAK

3:40 pm - 4:10 pm

William Jones, Princeton University
SPIDER [PPT]

4:10 pm - 4:40 pm

Al Kogut, GSFC
Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) [PDF]

4:40 pm - 5:10 pm

Huan T Tran, UC Berkeley
POLARBEAR [PPT]

5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

DRINKS, DINNER AND DISCUSSION
Kersten building


  July 2, 2009 - ThursdayPosters will be on display during breaks and lunch.

8:30 am - 9:00 am

BREAKFAST

 

STATUS, PLANS AND PROSPECTS OF UPCOMING EXPERIMENTS (II)

9:00 am - 9:30 am

John Kovac, Caltech / Harvard
BICEP2/Keck [PDF]

9:30 am - 9:50 am

Joseph W. Fowler, Princeton University
Development of the Atacama B-mode Search [PPT]

9:50 am - 10:20 am

Nils W. Halverson, University of Colorado
SPTpol: A polarimeter for the South Pole Telescope [PDF]

10:20 am - 10:50 am

COFFEE BREAK

10:50 am - 11:20 am

Michael D. Niemack, National Institute of Standards and Technology
ACTpol: A polarization sensitive receiver for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope [PDF]

11:20 am - 11:40 am

Walter K. Gear, Cardiff University
Clover [PDF]

11:40 am - 12:00 pm

Ricardo T. Genova-Santos, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
The QUIJOTE-CMB experiment [PPT]

12:00 pm - 12:20 pm

Timothy J. Pearson, California Institute of Technology
C-BASS: C-Band All-Sky Survey [PDF]

12:20 pm - 12:30 pm

Aurelien A. Fraisse, Princeton University
Improving Galactic Foreground Models through Dust Studies

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Clem Pryke/Steve Meyer moderate panel discussion. Question: "What in practice will be the biggest issues for the upcoming round of ground/balloon based experiments?"

 

BEYOND THE CURRENT ROUND - ALTERNATE EXPT TECHNIQUES, LENSING/DE-LENSING, REIONIZATION ETC

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Conventional interferometry: TBD

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm

Peter Timbie, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Bolometric Interferometry: MBI and QUBIC [PPT]

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm

TEA BREAK

3:10 pm - 3:55 pm

Kendrick Smith, University of Cambridge
Prospects for de-lensing [PDF]

3:55 pm - 4:20 pm

Chao-Lin Kuo, Stanford/SLAC
Prospects for lensing measurements from the ground [PPT]

4:20 pm - 4:50 pm

Michael Mortonson, University of Chicago
Reionization science with future CMB polarization studies [PPT]

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

DRINKS AND DISCUSSION
LASR building


  July 3, 2009 - FridayPosters will be on display during breaks and lunch.

8:30 am - 9:00 am

BREAKFAST

 

THE EPIC MISSION

9:00 am - 9:25 am

Jamie Bock, Jet Propulsion Lab / Caltech
EPIC-Intermediate Mission Overview [PPT]

9:25 am - 9:40 am

Adrian T. Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Focal Plane Design and Technology [PDF]

9:40 am - 9:55 am

Huan T Tran, UC Berkeley
Crossed-Dragone Optical Design [PPT]

9:55 am - 10:05 am

Mark Dragovan, Jet Propulsion Lab
Far-Sidelobe Analysis

10:05 am - 10:25 am

Warren Holmes, JPL/Caltech
Cooling the EPIC Telescope and Focal Plane [PPT]

10:25 am - 10:40 am

Brian G. Keating, University of California San Diego
Systematic Error Analysis and Challenges [PPT]

10:40 am - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Wrap up discussion "What is the path beyond the current round?"

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

LUNCH