The workshop "Mitigating Systematic Errors in Space-based CMB Polarization Measurements" will cover systematic effects relevant to measuring primordial B-modes in the CMB and using them to constrain Inflation. We will discuss sources, simulations, instrument designs and observing strategies. A review of the current "state of the art" from suborbital and orbital platforms will feed into our discussion of issues of particular relevance for CMBPol. The output of this workshop will be a written document that will become part of the full CMBPol Mission Concept Study.

The workshop will take place at the Double Tree Hotel in Annapolis, MD. The meeting is being hosted by the Goddard Space Flight Center in nearby Greenbelt, but the offsite location was chosen to simplify security logistics.

Gary Hinshaw NASA GSFC Gary.F.Hinshawnasa.gov

John Ruhl Case Western Reserve University ruhlcase.edu

To register for the workshop, please visit the Registration page.

List of Participants (PDF format)

Alexandre Amblard University of California, Irvine	Dominic J. Benford NASA / GSFC	James Bock Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Julian Borrill Berkeley Lab & UC Berkeley	Emory F. Bunn University of Richmond	Clarence Chang KICP, Univeristy of Chicago
David T. Chuss NASA GSFC	Asantha Cooray UC Irvine	Joanna Dunkley Oxford University
Joseph Eimer Johns Hopkins University	Dale J. Fixsen Goddard	Krzysztof M. Gorski Caltech JPL
Shaul Hanany University of Minnesota	James R. Hinderks NASA GSFC	Gary Hinshaw NASA GSFC
Howard Hui NASA	William Jones Caltech JPL	Brian Keating UCSD
Al Kogut NASA/GSFC	John Kovac California Institute of Technology	Charles R. Lawrence JPL
Adrian T. Lee U.C. Berkeley	Michele Limon Columbia University	Juan Lora Goddard Space Flight Center
Victoria L. Martin Goddard Space Flight Center	Jeff McMahon KICP	Tony F. Mercer Goddard Space Flight Center
Stephan Meyer University of Chicago	Amber Miller Columbia University	Harvey Moseley NASA/GSFC
Lyman A. Page Princeton University	Nicholas Phillips NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland-College Park	Clement Pryke University of Chicago
Graca Rocha Caltech - IPAC	John Ruhl Case Western Reserve University	Virendra Sarohia NASA- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Meir Shimon UCSD	Suzanne Staggs Princeton University	Osamu Tajima KEK
Susan Teates NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Peter Timbie University of Wisconsin	Gregory Tucker Brown University
Bruce Winstein University of Chicago	Lingzhen Zeng Johns Hopkins University	Jonathan TL Zwart Cavendish Astrophysics

The workshop will publish an e-book proceedings that will be available on line free of charge. The proceedings will be published by the Institue of Physics. Attached are templates and instructions for writing the papers in Word and Latex2e:

• LaTeX2e guidelines and class file
• Microsoft Word guidelines and templates

• Theory and Foreground, Fermilab IL, Jun 23-26, 2008
• Mitigating Systematic Errors in Space-based CMB Polarization Measurements, Annapolis MD, Jul 28-30, 2008
• Technology Development for a CMB Probe of Inflation, Boulder CO, Aug 25-28, 2008