Systematics, 2008
Systematics, 2008
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM


GOALS

  • Review science case, foreground issues, target sensitivity goals
  • Assess status of mitigation by all efforts in the field: on-sky, in lab, and simulated
  • Review studied missions concepts (hardware + observing strategy) to set context: list the worries, list design goals
  • Chart the future of meeting design goals: when can we know what?
  • Simulations, lab tests, observations (all in context of other work)
  • Write it all up

TEMPLATES FOR PRESENTATION


AGENDA

July 28, 2008 - Monday
July 29, 2008 - Tuesday
July 30, 2008 - Wednesday
 

July 28, 2008 - Monday

 

 

PREAMBLE

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Stephan Meyer, University of Chicago
CMBPol Mission Concept Study; science case from theory workshop

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Joanna Dunkley, Oxford University
Foreground summary from theory workshop

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

John Ruhl, Case Western Reserve University
Weiss report systematic error section review

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Harvey Moseley, NASA/GSFC
Modulators for Instrument Stabilization

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

 

EXPERIMENTS WITH DATA

1:00 PM - 1:25 PM

Shaul Hanany, University of Minnesota
MaxiPol

1:25 PM - 1:50 PM

William Jones, Caltech JPL
Boomerang

1:50 PM - 2:15 PM

Gary Hinshaw, NASA GSFC
WMAP

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM

Clement Pryke, University of Chicago
QUaD

2:40 PM - 3:05 PM

John Kovac, California Institute of Technology
Bicep

3:05 PM - 3:30 PM

Jeff McMahon, KICP
CAPMAP

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Coffee

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel discussion with summarizers: review issues, start making writing assignments

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

"

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Open discussion

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

"

6:00 PM

Dinner

 
 

July 29, 2008 - Tuesday

 

 

EXPERIMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

William Jones, Caltech JPL
Spider

9:25 AM - 9:50 AM

Michele Limon, Columbia University
EBEX

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

Adrian T. Lee, U.C. Berkeley
Polarbear

10:15 AM - 10:40 AM

Bruce Winstein, University of Chicago
The QUIET Experiment

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

Gregory Tucker, Brown University
MBI

11:25 AM - 11:50 AM

David T. Chuss, NASA GSFC
Poincare

11:50 AM - 12:15 PM

Krzysztof M. Gorski, Caltech JPL
Planck

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch

 

EXPERIMENT CONCEPTS

1:15 PM - 1:40 PM

Jeff McMahon, KICP
SPTpol

1:40 PM - 2:30 PM

Shaul Hanany, University of Minnesota / Adrian T. Lee, U.C. Berkeley / Meir Shimon, UCSD
Bolometer mission concept (EPIC)

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Charles R. Lawrence, JPL
Hemt mission concept

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Lyman A. Page, Princeton University
Feed farm concept

3:20 PM - 3:45 PM

Coffee

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel Discussion: what do we know now from the lab? where will be be in 5 years?

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

"

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Report back, assemble consensus list

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

"

6:00 PM

Dinner (Rams Head Tavern - to be confirmed)

 
 

July 30, 2008 - Wednesday

 

 

SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

Krzysztof M. Gorski, Caltech JPL
Scan strategies & polarization coverage

9:25 AM - 9:50 AM

Julian Borrill, Berkeley Lab & UC Berkeley
Systematics of Very Massive Data Analysis

9:50 AM - 10:25 AM

Emory F. Bunn, University of Richmond
E/B mode mixing

10:25 AM - 10:50 AM

Coffee

10:50 AM - 11:15 AM

Meir Shimon, UCSD
CMB Systematics and Mitigation Techniques

11:15 AM - 11:40 AM

Brian Keating, UCSD
A CMB Systematics Study: Impact on Lensing and Inflationary Parameters

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM

Alexandre Amblard, University of California, Irvine
Impact of systematic errors on science parameters for the concept studies

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Panel Discussion: what is left to simulate: for decadal review, for pre Phase-A

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

"

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Report back, assemble consensus list

2:45 PM

END: main writers stick around for ~one hour to talk about writing assignments

 
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