Speakers bureau talks list

Proposed talks

Announced	Date	Venue	Speaker	Title/Topic	Abstract	Slides

Approved talks

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Past talks

Announced	Date	Venue	Speaker	Title/Topic	Abstract	Slides
	7 December 2019	AAS 223, Seattle	Colin Bischoff	The search for primordial gravitational waves with CMB polarization	Observations of Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode polarization at large angular scales are a uniquely powerful method to search for primordial gravitational waves, such as those predicted by theories of inflation. A major milestone would be to either detect this signature of gravitational waves or else to set an upper limit on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r < 0.001, which would rule out the most compelling models of large-field inflation. This goal will be met by Stage-3 experiments currently coming online, the CMB Stage-4 project planned for next decade, as well as new balloon-borne and satellite telescopes. Galactic foregrounds and gravitational lensing of E-mode polarization pose major challenges for these measurements, but are already being addressed by current projects. I will discuss the goals and common design features of experiments targeting the primordial gravitational wave signal, as well as forecasts developed for CMB Stage-4.	Media:20190107_bischoff_aas.pdf
	29 November - 1 December 2018	Novel Instrumentation for Fundamental Physics Workshop, Puerto Rico https://indico.cern.ch/event/748721/	Clarence Chang	Update on the ongoing activities		Media:myslides.pdf
	22-24 September 2018	International Symposium on Cosmology and Ali CMB Polarization Telescope, Shanghai https://indico.leeinst.sjtu.edu.cn/event/44/overview	Peter Timbie	CMB-S4 overview and a general discussion of detector development		[[Media:]]
	15-18 October 2018	CMB Foregrounds, Tenerife http://www.iac.es/congreso/cmbforegrounds18/	Julian Borrill	CMB-S4 overview		[[Media:]]
	4-9 November 2018	8th KIAS Workshop on Cosmology and Structure Formation http://home.kias.re.kr/cosmology2018/	Francois Bouchet	CMB-S4 overview		[[Media:]]
		Recontres Du Vietnam	Raphael Flauger	Plenary talk, including CMB-S4		[[Media:]]
	14-21 July, 2018	COSPAR, Pasadena	John Carlstrom	The Next Generation Ground-Based Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment, CMB-S4	Measurements of the CMB have driven our understanding of the universe and the physics that govern its evolution from primordial quantum fluctuations to its present state. They provide the foundation for the remarkable 6-parameter cosmological model, ΛCDM, which fits all cosmological data, although there are some tensions that may possibly hint at new physics. Far from being the last word in cosmology, the model raises deep questions: Is Inflation correct? What is its energy scale? What is the dark matter? What is the nature of dark energy? Are there light sterile neutrinos, or other light relics? This talk will describe progress on the next generation ground-based CMB experiment, CMB-S4, that is being designed to have sufficient sensitivity and control of systematics to make breakthroughs in many of these areas, i.e., to cross critical thresholds in parameter values or show that ΛCDM is incomplete.	Media:E1-2-0023-18-Carlstrom-Posted.pdf
	4-11 July 2018	ICHEP 2018, Seoul	Masashi Hazumi	Plenary talk on CMB cosmology		Media:myslides.pdf
1 Jun 2018	1-7 July 2018	Marcel Grossman Meeting	Carlo Baccigalupi	The Status of the CMB Stage IV Experiment	Abstract: The 'Stage-4' ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, CMB-S4, consists of dedicated telescopes equipped with highly sensitive superconducting cameras operating at the South Pole, the high Chilean Atacama plateau, and possibly northern hemisphere sites. CMB-S4 will be designed to cross critical thresholds in testing inflation, determining the number and masses of the neutrinos, constraining possible new light relic particles, providing precise constraints on the nature of dark energy, and testing general relativity on large scales. In this contribution, we review the status of the project.	Media:Carlo_Baccigalupi_S4_MGM15.pdf Media:Carlo_Baccigalupi_S4_MGM15.odp
	19 Jun 2018	POLAR2018	John Carlstrom	Status and Future of Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements from Antarctica		Media:E1-2-0023-18-Carlstrom-Posted.pdf
	17-22 June 2018	Workshop: WHIM and Cluster Outskirts: Lost and Found Baryons in the Local Universe, UA-Huntsville	Jim Bartlett	Gas Feedback		Media:myslides.pdf
25 May 2018	04-08 Jun 2018	PASCO, Case Western	John Ruhl	Plenary talk on CMB-S4		Media:ruhl_pascos_final.pdf Media:Ruhl_pascos_final.key
	15 April 2018	AAS	Brad Benson	CMB-S4 excerpt from "The Hubble Constant from the Cosmic Microwave Background"		media:2018_04_15_Benson_CMB_Hubble_CMBS4_slides.pdf
	17-24 March 2018	Rencontres de Moriond: Cosmology	Victor Buza	CMB-S4 Performance-Based Constraints On Primordial Gravitational Waves	The next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, CMB-S4, will achieve new thresholds in the search for the B-mode polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves. To quantify these thresholds, as well as to propose an informed experimental configuration that will reach them, the CMB-S4 forecasting working group has developed a Fisher forecasting machinery targeted towards optimizing tensor-to-scalar parameter constraints in the presence of galactic foregrounds and gravitational lensing of the CMB. In this talk I will describe this framework and explain the uniqueness of this particular approach in basing the forecasts on scalings from actual analyses and multi-year achieved performances of the currently deployed BICEP/Keck series of experiments. In addition, I will detail our work on developing map-level noise simulations, and using various sky models, models of instrumental systematics, and analysis methods to explore the robustness of our findings, which most recently appeared in the CMB-S4 CDT report. Finally, I will talk about employing the Fisher framework in tandem with the simulations work to arrive at the currently proposed CMB-S4 strawman configuration.	Media:Moriond2018_Buza.pdf
22 Jan 2018	18-23 March 2018	Snowcluster	Nick Battaglia	On Cluster Profiles with CMB-S4	The next generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, CMB-S4, will make unprecedented measurements of secondary anisotropies in the CMB. I will focus on observations of the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effects, which will provide new windows into the thermodynamic properties of galaxy groups and clusters. I will show how we can constrain important baryonic processes, like feedback, that govern group and cluster formation through the high fidelity SZ profile measurements from CMB-S4. Additionally, I will describe the prospects to constrain fundamental physics from SZ observations and how to mitigate the modeling uncertainties associated with the baryonic processes that currently limit these constraints.	Media:Battaglia_Snowcluster_2018.pdf
	31 Jan 2018	CMB in Germany	John Carlstrom	CMB-S4 update		[[Media:]]
	2 Aug 2017	NRAO Futures 2017	Zeesh Ahmed			File:AhmedFutures2017CMB-S4.pdf
	6 Jan 2017	B modes from space workshop	Lloyd Knox	CMB-S4 update		[[Media:]]
	2 Mar 2017	SLAC Colloquium	Suzanne Staggs	Update following Feb 2017 CMB-S4 meeting		File:CMB-and-S4-Staggs-SLAC-20170302-final.pptx
	5 Aug 2016	NRAO Futures 2016	Zeesh Ahmed			File:AhmedFuturesCMBsummary.pdf
	July 2016	ICHEP 2016	Jeff McMahon			media:McMahon_ICHEP2016.pdf
	28 Jan 2016	Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC)	John Carlstrom	CMB-S4 update		File:CarlstromCMB-S4 AAAC 160128.pdf