UCSD-2019: Cosmology with CMB-S4

Workshop overview

The San Diego workshop continues a successful series of meetings bringing together the CMB experimental and theoretical community to plan a coordinated, stage-4 ground-based CMB experiment.

The meeting will be held at UC San Diego, October 17th-19th 2019, starting first thing Thursday morning and ending Saturday lunchtime.

Meeting Info & Registration

Official Workshop Website: Registration, Participants, Hotels, Logistics.

Code of Conduct

During the meeting, each participant should adhere at all times to the UC Standards of Ethical Conduct. In case of violations, you can contact the CMB-S4 Ombudspeople, Andrea Zonca or any other member of the Local Organizing Committee, or the UC San Diego Office for the prevention of harassment & discrimination.

Attend remotely

We will use Zoom to broadcast all the plenaries from the auditorium, see connection details below. For the parallel sessions, each physical room has an assigned Zoom link (email zonca@sdsc.edu if you want your account to be a Host so you have admin powers).

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About This Wiki

As for previous workshops, we will use this wiki to organize the sessions, to capture the input from them, and to develop next steps. Participants are encouraged to edit the wiki directly, including uploading plots or a few slides.

Hints for formatting this wiki can be found here

Agenda

Draft agenda below.

If you would like to contribute to a parallel session, please contact the chairs (in brackets).

Plenary speakers are asked to upload their talks to the wiki, linked to the title.

Thursday October 17th

08:00 - Coffee

08:30 - Plenary 1, Welcome & Status Reports - Chair: TBD

08:30 - Welcome (Mike Norman)
08:35 - Logistics (Andrea Zonca)
08:40 - Spokespeople (John Carlstrom)
08:50 - Membership Committee (John Ruhl)
08:55 - Publication & Speakers Committee (Kevin Huffenberger)
09:00 - Governing Board (Nils Halverson)
09:10 - Project Office + charting the path to CD-1/3a and NSF PDR (Jim Yeck)
09:20 - Agency Representatives (Drew Baden, Vladimir Papitashvili)

9:30 - Plenary 2, Science Themes - Chair: Lloyd Knox

09:30 - Primordial Gravitational Waves + Inflation
09:45 - Dark Universe
10:00 - Matter Mapping
10:15 - Transients

10:30 - Coffee

11:00 - Plenary 3, Project L2 Elements - Chair: Gil Gilchriese

11:00 - Overview + Charge to L2s (Jim Yeck)
11:20 - Combined L2 Presentation
- Detectors
- Readout
- Module Assembly + Testing
- Large Aperture Telescopes
- Small Aperture Telescopes
- Data Acquisition + Control
- Data Management
- Site Infrastructure: Atacama
- Site Infrastructure: South Pole
- Integration & Commissioning