Overview

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
welcomes you to the Spring 2017 DES Collaboration Meeting

The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of 400 scientists from 25 institutions in 7 countries using the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory to carry out a 5-year multi-band imaging survey to probe the nature of dark energy and the physics of cosmic acceleration. Our Spring 2017 collaboration meeting will take place at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP), in the Eckhart Research Center at the University of Chicago.

Local Organizing Committee
Lindsey Bleem
ANL
Elizabeth Buckley-Geer
Fermilab
Chihway Chang
KICP
Scott Dodelson
Fermilab/UChicago
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Fermilab
Joshua Frieman
Fermilab/U. Chicago
Aimee Giles
KICP
Richard Kessler
University of Chicago
Richard Kron
University of Chicago
Helen Pates
KICP
Daniel Scolnic
KICP at University of Chicago

Location
William Eckhart Research Center (ERC), the University of Chicago
William Eckhart Research Center (ERC),
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
5640 South Ellis Avenue,
Chicago, IL

Conference banquet dinner
Conference dinner will be held on the Odyssey, a chartered ship that leaves from Navy Pier on Thursday, June 15 (buses will be provided from KICP to the ship), and will cruise Lake Michigan. It's included in the registration fee. The fee for an extra dinner ticket is $110.

The banquet schedule
  • 4:45 pm - Shuttle for Navy Pier Boarding Time (meeting point: ERC main entrance)
  • 5:00 pm - Shuttle Departs from the ERC
  • 5:30 pm - Odyssey Boarding Time (Navy Pier)
  • 6:00 - 8:30 pm - Odyssey Cruise Time

Note: Transportation won't be provided after the cruise. The boat will dock at Navy Pier where ample taxis are available. Taxis will accept cash or credit cards.