Dark Energy Survey Collaboration Meeting, 2017

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.