Overview Participants Program Presentations CMB-S4 workshop KICP
Program
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September 21, 2016 - Wednesday
8:00 AMBreakfast
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
8:50 AMIntroduction and Goals
Scott Dodelson
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMFuture Surveys Summary
Klaus Honscheid
9:15 AMCMB-S4 Summary
John Carlstrom
9:30 AMBreaking Parameter Degeneracies
  • S4+DESI/LSST: mnu, w, n’, N_eff, fnl ; systematic checks/complementarity
    Joel Meyers
  • how much more can you do with 21 cm/spectroscopy
    Anze Slosar
10:15 AMBreak
10:30 AMCross-correlation of Future Surveys with CMB kappaModerator: Gil Holder
  • Science case for doing CMB lensing + LSS
    Blake Sherwin
  • Additional calibration of shear
    Emanuel Schaan
  • photo-z calibration
    Eric Baxter + Pat McDonald
  • E_G and other cross-signals
    Anthony Pullen
  • sampling variance cancellations
    Marcel Schmittfull
1:00 PMLunch (provided)
ERC (5640 S. Ellis Avenue, room 401)
2:00 PMClustersModerator: Brad Benson
  • kSZ
    Simone Ferraro + Kendrick Smith
  • Cluster counts and mass calibration: photo-z for WL masses; CMB cluster lensing; velocity dispersion
    Adam Mantz + Jim Bartlett
4:00 PMBreak
4:30 PMCreative Ideas; Consistency Tests: Challenges beyond getting the same parameters: identifying joint null tests, generalized B-modes, e.g. de-lensing, ISW maps TBD
Erminia Calabrese, Jo Dunkley, Cora Dvorkin, Dragan Huterer
5:00 PMDiscussion

September 22, 2016 - Thursday
8:00 AMBreakfast
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMIntroduction to Cosmic Visions
Katrin Heitmann
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMIntroduction to NSF-Kavli
Jeff Newman
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMTheoretical Motivation: What science are we after?
Mark Trodden
10:00 AM - 10:20 AMBreak
 DESI-2
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMDESI-2 Science
Risa Wechsler, Shirley Ho
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMDESI-2 Programmatics
Lori Allen
11:15 AM - 11:40 AMDesign considerations for beyond DESI
David Schlegel
 Southern Spectroscopic Survey Initiative
11:40 AM - 12:30 PMSSSI Science
Lindsey Bleem, Elisabeth Krause, Jeff Newman
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)
1:30 PM - 1:50 PMSSSI Science, Discussion
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMSSSI Programmatics [including telescope]
Josh Frieman
 Low Resolution Spectroscopy
2:15 PMLow-Res Science Reach
Enrique Gaztanaga
2:45 PM - 3:15 PMLow-Res Spectroscopy Technological Challenges
Juan Estrada
3:15 PMCoffee break
 21 cm
3:45 PM21-cm at z>6: science and programmatics
Jacqueline Hewitt
4:15 PM21-cm at z<6: science and programmatics
Chris Carilli
4:45 PM21-cm technical challenges
Miguel Morales
 Billion Object Apparatus
5:15 PMGalaxy Survey with Radio Observations
Phil Bull
5:35 PMGalaxy Survey with Optical Spectroscopy
Kyle Dawson
5:55 PMBOA science reach
Elisabeth Krause
6:30 PMReception
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)

September 23, 2016 - Friday
8:30 AMBreakfast
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
9:00 AMCore Science Goals: Discussion
Uros Seljak
9:30 AMStructure of Science Book(s): Discussion
Scott Dodelson
10:00 AMCoffee Break
10:30 AMBreakout Sessions
  • 21 cm: Room 106
  • DESI-2: Room 105
  • SSSI: Room 103
  • low-res: Room 213
  • BOA: Room 206
1:00 PMLunch
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)
 Group reports & discussionEach group reports back on plans for science book
2:00 PMDESI-2
2:30 PMSSSI
3:00 PM21 cm
3:30 PMLow Resolution Spectroscopy
4:00 PMBillion Object Apparatus
6:30 PMSpecial Screening of the movie ''Starmen''
Doc Films/Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago