Program
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September 19, 2016 - Monday
 Note: All Plenaries in KPTC 106
 Facts on the Ground
8:00 AMLight Breakfast, Coffee
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
8:45 AMWelcome, announcements
9:00 AMWorkshop overview, CMB-S4 status, Open Q&A
 Science Book Chapter presentations15min + 15 min
9:40 AMSB Chapter 2 - Inflation (Lloyd Knox and Sarah Shandera)
10:10 AMSB Chapter 3 - Neutrinos (Joel Meyers)
10:40 AMBreak
11:10 AMSB Chapter 4 - Light Relics (Raphael Flauger)
11:40 AMSB Chapter 5 - Dark Matter (Cora Dvorkin)
12:10 PMLunch (provided)
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)
1:20 PMSB Chapter 6 - Dark Energy (Marco Raveri)
1:50 PMSB Chapter 7 - CMB lensing (Neelima Sehgal)
 Instrument White Paper presentations15 min + 15 min
2:20 PMOptics: modulators, lenses, anti-reflection (Jeff McMahon)
2:50 PMDetector-RF: feed to detectors (Toki Suzuki)
3:20 PMBreak
3:50 PMDetector-readout: detector to computer (Zeeshan Ahmed)
4:20 PMTelescope (Mike Niemack and Nils Halverson)
4:50 PMNext Steps in Forecastingmoderator: Julian Borrill
5:45 PMReception: drinks and light food
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)

September 20, 2016 - Tuesday
 Note: All Plenaries in KPTC 106
 Toward Concept Design
8:00 AMLight Breakfast, Coffee
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
8:45 AMUpdates, announcements
 Resolution Discussionmoderator: Jo Dunkley
9:00 AMShort (2-slide) presentations on high-ell science opportunities and open discussion on resolution needs
10:30 AMBreak
 Discussion of Strawman Configuration Conceptsmoderator: John Ruhl
11:00 AMSingle-slide presentations of individual concepts or issues for concepts followed by open discussion
12:10 PMLunch (provided)
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)
 Parallel SessionsLarge/medium/small Telescope Discussion and Next-generation Forecast Planning
1:20 PMSessions: 1abcd
  • 1a: RED TEAM: Homogeneous array of medium (~5m) dishes (KPTC 106, Moderator Nils Halverson)
  • 1b: BLUE TEAM: Mixed array of small (~1m) and large (5m and up) dishes (KPTC 105, Moderator Akito Kusaka)
  • 1c: Next-generation ''r'' forecast planning (moderator: Raphael Flauger, KPTC 103)
  • 1d: Next-generation ''non-r'' forecast planning (moderator: Renee Hlozek, KPTC 120)
2:05 PMSessions: 2abcd
  • 2ab: RED+BLUE TEAM mini-plenary on array configurations (moderator: Steve Padin, KPTC 106)
  • 2cd: Next-generation forecast planning: coordinating ''r'' and ''non-r'' (moderator: Tom Crawford, KPTC 120)
2:50 PMBreak/ Plenary Preparation
 Wrap-up
3:20 PMReports from parallel sessions
4:15 PMFinal Discussion / Next Steps / Homework / Working groups ...
5:30 PMReception: drinks and light food
GCIS (929 E. 57th Street, 3rd floor Atrium)

September 21, 2016 - Wednesday
8:00 AMBreakfast
KPTC (5720 S. Ellis Avenue, 1st floor)
9:00 AMFuture Surveys Summary
9:15 AMCMB-S4 Summary
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 PMClusters
  • kSZ
    Simone Ferraro + TBD
  • 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
5:00 PMDiscussion