2022 Summer Collaboration Meeting

17 Aug 2022, 08:00 → 19 Aug 2022, 17:00 America/Chicago

Kent 107 (University of Chicago)

Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL), Kevin Huffenberger (Florida State University)

Main meeting webpage

This three day meeting, open to the wider community, will discuss progress in the full range of CMB-S4 science, ties to other astrophysical probes, and provide brief updates on the project and the Snowmass process. As our first in-person meeting since COVID began, this will be a fantastic opportunity to reconnect and celebrate the many things we have accomplished together through these difficult years.

The meeting will begin Wednesday at 9 am and end Friday after lunch at 1:30. The Logistics page gives advice on how to travel and where to stay during the meeting.

COVID Policy: We request that everyone mask and that everyone test before arriving at the meeting.  We will provide makes and tests to those who need them.  It is of paramount importance that we all work together to mitigate risks and ensure that everyone can participate safely.

Gender Neutral Bathroom: A gender neutral bathroom is located on the third floor of Kent in room 306A.

 

The plenaries will be in Kent building room 107 at the University of Chicago.

Wednesday, 17 August

08:00 → 09:00 Continental Breakfast

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

Conveners: Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL), Kevin Huffenberger (Florida State University)

Notes for Wednesday

Welcome and Logistics

09:15 → 10:00 CMB-S4 Project Overview and Status

Conveners: Jim Strait (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;), John Carlstrom (University of Chicago;Argonne National Laboratory)

Overview and Project Status.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Collaboration Update

Conveners: Kevin Huffenberger (Florida State University), Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL)

Collaboration Update slides

11:00 → 12:00 Update on Snowmass Community Process

Conveners: Clarence Chang (Argonne National Laboratory;University of Chicago), Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL)

11:00 Introduction / Overview

This sessions is to update the collaboration on where CMB-S4 fits within the Snowmass process.

Speaker: Clarence Chang (Argonne National Laboratory;University of Chicago)

CMB-S4_2022_snowmass_intro.pdf

png_nightsky.pptx

11:10 Cosmic frontier - surveys

Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos

Snowmass Summary, CMB-S4 Collaboration Meeting, Aug 17.pdf

11:25 Cosmic frontier - dark matter and broader context

Speaker: Aaron Chou

CF_DM_strategy_v4.pdf

11:40 Discussion

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Observing beyond our disciplines: Erasures, memories and the making of Chile

Convener: Felipe Menanteau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

13:30 Observing beyond our disciplines: Erasures, memories and the making of Chile

Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Novoa (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

MNOVOA_PresentationFinal.pptx

14:00 → 15:00 Collaboration Values

Convener: Dr Sara Simon (Fermilab)

14:00 Panel Discussion

This session will be a panel discussion on values and our draft CMB-S4 values statement. There will also be some time for general discussion and feedback on the draft values statement. The draft values statement is open for comments (via the google doc) and is linked below.

Speakers: Abigail Crites (Cornell University), Darcy Barron (University of New Mexico), Prof. Magdalena Novoa (UIUC), Dr Sara Simon (Fermilab)

Draft Values Statement

Panel Introduction Slides

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 16:45 Early Career Talks

Convener: Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory & KICP)

15:30 BICEP/Keck Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Kenny Lau (University of Minnesota)

BK18_S4_2022.pdf

15:45 Data Acquisition and Control with the Observatory Control System Software

Speaker: Lauren Saunders (Yale University)

Saunders_S4_EarlyCareerTalk.pdf

16:00 Wide-area measurements of E-modes with BICEP3

Speaker: Cyndia Yu (Stanford University)

20220817_s4meeting.pdf

16:15 Direct Optimal Mapping for 21cm Cosmology

Speaker: Zhilei Xu (MIT)

Xu_21cm_cosmology.pdf

16:30 → 20:30 Open time for self-organized meetings

Convener: Patricio Gallardo (Cornell University)

16:30 Self-organized meetings

It has been a long time since we have been together. This is an opportunity for informal or focused discussions. Rooms will be provided upon request. (Contact: Patricio Gallardo)

16:30 → 17:30 Q&A for Early Career members with Governing Board Post-doc Representative

Convener: Ritoban Basu Thakur (Caltech)

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner - Sponsored by KICP - at The Study Hotel, Winter Garden

Thursday, 18 August

08:00 → 09:00 Continental Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 CMB-S4 Science Analysis Working Group Plenaries

Conveners: Prof. Colin Bischoff (University of Cincinnati), Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University;)

DC1 status

Notes for Thursday

09:00 Low-ell BB

Working group leads: Kimmy Wu, Colin Bischoff (Interim)

Speaker: Colin Bischoff (University of Cincinnati)

Low-ell BB AWG update

09:15 Maps to Power Spectra

Working group leads: Marilena Loverde, Christian Reichardt

Speaker: Benjamin Wallisch (UC San Diego & Institute for Advanced Study)

Maps-To-Power-Spectra Update

09:30 Maps to Other Statistics

Working group leads: Alex van Engelen, Blake Sherwin

Speaker: Gabriela Marques (Florida State University;)

maps2otherupdate

09:45 Clusters

Working group leads: Jim Bartlett, Srini Raghunathan

Speaker: Srinivasan Raghunathan (NCSA)

CMB-S4_Clusters_Plenary

10:00 Sources and Transients

Working group leads: Anna Ho, Joaquin Vieira

Speaker: Anna Ho (UC;LBL)

SourcesTransientsPlenary.pdf

10:15 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Fireslides

slides

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Early Career Talks

Convener: Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory & KICP)

11:30 SPT-3G data quality monitoring system and 2019+2020 EETETT analysis

Speaker: Wei Quan (University of Chicago)

Wei Quan Early Career Talk CMB-S4.pdf

11:45 In-situ characterization of polarization response of the BICEP3 small aperture telescope

Speaker: James Cornelison (Harvard University)

Cornelison Early Career Slides

12:00 Searching for axion-like particles through CMB birefringence

Speaker: Dr Mudit Jain (Rice University)

MJ.presentation.CMB-S4.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 AWG Breakouts: Galaxy Clusters

Conveners: James Bartlett (AstroParticle & Cosmology Laboratory;), Srinivasan Raghunathan (NCSA)

14:00 Introduction

Notes - Galaxy Clusters

14:00 → 16:00 AWG Breakouts: Low-ell BB

Conveners: Dr Caterina Umilta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;), Colin Bischoff (University of Cincinnati), Kimmy Wu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:00 Introduction

Notes - low-ell BB

14:00 → 16:00 AWG Breakouts: Maps to Power Spectra

Conveners: Christian Reichardt (University of Melbourne), Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University;), Marilena Loverde (University of Washington)

14:00 Introduction

Notes - Maps to power spectrum

14:00 → 16:00 AWG Breakouts: Maps to other statistics

Conveners: Alexander van Engelen (Arizona State University;), Blake Sherwin (University of Cambridge;)

14:00 Introduction

Notes - Other Statistics

14:00 → 16:00 AWG Breakouts: Sources & Transients

Conveners: Anna Ho (UC;LBL), Joaquin Vieira (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;)

14:00 Introduction

Notes - Sources & Transients

16:00 → 17:00 Complementary Science: Cosmology

Convener: Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL)

16:00 DESI

Speaker: Kyle Dawson (University of Utah)

Dawson Google slides

DESI_Dawson_CMBS4_2022.pdf

16:15 Rubin LSST - Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory;)

Google slides

Rubin LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration -- CMB-S4.pdf

16:30 SPHEREx

Speaker: Dr Howard Hui (Caltech)

202208_SPHEREx_CMBS4.pdf

16:45 Line Intensity Mapping

Speaker: Kirit Karkare (University of Chicago, Fermilab)

20220818_LIM.pdf

17:00 → 18:30 Poster Session and Wine/Cheese Reception

19:00 → 21:00 CMB-S4 "Big Bang Trivia" Coffee Outreach Event

At Sip and Savor 53rd. Members moderate science trivia for a public audience about the big bang, dark energy, dark matter, and more. (Contact: Juliet Crowell.)

Speaker: Juliet Crowell (University of Chicago;)

Outreach_event_flyer_for_public.pdf

Friday, 19 August

08:00 → 09:00 Continental breakfast

09:00 → 10:00 Reports from AWG breakouts

Convener: Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University;)

Notes for Friday

09:00 Low-ell BB

Speaker: Federico Bianchini (Stanford University;)

Low-ell BB report

09:10 Maps to Power Spectra

Speaker: Dr Cynthia Trendafilova (Southern Methodist University;)

Maps2Cell Report Back

09:20 Maps to Other Statistics

Speaker: Colin Hill (Columbia)

Slides

09:30 Clusters

Speaker: Lindsey Bleem (Argonne National Laboratory & KICP)

Cluster AWG Report Back

09:40 Sources and Transients

Speaker: Felipe Menanteau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

CMB-S4-transients-report-back.pdf

09:50 Discussion

10:00 → 11:00 Complementary Science: Astrophysics

Conveners: Anna Ho (UC;LBL), Felipe Menanteau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:00 CMB-S4's complementary astrophysics

Speaker: Rachel Osten (Space Telescope Science Institute)

CMB-S4_comp_astro.pptx

10:15 Exo-Oort Clouds

Speaker: Eric Baxter (University of Hawaii)

Baxter_S4_oort.pdf

10:30 Galactic Transients

Speaker: Thomas Maccarone (Texas Tech University;)

Galactic S4 (1).pdf

10:45 Optical and radio transients

Speaker: Vikram Ravi (California Institute of Technology)

talk_cmbsfour.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Closeout

Conveners: Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL), Kevin Huffenberger (Florida State University)

closeout slides

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch