2025 Spring Collaboration Meeting

24 Mar 2025, 08:00 → 26 Mar 2025, 17:00 America/Los_Angeles

UC Berkeley

The major focus of this meeting is to discuss and vet our reports to the funding agencies and to identify the best path forward.  

We will discuss the Chile-focused reconfiguration and the survey of the experimental landscape in the 2030s.

There will also be discussions of the Science Book, talks from junior members, and general collaboration business.

Please see the conference website for sign-up sheets for social events and lab tours.

The meeting will be held in the UC Berkeley Physics North building. For accessibility issues, please refer to this webpage. 

The schedule below is preliminary and represents the latest planning by the SOC.

Monday, 24 March

08:00 → 08:30 Coffee

08:30 → 09:30 Plenary Session: Collaboration Business

Conveners: Jeff McMahon (University of Chicago; FNAL), Kevin Huffenberger (Texas A&M University)

09:30 → 09:45 Break

09:45 → 11:00 Plenary Session: Report on Chile Configuration

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

11:00 → 11:15 Break

11:15 → 12:30 Plenary Session: Report on Experimental Landscape

Conveners: Charles Lawrence (JPL), Dr Nils Halverson (University of Colorado Boulder)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Plenary Session: CMB-S4's path forward

15:30 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:30 Breakout Session: Structured small-group discussion on the path forward

18:00 → 19:30 Focus meeting: CMB-S4 Governing Board Meeting

19:00 → 21:00 Outreach Event

Tuesday, 25 March

08:00 → 08:30 Coffee

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session: Reports back and structured whole-group discussion

10:00 → 10:30 Break

10:30 → 11:45 Plenary Session: Report on Climate Survey and next steps

11:45 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:15 Plenary Session: Junior scientist talks

14:15 → 15:00 Plenary Session: Discussion orientation

14:15 Leadership synthesis of morning discussion

14:45 Science Book / Analysis Working Group discussion orientation

15:00 → 15:15 Break

15:15 → 16:15 Breakout Session: Structured Science Book / AWG / Project path forward discussions

18:00 → 20:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 26 March

08:00 → 08:30 Coffee

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session: Reports back / Whole group discussion

10:00 → 10:30 Break

10:30 → 11:15 Plenary Session: Discussion

11:15 → 11:45 Plenary Session: Meeting close-out

11:45 → 12:15 Lunch

12:15 → 13:15 Plenary Session: Informal working lunch and continued discussion