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 Coffee

Plenary Session: Collaboration Business

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

09:30 Break

Plenary Session: Report on Chile Configuration

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

11:00 Break

Plenary Session: Report on Experimental Landscape

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

12:30 Lunch

Plenary Session: CMB-S4's path forward

15:30 Break

Breakout Session: Structured small-group discussion on the path forward

Focus meeting: CMB-S4 Governing Board Meeting

19:00 Outreach Event

Tuesday, 25 March

08:00 Coffee

Plenary Session: Reports back and structured whole-group discussion

10:00 Break

Plenary Session: Report on Climate Survey and next steps

11:45 Lunch

Plenary Session: Junior scientist talks

Plenary Session: Discussion orientation

1 Leadership synthesis of morning discussion

2 Science Book / Analysis Working Group discussion orientation

15:00 Break

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

18:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 26 March

08:00 Coffee

Plenary Session: Reports back / Whole group discussion

10:00 Break

Plenary Session: Discussion

Plenary Session: Meeting close-out

11:45 Lunch

Plenary Session: Informal working lunch and continued discussion