====== Telecon Notes 20171115 ======

Attendance: Raphael, Amy, Shaul, Al, Lloyd, Julian, Jim, Dave, Charles\\

Notes by:  Karl \\

=== Agenda ===
  * Planning for PICO and Complementarity with Ground Workshop in the spring (Shaul)

=== Notes ===


Planning for PICO and Complementarity with Ground Workshop in the spring (Shaul)
  * Organize now that there is a instrument baseline.
  * Science talks by the various WGs, invite broad community aslo.
  * How do we include the ground based community?
  * Date: Was plan to coordinate with an S4 meeting.  S4 is planning a 2-3 day March meeting, Shaul didn't hear strong enthusiam for coordination.  Combining both may be a challenge.
    * Planned PICO dates, late April - early May.
    * S4 meeting is governance and tech development.
      * Julian: case for conjoined workshops is decreasing.  
  * Shaul: Each WG put forward a spokesperson for group's science topics.  Complemenarity with ground would be additional speaker.
  * Is a workshop useful?
    * Jim: Yes. Disucssions useful.
      * Lloyd: what is extragalactic complementarity?
        * Jim: should be significant. PICO gives higher frequencies.  Complementarity could be developed.
  * Shaul: Pre-workshop groundwork?
    * Jim: yes. To develop context, get ground sensitivities, calculate gain from PICO frequencies.
      * Lloyd: modeling extragalactic sky workshop, Jan 10-12th.  Some of the work to connect PICO and ground could be then.
  * Shaul: Can Dave/Raphael compile names of people to present science case?
      * Yes (Dave), Yes(Raphael).
  * Shaul: Idea, science group leaders help organize. Shaul can lead.
      * ??Lloyd??: yes, can help.
  * Known conflicts?
    * April APS meeting, 14-17th of April  
    * Nick in Paris end of April - end of May.  Notify him of scheduling soon.
  * What about other communities to include?
    * Galactic (Dave, Laura)
    * Others? PICO will create a legacy archive.  Should invite those who will utilize it.
    * Jim: Important to increase visibility to non-CMB scienctists.  Extragalactic has some of these connections.
    * Dave: Will ping EG group about connections to other ideas
  * Locations?
    * Julian: Cheap.  Easy flights and cheap accomidation.
    * Shaul: Minnesota can host, but doesn't need to.  Anyone can volunteer.
    * Jim: Caltech, Pasendena?
      * Shaul: LiteBIRD and foregrounds workshop in California. Geographic balance would be nice.
      * Jim: Can talk with David Spurtle about Flatiron institute in NY. Shaul/Julian: NY is expensive, but maybe Flatiron can subsidize?  Jim: Will ask.
  * Shaul will start planning, begin putting together speaker list.
    * will form smaller committee. Expect emails from Shaul.
    * want skeleton program in short term so this can be announced.