S4 Decadal Prep: Update from Michigan; does that affect the workshop (Lloyd? , Julian?)
TeamX Sessions: next two weeks
TeamX reports to SOMA (Shaul)
Notes:
May workshop
conference / not conference. NASA requires 3 months forcasting for a 'conference'. Issues for Brendon, Roger, maybe others.
LUVOIR meetings are similar and not conferences. Main difference was all LUVOIR meetings were under same webpage as their telecons, so avoided the issue.
Now linked our workshop through wikipage. Plan to remove main workshop page and put everything under wiki.
Talked to Rita S. at headquarters and looks reasonable to get this changed. Filling out a form through Rita and she'll pass this to final determiners at headquarters.
CL: NASA is sometimes opaque. But framing this as 'working meeting' makes sense. Possible pushback due to number of attendees.
Connecting to broader community. For decadal, astro connection is important. Also galactic science connections and neutrino science connections.
Worth attending other meetings and talking about PICO (e.g. for galactic science meetings)
Lloyd: go find them and talk, rather than setting up a special session (like at AAS) and expecting them to come to us.
SH: should we have a main conference contact? To field suggestions of conferences
LK: Can do this. Look at emails of options and forward them to appropriate speaker options.
SH: will also talk to Nick about what connections he knows, especially with S4.
SH: note that after Jan. we'll have little money to fund travel. Most money for travel will be now to December.
Program finalizing:
status of Tracy and fundamental physics talk?
Lloyd/Dan to finalize with Tracy and finalize Cosmic Birefringence
Galactic/Extrgalactic
Nick with final panel invited will check with him
Sky models will be covered by Brendan or Clem
Tech panel being set by Shaul
Thursday morning:
Suzanne is a yes. Lloyd moderating. Shaul/LLoyd to finalize panel today.
Shaul to reach out to Scott D.
Intro talk about process?
Suggestions for person? John C.? –Shaul contact him. He served on previous panel.
Fall 2018: Survey Chair selected (could be much sooner)
Early 2019: Survey Committee finalized and approved
Early 2019: 1st survey meeting, scope and date set for white papers
Mar 2019: Short “white papers” due: - We need to submit CMB-S4 Overview white paper, i.e., killer science case, readiness, w/ cost estimate and schedule - We also want to encourage submission of additional science white papers that support CMB-S4
Spring 2019: Survey requests additional input from selected projects - We need to have detailed CMB-S4 science and project description ready, what we are referring to as the “Decadal Survey Conceptual Design Report”
TeamX next 2 weeks.
Instrument next week (3 days)
Mission week after
Input from TeamX to independent cost estimator (ICE)
Reservations taken to NASA.
Plan is TeamX to ICE (with TeamX having been briefed that goals of this TeamX is slightly different)
We can also add narrative to these slides.
'rebuttal' was word used. but just explanation and added information is more Shaul's thought.
Hoping to iterate with TeamX and their slides to send correct message to ICE.
AT: this is a reasonable expectation. Matches my conversations with TeamX. Have talked to TeamX folks about different audience for slides this time around.