Telecon Notes Nov. 27, 2019

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Agenda:

• Recap on status
  • PICO Report (website); Report on astro-ph
  • Probes Cost Assessment Team (PCAT) Report;
    • Probes binned into 3 cateogries:'likely' (1); 'possible' (5); 'unlikely'(3);
    • PICO is 'possible' (All PICO's cost assessments are within 10% of $1B).
  • Decadal project panel: EOS-II
    • Kahn (Chair), Barsotti, Barto, Bay, Elvis, Hailey, Kouveliotou, Lawrence, Moseley, Mukherjee, Page, Stacey
  • RFI and TRACE
  • Possible outcomes (Hertz slides from CAA meeting yesterday)
• Response to RFI and RFI with SH embedded comments
  • What are the key challenges?
  • What are the overarching message(s)?
  • Response Format: response to questions, flowing report, combination? Heavy referencing of existing documents or rewrite material?
  • Executive Summary - needs revision
  • Science
• Conflict with B-mode workshop at Munich: who is attending? anyone else can give the talk?

• Shaul reviews state of PICO since submission of report including PCAT report
• Discussion of RFI:
  • Shaul thinks the single key perceived challenge for readiness could be foregrounds. Not clear what can be done about this more than is already presented in the report.
  • Response format: respond to specific questions, not 'another narrative report'.
  • Some discussion of response to specific RFI elements, only in Science