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Telecon Notes 20170628

Attendance: Shaul,Amy, Brendan, Al, Roger, Bill
Notes by: Brendan

Agenda:

  • Update on management of WG and mailing lists (Shaul)
    • UMN physics listserv is retiring, so future working group mailing lists will be done through Google Groups: Shaul has already done this for extragalactic, data challenge, and imager. Some bugs have been found. Shaul can set this up for other WGs if needed.
  • Technology Working Group and Plan (McMahon)
    • Roger put together a review of relevant technologies: Slides here
    • Roger is technology person at JPL. Jeff and Roger plan to have offline discussion with different groups around the country - get them to augment what they have provided to S4 tech book with any material relevant to a space mission. Jeff following up with NIST, Berkeley, GSFC folks; Roger to check in with McGill, Brad Johnson, Charles Lawrence, Peter Day.
    • The Inflation Probe should address some specific questions quickly: e.g., what detector technology to use above 800GHz? Power dissipation? How to get a community consensus on these questions? Use S4 as a starting point, solicit input from teams working on these individual technologies, present this information again to the EC.
    • In the spirit of transparency, need an opportunity for some back-and-forth: perhaps a open review by telecon for Roger and Jeff to present their results and get feedback.
    • Keep in mind that this is a current snapshot showing we have a solid case fitting in the cost cap, not a formal technology selection - were this mission to fly 10-15 years from now it is likely to look very different technologically. But important to have some baseline technology selection.
  • Update on NASA management of probes and expected deliverables (Shaul)
  • Imager WG Update (Shaul)
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