Attendance:
Notes by:

• Short updates: Rita's slides; Name; JPL visit; Probe + S4 Workshops
• Science Traceability Matrix (Amy) + tasks to WG (Shaul, all)
• Probe Strategy (Shaul, all)
  • need now; a mission should fly asap regardless of r results from sub-orbital
  • a mission should fly if there are detections by sub-orbital

Probe Srategy

• Comments from Charles (by e-mail): First of all, the point of the current study is to demonstrate a CMB polarization mission that could do spectacular science for under $1 B. The goal is a recommendation from the Decadal Review for a Probe line of missions. One might hope that the Decadal panel would be so impressed that they made a special recommendation about a CMB polarization mission. One might hope, but I think that hope is false. So I wouldn't let it drive us in any way.

Which brings me to the point. We should write a report that says a <$1 B mission can do spectacular CMB (or whatever) science. We don't have to agonize about when. If a Probe line is instituted, we'll compete, and the question will be addressed then. If a Probe line is not instituted, the question is irrelevant. For now, we can ignore the question about when. But we need to be really, really serious about less than $1 B!! And spectacular science.