Attendance:

Notes by: Karl

• Report schedule and status:
  • Jan. 14 is most recent deadline
  • But government shutdown moves the deadline:
    • “In the event of a government shutdown, the Probe Studies’ Final Delivery Deadline – presently on January 14, 2019 - will be pushed back at no cost by the number of workdays that equals the number of idle workdays elapsed during the shutdown plus three.”
  • Earliest NASA deadline is ~Jan. 20.
  • Effective deadline: ~Jan. 17 ; SH leaving to India on Jan. 18; Semester begins on Jan. 22
  • Release another public version this weekend
• Report Status Current Version
  • Science (99% complete; need small Figure tweaks by Raphael and Alex}
  • Complementarity with other surveys + suborbital
    • 'other surveys' keep or remove?
    • + suborbital - moved to 2.8 + rephrased. Who can review?
  • 2.6 Signal separation - now immediately after 'science';
    • Now finalizing. Who can review?
  • 2.7 Systematics - finalizing next
  • 2.8
  • 2.9 Requirements - next
  • 3-6 reviewing; revising in between
  • Executive summary - revised, need to complete (Friday)
• Cover Art
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  • Possible mods
    • fix dotted lines to point to appropriate locations
    • Add “Inflation and Quantum Gravity”
    • Remove “Primordial Fluctuations”
    • Replace “Reionization” with “First Luminous Sources” (line looks continuous, not dotted. Need to move the start of the line)
    • Remove Dark Energy
    • Change “primordial Magentic …” to “Primordial Fields” and move start of dotted
    • Change white strip inside of the colored, so it doesn't have such sharp boundaries
    • “Milky Way Dynamics …” and “Interstellar Dust” should point to 'our galaxy'. But there is no special location for 'our galaxy'. Perhaps make pico smaller and add some reference for the galaxy?
    • no CMB equator
    • no CMB mirroring
    • change the size or just the spacing of “PROBE OF INFLATION AND COSMIC ORIGINS” to that it is exactly (to the printer's point) as wide as “PICO”.
    • question/suggestion: are the dotted lines all meant to end in particular places? Since many of them apply over large redshift ranges, it doesn't seem like they should. On the other hand, since some do and some don't, it looks a little random. Maybe the dots in the lines for distributed ones could fade to grey then black over the relevant redshift range for that “quantity”.