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| Present: Borrill, Gunderson, Hanany, Kogut, Lawrence, Meyer, Miller, Smith | Present: Borrill, Gunderson, Hanany, Kogut, Lawrence, Meyer, Miller, Smith | ||
| - | * Shaul reports that members of the PPPDT have been nominated for membership in the technical panels of the Decadal Survey. | + | |
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| + | * Discussion of notes from telecon with the Astrophysics SubCommittee of the NASA Advisory Committee. Notes originated from Mike Werner and distributed by Charles Lawrence. | ||
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| + | "JDEM will be reviewed and prioritized" | ||
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| + | Timeline: We would like to have the bulk of our material by the mid-January 2009. | ||
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| + | We are expected to make our own case to the decadal panel. PPPDT should coordinate approach and submission of material to the panel. | ||
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| + | * Some more discussion about the best approach to take in the report. Some of these issues have been discussed before. and have been reiterated again: Should we acknowledge formally in the report that there will not be a mission this decade, and that we are after technology development funding, or should we advocate as strongly for a mission as soon as feasible. | ||
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| + | Eric says that a good outcome is if we are recommended for technology funding. | ||
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| + | Steve raises the option of conditioning the beginning of a satellite program on first seeing results from sub-orbital experiments. Potential gain - we appear reasonable by accepting as fact that there will not be a mission that has a potential for null signal; Potential loss - in the presence of substantial uncertainties about what will happen with the next 5 years both in the experimental and theoretical front, we should not condition the mission on anything. Rather we should push forward and be ready to start a program in the mid-decade. Let a selection committee decide then whether CMBPol should proceed or wait. | ||
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