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A Canada-wide (+ international friends) CMB community workshop will take place from March 27-30, 2008 at McGill University in Montreal. The workshop is hosted by the McGill Cosmology Group as part of the Canadian Space Agency CMB Discipline Working Group (CMB-DWG, funded by the Canadian Space Agency).

Scientific Contacts: Matt Dobbs (Matt.Dobbs at mcgill.ca) or Gil Holder (holder at physics.mcgill.ca)
Hospitality Contact: Elizabeth Shearon (Elizabeth.Shearon at mcgill.ca)

We thank the Canadian Space Agency, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR), McGill Department of Physics, and McGill Faculty of Science for financially supporting this activity.

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Winterschool Day 1 Schedule

Thursday March 27, 2008

LOCATION: Leacock Building Room 232, McGill Campus (see map at bottom of page)

8:30am	registration opens. Coffee and pastries served.
9am-10:00	CMB + Polarization Theory	Douglas Scott	CMB_TheoryIntro_DouglasScott.pdf
10:20-11:20	CMB Secondaries and Foregrounds	Gil Holder	CMB_Foregrounds_GHolder.pdf
11:40-12:40	Calculating CMB Power spectrum	Adam Moss	CMB_Parameters_AdamMoss.pdf
1pm - 2pm	lunch
2:00-2:30pm	ACT	Mark Halpern	ACT_MarkHalpern.pdf
2:30-3:30pm	SPIDER	Barth Netterfield
3:30-4:30	Interferometry	Jon Sievers	Interferometry_JonSievers.pdf
6:30pm	Welcome Dinner at Bistro Justine (30 persons)

Each lecture has been allotted 1 hour. This is the formal lecture time. 20-30 minutes is available immediately after each lecture for discussion. We STRONGLY encourage lecturers not to go beyond their allotted hour, as the discussion time is the most fun.

Directions to dinner:

• On foot (30 minute walk - print the map at the bottom of the page) - take Prince Arthur East 15 minutes until you dead-end in a park. Cross the park and turn left (North) on St. Denis. Walk 15 minutes to 4517 rue Saint-Denis.
• By taxi (reduce your foot print by sharing with others please!). Walk east out of rutherford and grad a taxi on University street (there is a taxi stand one block north on university). It will cost about $10 and take 10 min.

Scientific Talks Schedule

Friday March 28, 2008

LOCATION: Rutherford Physics Building, Bell Conference Room 103, McGill Campus (see map at bottom of page)

_Preliminary Agenda_

9:15am	The South Pole Telescope Status (25+5)	Kathryn Miknaitis (Chicago)	SPT_KSchaffer.pdf
9:45am	Cluster detection in simulated SZ sky surveys (20+5)	Laurie Shaw (McGill)	SZ-Detections_LShaw.pdf
10:15am	CMB Lensing (20+5)	Ue-Li Pen (Toronto)	CMB_Lensing_UeLiPen.pptx
10:45am	Coffee
11:15am	EBEX instrument (20+5)	Michael Milligan (Minnesota)	EBEX_MMilligan.pdf
11:45pm	The BLAST Instrument and Results (25+5)	Don Wiebe (UBC)	Blast_DonWiebe.pdf
12:15	LUNCH
1pm	Design of WMAP (1hr)	Mark Halpern (UBC)	WMAP_Design-MHalpern.pdf
2:00pm	New Results from WMAP (40+5)	Michael Nolta (CITA)	WMap5_MNolta.pdf
2:45	Separation of synchrotron and anomalous emission using WMAP polarisation data (15+5)	Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes (Paris)	WMAP_ForegroundReconstruction_MA_Miville-Deschenes.pdf
3:05pm	coffee
3:25	Status of the Planck Surveyor, Seven Months before Launch (25+5)	Brendan Crill (Toronto)	Planck_BrendanCrill.pdf
3:55pm	Millimeter Bolometer Interferometer (15min+5)	Peter Hyland (Wisconsin, McGill)	MBI_PeterHyland.pdf
4:15pm	Cosmology with the 21 cm Line 25+5	Ue-Li Pen / Jeff Peterson	21cm_JPeterson.pdf
5pm	CMB Polarization from Space Discussion, Adjourn

6-8pm	Dinner at McGill Faculty Club Gold Room**	3450 MacTavish Street, McGill Campus
-9pm	Entertainment at McGill's two dimensional scattering facilities	3rd floor of faculty club

Directions to dinner:

• Walk 5 minutes to 3450 MacTavish Street on the west side of Campus. Dinner will be served in a private room on the second floor. Two dimensional scattering facilities are on the third floor.

Winterschool Day 2 Schedule

Saturday March 29, 2008

LOCATION: Rutherford Physics Building, Bell Conference Room 103, McGill Campus (see map at bottom of page)

9am-10:00	CMB Obvervations on Balloon and satellite platforms	Barth Netterfield	Ballooning_Netterfield.pdf
10:15-11:15	Bolometers and readout	Matt Dobbs	BolosReadout_Dobbs.pdf
11:30-12:30	Simulating the mm-wavelength sky and experiments	Brendan Crill	CmbSimulation_BrendanCrill.pdf
1pm - 2pm	lunch
2:00-3pm	Data Analysis: from timestreams to maps	Olivier Dore	TimesteamsToMaps_OlivierDore.pdf
3:30-4:30	Data Analysis: the cosmo parameters and the numerology of the universe	Michael Nolta	FromMapsToParameters_MNolta.pdf
4:30pm	CMB polarimetry from Space discussion	all
6pm-	Dinner on your own, for suggestions see MontrealLocalInfo

• The best restaurants in Montreal all require reservations - don't forget to call ahead.

Meeting of the CSA Discipline Working Group

Sunday March 30, 2008 9am - 1pm (all participants are welcome and encouraged to attend)

LOCATION: Rutherford Physics Building, Bell Conference Room 103, McGill Campus (see map at bottom of page)

Discussion of requirements for space platform CMB-polarization mission and Canadian expertise (Moderated by M. Halpern & B. Netterfield)

Lunch is on your own.

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How to register

Registration is now closed - sorry, we're oversubscribed and can't accept any additional attendees.

Confirmed Participants

Name,	Role	Dates attending
Francois Aubin, francois.aubin mail.mcgill.ca	GS, McGill	Mar 27-30	local
Amy Bender, amy.bender colorado.edu	GS, Colorado	Mar 26-30	no grant, please book hotel with female roommate
Steve Benton, steve.benton utoronto.ca	GS, Netterfield	Mar 26-30	travel grant, any roommate
Ed Chapin, echapin phas.ubc.ca	postdoc, UBC	Mar 26-30	withdrawn
Brendan Crill, crill astro.utoronto.ca	faculty, Toronto	?
Matt Dobbs, Matt.Dobbs mcgill.ca	faculty, McGill	Mar 27-30	local
Olivier Dore, olivier cita.utoronto.ca	RA, CITA	arrive early on the 27th and leave on the 29th at night	travel grant, no roommate
John Dudley, dudleyj physics.mcgill.ca	GS, Holder	Mar 27-30	local
Alex Van Engelen, engelen physics.mcgill.ca	GS, Holder	Mar 27-30	local
Marzieh Farhang, farhang astro.utoronto.ca	GS, Netterfield	Mar 26-30	travel grant, no roommate
Laura Fissel, fissel astro.utoronto.ca	GS, Netterfield?	Mar 26-30	travel grant, share with Wong
Mark Halpern, halpern physics.ubc.ca	faculty, UBC	?
Joachim Harnois-Deraps, jharno cita.utoronto.ca	GS, Pen	Mar 26-30	travel grant, no hotel
Matt Hasselfield, mhasse physics.ubc.ca	GS, Halpern	Mar 26-30	travel grant, share with Marsden
Gil Holder, holder physics.mcgill.ca	faculty, McGill	Mar 27,28 only	local
Peter Hyland, pohyland wisc.edu	Postdoc, Dobbs	Mar 27-30	travel grant, no roommate
James Kennedy, james.kennedy2 mail.mcgill.ca	GS, McGill	Mar 27-30	local
Denis Laurin, Denis.Laurin space.gc.ca	program sci, CSA	Mar 27-30	no hotel
John Macaluso, John_Macaluso brown.edu	GS, Brown U	Mar 26-30	no travel grant, no hotel
Kevin MacDermid, kevin.macdermid mail.mcgill.ca	GS, McGill	Mar 27-28	local
Gaelen Marsden, gmarsden physics.ubc.ca	postdoc, UBC	~Mar 26-30	travel grant, share with Hasselfield
Michael Milligan, mmilligan astro.umn.edu	GS, Minnesota	~Mar 26-30	no travel grant
Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes, marc-antoine.miville-deschenes ias.u-psud.fr	RA, Paris	~Mar 26-30	no hotel
Adam Moss, adammoss phas.ubc.ca	postdoc, UBC	?	travel grant, no roommate
Ue-Li Pen, pen cita.utoronto.ca	faculty, CITA	Mar 28-29	please book hotel
Jeff Peterson, jeffreyb.peterson gmail.com	faculty, Carnegie Melon	Mar 28,30	please book hotel
Dmitri Pogosyan pogosyan phys.ualberta.ca	faculty, alberta	27-30
Laura Newburgh, newburgh phys.columbia.edu	GS, Columbia	Mar 26-30	no grant, do not book hotel
Barth Netterfield, netterfield astro.utoronto.ca	faculty, Toronto	?
Michael Nolta, nolta cita.utoronto.ca	RA, CITA	?	travel grant, no roommate
Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud, britt phys.columbia.edu	GS, Columbia Miller	Mar 26-30	no grant, please book hotel to share w/ Newburgh
Douglas Scott dscott astro.ubc.ca	faculty, UBC	?	need to reconfirm
Kathryn Schaffer, kksm kicp.uchicago.edu	postdoc, U Chicago	~Mar 26-30	no travel grant, hotel?
Laurie Shaw, lds physics.mcgill.ca	postdoc, Holder	Mar 27-30	local
Jonathan Sievers, sievers cita.utoronto.ca	RA, CITA	?	travel grant, no roommate
marco viero, viero astro.utoronto.ca	GS, Toronto	Mar 26-30	travel grant, share room
Joaquin Vieira, vieira uchicago.edu	GS, Chicago	Mar 26-30	no travel grant, please book room
Jerry Vinokurov, jerry_v brown.edu>	GS, Brown	Mar 26-30	no travel grant, no hotel
Don Wiebe, dwiebe physics.utoronto.ca	GS, Toronto	Mar 26-30	travel grant, share with ?
Wan Yan Wong, wanyan phas.ubc.ca	GS, Scott	Mar 26-31	withdrawn, was sharing with Fissel

Conference Locations

Thurs Mar 27 9am-12:30	McGill Leacock Building, Room 232
Thurs Mar 27 Lunch	Rotunda outside Room 232
Thurs Mar 27 1:30-5:00pm	McGill Leacock Building, Room 232
Fri Mar 28 9am-12:30	McGill Rutherford Physics Bldg, Bell Room 103
Fri Mar 28 Lunch	Rutherford Physics Bldg, Board room 104
Fri Mar 28 1:30-5:30pm	McGill Rutherford Physics Bldg, Bell Room 103
Sat Mar 29 9am-12:30	McGill Rutherford Physics Bldg, Bell Room 103
Sat Mar 29 Lunch	Rutherford Physics Bldg, Board room 104
Sat Mar 29 1:30-5:30pm	McGill Rutherford Physics Bldg, Bell Room 103
Sun Mar 30 9am-1:30pm	McGill Rutherford Physics Bldg, Bell Room 103

(we also have the board room booked all day saturday) Matt's Note: Aash needs either the board room or bell room (signed out to vicky) thurs afternoon at 5pm.

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