---+!! 2008 Workshop and Winter School on Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
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.
Winterschool Day 1 Schedule
Thursday March 27, 2008LOCATION: 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, 2008LOCATION: 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, 2008LOCATION: 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.
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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