Simons Observatory EAC Meeting

America/New_York
Description

Simons Observatory EAC Meeting 

November 30th & December 1, exact times TBA


Join organizers: David Spergel, Gregory Gabadadze, Suzanne T. Staggs

The Simons Observatory will be located in the high Atacama Desert in Northern Chile inside the Chajnantor Science Preserve.

At 5,200 meters (17,000 ft) the site hosts some of the highest telescopes in the world. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Simons Array are currently making observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Their goals are to study how the universe began, what it is made of, and how it evolved to its current state. The Simons Observatory will add to these several new telescopes and new cameras with state of the art detector arrays. The result will set the stage for the next generation of CMB experiments

 

  • Monday, November 30
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Project Status (Staggs/Keating) 30m
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      SO Science Goals -- Status (Calabrese) 30m
    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Detectors and Readout (Staggs) 30m
    • 12:00 PM 12:10 PM
      Break 10m
    • 12:10 PM 12:40 PM
      LAT/LATR (Devlin) 30m
    • 12:40 PM 1:10 PM
      Site Development (Arnold) 30m
    • 1:10 PM 1:40 PM
      SAT/SATP (Keating) 30m
    • 1:40 PM 2:10 PM
      Break 30m
    • 2:10 PM 3:30 PM
      Construction Budget & Schedule (Bazarko) 1h 20m
    • 3:30 PM 4:15 PM
      External Engagement & Collaborations (Staggs) 45m
    • 4:15 PM 5:00 PM
      Operations Planning (Aiola/Arnold) 45m
  • Tuesday, December 1
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Closeout topics from previous day 30m
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Systems engineering/Risks (McMahon) 30m
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Chilean Interfaces - Status (Lee) 30m
    • 11:30 AM 11:40 AM
      Break 10m
    • 11:40 AM 12:00 PM
      EAC closed session (EAC governance) 20m
    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      EAC closed session (report prep) (SO team available if needed) 30m
    • 12:30 PM 3:30 PM
      EAC report-out/end 3h