Simons Observatory EAC Meeting

Nov 30, 2020, 10:00 AM → Dec 2, 2020, 6:00 AM America/New_York

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)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM SO Science Goals -- Status (Calabrese)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Detectors and Readout (Staggs)

12:00 PM → 12:10 PM Break

12:10 PM → 12:40 PM LAT/LATR (Devlin)

12:40 PM → 1:10 PM Site Development (Arnold)

1:10 PM → 1:40 PM SAT/SATP (Keating)

1:40 PM → 2:10 PM Break

2:10 PM → 3:30 PM Construction Budget & Schedule (Bazarko)

3:30 PM → 4:15 PM External Engagement & Collaborations (Staggs)

4:15 PM → 5:00 PM Operations Planning (Aiola/Arnold)

Tuesday, December 1

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Closeout topics from previous day

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Systems engineering/Risks (McMahon)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Chilean Interfaces - Status (Lee)

11:30 AM → 11:40 AM Break

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM EAC closed session (EAC governance)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM EAC closed session (report prep) (SO team available if needed)

12:30 PM → 3:30 PM EAC report-out/end