Decadal Whitepaper Workathon: 27/08/18 (08:00 – 17:00)
Baltimore face-to-face meeting for the members of the NLST to meet and work on the science whitepapers for the NAS Decadal Survey. This also gives the European SST members the opportunity to work with our US colleagues on the whitepaper contents.
Location:
Room 462, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Breakout sessions: rooms 475, 439
Johns Hopkins University
08:00 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 09:10 Logistics and hello
09:10 – 12:30 Science Whitepaper Workathon
Resources:
- PDF Document: NAS call and Terri’s PDF Document: presentation
- The GWSIG White Paper dashboard – add your own White Papers through this form
- The Astro2010 White Papers and the LISA-related Astro2010 White Papers
12:30 – 13:00 Group meet up and advoreach discussion
(Shane Larson/Priya Natarajan)
13:00 — 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:30 Cookies
15:30 – 16:30 LISA Science presentation, Bahcall Auditorium, STScI
Peering Into the Dark: Opening Up the Gravitational Wave Universe with LISA
(PDF Document: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann/Paul McNamara)
16:30 – 17:00 Wine and cheese
Joint NLST/SST Day 1: 28/08/18 (08:00 – 17:00)
Location:
Room 462, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
08:00 – 8:30 Coffee
08:30 – 08:50 Welcome, Logistics, Introductions
(Kelly Holley-Bockelmann/Paul McNamara/Emanuele Berti)
08:50 – 09:30 PDF Document: Mission Update with Q&A
(Martin Gehler/Sridhar Manthripragada)
09:30 – 10:30 Q&A with Paul Hertz
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 PDF Document: SciRD and future ‘science’ documents
(Paul McNamara)
11:30 – 12:00 Technology documents
12:00 – 13:30 PDF Document: Decadal Q&A
(Ira Thorpe/Ann Hornschemeier/Others)
13:30 – 13:50 White Paper Lightning Talks
(NLST)
13:50 – 14:10 PDF Document: LISA-Athena Joint Science Working Group
(Paul McNamara)
14:10 – 14:40 Coffee Break
14:40 – 16:40 Working on White Papers
(Athena, NLST, Community)
16:40 – 17:00 Meet up and follow-up work
19:00 – 22:00 Baseball: Baltimore Orioles vs Toronto Blue Jays
Joint NLST/SST Day 2: 29/08/18(08:00 – 15:00)
Location:
Room 462, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
08:00 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 09:30 PDF Document: Consortium & Working Groups – how to get involved
(Martin Hewitson)
09:30 – 10:00 PDF Document: ESA Ground Segment
(Paul McNamara)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 10:50 PDF Document: DPC and Data Centers in Europe and the US
(Antoine Petiteau)
10:50 – 12:00 Science Support: Consortium / NASA
(Karsten Danzmann/Kelly Holley-Bockelmann)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:10 PDF Document: Preparing the Community: Observer Tools – includes beta-testing
(Martin Hewitson/Quentin Baghi)
14:10 – 14:50 PDF Document: Preparing the Community: LISA Data Challenges
(Michele Vallisneri)
14:50 – 15:00 Reflections, Strategy, Follow-up Work