Schedule

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:

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