CMB Polarization: Theory and Foregrounds Workshop
Fermilab, June 23 - 26, 2008
Schedule
Legend:	Inflation	Reionization	Lensing
	Foreground Removal	Foreground Science	Foreground Combined
	Monday, June 23	Tuesday, June 24	Wednesday, June 25	Thursday, June 26
MORNING - One West
9:00 AM	Welcoming Remarks (10 mins)	Inflation in String Theory	Beyond Slow Roll	Alternatives to Inflation
	Scott Dodelson	Shamit Kachru	Paolo Creminelli	Justin Khoury
9:30 AM	Models of Inflation (50 mins)
	Richard Easther
10:00 AM	Reionization Science	Reionization and Cosmological	Polarized Synchrotron Emission	Cosmic Inflation Probe
	Adam Lidz	Parameters, Eiichiro Komatsu	Maik Wolleben	Gary Melnick
10:30 AM	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11:00 AM	Experimental Issues	Foreground Removal Forecasts	Polarized Dust Emission (40 mins)	CMB Lensing: Overview
	Lyman Page	(40 mins), Alex Amblard	John Vaillancourt	Kendrick Smith
11:30 AM	The Galactic Magnetic Field: The	FGFit for CMB Estimation (20 mins)	Starlight Polarization (20 mins)	CMB Lensing: Cosmological Constraints
	Big Picture, Marijke Haverkorn	Clive Dickinson	Mario Magalhaes	and Relation to LSS, Chris Hirata
12:00 PM	State of Polarized Foregrounds	Foreground Removal with	Simulating Galactic Synchrotron Emission	Neutrino Masses from CMB Lensing and
	Al Kogut	Commander, Hans-Kristian Eriksen	Andre Waelkens	Tomographic Cosmic Shear, J. Lesgourgues
12:30 PM	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
AFTERNOON (see below)
2 - 5 PM	Working Group Discussion	Working Group Discussion	Working Group Discussion	Working Group Discussion
EVENING - One West
5:00 PM	EPIC Mission Concept	Discussion: The Mission & Our Mission
	Shaul Hanany	Stephan Meyer, leader
5:30 PM	Reception
	15th Floor Wilson Hall
INFLATION - One West
2:00 PM	Discussion: Overview of Report	Large Field Inflation in String Theory	Testing Non-minimal Models	The Planck Distance in
	Daniel Baumann and Mark Jackson	Eva Silverstein	of Inflation	Quantum Gravity
2:30 PM	Testing Inflation with CMBPol		Will Kinney	Nima Arkani-Hamed
	Hiranya Peiris
3:00 PM	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Joint Group Discussion: Inflation, Fore-	Amplitude of Inflationary	Colloquium	Writing
	grounds, Lensing and the Fisher Matrix	Gravitational Waves, Latham Boyle	Cosmology as Science: from Inflation
4:00 PM	Daniel Baumann, Jo Dunkley,	Discussion: Theoretical	to the Future
	Kendrick Smith, Asantha Cooray,leaders	Expectations for the	Lawrence Krauss
4:30 PM		Gravitational Wave Amplitude,
		Liam McAllister, leader
FOREGROUNDS - Racetrack/7N
2:00 PM	2 minute intro from each participant	CMB Map Estimation with Galclean	Discussion: Foreground Science	Discussion: Modeling the Galaxy
		(20 mins), Jo Dunkley	Aurelien Fraisse, leader	Doug Finkbeiner, leader
2:30 PM	Discussion: Introduction to Workshop	Discussion: Foreground Forecasts
	Documents, Aurelien Fraisse, leader	Asantha Cooray, leader
3:00 PM	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Joint Group Discussion: Inflation, Fore-		Colloquium - One West
	grounds, Lensing and the Fisher Matrix
4:00 PM	Daniel Baumann, Jo Dunkley,
	Kendrick Smith, Asantha Cooray,leaders
4:30 PM	(One West)
REIONIZATION - 3NE
2:00 PM	2 minute intro from each participant
2:30 PM	Discussion: Overview of Report
	Peng Oh, leader
3:00 PM	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Discussion: Report	Writing	Colloquium - One West
	Matias Zaldarriaga, leader
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
LENSING - 3NW
2:00 PM	Cosmological Parameters from the Tri-	Discussion: CMB Lensing as a	Beam Systematics and CMB Lens Recon-	Writing
	spectrum/C_l^pp (15 mins), Oliver Zahn	Contaminant of the Gravity Wave	struction, Meir Shimon
2:30 PM	Discussion: Cosmological Parameters	B-mode	Discussion: Systematics and
	from CMB Lensing,Kendrick Smith,leader		Foregrounds
3:00 PM	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Joint Group Discussion: Inflation, Fore-	Writing	Colloquium - One West	Writing
	grounds, Lensing and the Fisher Matrix
4:00 PM	Daniel Baumann, Jo Dunkley,
	Kendrick Smith, Asantha Cooray,leaders
4:30 PM	(One West)
Please email corrections to Mark Jackson at markj@fnal.gov