Cardiff, 2-3 August 2017

Cardiff, 2-3 August 2017

2nd afternoon
02:00 – 02:00 Welcome and objectives of the meeting (Erminia Calabrese/Peter Ade [remotely])
02:20 – 03:00 LiteBIRD status and updates (Masashi Hazumi)
03:00 – 03:30 HFT design (Yutaro Sekimoto)
03:30 – 04:00 Science cases and main objectives for design — based on UK, French and Italian docs and USA proposal (Martin Bucher)
04:00 Break
04:30 – 05:10 Relationship with ground-based and other activities
(Brown(UK)/Errard(Fra)/Bersanelli(Ita)/Komatsu(Ge))
05:10 – 05:55 Software and data analysis expertise in Europe
(Calabrese(UK)/Patanchon(Fra)/Natoli(Ita)/Komatsu(Ge))
05:55 – 06:25 FDM readout (Richard Hijmering)
3rd morning
09:00 – 09:30 Priorities of the Japanese colleagues and request for Europe (Masashi Hazumi)
09:30 – 10:00 UK instrument contribution (Giampaolo Pisano)
10:00 – 10:30 France instrument contribution (Bruno Maffei)
10:30 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Italy instrument contribution (Paolo De Bernardis)
11:30 – 12:00 Further discussion on instrumentation (Giovanni Signorelli)
12:00 – 12:30 LiteBIRD:US status (Kam Arnold)
12:30 – 13:00 JAXA strategy and plan (Toru Yamada[remotely])
13:00 Lunch
3rd afternoon
02:00 – 02:30 Summary of National contributions (Matt Griffin)
02:30 – 02:40 UK agencies position (Andrew Jaffe)
02:40 – 02:50 France agencies position (Ludovic Montier)
02:50 – 03:00 Italy agencies position (Nicola Vittorio)
03:00 – 03:10 Germany agencies position (Eiichiro Komatsu)
03:10 – 03:40 ESA interest and deadlines (Jan Tauber)
03:40 Break
04:00 – 05:30 Next steps for European Consortium (Nicola Vittorio)