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Second Cosmic Explorer Symposium

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Lisa Barsotti (MIT-LIGO Laboratory), Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)
Description

Welcome to the second Cosmic Explorer Symposium! 

This event will be held online on April 23-25, 2024: https://indico.mit.edu/e/CES2024. 

This event will bring together the community to discuss important aspects of the Cosmic Explorer observatory design, covering both observational and instrument science, with a focus on topics of high impact for the facility design. 
The list of topics we will discuss includes: mirror coatings, optical layouts, facility compatibility with cryogenics, neutron star equation of state, dark matter and dark energy, population of binaries, continuous waves, and unmodeled transients. We will also discuss how to strengthen the connection between Cosmic Explorer's science and the broader high energy and nuclear and particle physics communities, as well as the evolution of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium. 

The symposium will take place over 3 days, with two hours in the morning (11am-1pm EDT) and two hours in the afternoon (3-5pm EDT), hoping to maximize attendance from different time zones. 


Participation will be free, but we invite you to register (by clicking “apply now” below), as Zoom links and announcements will be communicated only to registered participants. 
 

Scientific organizing committee: 

Stefan Ballmer (Syracuse U)*
Lisa Barsotti (MIT)*
Joey Key (UW)*
B. Sathyaprakash (PSU)*
Salvatore Vitale (MIT)*
Edo Berger (Harvard U)
Emanuele Berti (JHU)
Daniel Brown (Adelaide U)
Anamaria Effler (Caltech)
Steve Fairhurst (Cardiff U)
Jan Harms (GSSI)
Stefan Hild (Maastricht U)
Ben Owen (TTU)
Steven Penn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

* Organizers

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  • Tue, April 23
    • 11:00 AM → 1:00 PM
      Plenary #1

      Session chairs: Lisa Barsotti, Alessandra Corsi

      Pleanary_1.mp4
      • 11:00 AM
        Status of Cosmic Explorer 20m
        Speaker: Matthew Evans (MIT)
        CEupdate_Symposium2024.pdf
      • 11:20 AM
        Highlight: Status of site evaluation and IPP-RS 20m
        Speakers: Joshua Smith, Kate Daniel
        2024_CE_Symposium_SiteEval_IPP-RS.pdf
      • 11:40 AM
        Discussion 5m
      • 11:45 AM
        Survey announcement 10m
        Speaker: Joey Key
        EDI_CESymposium.pdf
      • 11:55 AM
        Discussion 5m
      • 12:00 PM
        MPSAC Report 20m
        Speaker: Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)
      • 12:20 PM
        Discussion 10m
        Speaker: Alessandra Corsi
      • 12:30 PM
        The perspective from NSF 20m
        Speaker: Pedro Marronetti
        NSFview_Marronetti.pdf
      • 12:50 PM
        Discussion 10m
        Speaker: Lisa Barsotti (MIT-LIGO Laboratory)
    • 1:00 PM → 1:10 PM
      One minute one slide - #1 10m
      Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)
      1 minute 1 slide.pdf
    • 1:10 PM → 3:00 PM
      Break 1h 50m
    • 3:00 PM → 5:00 PM
      Instrument Science #1

      Session chairs: Dan Brown, Steve Penn

      Instrument_1.mp4
      • 3:00 PM
        CE optical layout 20m
        Speakers: Paul Fulda, Jon Richardson
        CE_Symposium_OptDes.pdf
      • 3:20 PM
        Discussion 30m
        Speakers: Dan Brown, GariLynn Billingsley, Andreas Freise, Valera Frolov, Mike Zucker
      • 3:50 PM
        Impact of coatings on CE design 15m
        Speaker: Kevin Kuns
        CE_coatings.pdf
      • 4:05 PM
        Coatings: state of the art 20m
        Speaker: Gregg Harry
        Coatings_G2400027v2.pdf
      • 4:25 PM
        Discussion 35m
        Speakers: Steve Penn, Gregg Harry, Jerome Degallaix, Martin Fejer, Peter Fritschel
  • Wed, April 24
    • 11:00 AM → 1:00 PM
      Instrument Science #2

      Session chairs: Stefan Hild, Anamaria Effler

      Instrument_2.mp4
      • 11:00 AM
        Facility compatibility with cryogenics: intro 15m
        Speaker: Den Martynov
        Martynov_CESymposium.pdf
      • 11:15 AM
        Facility compatibility with cryogenics: what it means for the CE facility 15m
        Speaker: Stefan Ballmer
        CESymposiumStefanBallmer.pdf
      • 11:30 AM
        Discussion 35m
        Speakers: Stefan Hild, Piero Rapagnani, Sheila Rowan, Tomaru Takayuki
      • 12:05 PM
        Research needed to validate the CE design 30m
        Speakers: Anamaria Effler, Lisa Barsotti (MIT-LIGO Laboratory)
      • 12:35 PM
        Round table discussion 25m
        Speaker: Lisa Barsotti (MIT-LIGO Laboratory)
    • 1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
      Break 2h
    • 3:00 PM → 5:00 PM
      Observational Science #1

      Session chairs: Steve Fairhurst, Sathya

      Observation_1.mp4
  • Thu, April 25
    • 11:00 AM → 12:45 PM
      Observational Science #2

      Session chairs: Salvatore Vitale, Edo Berger

      Observation_2.mp4
    • 12:45 PM → 1:00 PM
      One minute one slide - #3 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)
      1 minute 1 slide.pdf
    • 1:00 PM → 3:00 PM
      Break 2h
    • 3:00 PM → 5:00 PM
      Plenary #2

      Session chairs: Emanuele Berti, Matthew Evans

      Plenary_2.mp4
      • 3:00 PM
        Panel discussion: CE connection with DOE science 45m
        Speakers: Emanuele Berti, Jesse Thaler, Jim Lattimer, Lindley Winslow, Marc Kamionkowski
        BertiCESymposium2April2024.pdf
      • 3:45 PM
        Evolution of the CE Consortium 30m
        Speaker: Matt Evans
        Evolution of the Consortium.pdf
      • 4:15 PM
        Synthesis of the symposium: where do we go from here? 30m
        Speakers: Lisa Barsotti (MIT-LIGO Laboratory), Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)
        CloseOut.pdf
      • 4:45 PM
        Final thoughts/Discussion 15m