IceCube Gen2/PINGU meeting (Jan. 2015)

US/Central
Supernova Conference Room, 222 W. Washington Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 5117, Madison, WI 53703

Supernova Conference Room, 222 W. Washington Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 5117, Madison, WI 53703

222 W Washington 53703 Madison WI 5th Floor
Description
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, WIPAC, at UW–Madison hosts the IceCube Gen2/PINGU meeting at 222 W. Washington Ave. in Madison, WI from January 24 to January 28, 2015. 
 
Registration for the meeting will be $40 and includes breaks, materials, and a conference dinner on Monday evening.  The registration fee will be waived if you are not attending the dinner.  
    • 10:00 12:00
      Systematic uncertainty studies
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch 2h

      on your own

    • 14:00 16:00
      Calibration: and future systematic studies
    • 16:00 16:30
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:30 17:30
      Calibration
    • 09:00 10:15
      Analysis updates
    • 10:15 10:45
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 12:30
      Analysis updates
    • 12:30 14:30
      Lunch 2h

      on your own

    • 14:30 17:30
      Coordination

      next steps for LOI, analysis
      coordination and budgeting
      the optimized detector and
      funding

    • 09:00 10:00
      New Photon Detection Technologies
    • 10:00 10:20
      break 20m
    • 10:20 11:45
      New Photon Detection Technologies
    • 11:45 13:30
      Lunch 1h 45m

      on your own

    • 13:30 18:40
      Surface detector R&D
      • 13:30
        Surface Detector R&D Overview, objective - Albrecht Karle 30m
        Slides
      • 14:00
        Surface Detector R&D Surface veto simulation - Javier Gonzales 30m
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Surface Detector R&D Prototype for next year - Delia Tosi 30m
        Slides
      • 15:00
        break 30m
      • 15:30
        Toy MC Simulation of a Surface Array - Sebastian Euler 20m
        Slides
      • 15:50
        Surface Detector R&D Prototype readout options - John Kelley 20m
        Slides
      • 16:10
        Surface Detector R&D TAXI as readout - Timo Karg 20m
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Surface Detector R&D Mechanical options - Perry Sandstrom 20m
        Slides
      • 16:50
        discussion/plan 40m
    • 18:40 21:40
      Dinner at the Old Fashioned 3h

      dinner included in the registration fee

    • 08:15 10:30
      Surface detector R&D: Surface Extension
      • 08:30
        Surface Detector R&D Veto efficiency studies from CORSIKA 30m
      • 09:00
        Surface Detector R&D Summary of the Monday PM session (short-term surface R&D) 30m
      • 09:30
        discussion 15m
      • 09:45
        Surface Detector R&D Surface extensions/surface veto (long-term) 30m
        Slides
      • 10:15
        discussion 15m
    • 10:30 11:00
      coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      Gen2 working group planning
      • 11:00
        Gen2-High-Energy Working Group working group plans 1h 30m
    • 12:30 14:00
      lunch 1h 30m

      on your own

    • 14:00 15:45
      Gen2 Hardware
      • 14:00
        Hardware Summary of the Monday AM (hardware) session 30m
      • 14:30
        Hardware Drill ideas 15m
      • 14:45
        Hardware Remote DOMHubs 15m
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Hardware Cables, cost and power 15m
    • 15:45 16:15
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:15 17:30
      Open discussion

      work time/ additional topics

    • 08:30 10:15
      Gen2 Physics Studies
      • 08:30
        Physics Studies Detector design studies (Aachen) 20m
      • 09:00
        Phyics Studies Point Source Studies 20m
        Slides
      • 09:20
        CORSIKA background studies in HEX 20m
        Speaker: Mr Sebastian Euler (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Cascades in HEX 20m
        Speaker: Joanna Kiryluk (o=stonybrook,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
        Slides
    • 10:15 10:45
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:45 12:30
      Gen2 Physics Goals
      • 10:45
        Physics Goals Discussion: how to converge, weighting of physics goals, benchmark fluxes and backgrounds 20m
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m

      on your own

    • 14:00 15:45
      Design 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

      constraints from NSF

      • 14:00
        Design, constraints, going forward Design ideas 20m
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Design, constraints, going forward Constraints from NSF 20m
    • 15:45 16:15
      coffee break 30m 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

    • 16:15 17:30
      Gen2 Going Forward 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

      • 16:15
        Going Forward Discussions: tasks going forward 1h 15m