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.  
    • Systematic uncertainty studies
    • 12:00
      Lunch

      on your own

    • Calibration: and future systematic studies
    • 16:00
      coffee break
    • Calibration
    • Analysis updates
    • 10:15
      coffee break
    • Analysis updates
    • 12:30
      Lunch

      on your own

    • Coordination

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

    • New Photon Detection Technologies
    • 10:00
      break
    • New Photon Detection Technologies
    • 11:45
      Lunch

      on your own

    • Surface detector R&D
      • 1
        Surface Detector R&D Overview, objective - Albrecht Karle
        Slides
      • 2
        Surface Detector R&D Surface veto simulation - Javier Gonzales
        Slides
      • 3
        Surface Detector R&D Prototype for next year - Delia Tosi
        Slides
      • 4
        break
      • 5
        Toy MC Simulation of a Surface Array - Sebastian Euler
        Slides
      • 6
        Surface Detector R&D Prototype readout options - John Kelley
        Slides
      • 7
        Surface Detector R&D TAXI as readout - Timo Karg
        Slides
      • 8
        Surface Detector R&D Mechanical options - Perry Sandstrom
        Slides
      • 9
        discussion/plan
    • 18:40
      Dinner at the Old Fashioned

      dinner included in the registration fee

    • Surface detector R&D: Surface Extension
      • 10
        Surface Detector R&D Veto efficiency studies from CORSIKA
      • 11
        Surface Detector R&D Summary of the Monday PM session (short-term surface R&D)
      • 12
        discussion
      • 13
        Surface Detector R&D Surface extensions/surface veto (long-term)
        Slides
      • 14
        discussion
    • 10:30
      coffee break
    • Gen2 working group planning
      • 15
        Gen2-High-Energy Working Group working group plans
    • 12:30
      lunch

      on your own

    • Gen2 Hardware
      • 16
        Hardware Summary of the Monday AM (hardware) session
      • 17
        Hardware Drill ideas
      • 18
        Hardware Remote DOMHubs
        Slides
      • 19
        Hardware Cables, cost and power
    • 15:45
      coffee break
    • Open discussion

      work time/ additional topics

    • Gen2 Physics Studies
      • 20
        Physics Studies Detector design studies (Aachen)
      • 21
        Phyics Studies Point Source Studies
        Slides
      • 22
        CORSIKA background studies in HEX
        Speaker: Mr Sebastian Euler (RWTH Aachen University)
        Slides
      • 23
        Cascades in HEX
        Speaker: Joanna Kiryluk (o=stonybrook,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
        Slides
    • 10:15
      coffee break
    • Gen2 Physics Goals
      • 24
        Physics Goals Discussion: how to converge, weighting of physics goals, benchmark fluxes and backgrounds
    • 12:30
      Lunch

      on your own

    • Design 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

      constraints from NSF

      • 25
        Design, constraints, going forward Design ideas
        Slides
      • 26
        Design, constraints, going forward Constraints from NSF
    • 15:45
      coffee break 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

    • Gen2 Going Forward 1st floor conference room at 222

      1st floor conference room at 222

      • 27
        Going Forward Discussions: tasks going forward