Dear HERAtics, Recently, thanks to the efforts of Steve Furlanetto, Adrian Liu, Asantha Cooray, and Peng Oh, we were awarded a multicampus research grant from the University of California to try to bring together theorists and experimentalists in the area of 21-cm cosmology. This workshop is the first major event to come from this funding. I think this would be an excellent opportunity for those of us connected to the instrument to climb the learning curve for delivering the kind of science we can expect from HERA.
The announcement is attached below. Please consider coming! Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce a workshop on October 1-2, 2015 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA: “Preparing for the 21-cm Cosmology Revolution” This workshop, sponsored by the University of California Cosmic Dawn Initiative, aims to bring experts in 21-cm cosmology together with theorists and observers studying the “Cosmic Dawn” and era of reionization with a broad range of techniques and methodologies. The goal is to discuss synergies with different experiments, optimize methods to test theoretical models, and strategize about future probes. The workshop will focus on fostering interactions across the high-redshift community, with a small number of invited talks and ample time for questions and wider discussion. In particular, we expect to devote more than half of the meeting time to guided discussions. The workshop should prove especially useful to researchers interested in developing multi-wavelength constraints on the reionization era and synergies between disparate observational approaches. We invite you to visit the conference website for more information: http://www.physics.uci.edu/21cm/index.html There you will find the list of talks; because of the focus on discussion, we have a limited number of invited talks and will not be accepted contributed talks, though there will be numerous opportunities for input from all attendees. There will also be a poster session open to all attendees. The workshop itself will be intentionally small (of order 60 participants) in order to maximize discussion and interaction across all attendees. As such, we are currently accepting applications for the conference. Special consideration will be given to University of California faculty, students, and postdocs, but all are invited to apply. The conference will be held at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA on October 1-2, 2015. The registration fee of $200 will include full breakfast and lunch on both Thursday and Friday and the conference dinner on Thursday. Thank you very much, Asantha Cooray Steve Furlanetto Adrian Liu Peng Oh Aaron Parsons The scientific organizing committee -- Aaron Parsons 510-406-4322 (cell) Campbell Hall 523, UCB
