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by Erik Leitch

Hi All, I emailed John about this last week, but I suspect he may be traveling or otherwise preoccupied, so I thought I'd just send out a request to the list at large: We've organized a public lecture series at Cerro Coso Community College here in Bishop for the past three years. We're doing it again this Fall, and I'm wondering if anyone from the group would be interested in giving a public talk about the BICEP2 results? The date I have in mind is Oct 2 (a Thursday), and we can provide travel reimbursement for speaker, and lodging at the observatory for up to 5 nights for speaker + any accompanying family. Early Oct is prime hiking season in the Eastern Sierra, and the talks are well attended (100+) by a diverse and appreciative audience. I'm trying to finalize our schedule very soon, and I know our audience would love to hear about the experiment & results, so let me know soon if there are any takers -- it's a great opportunity for anyone interested in communicating science to the public, and a chance to hone your public speaking skills! Cheers, Erik

9 years, 9 months

Instrument paper: proofs

by Walt Ogburn

Hi everyone, I have received proofs from ApJ for the BICEP2 instrument paper. You can find them here: http://bicep0.caltech.edu/~bicep2/papers/2013_instrument/ There's a proof and a "redline proof", which has looser (approximate) layout and highlights changes in red and blue. Almost all changes are innocuous matters of journal style. Changes to note: * A space has been inserted in "BICEP2" to make "BICEP 2". Small caps are preserved. The opposite was the case in the PRL, so that it became "BICEP2" with all large caps. * Change to the CEA postal code format. Emailed Lionel to check this. * multi-channel electronics has been lowercased. I propose to ask for this to be changed back to upper case since it's the proper name of a specific system, not a generic term. * There are a few requests for definitions of terms and acronyms, which I can easily add. * There are a few requests for additional information in the bibliography. The only difficult one here is Justus's 2011 LTD, which seems not to have been included in the published volume for reasons unknown. In addition, I am correcting Fig. 3 to include the nylon filter on the sky-side of the objective lens. This isn't in the proofs but is included in the "current PDF" link at the paper HTML page. - Walt

9 years, 9 months

SPIE Proceedings as submitted

by Immanuel Buder

Attached is the PDF of SPIE Proceedings as submitted Friday July 18. We decided on the telecon today that unless I hear objections within 48 hours, we are considering it approved for posting to the arxiv. Immanuel Buder Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C (office) 617 495 7567 (mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42 Cambridge, MA 02138 ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu

9 years, 9 months

Posting SPIE Proceedings to arxiv?

by Immanuel Buder

John and I just had a discussion here about whether we should post my SPIE proceedings to the arxiv. The concern is that because of the title (which contains "BICEP2 and Keck Array") it could cause some unwarranted eruptions in the blogosphere if it gets misinterpreted. Even without posting to the arxiv, it will still get exposure through SPIE, ADS, etc., and we can post it to bicepkeck.org (at the bottom of the page with the other SPIEs) so everyone can get access without an SPIE subscription. So John and I are leaning against posting to the arxiv, but what do others think? Zeesh, are you planning to post your proceedings to the arxiv? Immanuel Buder Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (office) 617 495 7567 (office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C (mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42 Cambridge, MA 02138 ibuder(a)gmail.com <ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu>

9 years, 10 months

Draft SPIE Proceedings for Review

by Immanuel Buder

I'm attaching a draft of my SPIE Proceedings for comments. The submission deadline has already passed, but I've been given an extension until June 13. Things to think about while reading: In previous SPIEs we have given a full author list. I can take the BICEP2 author list from the paper, but I don't know if we have a final Keck author list. Do we want to submit this to the arxiv? My understanding of the SPIE copyright is that we have to submit to the arxiv first if we do so at all. The introduction is pretty light on references; I'd appreciate suggestions for a few key ones people think are worth adding. I'm trying to stay away from anything controversial related to the BICEP2 results and foregrounds. SPIE is not the right venue for it. Section 2 naturally has a lot of overlap with the upcoming beams paper. Abby especially, I'd appreciate your thoughts here. I put in our latest analysis of the 100 GHz NET and a placeholder for 100 GHz map depth. If we don't feel the 100 GHz map depth is ready to publish, I plan to just say it is already deeper than BICEP1. Note: I used the online collaborative paper-writing tool authorea.com (spin off of Harvard CfA) to write these proceedings. Immanuel Buder Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (office) 617 495 7567 (office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C (mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42 Cambridge, MA 02138 ibuder(a)gmail.com <ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu>

9 years, 10 months

Fwd: Your talk at Strings 2014 and your job recommendations -- job opportunity in Prague

by John Kovac

Hi gang, Those of you entering the job market, please take note: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Your talk at Strings 2014 and your job recommendations Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:08:09 +0200 From: Martin Schnabl <schnabl.martin(a)gmail.com> To: jmkovac(a)cfa.harvard.edu Dear John, in the opening slide of your nice presentation you enthusiastically recommended your junior colleagues from BICEP2 for jobs. Now, this actually came in the moment, when we do have an opening for an experimental or theoretical cosmologist in Prague, Czech Republic. Now, obviously, 100 years after Einstein left the town, Prague is not know as a major center of cosmology. Therefore, we are looking especially for an ambitious young talented cosmologist who could set up their own elite team (which could itself be part of a bigger international collaboration) . The position would be funded for five years from a special prestigious grant from the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic (ASCR) and then it would smoothly transition into the full tenure. The deadline for the application is July 31st. For more details, please see our official announcement: https://inspirehep.net/record/1299481 We would be grateful if you could circulate this message among your junior colleagues. Kind regards, Martin Schnabl -- Mgr. Martin Schnabl, Ph. D. Institute of Physics AS CR Na Slovance 2, Praha 8 Czech Republic Tel: 420 2 6605 2650

9 years, 10 months

Draft SPIE Slides for Review

by Immanuel Buder

Here are slides I'm planning to show at SPIE on Thursday. Comments appreciated. Note the time is 15min+5min questions, and I'm probably close to the max. Thanks, Immanuel Buder Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C (office) 617 495 7567 (mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42 Cambridge, MA 02138 ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu

9 years, 10 months

Updated slides to reflect published paper

by Clem Pryke

Hi Stefan, With the imminent appearance of the final version of the paper we should update the google slides to reflect. Please save a snapshot of the current state and then update 45, 47, 52, 53, 63 and any others you can identify which need it. We should also add a "what changed?" slide - I attach a rough draft. Thanks, Clem

9 years, 11 months

Re: [Bicep2-list] Draft SPIE Proceedings for Review

by Clem Pryke

> If we don't feel the 100 GHz map depth is ready to publish, I plan to just > say it is already deeper than BICEP1. Until we have a proper abscal you shouldn't give a specific number. Clem -- ********************************************************************** Clem Pryke - Associate Professor - Physics University of Minnesota Room 318 Physics and Nanotechnology Building 115 Union Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 Tel: 612-624-7578 Fax: 612-624-4578 email: pryke(a)physics.umn.edu **********************************************************************

9 years, 11 months

Re: [Bicep2-list] wmap synch slide

by Clem Pryke

Mark, I have pasted in the plot you sent as slide 113 in the Google slides. I put some lame words there for now - please have a look and make better. Thanks, Clem -- ********************************************************************** Clem Pryke - Associate Professor - Physics University of Minnesota, Room 313 Tate, 116 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN, 55455 Tel: 612-624-7578 Fax: 612-624-4578 email: pryke(a)physics.umn.edu **********************************************************************

10 years, 1 month

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