What's New:

30/01/2013 Web page open.


Overview:

Detection of primordial gravitational waves would be one of the most significant scientific discoveries of all time. Such a detection would be a direct evidence for inflation and shed light on fundamental physics such as quantum gravity behind inflation. The accurate measurement of CMB polarization is the best way to discover the primordial gravitational waves. It is thus one of the greatest challenges in experimental cosmology in the next decade. Thanks to remarkable technological development in recent years, the detection is not a mere dream anymore but becoming factual. The primary objective of the conference is to exchange ideas on how to reach the precision at the level of r=0.001 or even better, where r is the tensor-to-scalar ratio. Another important goal of the conference is to evaluate scientific values of such a measurement, where relations to other observations such as CMB temperature anisotropies are also important. To these ends, the conference will have talks from all the CMB projects in operation, in preparation or in planning.




Program:

The conference consists of plenary sessions and poster sessions. Topics in the plenary sessions will include the following:

- Planck results/instruments
- WMAP9
- On-going ground/balloon CMB experiments
- CMB experiments in preparation
- Future CMB experiments including satellites
- Theory overviews
- Nature of foregrounds and their separation

Talks in the plenary sessions are by invitation only. Poster sessions will be based on abstract submissions to cover a broad range of topics on CMB research, from inflationary model building to superconducting sensor development, which will stimulate vigorous and open discussions among participants. Posters on a wider range of topics related to CMB are also welcomed; examples of such topics are:

- Synergy between CMB and other observations, such as CIRB, 21cm, dark energy and dark matter.
- Astrophysics/astronomy with foregrounds.



Scientific Organizing committee:

George Efstathiou (University of Cambridge)
Masashi Hazumi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),Chair)
Eiichiro Komatsu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Stephan Meyer (University of Chicago)
Naoshi Sugiyama (Nagoya University)




Local Organizing committee:

Makoto Hattori (Tohoku University)
Masashi Hazumi(KEK, Chair)
Hideo Kodama (KEK)
Shuji Matsuura (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
Chiko Otani (RIKEN)
Yutaro Sekimoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ))
Osamu Tajima (KEK)




Contact:

Email: cmb2013@ml.post.kek.jp