Overview

This event has ended. Please join us for the Futures III meeting in Berkeley, CA, Summer 2017.


Overview

Funded by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the Kavli Foundation, the second in a series of three conferences for the astronomical community to broadly discuss potential U.S. futures for radio-millimeter-submillimeter science in the 2020’s and beyond will be held 3-5 August 2016 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

The 125 attendees at the first of these conferences, held in Chicago in December 2015, produced a compelling set of Science Working Group Reports that are key inputs to the exploration of the scope, feasibility, and transformational science expected from the leading future radio-millimeter-submillimeter instrument and technique options.

Parallel sessions at Futures II in Baltimore will broadly discuss potential radio-millimeter-submillimeter “Flagship” and “Small/Midscale” initiatives over the planned three days of the conference. Flagship options are major investments for instruments with widespread community benefit and support that will require funding by or on a scale comparable to the National Science Foundation (NSF) – Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction (MREFC) line. Small/Midscale initiatives are significant investments that might be funded via the NSF Mid-Scale Initiative Program (MSIP) line, such as experiments emerging from smaller groups and collaborations. 

Please join us for this important and continuing discussion of the future of U.S. radio-millimeter-submillimeter science in Baltimore in early August!

Futures II Focus Areas

Cosmic Microwave Background
(Chair, Zeeshan Ahmed)

Next Generation Very Large Array
(Chair, Eric Murphy)

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
(Chair, Aaron Parsons)

Pulsars and Transients
(Chair, David Kaplan)

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