Location: MPA Lecture Hall
Day 1: November 26
10:00-10:05 Welcome and scope of the workshop, Eiichiro Komatsu [5]
Session 1: Physics of Polarized Foreground Emission
10:05-10:35 Overview of Planck Sky Model, Jacques Delabrouille [25+5]
10:35-11:05 Dust Polarization, Jean-Philippe Bernard [25+5]
11:05-11:30 Break [25]
11:30-12:00 Synchrotron: exploiting the high-energy astrophysics connection, Andrew Strong [25+5]
12:00-12:30 Magnetic nanoparticles in the Interstellar Medium, Bruce Draine [25+5]
12:30-14:00 Lunch [90]
14:00-14:30 Modeling Galactic magnetic fields using polarized synchrotron and dust emission, Tess Jaffe [25+5]
14:30-15:00 Free-free and anomalous microwave emission, Clive Dickinson [25+5]
15:00-15:30 Break [30]
15:30-16:00 Structure in the magnetic field of the Milky Way, Dominic Schnitzeler [25+5]
16:00-16:30 The Galactic Faraday sky - what it is, how it is done, and why it is useful, Niels Oppermann [25+5]
16:30-17:00 Discussion Session 1 [60] Moderator: Torsten Enßlin
- Have we exhausted all possible polarized foreground components which would contaminate the CMB science?
- How much do we understand the magnetic fields in our Milky Way? Would the all-sky polarization measurements be useful for learning about the magnetic fields? If so, which frequencies?
- Experimentalists: what do you wish to know about the foreground?
- Theorists: what kind of microwave data do you wish to have?
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION SESSION 1: available here
17:30 Reception at MPA