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What infrastructure will contribute to
facilitating broad participation, community
growth, and the best possible science?

• John Nousek
• Cyclical nature of resources and impact
• Participants in the field
• Elements of a new field
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Success

• Barry Barish
• One shoe doesnt fit all
• Creating a roadmap
• Emerging technologies
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• - Ulitimate Goal -

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Cyclical nature of resources and impact
Participants

• X-ray astronomy rise and fall of resources and
  the impact of those resources
• Early participants to the field werent born
  x-ray astronomers,
• they became x-ray astronomers
• There are people in HS now who dont know where
  to go to get trained to become a
• gravitational wave astronomer. We need them
  to fuel the growth of GWA.

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Elements of a new field

• Technology - enabling technology to allow new
  discovery
• Physics - why discoveries teach us something
  new
• elevator conversation
• Data Analysis - novelty leads to new training
  knowledge by practitioners
• People - importance of yield accessibility
  growth
• if people dont come to the
  party, there isnt a party
• inaccessibility wont help
  vitalize the field
• broad participation is crucial
• Community - self-recognition, internal
  prioritization, loyalty
• internal organization,
  present your priorities

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Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Success

• Find a Gravitational Wave
• Associate that G-wave with an object that can
  be observed by other means, HUGE!
• Use gravitational wave astronomy as a tool to
  probe something else

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Discussion

• DATA
• Spectrum from
• Instrument builders get all the data ---- End
  users/Community members get all the data
• somewhere there is a happy medium
• Science timescale is SLOW if data is not shared
• Community is built by sharing and everyone is
  contributing in a way they are best suited to
  contribute
• GRB people kept the data close because the SNR
  is low
• First data should be the instruments builders -
  however, dont use that as an excuse to always do
  it that way
• Educate those in your community about the data
  analysis and instruments so they are prepared to
  look at the data the time to go from proprietary
  to public is when your community is educated and
  ready for it.

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Discussion

• COLLABORATION
• Fields that grow well are able to develop a
  consensus
• No infighting, IR argued within the field and
  it hurt them. SPITZER significantly delayed by
  infighting.
• Dont put down your peers and their ideas.
  Present a united front.
• Encourage leaders to go the route of consensus
  rather than pushing their individual agendas.

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Discussion

• BUILDING AND PRESENTING A CONSENSUS
• Working Groups
• Be self organizing. Talk to funding agencies,
  present the pathway yourself, usually they dont
  see the pathway.
• Speak with one voice clearly, and tell truths
• NATIONAL CENTERS
• Community and national centers work hand in
  hand
• All the pieces will(should) grow together

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Discussion

• CREATING A CURRICULUM
• Need a result for students to really come on
  board
• Concentrate on the graduate student level
• Get your field out there, clips on CNN . keep
  it alive!

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What infrastructure will contribute to
facilitating broad participation, community
growth, and the best possible science?

• Barry Barish
• One shoe doesnt fit all
• Creating a roadmap
• Emerging technologies
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• - Ultimate Goal -

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One shoe doesnt fit allCreating a road map

• Gravitational wave astronomy will develop
  differently.
• Creating a road map
• - What is to be accomplished?
• - Where are we now?
• - Where are we going?
• - What are the paths well take?
• - What are the tools well need?

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Emerging Technologies

• Neutrino Physics and Astronomy compared to
  Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Neutrino Physics
• Particle Physics Astrophysics
• v properties v beams
• v interactions
• Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Physics Astrophysics
• G-wave properties Improved Sensitivity
• G-wave observations

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Emerging Technologies

• Cryogenic
• Broadband interferometers
• Reflective interferometers
• Reshaped laser beams
• Sub-quantum limited interferometers
• Only 1 of our resources are put into emerging
  technologies, this is not enough to grow the
  field
• Rule of thumb from other fields need 5-10

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Gravitational Wave Astronomy

• Ultimate Goal Gravitational Wave Cosmology
• Compare roadmaps between neutrino astronomy and
  gravitational wave astronomy - the key to the
  future will be in investing enough resources into
  technological development and new detectors.
• Building community, getting the data out, all
  that wont matter without advancing technology
  and detectors.

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Discussion

• Astronomical sources in the middle band?
• - if gravitational wave cosmology, then NS-NS
  binaries visible there too
• Will there be funding for new technologies
  before a detection?
• - gravitational wave detection is just a matter
  of time, not a question of if it will happen
• Community building is useful if the goal is to
  get more resources, isnt it?
• - It is a priority problem, put science first,
  community will follow.
• - computing facilities, data analysis,
  participation of people is crucial to maximize
  resources
• How do we sell our future? Were in a tentative
  stage right now.
• - A central part of our story will be our long
  range plan. We need to get our priorities
  straight.
• Lead time to build new instruments?
• - Long- 20 years perhaps. RD work needs to be
  done in parallel.

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Discussion

• In terms of resources, are we people limited?
• - resources are a bigger problem than human
  resources. People come to work that is respected.
• Community needs to sell it, then the resources
  come when we approach the funding agencies.
  Community must buy off on investing our resources
  in advanced technologies.
• Is there overlap in ground-based and space-based
  detector development?
• - some overlap, not much. ESA has people working
  on both.