U.S. Radio/Millimeter/Submillimeter Science Futures III

Futures III will continue discussions and analysis of two key opportunities emerging from the Futures I and II meetings – ngVLA and Spectral-Line Cosomology & Low Frequency Instruments, including HERA and related intensity mapping opportunities. An update on other key areas – CMB, Pulsars and mid-scale developments – is also planned. Over the past two years, the Kavli meeting series has been a community-wide effort to explore our scientific visions for the next decade, and seeking to develop consensus and support for RMS initiatives on all resource scales in the upcoming decadal survey. 

The Futures I conference – held 15-17 December 2015 in Chicago ­– was structured around the key RMS science themes and community priorities identified in the New Worlds, New Horizons Astro2010 Decadal Survey. The community and NRAO selected four areas for deeper discussion at the Futures II conference, held 3-5 August 2016 in Baltimore: (1) a next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA); (2) a Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA); (3) pulsar instrumental and scientific opportunities; and (4) the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).