Abstract | Ed Young is in Antarctica on a recovery mission for Spider. I'll give an update on the plan. Then I'll describe our plans for doing cosmology and astrophysics with SuperBIT, a new wide-field sub-arcsecond imager operating over 100 nights in the space-like environment provided by the Super Pressure Balloon Platform. 

Student talk
Steve Choi (Princeton University) "Polarized galactic synchrotron and dust emission and their correlation.”

Abstract: We present an analysis of the level of polarized dust and synchrotron emission using the WMAP9 and Planck data. There is a spatial correlation between the dust emission as measured by Planck at 353 GHz and the synchrotron emission as measured by WMAP at 23 GHz. A simple foreground model with dust, synchrotron, and their correlation fits well to all possible cross spectra formed with the WMAP and Planck 353 GHz data given the current uncertainties.