Registration for July 2026 DESC Collaboration Meeting

Boston University and Northeastern University, Boston

Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris

Monday July 20, 2026: Dark Energy School

Tuesday-Friday, July 21-24, 2026: Collaboration Meeting

Collaboration meetings are open to all DESC members. If you are not yet a member, you may apply here.
This meeting will offer two in-person sites to encourage greater interaction among DESC members who are unable to travel to the US: Boston University and Paris/APC.

The main site (Boston) will have local support (e.g. discounted hotel blocks, refreshments) financed by a registration fee.

The in-person registration fee is US$250 or US$200 for early career (graduate student or post-doc) members, through July 1, 2026.
Late registrations will be accepted through July 7, 2026 at a slightly higher fee.

The satellite site (Paris) has no registration fee and is not guaranteed to have the same local support.
For those unable to travel to either site, we will support Zoom connections (with recordings of most sessions) as we have in the past.

For your travel planning, please also note that the main meeting now fully extends through Friday morning July 24th. The former "Sprint Day" has become "Sprint Activities", distributed throughout the week.
Please join the Discovery Alliance Slack channel #desc-collab-meeting to keep updated on discussions and announcements during the meeting.
See also the main meeting page for more information, including a link to the developing agenda.

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Select the site you will attend:

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DESC Meeting Contact Persons

As described in the DESC Meeting Contact Person Policy, Meeting Contact Persons (MCPs) will be available (by Zoom and Slack) to meeting participants and be afforded the authority to take action to resolve disputes, conflicts, or harmful situations. MCPs will be selected from eligible participants, and be appointed by the Collaboration Council and the Management Team. All MCP appointments will be confirmed and scheduled with candidates before the meeting.

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Session Facilitators

Special opportunity! You, as a meeting participant, can help ensure the success of this meeting by enrolling as a Session Facilitator for one or two sessions; this would involve, e.g., monitoring the chat window or raised hands in the participant list on Zoom, and generally helping where needed, whether you are in-person or remote. For a quick look at what's involved, see the Session Facilitator's Cheat Sheet New/junior members are especially encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity as it will help you gain visibility within the DESC community.

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Accessibility and Accommodations

If you require any additional accommodations (e.g., closed captions, alt-text for screen readers, etc), please fill out this anonymous form.

All the plenary sessions will be recorded and recordings will be posted to DESC Confluence. As a presenter or participant of the meeting, I understand that what I say, with my microphone turned on, may be recorded. (All participants will be informed in Zoom when they are joining a session that is being recorded. Organizers of parallel sessions will be asked to consider the preferences of the speakers. If you prefer your image not to appear, you are welcome to keep your video turned off.)

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Registration for July 2026 DESC Collaboration Meeting

Boston University and Northeastern University, Boston

Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris

Monday July 20, 2026: Dark Energy School

Tuesday-Friday, July 21-24, 2026: Collaboration Meeting

Select the site you will attend:

Badge Text

Attendance/Participation

Collaboration dinner

Baseball game

DESC Meeting Contact Persons

Session Facilitators

Accessibility and Accommodations