Sunday, 6 January 2019

Joint PAG Meeting with Paul Hertz, Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division

Room: 4C-3

Note: The Joint PAG meeting has been ***CANCELLED***. Due to the government shutdown, Paul Hertz will not be able to attend or present remotely. Dr. Hertz plans to have a web Town Hall after the government re-opens.

Several other presentations were also ***CANCELLED*** due to the government shutdown.

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group (GW SIG) Meeting

Room: 310

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
9:15 AM – 9:40 AM	Earth and Sky: Synergies Between LISA and 3G Gravitational Wave Detectors	Kent Yagi	[PDF]
9:40 AM – 10:05 AM	Early Black Hole Growth with Lynx and LISA	Zoltan Haiman	[PDF]
10:05 AM – 10:25 AM	Decadal Preparations	Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
10:25 AM – 10:45 AM	LISA Status  ***CANCELLED***	Ira Thorpe

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Meeting

Room: 4C-3

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM	PCOS Intro and News  ***CANCELLED***	Terri Brandt
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM	PhysPAG Intro and News	John Conklin	[PDF]
11:45 AM – 12:05 PM	The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: New Insights into Galaxy Growth and Evolution	Maura McLaughlin	[PDF]
12:05 PM – 12:25 PM	Bread & Butter Astrophysics with GW Detections	Saavik Ford	[PDF]
12:25 PM – 12:45 PM	IMAGINE: the Interstellar MAGnetic field INference Engine	Tess Jaffe	[PDF]

Gamma Ray Science Interest Group (GR SIG) Meeting

Room: 310

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
	Opening Remarks	Sylvain Guiriec	[PDF]
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM	AGN at High Redshift	Marco Ajello	[PDF]
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM	Element Creation	Frank Timmes or Chris Fryer	[PDF]
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM	Dark Matter  ***CANCELLED***	Regina Caputo
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM	Particle Acceleration  ***CANCELLED***	Toni Venters (remote talk, if possible)
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM	Gamma-ray Astrophysics in the 2020s	Sylvain Guiriec
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Discussion

X-ray Science Interest Group (XR SIG) Meeting

Room: 310

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM	US Involvement in Athena  ***CANCELLED***	Mike Garcia
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM	Lynx: Overview / Status and Optics	Doug Swartz	[Overview PDF] [Optics PDF]
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM	Summary and Overview of the White Papers Submitted to the XRSIG Website	John Tomsick, Ralph Kraft, Ryan Hickox	[PDF]
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM	Panel Discussion	(Chair TBD)

PhysCOS Related Activities

Saturday, 5 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM	The AAS Chandra/CIAO Workshop (Day 1)	Room 204

Sunday, 6 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM	The AAS Chandra/CIAO Workshop (Day 2)	Room 204
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	CANCELLED Joint PAG (Program Analysis Group) Meeting with Paul Hertz, Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division	Room: 4C-3

Monday, 7 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	141. Beyond Photons: Astronomy in the Multi-messenger Era	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
	142. Cosmology and Astrophysics with Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments
	149. NANOGrav
	150. Planetary Nebulae and SNRs
	151. Relativistic Astrophysics, Gravitational Lenses, & Waves
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM	102. The Landscape of Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories	Room 6A
	112. Black Holes I	Room 612
	116. AGN Black Holes I: A New Hope	Room 616 / 617
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM	Dannie Heineman Prize: The Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics: Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)	Room 6E
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	120. CANCELLED NASA Town Hall	Room 6E
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	125. Cosmology and Astrophysics with Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments	Room 606
	133. Pulsars in Binaries	Room 615
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM	153. White Dwarfs, Pulsars, Neutron Stars	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
	157. Space Mission Instrumentation I
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM	174. Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Town Hall	Room 6B
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM	NASA's TESS Mission-Early Science from Exoplanets, Time Domain Astronomy and Astrophysics	Room 201

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	242. AGN, QSO, Blazars I	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
	243. AGN, QSO, Blazars II
	248. Gamma Ray Bursts
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM	210. Gravitational Lenses, Waves, Relativisitic Astrophysics, & GRBs II	Room 609
	215. NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Astrophysics Fellows Forum	Room 615
	216. HEAD I: Chandra at 20	Room 616 / 617
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	221. NSF Town Hall	Room 6B
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM	MeV Astronomy: Unlocking the Multi-Messenger Universe	Room 205
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	224. New Results from the Dark Energy Survey	Room 6C
	236. HEAD II: Fermi at 10	Room 616 / 617
	237. Space Mission Instrumentation III	Room 618 – 620
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM	RAS Gold Medal Lecturer Prize: Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe: Sir James Hough (University of Glasgow, Scotland)	Room 6E
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM	HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize: Cosmic Rumbles and Fireworks from Merging Neutron Stars: Colleen Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC)	Room 6E
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM	272. CANCELLED James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall	Room 6C

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	The Energetic Universe in Focus: Twenty Years of Science with the Chandra X-ray Observatory: Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth College)	Room 6E
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	349. Cosmology	Posters
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM	313. Surveys & Large Programs	Room 614
	314. Oral Binaries and Their Properties	Room 615
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	324. AAS Public Policy Town Hall: Astronomer Advice for the President's Advisors: A Listening Session with the National Space Council Users' Advisory Group	Room 6E
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	331. Gravitational Lenses, Waves, Relativisitic Astrophysics, & GRBs III	Room 616
	338. Cosmology: Galaxy/Structure Evolution
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM	345. Plenary Prize Lecture: Henry Norris Russell Lecture: The Limits of Cosmology, Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins University, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and Oxford University)	Room 6E
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM	369. Black Holes	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
	383. Cosmology
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM	384.Implementing the Next Decadal Survey: Status Report of Astro2020 from the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics at the National Academy of Sciences	Room 6B

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Time	Session	Location
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	456. Black Holes & Supernovae: Late Posters	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM	NASA PhysPAG Gravitational Wave SIG	Room 310
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM	409. Large Scale Structure and Cosmology I	Room 609
	414. Accreting BlackHoles & WDs, and Their Environments	Room 615
	415. Cosmology: Galaxy/Structure Evolution II	Room 616
	418. Variable Stars and Their Remnants in Surveys	Room 619
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM	NASA PhysPAG	Room 4C-3
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	444. A NICER Exploration of Neutron Stars and Black Holes	Posters, Exhibit Hall 4AB
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM	NASA PhysPAG Gamma-Ray SIG	Room 310
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	425. Computational Astrophysics	Room 606
	426. A NICER Exploration of Neutron Stars and Black Holes	Room 607
	428. Large Scale Structure and Cosmology II	Room 609
	434. Seyferts and LINERs	Room 616
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM	NASA PhysPAG X-ray SIG	Room 310