Sunday, 4 January 2015

X Ray Science Interest Group (XR SIG) Session

Room 6C

Time	Topic
09:00am -12:00pm	Science Study Team (See Randall Smith, PhysPAG Meeting today 3:00 PM, Room 6C)
	NASA's Request for Information on Athena focal plane instruments (See NSPIRES solicitation NN15ZDA003L)
	Strategic Planning
	NASA SMD Preparations for Decadal + "Charge to PAGs"
	See Paul Hertz, PAG Plenary today 12:30 PM Room 6B and Strategic Planning Documents
	Other Topics

Gamma Ray Science Interest Group (GR SIG) Session

Room 6B

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
9:00am – 9:30am	MeV Science from the INTEGRAL Perspective	Markus Böttcher	[PDF]
9:30am – 10:00am	MeV Science from the Fermi perspective	Dave Thompson	[PDF]
10:00am – 10:30am	MeV Science Highlights from CGRO/COMPTEL	Mark McConnell	[PDF]
10:30am – 10:45am	Break
10:45am – 11:00am	Lorentz Invariance Violation Studies with MeV Blazars	Henric Krawczynski	[PDF]
11:00am – 11:15am	The Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope (AdEPT)	Stan Hunter	[PDF]
11:15am – 11:30am	PANGU: A High Resolution Gamma-Ray Space Telescope	Meng Su	[PDF]
11:30am – 12:00 Noon	A Vision for the US Community	Open Discussion
12:00 Noon– 12:30pm	Break

Joint PAG Plenary Session

Room 6B

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
12:30pm – 2:00pm	Presentation	Paul Hertz	[PDF]
	Astrophysics Division White Paper	Paul Hertz	[PDF]

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Meeting

Room 6C

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
	PhysPAG Meeting at the Seattle AAS	John Nousek	[PDF]
2:00pm – 2:15pm	Transition Time from PAG Plenary in Room 6B
2:15pm – 3:00pm	Discussion of Charge to the PhysPAG with Paul Hertz
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Athena Project Report	Randall Smith	[PDF]
3:30pm – 4:00pm	PCOS Technology Gaps for 2015	Thai Pham	[PDF]
4:00pm – 4:20pm	IP SIG Update	Shaul Hanany (Presenting remotely)	[PDF]
4:20pm – 4:40pm	Dark Energy Update	Rachel Bean	[PDF]
4:40pm – 5:00pm	GW SIG Update	Neil Cornish	[PDF]
5:00pm – 5:20pm	Gamma SIG Update	Mark McConnell	[PDF]
5:20pm – 6:00pm	Final Discussion and Wrap‑up
6:00pm	Adjourn

2015: The Centennial of General Relativity

Physics of the Cosmos will be participating in two upcoming events. Sessions are co-organized by Ann Hornschemeier and Chris Reynolds. (NOTE: Working titles, all speakers confirmed, but talk titles are notional.)

Monday, 5 January 2015

HEAD I: Centennial of General Relativity: An Astrophysical Perspective

Time	Topic	Speaker
10:00 AM	Astrophysical Tests of General Relativity	Clifford Will, University of Florida
	A Historical Perspective on relativity theory and black holes	Charlie Misner
	A Historical Perspective on High Energy Astrophysics and Constraints of General Relativity	Virginia Trimble, UC Irvine/UMD

HEAD II: Centennial of General Relativity: Looking Forward

Time	Topic	Speaker
2:00 PM	Looking ahead to Space-based Measurements of Gravitational Waves	Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
	A brief history of the search for gravitational waves	Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Detecting Gravitational waves of galactic and AU scales	Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College
	Detecting gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo detectors	Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

The Quest for Gravitational Waves, 100 Years After Einstein

Session Organized by Gabriela Gonzalez

Time	Topic	Speaker
2:00 PM	Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts	Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
	A brief history of the search for gravitational waves	Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Detecting Gravitational waves of galactic and AU scales	Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College
	Detecting gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo detectors	Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

We are also planning activities at the PhysCOS table in the NASA SMD area.

Stay tuned! Plans are in progress and include a PhysCOS booth.

Other Centennial of GR Related Meetings

Dates	Event	Location
1 – 5 Dec 2014	GR 100 — Gravitational Wave Astronomy	Jena, Germany
29 Dec 2014 – 8 Jan 2015	100 Years to General Relativity: From Theory to Experiment and Back	Jerusalem, Israel
4 – 8 January 2015	225th AAS Meeting of the American Astronomical Society	Seattle, Washington
10 – 14 February 2015	Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity	Lahore, Pakistan
12 – 16 February 2015	Meeting link: 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting Symposium link: Physics and Astronomy Symposium: General Relativity at 100	San Jose, California
11 – 14 April 2015	APS April Meeting 2015	Baltimore, Maryland
8 – 12 June 2015	100 Years of General Relativity	Penn State University, Pennsylvania
28 June – 5 July 2015	XII International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC-12)	Moscow, Russia
12 – 18 July 2015	Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting	Rome, Italy
3 – 14 August 2015	The 29th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)	Honolulu, Hawaii
30 Nov – 5 Dec 2015	A Century of General Relativity	Berlin, Germany

Session Schedules

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Time	Meeting	Location
12:30pm – 2:00pm	Educational Activities at the PCOS booth, including "Spandex Spacetime," "Michelson Interferometer," & "Binary Inspiral"	Main Exhibit Hall
1:45pm – 2:00pm	Hyperwall Engagement Presentation by Ira Thorpe, "Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves"

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Time	Meeting	Location
10:00am – 11:30am	PAG Session: Reports from NASA's Program Analysis Groups	Room: 606
12:45pm – 1:45pm	NASA Town Hall	Room: 6E
5:15pm – 5:30pm	Hyperwall Engagement Presentation by Ira Thorpe, "Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves"

Exhibits

Monday, 5 January – Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Time	Location
9:00am – 6:00pm	Exhibit Hall: Visit the PCOS Table (Within the NASA SMD booth)!