Saturday January 6, 2024

Physics of the Cosmos & Cosmic Origins + Astronomy on Tap event

Time	Topic	Speakers
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Supermassive Black Holes: Monsters of the Universe.	Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth College)
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Trivia Game
7:00pm – 9:00pm	From the Big Bang to Biosignatures: Revealing the ~14 Billion Year Story of How the Cosmos Became Habitable with NASA	Rachael Beaton (STScI)

Sunday January 7, 2024

Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (COPAG) Session

Time	Topic	Speakers
9:00am – 9:30am	Opening Remarks / COPAG Introduction [PDF]	Peter Kurczynski Chair: Shouleh Nikzad
9:30am – 10:00am	UV Working Group Summary / UV STIG [PDF]	UV WG Chair: Sarah Tuttle
10:00am – 12:00 noon	Galaxies SIG, Stars SIG, Diffuse Gas Cosmic Ecosystems SIG [PDF]	Chair: Hsiao-Wen Chen
10:00am – 10:15am	UV diagnostics of the Starburst ISM [PDF]	Danielle Berg
10:15am – 10:30am	Massive stars at low metallicity in the lead-up to HabWorlds [PDF]	Peter Senchyna
10:30am – 10:45am	The Baryon cycle in the HWO era, and along the way [PDF]	John O’Meara
10:45am – 11:00am	The need for space-based IFU spectroscopy	Claudia Scarlata
11:00am – 11:15am	How to start mapping the CGM in emission without waiting 20 years [PDF]	Erika Hamden
11:15am – 11:30am	UV Star Formation Rate [PDF]	Janice Lee
11:30am – 12:00 noon	Panel Discussion: Realizing Transformative Science in the LeadTime for HabWorlds	Moderator: Rachael Beaton
12:00 noon – 12:30pm	Science Gaps [PDF]	Panelist include Doris Daou (HQ), Enrique Lopez Rodriguez (Stanford), & John ZuHone (CFA Harvard)
12:30pm – 1:00pm	HWO [PDF]	HWO START Co-Chairs: John O'Meara & Courtney Dressing Moderator: Swara Ravindranath

Time Domain and Multimessenger Astrophysics SIG Session

Time	Topic	Speakers
2:00pm – 2:05pm	Opening [PDF]	Eric Burns & Ian Crossfield
2:05pm – 2:10pm	Roman [PDF]	Rebekah Hounsell
2:10pm – 2:20pm	ULTRASAT [PDF]	Brad Cenko
2:20pm – 2:30pm	NEO Surveyor [PDF]	Roc Cutri
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Discussion [PDF]

NASA Joint PAG Session

Time	Topic	Speakers
3:00pm – 3:05pm	Opening Remarks	Peter Kurczynski
3:05pm – 3:30pm	Overview	Shouleh Nikzad (COPAG EC Chair) [PDF] Justin Finke (PhysPAG EC Chair) [PDF] Ilaria Pascussi (ExEP EC Chair) [PDF]
3:30pm – 3:45pm	New Great Observatories SAG [PDF]	Grant Trembley
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Prepared Questions	Discussion with Mark Clampin
4:15pm – 5:00pm	Open Q&A [Ask a Question]	Moderators: Peter Kurczynski, Francesca Civano, Brian Humensky, Swara Ravindranath, Eric Mamajek, and Karl Stapelfeldt

Monday January 8, 2024

Time	Topic	Speakers
12:45pm – 1:45pm	NASA Town Hall
1:00pm – 2:30pm	NASA's Cosmic Pathfinders Program Session : Cosmic Pathfinders Program: Hack Your Career	Chair: Ronald Gamble Co-Chairs: Jordan Forman, Isiah Holt, Gokul Srinivasaragavan, Amethyst Barnes

Cosmic Pathfinders Program: Hack Your Career

Tuesday January 9, 2024

Infrared Science and Technology Interest Group (IR STIG) Session

Time	Topic	Speakers
9:00 – 9:05AM	IRSTIG Introduction: Community Engagement Efforts & Leadership Council Recruitment	Roberta Paladini – IPAC & IRSTIG Co-Chair
9:05 – 9:17AM	SALTUS: The Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies [PDF]	Jon Arenberg – Northrop Grumman on behalf of the SALTUS team
9:17 – 9:29AM	PRIMA: The PRobe far-infrared Mission for Astrophysics [PDF]	Matt Bradford – NASA JPL on behalf of the PRIMA team
9:29 – 9:41AM	FIRSST: The Far-Infrared Spectroscopy Space Telescope	Asantha Cooray – UC Irvine on behalf of the FIRSST team
9:41 – 9:48AM	Charting the Rise of Small Dust Grains from Reionization to the Present with the SALTUS Probe Concept [PDF]	Justin Spilker – Texas A&M University
9:48 – 9:55AM	Tracing Planet Formation in the Hidden Far-Infrared [PDF]	Jay Chittidi – University of Colorado, Boudler
9:55 – 10:02AM	Hunting for the Highest Redshift Obscured AGN	Erini Lambrides – NASA GSFC
10:02 – 10:09AM	Far-IR Line Follow-up to Measure Gas and Dust Conditions in Distant Galaxies [PDF]	Jed McKinney – University of Texas Austin
10:09 – 10:16AM	Protoplanetary Disk Science with SALTUS [PDF]	Kamber Schwarz – MPIA
10:16 – 10:23AM	Far-Infrared Luminosity Bursts Trace Mass Accretion onto Protostars [PDF]	Will Fischer – Space Telescope Science Institute
10:23 – 10:30AM	Unraveling Cosmic Metallicity: The FIRSST View on Protoclusters at Cosmic Noon [PDF]	Nima Chartab – Carnegie Observatories

Ultraviolet Science and Technology Interest Group (UV STIG) / Mine the Gap

Mine the Gap Flyer [PDF]

Time	Topic	Speakers
Session on UV Science – Chair, Douglas Gies
9:30am – 9:45am	UV Spectroscopy Requires an Appropriate Selection of Spectral Resolving Powers Combined with Excellent Angular Resolution. [PDF]	Ted Gull
9:45am – 10:00am	Science Objectives of Ultrahigh Resolution UV Spectroscopy	Jeff Linsky & Seth Redfield
10:00am – 10:15am	No UV??? What Will We Miss in Stellar Astrophysics??? [PDF]	Andrea Dupree
10:15am – 10:30am	New Perspectives on Stellar Evolution on the Upper Main Sequence	Geraldine J. Peters & Kenneth G. Gayley
10:30am – 10:45am	The ULLYSES UV Spectroscopic Archive for Massive Stars	Linda Smith (on behalf of the ULLYSES team)
Session on UV Tech – Chair, Paul Scowen
10:45am – 10:55am	UV Mirror and Detector Coatings by Atomic Layer Processing	John Hennessy, Robin Rodriguez, & April Jewell
10:55am – 11:05am	Detectors for UV/Visible Spectroscopy [PDF]	April Jewell
11:05am – 11:15am	UV CMOS Detectors for CASTOR and Beyond [PDF]	Chaz Shapiro
11:15am – 11:30am	Ongoing Developments for The Future Space Based Instrumentation [PDF]	Jason McPhate, Anton Tremsin, John Vallerga, & Oswald Siegmund

1:30pm – 1:40pm	Advances in Diffraction Grating Fabrication for Space-UV Astrophysics [PDF]	Keri Hoadley
1:40pm – 1:50pm	Emerging Coating Technologies for Realizing High-Reflectance and Stable Mirror Coatings for Observations in the Far Ultraviolet [PDF]	Manuel Quijada
1:50pm – 2:00pm	UV Technology White Paper: Getting ready for the Habitable Worlds Observatory	Sarah Tuttle
Session on UV Missions – Chair, Stephan McCandliss
2:00pm – 2:10pm	The Extreme-UV Radiation Environments of Extrasolar Planets: The ESCAPE Small Explorer Mission [PDF]	Kevin France
2:10pm – 2:20pm	Massive Star Wind Variability in the Ultraviolet: Considerations for Optimal Mission Design [PDF]	Alexandre David-Uraz
2:20pm – 2:30pm	Star Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)	Shouleh Nikzad, Evgenya Shkolnik, & TEAM SPARCS
2:30pm – 2:40pm	The Science Drivers and Broad-band Spectroscopic Capabilities of the UVSCOPE MIDEX Mission Concept [PDF]	David Ardilla (for Evgenya Shkolnik)
2:40pm – 2:50pm	POLSTAR [PDF]	Paul Scowen
2:50pm – 3:00pm	The Small NASA Optical Ultraviolet Telescope (SNOUT): A SmallSat mission concept to connect extreme UV stellar flare to exoplanetary atmospheres [PDF]	Keri Hoadly
3:00pm – 3:10pm	Efficient Spectral Multiplexing for the Habitable Worlds Observatory [PDF]	Emily Witt, Brian Fleming, Kevin France, James Green, Briana Indahl, Maitland Bowen, Alex Haughton
3:10pm – 3:30pm	Panel Discussion	Paul Scowen, Kevin France, Alex David-Uraz, Jeff Linsky, Sarah Tuttle, Keri Hoadley

Wednesday January 10, 2024

Habitable Worlds Observatory Splinter Meeting

Time	Topic	Speakers
12:45pm - 12:50pm	Getting settled
12:50pm - 1:00pm	Welcome & HQ Update	Megan Ansdell (NASA HQ)
1:00 pm - 1:10pm	The Story of Life in the Universe	John O'Meara (Keck)
1:10pm -1:15pm	Q&A
1:15pm - 1:45pm	Introduction to the HWO Working Groups	Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley) & John Ziemer (JPL)
1:45pm - 1:55pm	Q&A
1:55pm-2:15pm	Break
2:15pm-2:30pm	ROSES Precursor Science Program Lightning Talks	Introduction by Megan Ansdell (NASA HQ)
	1. A Pathway to Planet Properties	Caleb Harada (UC Berkeley)
	2. Defining Science Requirements for Galaxy Formation and Evolution Across the UV and X-ray Wavebands with Synthetic Observations	John ZuHone (CfA)
	3. Obtaining Better Constraints on Eta-Earth By Reprocessing Kepler Data to Generate a More Complete and Reliable Exoplanet Catalog	Steve Bryson (NASA Ames)
	4. Securing Revolutionary Exozodi Research with VLTI/NOTT	Bill Danchi (NASA Goddard)
	5. Quantifying Spectroscopic Performance Requirements for Detecting Biosignatures with a Habitable Worlds Observatory	Vincent Kofman (American University)
	6. Stellar X-ray and Ultraviolet Characterization of the Habitable Worlds Observatory Habitable Planet Target Sample	David Wilson (U of Colorado - Boulder)
	7. Open Source Tools for Mapping Exoplanet Science Goals to Architecture Properties of the IR/O/UV Great Observatory	Armen Tokadjian (JPL)
2:30pm-2:40pm	Q&A
2:40pm-3:05pm	HWO Technology: Roadmap Teams & Industry Studies	Lee Feinberg (NASA GSFC), Nick Siegler (JPL), Alison Nordt (Northrop Grumman), & Tyler McCracken (Ball Aerospace)
3:05pm-3:15pm	Q&A
3:15pm - 3:30pm	Closing Remarks	Joshua Pepper (NASA HQ)

NASA Press Releases at January 2025 AAS

January 04 . NASA/JAXA XRISM Mission Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos

January 09 . NASA’s Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
January 09 . Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst

January 10 . NASA’s Webb Discovers Dusty ‘Cat’s Tail’ in Beta Pictoris System