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Monday, 4 January 2016

Gamma Ray Science Interest Group (GR SIG) Meeting

Room: Tallahassee 3

Time	Topic	Speaker
9:00am – 9:15am	Introductory Remarks	Mark McConnell
9:15am – 09:45am	The Development of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory	Neil Gehrels
9:45am – 10:15am	The Development of the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope	TBD
10:15am – 10:45am	The Advanced Compton Telescope Concept Study – Lessons Learned	TBD
10:45am – 11:15am	Science Requirements for the Next Generation Gamma Ray Missions	Mark McConnell
11:15am – 12:00 Noon	Open Discussion

Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group (GW SIG) Splinter Meeting

Room: Sanibel

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
9:30am – 9:55am	LISA Pathfinder Update	Ira Thorpe (NASA GSFC)
9:55am – 10:20am	Advanced LIGO Update	Albert Lazzarini
10:20am – 10:45am	The Evolving Landscape of LISA Science	Shane Larson (Northwestern U.)
10:45am – 11:00am	Results from the UV LED Small Satellite Mission	Shally Saraf (Stanford)
11:00am – 11:15am	Space-based Gravitational Wave Interferometry with Off-the-shelf Satellites	Massimo Tinto (JPL)
11:15am – 11:30am	NASA L3 Study	Tuck Stebins (NASA GSFC)
11:30am – 12:00pm	GW SIG Update and Discussion	John Conklin (U. Florida)	[PDF]

X Ray Science Interest Group (XR SIG) Meeting

Room: Sarasota

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
9:30am – 9:40am	Introduction	Mark Bautz	[PDF]
9:40am – 10:00am	Astro-H Status and Prospects	Rob Petre	[PDF]
10:00am – 10:20am	NICER Status and Prospects	Ron Remillard	[PDF]
10:20am – 10:40am	Athena Update	Randall Smith	[PDF]
10:40am – 11:00am	X-ray Surveyor Activities	Doug Swartz	[PDF]
11:00am – 11:15am	Review of PhysPAG Statement on Probes & Probes in New Frontiers	Ralph Kraft	[PDF]
11:15am – 11:45am	Discussion: Presenting Probes to the Decadal Survey

Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group (CR SIG) Meeting

Room: Osceola 5 CHANGED

Time	Topic	Speaker
10:00am – 12:00 Noon	Cosmic SIG Update	Eun-Suk Seo
	ISS-CREAM Update	Eun-Suk Seo
	CALET Launch	John Krizmanic
	HNX and Ultra Heavy Nuclei	John Krizmanic
	HELIX and Light isotpes	Nahee Park
	EUSO Status	Jim Adams
	Theory View Point	Igor Moskalenko
	Gamma-ray Perspective	Terri Brandt
	Discussions	All

Joint PAG Meeting

Room: Osceola A

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Presentation: Joint PAG Meeting	Paul Hertz	[PDF]

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Meeting

Room: Sun 1 CHANGED

Time	Topic	Speaker
3:00pm – 3:05pm	Welcome / Overview	Bock
3:05pm – 4:40pm	SIG Reports
3:05pm – 3:25pm	Gravitational Wave NASA study of ESA L3 Latest on Pathfinder LIGO update	Conklin
3:25pm – 3:40pm	Gamma Ray Progress towards a community roadmap	McConnell
3:40pm – 3:55pm	Cosmic Ray Progress & Plans Toward future missions	Seo
3:55pm – 4:10pm	X Ray Imminent missions Community Approaches to Probes	Bautz
4:10pm – 4:25pm	Inflation Probe Summary of IPSIG reply to mid-decadal review	Bock
4:25pm – 4:40pm	Cosmic Structure Summary of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics to the mid-decadal review Updates on Cosmic Structure SIG related mission activities	Bean
4:40pm – 5:25pm	Costing and Evaluating Probes	R. Persinger and D. Emmons (Aerospace)
5:25pm – 5:55pm	Discussion	All

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Splinter Meeting: NASA Decadal Mission Studies and STDTs

St. George 112 Room

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
2:00pm – 2:20pm	The Mission Concept Study Process and the STDT Membership Call	P. Hertz, Astrophysics Director, NASA HQ	[PDF]
2:20pm – 2:30pm	The Far Infrared Surveyor Study	D. Leisawitz, FIR Surveyor Study Scientist, NASA GSFC	[PDF]
2:30pm – 2:40pm	The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission Study	B. Mennesson, HabEx Study Scientist, JPL	[PDF]
2:40pm – 2:50pm	The Large Ultraviolet / Optical / IR Surveyor Study	A. Roberge, LUVOIR Study Scientist, NASA GSFC	[PDF]
2:50pm – 3:00pm	The X-ray Surveyor Study	J. Gaskin, X-ray Surveyor Study Scientist, NASA MSFC (Presentation by Doug Swartz)	[PDF]
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Discussion	All