The Physics of the Cosmos Program Office and the Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) are organizing two town hall sessions at the upcoming HEAD and APS meetings in Monterey and Denver, respectively.

As a reminder, the PhysPAG serves as a forum for soliciting and coordinating input and analysis from the scientific community in support of the PCOS program objectives. These two town halls will focus on NASA's astrophysics division's implementation of the decadal survey.

Tuesday, 9 April 2013

HEAD Meeting Town Hall

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
12:30 PM	Introduction	John Nousek, PhysPAG Chair	[PDF]
12:35 PM	PCOS in the Astrophysics Implementation Plan	Richard Griffiths, PCOS HQ	[PDF]
12:45 PM	FY13 Activities in the PCOS Program Office and the PhysPAG	Ann Hornschemeier, PCOS PO	[PDF]
12:55 PM	WFIRST in the light of Euclid	Daniel Stern
1:05 PM	LISA in the light of eLISA	Guido Mueller	[PDF]
1:15 PM	AXSIO in the light of ATHENA	Jay Bookbinder	[PDF]
1:25 PM	Audience questions / Comments
1:30 PM	Adjourn

For the HEAD meeting, there is a 30-minute break beforehand when participants will be able to go grab some food for lunch.

The X-ray Science Analysis Group (XRSAG) will host a one-day meeting at the Portolo Hotel, focusing on technology development for future X-ray missions, including invited presentations on new detectors, optics, and gratings plus open discussion time. If you are interested in presenting at this meeting, please contact the X-ray SAG Chair, Jay Bookbinder (jbookbinder@cfa.harvard.edu).

Friday, 12 April 2013

XRSAG Meeting

Time	Title	Speaker	Presentation
	Technology Development Plans
9:00am – 9:45am	Tech Development Plans – Near Term Technologies	Rob Petre, NASA/GSFC	[PDF]
9:45am – 10:15am	Tech Development Plans – Future Technologies	Paul Reid, SAO	[PDF]
10:15am – 10:45am	Open Discussion
10:45am – 11:00am	Break
	Optics
11:00am – 11:20am	Future Optics	Martin Weisskopf, NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center	[PDF]
11:20am –11:40am	Silicon Optics	Will Zhang, NASA / GSFC	[PDF]
11:40am – 12:00 noon	Adjustable Optics	Paul Reid, SAO	[PDF]
12:00 noon – 12:15pm	Off Plane Grating Developments	Randy McEntaffer, University of Iowa	[PDF]
12:15pm – 12:30pm	CAT Grating Developments	Ralf Heilmann, MIT/Kavli	[PDF]
12:30pm – 12:45pm	Multilayer Optics Development	Suzanne Romaine, SAO	[PDF]
12:45pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
	Detectors
1:30pm – 1:50pm	X-ray Silicon Detectors and Blocking Filters for Gratings	Mark Bautz, MIT/Kavli	[PDF]
1:50pm – 2:10pm	Large Format Silicon Detectors	Abe Falcone, Penn State University	[PDF]
2:10pm – 2:30pm	MKID Detector Developments	Ben Mazin, UC Santa Barbara	[PDF]
2:30pm – 2:50pm	Small-pixel CZT Detectors	Matthias Beilicke, Washington University in St. Louis	[PDF]
2:50pm – 3:00pm	Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Cryogenic Detectors	Simon Bandler, CRESST/NASA/GSFC	[PDF]
4:00pm – 4:30pm	Multiplex Readouts for Large-Format Microcalorimeters	Kent Irwin, NIST/Boulder	[PDF]
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Open Discussion