Monday, 4 April 2016

Gamma Ray SIG Meeting

Room: Royal Palms 5

Time	Topic	Speaker
7:00pm – 7:30pm	Gamma Ray Science for Binaries / Update on the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI)	John Tomsick (UCB)
7:30pm – 8:00pm	Mission Concept – AMEGO (All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory)	Julie McEnery (GSFC)
8:00pm – 8:30pm	Mission Concept – AdEPT (Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope)	Stan Hunter (GSFC)
8:30pm – 9:00pm	Mission Concept – APT (Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope)	Jim Buckley (WashU)
9:00pm – 10:00pm	Open Discussion

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Physics of the Cosmos Town Hall

Room: Royal Palms 5

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
12:30pm – 12:32pm	Welcome and Introduction	Mark Bautz (session chair) Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhysPAG Vice Chair
12:32pm – 12:44pm	PCOS Program Update	Dan Evans NASA Headquarters Deputy PCOS Program Scientist	[PDF]
12:44pm – 12:56pm	PhysPAG Update	Mark Bautz Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhysPAG Vice Chair	[PDF]
12:56pm – 1:08pm	X-ray Surveyor Flagship Mission Study	Jessica Gaskin Marshall Space Flight Center X-ray Surveyor Study Scientist	[PDF]
1:08pm – 1:20pm	Gravitational Wave Measurements in Space	John Conklin University of Florida	[PDF]
1:20pm – 1:30pm	Open Discussion

X-Ray SIG Meeting

Room: Royal Palms 5

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
7:00pm – 7:30pm	Welcome	Mark Bautz & Ralph Kraft	[PDF]
7:30pm – 8:00pm	Optics Workshop Report	Mark Schattenburg	[PDF]
8:00pm – 8:30pm	Athena Update	Randall Smith	[PDF]
8:30pm – 9:00pm	X-ray Surveyor Mission Study Q & A	Jessica Gaskin & Alexey Vikhlinin
9:00pm – 10:00pm	Probe missions: NASA preparations for the 2020 Decadal	Mark Bautz

Physics of the Cosmos Events

APS sessions highlighting NASA PCOS projects, PhysPAG/SIG activities, and PCOS missions are listed below. This list is certainly not exhaustive. Note we will also have a PCOS table Saturday – Monday.

Saturday, 16 April 2016

Time	Event	Room
3:30 PM	E12 : LISA and LISA Pathfinder	250DE

Sunday, 17 April 2016

Time	Event	Room
8:30 AM	H11 : Physics of the Cosmos Mini-Symposium	250C
10:45 AM	J11 : Inflation Probe Science Interest Group	250C
	J12 : Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group	250DE
	J13 : Cosmic-Ray Science Interest Group Room	250F

Monday, 18 April 2016

Time	Event	Room
10:45 AM	R13 : Fermi-HAWC-VERITAS	250F
1:30 PM	S5 : Space Based Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

The L3 Study Group

Contact: If interested in attending, email both Ann Hornschemeier (Ann.Hornschemeier@nasa.gov) and Peter Bertone (Peter.Bertone@nasa.gov) for further information.

Note that information on the L3 study is available here:
Study for NASA Participation in the ESA-led L3 Gravitational Wave Mission

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Time	Event	Location
1:30PM – 6:30PM	Face-to-Face Meeting of the L3 Study Group	Salt Lake City Marriott

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Time	Event	Location
8:30AM – 2:00PM	Face-to-Face Meeting of the L3 Study Group	Salt Lake City Marriott