Monday 18 March 2019

Physics of the Cosmos & PhysPAG Town Hall

Room: De Anza Ballroom II & III
Chair: John Conklin

Time	Topic	Speakers	Presentation
12:00 Noon – 12:20 PM	Lunch: Get and bring lunch
12:20 PM – 12:25 PM	Introduction	John Conklin	[PDF]
12:25 PM – 12:40 PM	NASA Astrophysics Division Program & Budget Update	Stefan Immler for Dan Evans	[PDF]
	Decadal Studies Presentation	Rita Sambruna for Dan Evans
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM	New Technology Process	Thai Pham (Remote)	[PDF]
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM	GW SIG Update	Guido Mueller	[PDF]
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM	Community Brainstorm	Led by Terri Brandt	[PDF]

Tuesday, 19 March 2019

X-Ray Science Interest Group (XR SIG) Session

Room: De Anza Ballroom II & III
Chair: Ryan Hickox

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
12:00 Noon – 12:20 PM	Lunch: Get and bring lunch
12:20 PM – 12:25 PM	Introduction	Chair	[PDF]
12:25 PM – 12:35 PM	Athena Status Update	Mike Garcia	[PDF]
12:35 PM – 12:45 PM	Lynx Status Update	Doug Swartz	[PDF]
12:45 PM – 1:20 PM	Discussion

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics SAG Session

Room: De Anza Ballroom II & III
Chair: Terri Brandt

Time	Table	Speakers	Presentation
7:30 PM – 7:35 PM	Overview of MMA SAG and Brief Summary of WPs Not Discussed in Detail Below	John Tomsick	[PDF]
7:35 PM – 7:45 PM	Decadal WP on Neutron Star Mergers	Eric Burns	[PDF]
7:45 PM – 7:55 PM	Decadal WP on Core-Collapse Supernovae	Chris Fryer	[PDF]
7:55 PM – 8:05 PM	Decadal WP on Understanding Relativistic Jets Via Multi-Messenger Observations	Marcos Santander	[PDF]
8:05 PM – 8:30 PM	Decadal WP on Galactic Binaries	Thomas Kupfer (Remote)	[PDF]

Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Gamma Ray Science Interest Group (GR SIG) Session

Room: De Anza Ballroom II & III
Chair: Sylvain Guiriec

Time	Topic	Speaker	Presentation
12:00 Noon – 12:20 PM	Lunch: Get and bring lunch
12:20 PM – 12:25 PM	Gamma-Ray SIG Update	Chair	[PDF]
12:25 PM – 12:35 PM	In QED We Trust	Roger Blandford	[PDF]
12:35 PM – 12:45 PM	Theory of the Gamma-Ray Burst Phenomenon and the Importance of Gamma-Ray Astronomy	Peter Mészáros	[PDF]
12:45 PM – 12:55 PM	Gamma-Ray Probes of Stellar Collapse	Chris Fryer	[PDF]
12:55 PM – 1:20 PM	Glowbug, a Gamma-Ray Telescope for Bursts and Other Transients	Eric Grove	[PDF]