Physics of the Cosmos
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Events: Meetings

223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Washington, DC
5 – 9 January 2014


X-ray Science Interest Group (XRSIG) Meeting

Sunday, 5 January 2014
9:00am – 1:00pm

Agenda

Time Speaker
Update on X-ray Optics Status (all times include allowances for questions)
09:00am – 11:00am
Randy McEntaffer (20 min)
Mark Schattenburg (remote, 20 min) [PDF]
Suzanne Romaine (20 min)
Paul Reid (20 min)
Will Zhang (20 min)
Mel Ulmer (to be presented by W. Zhang, 10 min)
11:00am – 11:15am BREAK
11:15am – 11:45am Potential workshop for discussing future strategy for X-ray astronomy, including discussion of the future needs/paths for X-ray optics ALL
11:45am – 12:15pm Discussion of potential support for Athena Bookbinder / ALL
12:1pm – 12:45pm Discussion of PATR process (Note that there will be a presentation by Thai Pham at the PhysPAG meeting in the afternoon, which will allow for a second round of discussion on this topic) ALL
12:45pm – 1:00pm Discussion of SMD/ASP 30-year plan in the context of X-ray astronomy ALL
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