Physics of the Cosmos
Exploring fundamental questions regarding the physical forces of the universe

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

241st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Seattle, Washington
8 – 12 January 2023


PhysCOS-Related Activities at the January 2023 AAS

Sunday, 8 January 2023

Schedule
Time Event Location
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Joint PAG splinter Room 4C-3

Monday, 9 January 2023

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM 100 Kavli Plenary: The Science Performance of JWST, Jane Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Ballroom 6E
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PhysPAG Splinter Room 4C-2
COPAG Splinter Room 4C-4
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM 108 – General Coordinates Network (GCN): Community Forum for NASA’s Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Collaboration Platform Ballroom 6A
111 – AGN I Ballroom 6E
119 – HEAD I: High Energy Stellar Astrophysics in the JWST Era Room 612
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM 132 – NASA Town Hall Ballroom 6E
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group Room 211
NASA's Great Observatories Maturation Program Room 4C-3
41 – Preparing for Multi-messenger and Time Domain Astrophysics in the 2020 Decadal era Room 607
130 – Galaxy Clusters II Room 214
137 – AGN II Ballroom 6E
146 – Space Mission Concepts II Room 613
150 – DEIA and Resources for Astronomy Education and Outreach Room 618/619
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Press Conference: Mergers, Bursts & Jets Room 307/308
4:40 PM – 5:30 PM 157 – Newton Lacey Pierce Prize Lecturer: X-ray Light Echoes and the Music of the Cosmos, Erin Kara (MIT) Ballroom 6E
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 176 – JWST Town Hall Ballroom 6B

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM 200 – Plenary: Heart of Darkness: The Peculiar Life of a Supermassive Black Hole, Allison Kirkpatrick (University of Kansas) Ballroom 6E
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Gamma Ray Science Interest Group Room 303
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM 214 – TDE's and Stellar & Intermediate Mass Black Holes> Ballroom 6A
218 – LISA: A Time Domain and Multi Messenger Mission Room 602 / 603
225 – HEAD II: Galactic Autopsies: Tales of Stellar Remnants Room 612
227 – Gamma Ray Bursts I Room 614
233 – Accreting Neutron Stars Room 2B
234 – Neutron Stars, Magnetars, and Fast Radio Bursts Room 3A
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Equity in Astro 101 Exhibit Hall 4AB
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM 237 – NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Initiative Room 602 / 603
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM X-Ray Science Interest Group Room 303
MeV gamma-ray astronomy in the 2020s and beyond Room 304
251 – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in Astronomy Room 613
252 – Gamma Ray Bursts II Room 614
259 – Gravitational Wave and Astrometric Signatures of Black Holes Room 3A
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM 262 / 263 – HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecturer: The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer: Astrophysics on the International Space Station, Zaven Arzoumanian & Keith Gendreau (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Ballroom 6E
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM The HEAD Social and Business Meeting Room 401

Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM 300 – RAS #F9E471 Medal Lecturer: Do we have a standard model of cosmology?, George Efstathiou (University of Cambridge) Ballroom 6E
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM AWESOM Science Analysis Group Room 303
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Introducing ULTRASAT Room 401
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM 310 – AGN V Ballroom 6E
326 – Gravitational Waves and MMA I Room 2B
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Great Observatories Science Analysis Group Room 303
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Active Galactic Nuclei Science Interest Group Room 211
337 – AGN & Quasars III Room 602 / 603
338 – Gravitational Waves and MMA II Room 605 / 610
351 – Insights on SMBHs via molecular disks and relativistic jets Room 2A
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Room 401

Thursday, 12 January 2023

Schedule
Time Event Location
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM 400 – Plenary: Getting JWST to space, what might we find, and what’s next?, John Mather (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Ballroom 6E
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM 417 – AGN VII Ballroom 6E
418 – AGN and Quasars IV Room 602 / 603
419 – Black Hole Growth over Cosmic Time Room 605 / 610
421 – The Milky Way and Galactic Center IV Room 607
428 – X-ray Binaries Room 615
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM 437 – NSF Town Hall Ballroom 6E
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 442 – AGN and Quasars V Room 602/603
454 – White Dwarfs, Cataclysmic Variables, and Pulsating Stars Room 618 / 619
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