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

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

New Orleans, Louisiana
7 – 11 January 2024


PhysCOS Related Activities at the January 2024 AAS

Saturday, 6 January 2024

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:30am – 5:00pm Workshop: Multimessenger astronomers, unite! A practical dress rehearsal for LISA discovering a massive black hole merger — Day 1 Convention Center Room 216

Sunday, 7 January 2024

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:30am – 5:00pm Workshop: Multimessenger astronomers, unite! A practical dress rehearsal for LISA discovering a massive black hole merger – Day 2 Convention Center Room 216

Monday, 8 January 2024

Schedule
Time Event Location
8:20am – 9:10am Plenary: 102 – Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture: NANOGrav: The Dawn of Gravitational-wave Astronomy at Light-year Wavelengths, Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University) Convention Center Great Hall A
10:00am – 11:30am Special Session: 117 – HEAD I – Status of the X-ray Imaging Spectrometry Mission Convention Center Room 212
11:00am – 11:30am Exhibitor Theater: NASA Balloon Program Overview Convention Center Hall B-1 / B-2
1:00pm – 2:30pm Splinter: Cosmic Pathfinders Program Convention Center Room 219
2:00pm – 3:30pm Special Session: 141 – The Line Emission Mapper: A NASA X-ray Probe Mission Concept Convention Center Room 209
2:00pm – 3:30pm Special Session: 148 – Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Inclusion Plan Pilots at NASA Convention Center Room 220

Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Schedule
Time Event Location
10:00am – 11:30am Special Session: 214 – HEAD II - High-Energy observations of Stellar-mass Compact Objects: A Tribute to Tomaso Belloni Convention Center Room 212
10:00am – 11:30am Special Session: 221 – Chandra at 25 Convention Center Room 222
11:40am – 12:30pm Plenary: 233 – HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: Pulsar Magnetosphere: The Incredible Machine, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University) Convention Center Great Hall A
2:00pm – 3:30pm Special Session: 220 – NANOGrav: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational-wave Astronomy Convention Center Room 226
4:00pm – 4:30pm Exhibitor Theater: Chandra at Twenty-five: NASA's Flagship X-ray Observatory Convention Center Hall B-1 /B-2
4:40pm – 5:30pm Plenary: 257 – Plenary Lecture: The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurements, Sukanya Chakrabarti (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Convention Center Great Hall A
7:30pm – 8:00pm Town Hall: 265 – HEAD Social and Business Meeting Convention Center Room 225

Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Schedule
Time Event Location
2:00pm – 3:30pm Special Session: 339 – Direct Imaging of Black Holes: Recent Results and Future Prospects Convention Center Room 212
3:40pm – 4:30pm Plenary: 357 – Plenary Lecture: Investigating the Early Universe, Jamie Bock (California Institute of Technology) Convention Center Great Hall A
4:40pm – 5:30pm Plenary: 358 – Newton Lacey Pierce Prize Lecture: Characterizing the Properties of Accreting Neutron Stars through X-ray Observations, Renee Ludlam (Wayne State University) Convention Center Great Hall A

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