Monterey, California
7 – 11 April 2013
The X-ray Science Analysis Group (XRSAG) will host a one-day meeting at the Portolo Hotel, focusing on technology development for future X-ray missions, including invited presentations on new detectors, optics, and gratings plus open discussion time. If you are interested in presenting at this meeting, please contact the X-ray SAG Chair, Jay Bookbinder (jbookbinder@cfa.harvard.edu).
Portolo Hotel
Friday, 12 April 2013
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Technology Development Plans | ||
| 9:00am – 9:45am | Tech Development Plans – Near Term Technologies [PDF] | Rob Petre, NASA/GSFC |
| 9:45am – 10:15am | Tech Development Plans – Future Technologies [PDF] | Paul Reid, SAO |
| 10:15am – 10:45am | Open Discussion | |
| 10:45am – 11:00am | Break | |
| Optics | ||
| 11:00am – 11:20am | Future Optics [PDF] | Martin Weisskopf, NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 11:20am –11:40am | Silicon Optics [PDF] | Will Zhang, NASA / GSFC |
| 11:40am – 12:00 noon | Adjustable Optics [PDF] | Paul Reid, SAO |
| 12:00 noon – 12:15pm | Off Plane Grating Developments [PDF] | Randy McEntaffer, University of Iowa |
| 12:15pm – 12:30pm | CAT Grating Developments [PDF] | Ralf Heilmann, MIT/Kavli |
| 12:30pm – 12:45pm | Multilayer Optics Development [PDF] | Suzanne Romaine, SAO |
| 12:45pm – 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| Detectors | ||
| 1:30pm – 1:50pm | X-ray Silicon Detectors and Blocking Filters for Gratings [PDF] | Mark Bautz, MIT/Kavli |
| 1:50pm – 2:10pm | Large Format Silicon Detectors [PDF] | Abe Falcone, Penn State University |
| 2:10pm – 2:30pm | MKID Detector Developments [PDF] | Ben Mazin, UC Santa Barbara |
| 2:30pm – 2:50pm | Small-pixel CZT Detectors [PDF] | Matthias Beilicke, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2:50pm – 3:00pm | Break | |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Cryogenic Detectors [PDF] | Simon Bandler, CRESST/NASA/GSFC |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Multiplex Readouts for Large-Format Microcalorimeters [PDF] | Kent Irwin, NIST/Boulder |
| 4:30pm – 5:30pm | Open Discussion | |