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Events: Meetings

HEAD 13: Annual Meeting for High Energy Astrophysics Division

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).

XR SAG Meeting

Portolo Hotel
Friday, 12 April 2013

Agenda

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
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