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

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

HEAD 15: Annual Meeting for High Energy Astrophysics Division

Naples, Florida
3 – 7 April 2016



Gamma Ray SIG Meeting

Monday, 4 April
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Room Royal Palms 5

Agenda

Time Event Speaker
7:00pm – 7:30pm Gamma Ray Science for Binaries / Update on the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) John Tomsick (UCB)
7:30pm – 8:00pm Mission Concept – AMEGO (All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory) Julie McEnery (GSFC)
8:00pm – 8:30pm Mission Concept – AdEPT (Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope) Stan Hunter (GSFC)
8:30pm – 9:00pm Mission Concept – APT (Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope) Jim Buckley (WashU)
9:00pm – 10:00pm Open Discussion

Physics of the Cosmos Town Hall

Tuesday, 5 April, 12:30pm
Room Royal Palms 5

Agenda

Time Event
12:30pm – 12:32pm Welcome and Introduction
Mark Bautz (session chair)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhysPAG Vice Chair
12:32pm – 12:44pm PCOS Program Update [PDF]
Dan Evans
NASA Headquarters
Deputy PCOS Program Scientist
12:44pm – 12:56pm PhysPAG Update [PDF]
Mark Bautz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhysPAG Vice Chair
12:56pm – 1:08pm X-ray Surveyor Flagship Mission Study [PDF]
Jessica Gaskin
Marshall Space Flight Center
X-ray Surveyor Study Scientist
1:08pm – 1:20pm Gravitational Wave Measurements in Space [PDF]
John Conklin
University of Florida
1:20pm – 1:30pm Open Discussion

X-Ray SIG Meeting

Tuesday, 5 April
7:00pm – 10pm
Room Royal Palms 5

Agenda

Time Event Speaker
7:00pm – 7:30pm Welcome [PDF] Mark Bautz & Ralph Kraft
7:30pm – 8:00pm Optics Workshop Report [PDF] Mark Schattenburg
8:00pm – 8:30pm Athena Update [PDF] Randall Smith
8:30pm – 9:00pm X-ray Surveyor Mission Study Q & A Jessica Gaskin & Alexey Vikhlinin
9:00pm – 10:00pm Probe missions: NASA preparations for the 2020 Decadal Mark Bautz
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