Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

Fourth Meeting of the PhysPAG

Holiday Inn Capitol
Washington, DC
14 – 16 August 2012

Announcing the fourth PhysPAG meeting in Washington, DC. The PhysPAG Executive Committee is the Science Organizing Committee for this meeting (see Physics of the Cosmos for more information) and encourages the entire PCOS community to attend. Webcasting will be available for those unable to attend in person.

• List of Registered Participants
• Final Program for the PhysPAG Meeting 2012 [PDF]
• PhysPAG Meeting Logistics: Map of area, including food & coffee! [PDF]
• Presentations for the PhysPAG Meeting 2012

Current planned agenda topics include:

• Public presentation/discussion of the reports of PCOS Gravitational Wave and X-ray Studies
  • Gravitational-Wave Mission Concept Study Final Report [PDF, 3.7 MB]
  • X-ray Mission Concepts Study Project Report [PDF, 13 MB]
• Discussion of PCOS-related ESA missions, including activity on Euclid
• Dark Energy measurements from space (Organizer: Jason Rhodes)
• Meetings of all four Study Analysis Groups:
  • Inflation Probe SAG (Chair: Shaul Hanany)
  • X-ray SAG (Chair: Jay Bookbinder)
  • Gravitational Wave SAG (Chair: Guido Mueller)
  • Gamma Ray SAG (Chair: Elizabeth Hays)
• Breakout Agendas for Wednesday, August 15TH
  • Dark Energy from Space Agenda [PDF]
  • IPSAG Agenda [PDF]
  • GWSAG Agenda [PDF]
  • XRSAG Agenda [PDF]
  • GammaSAG: White Paper Work Session – See Description
• Registration Information
• Location and Lodging

For general questions regarding the meeting, please contact PhysPAG chair Steve Ritz or PCOS Chief Scientist Ann Hornschemeier.