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Events: Meetings

225th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Seattle, Washington
4 – 8 January 2015

January 2015 COPAG Meeting

Sunday, January 4

Agenda
Time Event Location
09:00am – 11:00am COR SAG #9 – Spitzer Observations in Support of JWST (Daniela Calzetti and David Leisawitz)

Tentative Agenda
  • 9:00am SAG Charter, composition, plans, timeline [PDF]
  • 9:15am Science topics identified to date [PDF]
  • 9:45 – 11:00am Discussion and suggestions from community
 Room 306
09:00am – 11:30am COR UV/Vis SIG (SIG #2): Future Science and Technology Needs for UV / Vis Wavelengths (Paul Scowen)
More up-to-date information at http://sig2.asu.edu

Tentative Agenda
  • Introductions – 9:00am
  • UV-optical Science Overview – 9:10am
  • UV-optical Technology Overview – 9:55am
  • The view from NASA HQ – 10:40am
  • Comments and Questions – 11:10am
  • Next Steps and Close – 11:20am
 Room 304
09:30am – 11:30am COR FIR SIG (SIG 1): Far-IR Science and Technology Needs (Paul Goldsmith and David Leisawitz)
Speakers
  • Dave Leisawitz (NASA GSFC) – The "FIR Surveyor" in NASA's Astrophysics Roadmap, May 2014 community workshop summary and followup study [PDF]
  • Paul Goldsmith (Caltech JPL) – Single-aperture Far-IR Telescopes: Measurement Capabilities and Trade Space [PDF]
  • Dave Leisawitz (NASA GSFC) – Far-IR Interferometers: Measurement Capabilities and Trade Space [PDF]
  • Maxime Rizzo (Univ. of Maryland) – The Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII) [PDF]
  • Matt Bradford (Caltech JPL) – Status and plans for the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) mission [PDF]
  • Erick Young (USRA) – The upGREAT instrument on SOFIA [PDF]
  • Imran Mehdi (Caltech JPL) – Advanced Technologies for Future Heterodyne Missions [PDF]
  • Chris Walker (Univ. Arizona) – The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO) and the Galactic / Xtragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic / Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) [PDF]
 Room 309
11:30am – 12:30pm Break — lunch
12:30pm – 2:00pm Plenary session, COPAG / PhysPAG / ExoPAG, with Paul Hertz
  • Presentation [PDF]
  • Astrophysics Division White Paper [PDF]
 Room 6B
2:00pm – 5:00pm COPAG + ExoPAG Room 6A
  • 2:00pm – "Beyond JWST" Study (Tumlinson [PDF] / Redding [PDF])
  • 2:30pm – Community Input / Open Mic [PDF]
  • 3:00pm – Exo-S (Domagal-Goldman) [PDF]
  • 3:30pm – Exo-C (Stapelfeldt) [PDF]
  • 4:00pm – COPAG SAG #6 — COR Science Enabled by WFIRST Coronograph (Ebbets) [PDF]
  • 4:30pm – COPAG SAG #8 — COR Science Enabled by WFIRST Archive (Heap) [PDF]
  

Wednesday, January 7

Agenda
Time Event Location
10:00am – 11:30am NASA's Astrophysics PAGs Special Session [PDF]Room 606
12:45pm – 1:45pm NASA Town Hall Meeting Room 6E
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