Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
201 Waterfront St., National Harbor, Maryland 20745
8 – 12 January 2018
All activities at Gaylord Hotel/Conference Center
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 17:00 | JWST Proposal Planning | Potomac Ballroom D |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 12:00 | COPAG UV Science Interest Group (SIG) | Maryland Ballroom 2 Agenda and Remote Connection |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | COPAG Technology Interest Group (TIG) | Maryland Ballroom 6 Agenda and Remote Connection |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Joint PAG Meeting with Dr. Paul Hertz (Director, NASA Astrophysics) | Maryland Ballroom A Agenda and Remote Connection |
| 15:00 – 18:00 | COPAG Meeting (NASA Decadal and Explorer Studies) | Maryland Ballroom A Agenda and Remote Connection |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 18:30 | Poster Session 140: NASA Decadal Preparations: Probe Class Missions | Exhibit Hall |
| 9:30 – 12:30 | Far-IR Science Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: Charting the Course: The Present and Future of Far-Infrared and Sub-mm Space and Airborne Astronomy | Maryland 1 – 2. Agenda and Remote Connection |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Oral Session: NASA Decadal Preparations: Large Studies | Potomac D |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Oral Session: Astrophysics Enabled by HST's UV Initiative | Maryland C |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Plenary Talk: Adam Reiss — New Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe: New Physics? | Potomac AB |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | NASA Decadal Preparations: Probes Mission Concept Studies | Potomac D |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Big Bang to Biosignatures — Science of LUVOIR Mission Concept | Chesapeake 1 |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | JWST Town Hall | Potomac C |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Habitable Exoplanet Mission (HabEx) Town Hall | Maryland Ballroom 1 – 2 |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:20 – 9:10 | Plenary Talk: Annette Ferguson — Unveiling the Low Surface Brightness Stellar Peripheries of Galaxies | |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Exoplanet Characterization Through Emission Spectroscopy: Roadmap to Detecting Biosignatures | Maryland D |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Oral Session: Exoplanet Science with WFIRST | National Harbor 6 |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Oral Session: Exoplanet Science with WFIRST | National Harbor 6 |
| 11:40 – 12:20 | Plenary Talk: Larry Rudnick — The Stormy Life of Galaxy Clusters | |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | NASA Town Hall | Potomac C |
| 13:30 – 17:00 | Origins Space Telescope Team Meeting | Chesapeake H |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Interactive Session: What Can I Do with LUVOIR? | Chesapeake 7–8 |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Oral Session: Astrophysics with WFIRST | National Harbor 6 |
| 14:50 – 15:00 | GUSTO: Galactic/Extragalactic Ultra-Long Duration Balloon Spectroscopic-Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory—Chris Walker | National Harbor 5 |
| 15:40 – 1630 | Plenary Talk: Lars Bildsten — The Value of Change: Surprise and Insights in Stellar Evolution | Potomac AB |
| 16:30 – 1720 | Plenary Talk: Gabriela Gonzalez—Gravitational Wave Astrophysics | Potomac AB |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | National Acadamies' Astro2020: The Next Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Town Hall | Potomac C |
| 19:30 – 21:00 | LSST Town Hall | Potomac D |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 18:30 | Poster Session 355: Instrumentation, Space Missions | Exhibit Hall |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Oral Session — Instrumentation: Ground-based and Airborne | |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | NASA Scientific Balloon Program Town Hall | Potomac D |
| 15:40 – 16:30 | Plenary Talk: Charlie Conroy—The Evolution of Stars and Galaxies (Helen B. Warner Prize) | Potomac AB |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Plenary Talk: Eric Becklin—Fifty-four Years of Adventures in Infrared Astronomy (Henry Norris Russel Prize) | Potomac AB |
| 21:30 – 22:30 | SOFIA Town Hall | Potomac D |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Oral Session 402: Instrumentation: Space Missions I | Potomac D |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Oral Session 407: AAS Public Policy Panel on Future Flagships and WFIRST | National Harbor 2 |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Oral Session: Instrumentation: Space Missions II | Potomac C |
| 15:40 – 16:30 | Plenary Talk: David Goldston—The Politics of Science Funding |