Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
22 – 23 September 2011
NASA's Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group (COPAG) held a Workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, on Thursday/Friday, September 22 – 23, 2011 (Agenda). COPAG Workshops are open to the entire scientific community, and offer an opportunity to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues within the Cosmic Origins Program portfolio, and to provide input into NASA's Cosmic Origins Program. All interested members of the astrophysics science community are invited to attend and participate; there is no cost for attendance.
A Webcast of the September 2011 COPAG Workshop is available only at the STScI Webcasting website.
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:40 AM | Introduction [PDF] [Video] | Martin |
| 08:40 AM | Cosmology [PDF] [Video] | Treu |
| 09:05 AM | Gas [PDF] [Video] | Heckman |
| 09:30 AM | Galaxy/QSO Evolution [Video] | Schiminovich |
| 09:55 AM | Stars and Stellar Populations [PDF] [Video] | Brown |
| 10:20 AM | Planets [PDF] [Video] [Video2] | Weinberger |
| 10:45 AM | ExoPAG Update [PDF] [Video] | Kasting / Weinberger |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | Mission Concepts – 'Probe-Class' UVOIR [PDF] [Video] | Martin |
| 11:15 AM | Mission Concepts – 'Probe-Class' FIRSM [PDF] [Video] | Leisawitz |
| 11:30 AM | SPICA and the Promise of the Far-Infrared [PDF] | Bradford |
| 11:45 AM | Mission Concepts – 4m UVOIR Mission and CO Science Objectives Accomplished [PDF] [Video] | Lillie |
| 12:00 Noon | Mission Concepts – 8m UVOIR Mission and CO Science Objectives Accomplished [PDF] [Video] | Postman |
| 12:15 PM | Mission Concepts – Far IR/Sub mm Mission and CO Science Objectives Accomplished [PDF] [Video] | Leisawitz |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 01:30 PM | Program Office Technology Management Process [PDF] [Video] | Benford |
| 01:45 PM | Introductory Discussion of Roadmapping and Metrics [PDF] [Video] | Martin |
| 02:00 PM | UVOIR Technology Overview [PDF] [Video] | Sembach |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 02:15 PM | Far IR / Sub-mm Overview [PDF] [Video] | Leisawitz |
| 02:30 PM | Prospects for a UV Sensitive, Visible Blind Avalanche Photodiode [PDF] [Video] | Ulmer |
| 02:45 PM | Current and Future Capabilities of MCP Detectors [PDF] | Vallerga |
| 03:00 PM | GaN Photocathodes and EBCMOS Detectors for UV Astronomy [PDF] | Stock |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 03:30 PM | Photon Counting Imaging Detectors for NASA Mission [Video] | Figer |
| 03:45 PM | Delta-doped CCDs for High QE UV / Optical Detectors | Nikzad |
| 04:00 PM | AR-coated, Delta-Doped Photon Counting CCDs for UV Spectroscopy [PDF] | Morrissey |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 04:15 PM | Advanced UV Coatings [PDF] [Video] | Nikzad/Beasley |
| 04:30 PM | New Technologies Developed for the Far-UV Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) | McCandliss |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 04:45 PM | Advanced Mirror Technology Development for UVOIR Normal Incidence Telescopes [Video] | Stahl |
| 05:00 PM | Advanced Mirror Technologies [PDF] [Video] | Unwin |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 05:15 PM | Exoplanet Imaging / Characterization Technologies [Video] | Kasdin |