Meetings & Events
ExoPAG 5
Date:
January 6, 2012 - January 7, 2012NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its fifth meeting on January 7-8, 2012, just prior to the AAS meeting in Austin. ExoPAG meetings are always open to the astronomical community, and are an opportunity to learn about the Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), and to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues in exoplanet exploration.
Topics of interest will include plans for a future, space-based, flagship-class, direct imaging mission, along with discussion of possible Probe-class (<$1B) missions that might be proposed in the next decade if money for flagships is not available. The ExoPAG would also like to broaden the discussion to include other ways in which NASA might facilitate exoplanet research over the next few years. To this end, we invite suggestions for topics and/or speakers at our January meeting. Feel free to suggest yourself as a speaker if you have interesting ideas that you would like to share. The meeting will run for two full days, so there should be plenty of time for both presentations and discussion.
Please join us! We look forward to seeing you in Austin!
ExoPAG Meeting Final Agenda (Jan. 7-8, Austin, TX)
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| Saturday, Jan | Austin Convention Center, Rm. 9BC |
8:30 AM |
Introduction (Jim Kasting) |
8:45 |
Exoplanet Program update: (Doug Hudgins) |
9:15 |
SAG 1 report: Debris disks and exozodiacal dust (Aki Roberge) |
9:40 |
Update on LBTI (Phil Hinz) |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
SAG 5 report: Direct imaging flagship mission science requirements (Charley Noecker/Tom Greene/Rafael Millan-Galbet) |
11:30 |
A revised TPF target list (Maggie Turnbull) |
12:00 |
Status of TDEM and coronagraphic testbeds (Peter Lawson) |
12.30 PM |
Lunch |
1:30 |
New thoughts on coronagraphs and occulters (Jeremy Kasdin) |
2:15 |
Vortex coronagraphs (Gene Serabyn) |
2:45 |
A new photon energy detector with possible applications to direct imaging of exoplanets (Ben Mazin, UCSB) |
3:15 |
Break |
3:30 |
Mission concept planning: Flagships and probes (Michael Devirian) |
5:00 |
Adjourn |
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Sunday, |
Austin Convention Center, Rm. 9BC |
8:30 AM |
NASA’s Explorer Program: Funded exoplanet mission and mission development proposals (Doug Hudgins) |
8:45 |
The TESS mission (George Ricker) |
9:15 |
The FINESSE mission (Mark Swain) |
9:45 |
The EXCEDE mission (Glenn Schneider) |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
Kepler update (Bill Borucki) |
11:15 |
NexSci: the NASA exoplanet data archive (Rachel Akeson) |
11:45 |
Report on exoplanet technology development (Web Cash) |
12:30 PM |
Lunch |
1:30 |
Joint meeting with COPAG (see below) |
3:30 |
Break |
3:45 |
Review of actions/plan forward (Devirian, Hudgins, Kasting) |
5:00 |
New business: Suggestions for future ExoPAG activities (All) |
5:30 |
Adjourn |
Sunday, Jan. 8, 1:30-3:30 PM
This session will provide a chance to update each other’s scientific community on activities of interest to all of us. The current plan for discussion is as follows:
1:30 |
Optical/UV flagship mission requirements (Charley Noecker) |
| 2:00 | Linked Probe-class missions (Chris Martin) |
| 2:30 | Joint technology development possibilities (Chris Martin/Wes Traub) |
| 3:00 | Discussion (All) |
3:30 |
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