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AMEGO Mission Concept Workshop

Program

Monday, May 8

9-10:30Opening Session
9-9:20AMEGO Overview and Goals of this Meeting (Julie McEnery)
9:20-9:50AMEGO and Radioactivity (Dieter Hartmann)
9:50-10:10Compton data analysis: From COSI to AMEGO (Andreas Zoglauer)
10:10-10:30GammaSIG discussion (John Tomsick)
10:30-11Coffee Break
11-12:30AMEGO Bits
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:35Tracker (Jeremy Perkins)
11:35-11:50CZT (Alex Moiseev)
11:50-12:05Electronics (Liz Hays)
12:05-12:20The AMEGO DAQ System: An Initial Survey (Michael Lovellette)
12:20-12:35Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) readout for scintillation detectors in MeV astrophysics (Rich Woolf)
12:35-1:45Lunch
1:45-3:00Things in the Galaxy
1:45-2:15Pulsars (Alice Harding)
2:15-2:35Magnetars (George Younes)
2:35-2:55Novae & Galactic Transients (Teddy Cheung)
2:55-3:00
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Simulations
3:30-4:00 Status & Overview (Regina Caputo)
4:00-4:20 Backgrounds (Judy Racusin)
4:20-4:40 Applications (Dan Kocevski)
4:40-5:10 Discussion: Instrument Optimization (Alex Moiseev)

Tuesday, May 9

9:00-10:30Things outside the Galaxy
9:00-9:20Blazars I (Vaidehi Paliya)
9:20-9:40Blazars II (Eileen Meyer)
9:40-10:00Starburst Galaxies (Toni Venters)
10:00-10:20GRBs (Dan Kocevski / Judy Racusin)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30More Than Just Gamma-rays
11:00-11:20LIGO and Friends (Peter Shawhan)
11:20-11:40Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves with AMEGO (Eric Burns)
11:40-12:00AMEGO Neutrino Counterparts (Marcos Santander)
12:00-1:00Lunch
1:00-2:00Lines
1:00-1:20Sun (Ron Murphy)
1:20-1:40Positrons (John Tomsick)
1:40-3:00White Paper Planning Discussion
3:45-5:00Bahcall Lecture in Building 8