Future Space-based Gamma-ray Observatories

Program

Thursday, Feb. 5

9:00 - 9:15	Welcome and Meeting Goals (McEnery)
Science
9:15 - 9:45	Mapping Science to Instruments (Atwood)
9:45 - 10:15	Lines, Continua, Features, and Polarization in MeV-GeV Science (Dermer)
10:15 - 10:30	Discussion
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:15	What we can learn from MeV observations of AGN (Stawarz)
11:15 - 11:30	MeV Background: Open issues and Future Prospects (Ajello)
11:30 - 11:45	Prospects for Measuring H_0 with Gravitational Lenses in Gamma-rays (Cheung)
11:45 - 12:00	Dark Matter (Linden)
12:00 - 12:15	Future Prospects for MeV Gamma-ray Burst Observations (Racusin)
12:15 - 12:30	Discussion
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 1:45	Astrophysical Probes Provided by MeV Polarization Measurements (Venters)
1:45 - 2:00	Scientific prospects for gamma-ray polarimetry (Kislat)
2:00 - 2:15	Using a Polarization-Sensitive Gamma-ray Telescope to Test Relativity (Stecker)
2:15 - 2:30	Detectability of nuclear gamma-ray lines from nearby and distant supernovae (Horiuchi)
2:30 - 2:45	MeV Emission from Galactic Binaries and Radio Quiet AGN (Shrader)
2:45 - 3:00	Discussion
3:00 - 3:00	Break
3:30 - 3:45	Observational signatures of pulsars in gamma-rays (Timokhin)
3:45 - 4:00	Pulsar wind nebulae in X-ray, TeV, and in between (Kargaltsev)
4:00 - 4:15	Additional science: Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Observation (Briggs)
4:15 - 4:30	MeV-GeV solar-flare physics (Murphy)
4:30 - 4:45	Scientific Potential and Possible Designs for Next-Generation Hard X-ray/Soft Gamma-ray Imaging Mission (Krawczynski)
4:45 - 5:00	Discussion

Friday, Feb. 6

Techniques, Instruments and Missions
9:00 - 9:30	Optimize for Science, How to Make the Hard Design Choices for the Next MeV Instrument (Charles)
9:30 - 10:00	Design considerations for Compton Telescopes (Grove) Next Generation Compton Telescope Design Challenges (Phlips)
10:00 - 10:15	Silicon detectors, daisy-chaining, analog readout ASICs, and their use in Compton or pair telescopes (Wulf)
10:15 - 10:30	Photosensors for gamma ray observation (Giordano)
10:30 - 10:40	"Silicon Hat": A top gamma detector for GAMMA400 to detect cosmic photons in the 10 MeV region (Bastieri)
10:40 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 11:40	Programmatic issues (2020 Decadal Survey, Mid-Decade Review, PhysPAG, large vs medium scale missions, etc.) - Mark McConnell
11:40 - 11:55	ASTROGAM. A mission to cover the 300 KeV - 1 GeV energy range (Tavani)
11:55 - 12:10	Compton_Pair production Space telescope (ComPair) for MeV Gamma-ray astronomy (Moiseev)
12:10 - 12:30	Discussion
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 1:45	COSI - the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (Zoglauer)
1:45 - 2:00	Advanced Pair Telescope: APT (Buckley)
2:00 - 2:15	PANGU: a high resolution sub-GeV gamma-ray telescope (Su)
2:15 - 2:30	The Advanced Scintillator Compton Telescope (ASCOT) Balloon Project (Bloser)
2:30 - 2:45	Discussion
2:45 - 3:15	Break
3:15 - 3:30	The Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope for Medium-Energy Polarimetry (Hunter)
3:30 - 3:45	Liquid Argon Gamma-ray Observatory: LArGO (Charles)
3:45 - 4:00	Pointlike (Burnett)
4:00 - 5:00	Discussion on where to go from here/creating a roadmap (McConnell)