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Input from the Broader Astronomy and Astrophysics Community
BEYOND EINSTEIN WEB SITE AND E-MAILS
Over the course of this study, a Web site (http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/BeyondEinsteinPublic.html) was maintained to inform the science community of the charge to the Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation; of the committee’s membership; and about its activities, including town halls and committee meeting dates. Additionally, presentations made to the committee at its meetings were made available on the Web site for general public access.
The other main feature of the Web site was the e-mail address provided (beyondeinstein@nas.edu), which the public was invited to use to make comments. These comments were shared with the committee and were posted in a special comments section of the Web site. The committee found the 23 submitted and posted comments to be insightful and useful in its deliberations.
BEYOND EINSTEIN TOWN HALLS
In an effort to engage viewpoints from the diverse astronomy and astrophysics community not represented on the committee itself, four town hall meetings were held across the country (in Newport Beach, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chicago, Illinois; from February through April 2007). The full committee was divided into four groups so that there were at least 4 or 5 committee members present at each town hall. Online registration for each of these town halls allowed participants to register either as a speaker or as an observer. Speakers were encouraged to submit brief abstracts addressing the following questions:
What are the most valuable science opportunities of the Beyond Einstein Program?
What are the long-term goals for the science, beyond the science goals of the mission projects; are we opening a new field or resolving existing questions?
To what degree can ground-based or existing space-based capabilities solve some of these questions?
What is the degree of precision needed from the measurements to move the science forward?
Speakers for each town hall were chosen on the basis of the relevance of their abstracts to the questions that they were asked to address. Due to time constraints, the committee was not able to accommodate every applicant as a speaker; however, all participants, registrants, and walk-in attendees were invited to use the open-microphone
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period to make comments. Chosen speakers were given 5 minutes to make their oral presentations, with about 3 minutes afterward for questions from members of the committee. An open-microphone session following the speaker session allowed any person who attended the town hall to make a 2-minute statement.
The town halls were well attended, with between 15 and 23 speakers per town hall and many open-microphone participants. During each of these town halls, committee members and staff took notes that were compiled and shared with the rest of the committee. The committee found the town halls to be very informative, with many engaging and useful presentations from the participants. Following are lists of speakers and of the organizing committee members for each of the town halls.
TOWN HALL NO. 1
FEBRUARY 1, 2007
THE ISLAND HOTEL, NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA
Town Hall Speakers
Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology
Daniel Holz, Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of Chicago
Albert Lazzarini, California Institute of Technology
Eric Linder, University of California, Berkeley
Greg Madejski, Stanford University
Matt Malkan, University of California, Los Angeles
Harald Pfeiffer and Mark Scheel, California Institute of Technology
Katja Pottschmidt, University of California, San Diego
Alexandre Refregier, CEA Saclay
Richard Rothschild, University of California, San Diego
Michael Seiffert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kip Thorne, California Institute of Technology
Brent Ware, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Alan Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
Organizing Committee Members
Joel Primack (Chair, Town Hall No. 1), Eric Adelberger, David Bearden, Charles Kennel, Andrew Lankford,
Joseph Rothenberg, Edward Wright
TOWN HALL NO. 2
FEBRUARY 12, 2007
THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Town Hall Speakers
Charles Baltay, Yale University
Nancy Brickhouse, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Claude Canizares, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruno Coppi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kathryn Anne Flanagan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Fritschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Alan Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gregory Harry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julia C. Lee, Harvard University
Herman Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen S. Murray, Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory
Michael Nowak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feryal Ozel, University of Arizona
Ron Remillard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Shoemaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q. Daniel Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Organizing Committee Members
Edward Wright (Chair, Town Hall No. 2), Thomas Appelquist, James Barrowman, Mark Devlin, Lisa Randall
TOWN HALL NO. 3
MARCH 14, 2007
THE MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Town Hall Speakers
Kevork Abazajian, University of Maryland
Drew Baden, University of Maryland
David Band, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology
Volker Beckmann, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
George Chartas, Pennsylvania State University
Lee Samuel Finn, Pennsylvania State University
Andrew Fruchter, Space Telescope Science Institute
Neil Gehrels, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
John P. Hughes, Rutgers University
Demosthenes Kazanas, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
Arthur Kosowsky, University of Pittsburgh
Nancy Levenson, University of Kentucky
Sean McWilliams, University of Maryland
Cole Miller, University of Maryland
John Nousek, Pennsylvania State University
Rachel Osten, University of Maryland
Andrew Ptak, Johns Hopkins University
Louis Rubbo, Pennsylvania State University
Roald Sagdeev, University of Maryland, College Park
Rita Sambruna, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
Randall Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Tracy J. Turner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Organizing Committee Members
Karl Gebhardt (Chair, Town Hall No. 3), William Adkins, William Gibson, Craig Sarazin, James Ulvestad
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TOWN HALL NO. 4
APRIL 4, 2007
COURTYARD MARRIOTT CHICAGO DOWNTOWN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Town Hall Speakers
Nahum Arav, University of Colorado
Peter Bender, JILA and the University of Colorado
Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Joel N. Bregman, University of Michigan
Edward Brown, Michigan State University
Megan Donahue, Michigan State University
Anne Ealet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Alfred Garson, Washington University in St. Louis
Dragan Huterer, University of Chicago
Stephen Kent, Fermilab
Edward W. (Rocky) Kolb, University of Chicago
Arieh Konigl, University of Chicago
Henric Krawczynski, Washington University in St. Louis
Brian McNamara, University of Waterloo
Jon Miller, University of Michigan
Stuart Mufson, Indiana University
Richard O’Shaughnessy, Northwestern University
Tod Strohmayer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center
Simon Swordy, University of Chicago
Gregory Tarle, University of Michigan
Melville Ulmer, Northwestern University
Alberto Vecchio, University of Birmingham
William Wester, Fermilab
Organizing Committee Members
Stephan Meyer (Chair, Town Hall No. 4), Joseph Fuller, Jr., Fiona Harrison, Dennis McCarthy, Clifford Will, Michael Witherell