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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