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Chapter: Appendix D: List of Briefings to the Committee

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: List of Briefings to the Committee." National Research Council. 2007. NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12006.
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D List of Briefings to the Committee MEETING 1 THE KECK CENTER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES, WASHINGTON, DC NOVEMBER 6-8, 2006 November 6, 2006 NASA Presentation to the NRC Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee. Rick Howard, Acting Director, Astrophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters OSTP Perspectives. Rob Dimeo, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Congressional Perspective. Dixon Butler, House Appropriations Committee staff From Quarks to the Cosmos to the BEPAC [the Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation]. Michael S. Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics of the University of Chicago and former chair of the NRC Committee on the Physics of the Universe What Is the Nature of Dark Energy? Joseph Lykken, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Dawn of Time. Marc Kamionkowski, California Institute of Technology Did Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity?—Gravitational Waves, A Unique and Powerful Channel for Studying Strong Gravity Systems. Scott A. Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Did Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity?—X-ray Studies of Black Holes. Chris Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland November 7, 2006 LISA: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Craig Hogan, University of Washington, and Karsten Danzmann, Albert Einstein Institute/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz Universität Hannover The Constellation X-ray Mission. Nicholas White, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and Harvey Tananbaum, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) EXIST Concept for BHFP: Hard X-ray Black Hole Surveys in Space and Time. Josh Grindlay, Harvard University 143

144 NASA’S BEYOND EINSTEIN PROGRAM The Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation: A Candidate Concept for the Black Hole Finder Probe. Mark McConnell, University of New Hampshire The SNAP Experiment. Michael Levi, SNAP Project Director, co-Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) DESTINY: Dark Energy Space Telescope. Tod Lauer, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) JDEM: An ADEPT Approach. Chuck Bennett, Johns Hopkins University The Einstein Polarization Interferometer for Cosmology (EPIC). Peter Timbie, University of Wisconsin, Madison Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC). Jamie Bock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/California Institute of Technology Probing Inflation with CMBPol. Gary Hinshaw, NASA/GSFC CIP: Cosmic Inflation Probe. Gary Melnick, SAO MEETING 2 THE ISLAND HOTEL, NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 1, 2007 January 30, 2007 DESTINY: Dark Energy Space Telescope. Tod Lauer, NOAO Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope (ADEPT). Warren Moos, Johns Hopkins University, and Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona SNAP. Saul Perlmutter, LBNL/University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Levi, LBNL/University of California, Berkeley CASTER: A Candidate Concept for the Black Hole Finder Probe. Mark McConnell, University of New Hampshire EXIST Concept for BHFP: Highlights from Response to RFI. Josh Grindlay, Harvard University; Paolo Coppi, Yale University; and Scott Barthelmy, NASA/GSFC CIP: Cosmic Inflation Probe. Gary Melnick, SAO Probing Inflation with CMBPol. Gary Hinshaw, NASA/GSFC Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC). Jamie Bock, JPL/California Institute of Technology The Einstein Polarization Interferometer for Cosmology (EPIC). Peter Timbie, University of Wisconsin, Madison LISA. Robin Stebbins, NASA/GSFC; Nick Jedrich, NASA/GSFC; Mansour Ahmed, NASA/GSFC; Alberto Gianolio, European Space Agency (ESA)/European Space Research and Technology Centre Constellation-X. Ann Hornschemeier, NASA/GSFC; Jay Bookbinder, SAO; Jean Grady, NASA/GSFC; Harvey Tananbaum, SAO; Nicholas White, NASA/GSFC January 31, 2007 Gamma Ray Bursts and the Transient High Energy Sky. Chryssa Kouveliotou, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Cosmic Feedback and the Growth of Structure. Mitch Begelman, University of Colorado Probing Cosmology with X-ray Clusters. Steve Allen, Stanford University

APPENDIX D 145 MEETING 3 COURTYARD MARRIOTT CHICAGO DOWNTOWN, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS APRIL 5-7, 2007 April 5, 2007 LISA and LISA Pathfinder. David Southwood, ESA April 6, 2007 Source of Error in Dark Energy Measures. Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania

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"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to extend our basic physical laws beyond where 20th-century research left them. Such observations can provide stringent new tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity, indicate how to extend the Standard Model of elementary-particle physics, and -- if direct measurements of gravitational waves were to be made -- give astrophysics an entirely new way of observing the universe.

In 2003, NASA, working with the astronomy and astrophysics communities, prepared a research roadmap entitled Beyond Einstein: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. This roadmap proposed that NASA undertake space missions in five areas in order to study dark energy, black holes, gravitational radiation, and the inflation of the early universe, to test Einstein's theory of gravitation. This study assesses the five proposed Beyond Einstein mission areas to determine potential scientific impact and technical readiness. Each mission is explored in great detail to aid decisions by NASA regarding both the ordering of the remaining missions and the investment strategy for future technology development within the Beyond Einstein Program.

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