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This web page contains information about upcoming workshops and links to presentations from past workshops. Please note that some of the information contained in these presentations may have since been updated.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

2012, June, 220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Anchorage, AK.

SOFIA Science Highlights and Cycle 1 Observing
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm
Ballroom C, Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center

Chair: J. Rho

- SOFIA Program Status Update, Including the New Second-Generation Instruments (T. Roellig)
- Science Highlights with FORCAST and GREAT (E. Young)
- Science operations (B-G Andersson)
- User Support: Proposal Call and Archival Data (R. Sankrit)
- FORCAST Science Capabilities and Data Products (W. Vacca)
- FLITECAM Science Capabilities (I. MacLean)
- SOFIA's Outreach programs and the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (D. Backman)

RECENT WORKSHOPS

2012, January, 219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX
Early Science Results from the SOFIA Observatory

SOFIA Program Status (Pamela M. Marcum)
SOFIA Overview and science capabilities for Cycle 1 (Erick T. Young)
First Science Results from SOFIA/FORCAST: Properties of Protostars and Circumstellar Disks in OMC-2 (Joseph D. Adams et al.) pdf
GREAT Highlights from the SOFIA Early Science Flights (Hans Zinnecker, R. Gusten, et al.)
SOFIA Observations of Orion with FORCAST (James M. De Buizer et al.) pdf
First Stellar Occultation Observation with SOFIA (Edward W. Dunham et al.) pdf
SOFIA FORCAST Images of the Bipolar Planetary Nebula M2-9 (Michael W. Werner et al.) pdf
Search for Interstellar Mercapto Radicals (SH) with SOFIA (David A. Neufeld) pdf

2011, November 7-8, SOFIA Workshop, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA

2011, May, 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Boston, MA
"SOFIA: Opportunities for Scientists & Educators"

Introduction and Welcome (D. Backman) pdf
SOFIA Program Update (P. Marcum) pdf
Science Mission Operations (E. Young) pdf
First-Generation Science Instruments (J. Vaillancourt) pdf
Cycle 1 Call for Proposals (R. Sankrit) pdf
SOFIA E/PO and the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors (D. Backman) pdf

PAST WORKSHOPS

2011, January, 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA
"Early Results from the SOFIA Observatory"

Introduction and Welcome (R. Gehrz) pdf
SOFIA Project Update (P. Marcum) pdf
Results of First Light and Early Science* (T. Herter) pdf
Plans for Basic Science (E. Young) pdf
Call for Second Generation Science Instruments (P. Hertz) pdf
General Questions and Answers (T. Roellig) pdf

October 2010, Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting, Pasadena, CA

SOFIA Outreach Responsibilities (D. Backman) pdf
SOFIA Program Status (P. Marcum) pdf
Airborne Stellar Occultations with HIPO and FLITECAM on SOFIA (E. Dunham) pdf
Jupiter: First Light Results with SOFIA (E. Becklin et al.) pdf
SOFIA Instrumentation and Goals for Planetary Science (W. Reach) pdf
SOFIA Telescope (M. Burgdorf) pdf
SOFIA Proposals and Tools (J. Rho) pdf

2010 June 6-8, Asilomar, CA

Scientific Opportunities For new Instrumentation, Asilomar 2010

Electronic Proceedings

2010 January, 215th Meeting of the AAS, Washington, D.C.

Early Science Opportunities with SOFIA V
Presentations

2009 June, 214th Meeting of the AAS, Pasadena, California.

Early Science Opportunities with SOFIA IV
Presentations

2009 January, 213th Meeting of the AAS, Long Beach, California.

Early Science Opportunities with SOFIA III
Presentations

Special Session: Proposing for SOFIA Basic Science Observations
Presentations

Note: the details of the Basic Science schedule may have changed since these presentations were made. Please check the Basic Science web page for updated information.

2008 June, 212th Meeting of the AAS, St. Louis, Missouri.

Announcement
SOFIA Early Science Opportunities White Paper [pdf]

2008 January, 211 Meeting of the AAS, Austin, Texas.

Announcement
Workshop Flyer

Presentations
SOFIA Early Science: Program Overview (E. Becklin)
(Movie file #1 and Movie file #2 accompanying above presentation.)
SOFIA Early Science: Imaging (S. Casey)
SOFIA Education & Public Outreach program (D. Backman)

2007 December, SOFIA's 2020 Vision, Caltech, California.
Scientific and Technological Opportunities Workshop

Announcement
Official workshop website
Presentations
White Paper (final version, September 2008)

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