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Programmatic Presentations

Monday, June 7

SOFIA Overview
Pamela M. Marcum, NASA SOFIA Project Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

SOFIA – a NASA HQ View
Jon A. Morse, Director Astrophysics Division, NASA HQ
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Second Generation SOFIA Instrument AO
Paul Hertz, Chief Scientist, Science Mission Directorate and SOFIA Program Scientist NASA HQ

Tuesday, June 8

First and Next Generation German Instruments
Alois Himmes, DLR SOFIA Development Program Manager, Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) SOFIA

First Generation Instruments
Eric E. Becklin, SOFIA Chief Science Advisor

Feedback
Thomas Roellig (Chair), Deputy NASA SOFIA Project Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

• Detector Needs for SOFIA
  Harvey Moseley for the "Detector Group"
• TeraHertz Array Receivers for Wide Field Spectroscopy on SOFIA
  Christopher Walker for the "Array Receiver Group"
• Next. Gen SOFIA Instruments for Star Formation
  John Bally for the "Star Formation Group"
• Polarimetry with SOFIA
  John Vaillancourt for the "Polarimetry Group"

Workshop Summary
Steven Beckwith, Vice President for Research, University of California

Invited Science Reviews

The Interstellar Medium

• Supernovae and Their Remnants: Producers and Processors of Interstellar Dust
  Eli Dwek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Interstellar Dust
  A.G.G.M. Tielens, Leiden Observatory
• Molecular Astrophysics
  David Neufeld, Johns Hopkins University

Galaxies and Extragalactic Astronomy

• The Galactic Center
  Paul Ho, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and CfA
• The Potential of Star Forming Nearby Galaxies
  Eva Schinnerer (MPIA)
• Line Diagnostics of the Intermediate-z Universe
  George Helou (Caltech)

Star Formation and Stellar Evolution

• Massive Star Formation
  John Bally, University of Colorado
• Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy for the Study of the Late States of Stellar Evolution
  Sun Kwok, University of Hong Kong

Planets: Local and Distant

• Transiting Exoplanets with SOFIA
  Drake Deming, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Solar System Science: SOFIA Second Generation Instrumentation Needs
  Dale Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center

Contributed Posters

1. SOFIA First Generation Instruments

• 1.1. FORCAST
  Terry Herter et al.
• 1.2. GREAT
  Rolf Güsten et al.
• 1.3. FLITECAM
  Ian McLean
• 1.4. FIFI-LS - SOFIA's Facility Far-Infrared Spectrometer
  Randolf Klein et al.
• 1.5. HIPO: A High-speed Imaging Photometer for Occultations
  Edward Dunham et al.
• 1.6. CASIMIR, The Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Media Investigations Receiver
  M. L. Edgar et al.
• 1.7. Status of the Echelon-cross-echelle spectrograph (EXES)
  Matt J. Richter et al.
• 1.8. HAWC: the facility far-IR camera for SOFIA
  Marc Berthoud et al.

2. New Instruments and Upgrades

• 2.1. Lessons from AIRES for SOFIA Instrument Proposals
  Edwin Erickson
• 2.2. CASIMIR 1.2 THz channel characterization and future development
  Alexandre Karpov et al.
• 2.3. Approaches for Multi-Wavelength Far-Infrared Polarimetry with SOFIA
  Darren Dowell et al.
• 2.4. Mid-infrared Polarimetry
  Chris Packham et al.
• 2.5. µ-Spec: A Compact High Performance Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Spectrometer
  Harvey Moseley et al.

3. Technology

• 3.1. A Miniature Crogenic Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Airborne and Space Applications
  Thomas Nikola et al.
• 3.2. Laser Frequency Comb Calibrator for High-Precision NIR Spectroscopy
  Steve Osterman et al.
• 3.3. Large Format, Far-IR Photodetector arrays for SOFIA
  Jam Farhoomand et al.
• 3.4. Large Format Bolometer Arrays for SOFIA Instruments
  Christine Jhabvala et al.
• 3.5. Quasi-optical devices for millimetre to FIR spectral range
  Bruno Maffei et al.
• 3.6. Compact THz local oscillator based on a quantum-cascade laser
  Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers et al.
• 3.7. THz Mixers with Very Wide IF Bandwidth
  Neal Erickson et al.
• 3.8. Facility Large Format Heterodyne Array for SOFIA
  Christopher Walker et al.
• 3.9. Development of a terahertz heterodyne receiver front-end with quantum cascade laser and hot electron bolometric mixer in a pulse tube cooler
  Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers et al.
• 3.10. Building Bigger, Better Instruments with Dry Cryostats
  Dominic Benford and George Voellmer
• 3.11. Taking Full Advantage of SOFIA Airtime: Technologies to Maximize THz Receiver Performance
  Eric Bryerton et al.

4. Synergies, Observatories and Pathfinders

• 4.1. Ball Aerospace Infrared Technologies
  Sarah Lipscy and Dennis Ebbets
• 4.3. ALMA: The March to Early Science and Beyond
  Alwyn Wootten et al.
• 4.4. The Large Millimeter Telescope: Status and Outlook
  Gopal Narayanan and Neal Erickson
• 4.5. Florida IR Silicon immersion grating spectromeTer (FIRST) and its science
  Jian Ge et al.
• 4.6. GISMO, a groundbased testbed camera for large bolometer arrays
  Johannes Staguhn et al.
• 4.7. The Pathfinder High Resolution NIR Spectrograph at the Hobby Eberly Telescope: Exploring Radial Velocity Precision in the NIR with an Uncooled Instrument
  Suvrath Mahadevan et al.

5. Science Applications and Diagnostics

• 5.1. Understanding the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
  Richard Crutcher
• 5.2. Mid-Infrared Spectropolarimetry with SOFIA
  Terry J. Jones and Chris Packham
• 5.3. Protostellar Disk Polarimetry
  Megan Krejny et al.
• 5.4. Mapping Magnetic Fields near Low-mass Protostars
  Giles Novak et al.
• 5.5. Far-Infrared Polarimetry from SOFIA
  John E. Vaillancourt et al.
• 5.6. SOFIA Follow-up to Spitzer Observations of the North American Nebula
  D. M. Cole et al.
• 5.7. Molecular Line Emission from Time-Dependent, Multi-fluid MHD Shock Waves
  Wayne Roberge et al.
• 5.8. Modelling the FIR-line emission of the ISM by clumpy cloud PDR-models
  Jürgen Stutzki et al.
• 5.9. Observing Exoplanets with SOFIA
  Daniel Angerhausen and Alfred Krabbe
• 5.10. Near- and mid-infrared (2.4 to 25 micron) spectroscopy of Solar System bodies
  Joshua Emery et al.
• 5.11. Lunar Occultations at Far-IR Wavelengths - A Niche for SOFIA?
  Paul Harvey