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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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Meeting Agenda

JANUARY 18, 2012

Closed Session

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Plans for the Meeting

David Spergel, Chair

Open Session

9:30

Welcome and Plans for the Meeting

David Spergel, Chair

9:35

NASA discussion of a plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid

Waleed Abdalati, NASA

Discussion

10:35

Panel Discussion with NASA

Paul Hertz, Acting Director, Astrophysics Division

Richard Griffiths, Euclid Program Scientist

Rita Sambruna, WFIRST Program Scientist

Lia LaPiana, Euclid and WFIRST Program Executive

11:30

ESA Perspective on a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid (via videconference)

Fabio Favata, ESA

12:20 p.m.

The Euclid Mission (via videoconference)

Yannick Mellier,

Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris

12:55

Discussion with ESA and Euclid Representatives

1:45

U.S. Perspective on a U.S. Contribution to Euclid

Jason Rhodes,

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Discussion

2:20

Discussion of WFIRST and Euclid

Paul Schechter,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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3:15

Discussion of LSST, WFIRST, and Euclid

Steve Kahn,

Stanford University

Discussion

3:50

Discussion of Ground- and Space-Based Dark Energy Missions (via videoconference)

David Weinberg, Ohio State University

Discussion

4:25

Discussion of the Current Study in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons

Roger Blandford, Stanford University

Discussion

5:05

Discussion of the Current Study in the Context of the Implementation Panel Report (via teleconference)

Adam Burrows, Princeton University

Discussion

Closed Session

5:40

Committee Discussion

6:45

Working Committee Dinner

8:30

Adjourn for the Day

JANUARY 19, 2012

Closed Session

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast and Discussion of Previous Days’ Talks

Committee

Open Session

9:00

WFIRST and Euclid impact on dark energy research

Michael Turner,

University of Chicago

Discussion

9:40

Discussion of Euclid and WFIRST Gravitational

Chris Hirata,

Lensing Capabilities (via WebEx)

California Institute of Technology

Discussion

10:10

Discussion of WFIRST and Euclid exoplanet microlensing

Dave Bennett,

University of Notre Dame

Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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10:45

Impact of Current and Future Developments in Microlensing on Euclid and WFIRST (via WebEx)

Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University

Discussion

11:20

Lessons Learned from Similar Past NASA-ESA

George Helou,

Collaborations

California Institute of Technology

Discussion

11:55

Public Comment Session

Closed Session

12:15 p.m.

Committee Discussions

Open Session

2:30

Panel Discussion with NASA

Paul Hertz,

NASA Astrophysics Division

Closed Session

3:50

Committee Discussion

6:00

Adjourn for the Day

JANUARY 20, 2012

Closed Session

8:00 a.m.

Committee Discussions

3:00 p.m.

Adjourn Meeting

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13357.
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NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid mission will employ a space telescope that will make potentially important contributions to probing dark energy and to the measurement of cosmological parameters. Euclid will image a large fraction of the extragalactic sky at unprecedented resolution and measure spectra for millions of galaxies.

Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid evaluates whether a small investment in Euclid (around $20 million in hardware) is a viable part of an overall strategy to pursue the science goals set forth in New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, a decadal plan for ground- and space- based astronomy and astrophysics. The top-ranked large-scale, space-based priority of the New Worlds, New Horizons is the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST has a broad, wide-field, near-infrared capability that will serve a wide variety of science programs of U.S. astronomers, including exoplanet research, near-infrared sky surveys, a guest observer program, and dark energy research. In carrying out this study the authoring committee's intent has been to be clear that this report does not alter New Worlds, New Horizon's plans for the implementation of the survey's priorities.

Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid concludes that the NASA proposal would represent a valuable first step toward meeting one of the science goals (furthering dark energy research) of WFIRST. While WFIRST dark energy measurements are expected to be superior to Euclid's, U.S. participation in Euclid will have clear scientific, technical, and programmatic benefits to the U.S. community as WFIRST and Euclid go forward. According to this report, the current NASA proposal, to invest modestly in Euclid, is consistent with an expeditious development of WFIRST and the achievement of the broader, and more ambitious, goals outlined in New Worlds, New Horizons. Knowledge gained from the Euclid project could help optimize the science return of the WFIRST mission as well. Such an investment will further the goals of New Worlds, New Horizons, be helpful to the preparations for WFIRST, and enhance WFIRST's chances of success.

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