Workshop Program & Speakers
The agenda for the Workshop on Innovative Designs for the Next Large Aperture UV/Optical Telescope is available in printer-friendly PDF format.
- NHST Agenda - Thurs. April 10 and Fri. April 11 [pdf]
Last updated: April 10, 2003 - 2:30 PM.
Day 1 -- Thursday, April 10, 2003
| 8:30am | Tea, Coffee, Pastries | |
| 9:00am | Introduction | |
| Bill Oegerle | NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 9:10am | The NASA Technology Program: Investing in Technologies for Future Large Space Observatories | |
| Harley Thronson | NASA Headquarters | |
| 9:30am | Design Concepts for Future Large Aperture Wide Field of View UVIS Optical Systems | |
| Bob Woodruff | Lockheed Martin | |
| 10:00am | NHST in Context: Future Steps to Large Optical Space Observatories 2010-2050 | |
| Steve Kilston | Ball Aerospace | |
| 10:25am | Coffee and General Discussion | |
| 11:15am | The Nulling Coronagraph - Using a Nulling Interferometer for Planet Detection in Vis. Single Aperture Telescope | |
| Martin Levine | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 11:35am | Spectral Interferometry for Broadband UVO Missions | |
| Jerry Edelstein | University of California (Berkeley) | |
| 11:55pm | Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation of UV-Optical Missions | |
| Jim Green | University of Colorado | |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45pm | TPF Overview and Current Status | |
| Chas Beichman | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 2:05pm | Wavefront Sensing Correction | |
| Mark Clampin | NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 2:25pm | Deformable Mirror Technology | |
| Tom Price | Xinetics | |
| 2:50pm | Measured Characteristics of Xinetic Mirrors | |
| John Trauger | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 3:10pm | Holographic Grating Design - Capabilities and Uses | |
| Erik Wilkinson | University of Colorado | |
| 3:30pm | Coffee and General Discussion | |
| 4:30pm | Advances in Superconducting Devices | |
| Blas Cabrera | Stanford University | |
| 4:50pm | CMOS Devices | |
| Badebrata Pain | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 5:20pm | Kinetic Inductance Detectors | |
| Jonas Zmuidzinas | California Institute of Technology | |
Day 2 -- Friday, April 11, 2003
| 8:00am | Tea, Coffee, Pastries | |
| 8:30am | Kodak Mirror Technologies | |
| Gary Matthews | Kodak | |
| 9:40am | Future Science Programs | |
| Steve Beckwith | Space Telescope Science Institute | |
| 10:00am | Development of Silicon Foam Mirrors | |
| Dave Content | NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 10:20am | Reaction-Bonded Silicon Carbide Mirrors | |
| Ritva Keski-Kuna | NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 10:40am | Coffee and General Discussion | |
| 11:30am | High Performance MCP Detectors for UVO Astrophysics | |
| Oswald Siegmund | University of California (Berkeley) | |
| 11:50am | Solid State UV Detectors | |
| Shouleh Nikzad | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| 12:10pm | Large Format UV-Optical Hybrid Sensors: Si PIN Diodes and Related Technologies | |
| Bernie Rauscher | Space Telescope Science Institute | |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | A JWST Derivative Design for the Next Large Aperture UV/Optical Telescope | |
| William B. Whiddon | Northrup Grumman | |
| 1:50pm | A Large Aperture Deployable Telescope for the Next UV/Optical Telescope (NHST) Mission | |
| Charles F. Lillie | Northrup Grumman | |
| 2:10pm | In-Space Construction of Telescopes | |
| Rud Moe | NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 2:35pm | Using the ISS to Assemble a Very Large Telescope | |
| Warren Moos | Johns Hopkins University | |
| 3:05pm | Robotic Construction of Large Telescopes | |
| David Miller | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 3:35pm | Coffee and General Discussion | |
| 4:00pm | End of Meeting | |