Program

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Thursday, December 6, 2007 7:30 - 8:05 Registration, Coffee and rolls Workshop Opening 8:05 - 8:15 Alexandre Karpov, Caltech Plenary Session Chair: Karl Menten, Max–Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn 8:15 - 8:30 SOFIA Observatory Status Bob Meyer, SOFIA Project Manager, NASA Dryden 8:30 - 9:00 SOFIA Science Capabilities Eric Becklin, SOFIA Chief Scientist, USRA/UCLA 9:00 - 9:40 Plenary: SOFIA Science Opportunities to 2020 Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory/MPE 9:40 - 9:55 Break Session 1: Technology for Heterodyne Spectroscopy Chair: Andrew Harris, U. Maryland 9:55 - 10:10 Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Michael Wanke, Sandia 10:10 - 10:40 Terahertz Receivers with Superconducting Mixers and Quantum Cascade Lasers Jianrong Gao, SRON 10:40 - 10:55 THIS: an Ultrahigh Resolution Infrared Heterodyne Receiver for SOFIA Rudolf Schieder, U. Cologne 10:55 - 11:10 Terahertz Mixers Using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions Alexandre Karpov, Caltech 11:10 - 11:25 Terahertz Array Receivers (invited) Chris Walker, U. Arizona 11:25 - 11:40 Break Session 2: The Interstellar Medium Chair: Jürgen Stutzki, U. Köln 11:40 - 12:10 Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium (invited) Ted Bergin, U. Michigan 12:10 - 12:40 Infrared Cooling lines of the Interstellar Medium (invited) Mark Wolfire, U. Maryland 12:40 - 1:00 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (invited) Els Peeters, U. Western Ontario 1:00 - 1:15 The Lifecycle of Interstellar Dust Eli Dwek, NASA/GSFC 1:15 - 3:00 Poster Viewing and LUNCH buffet (In the yard of the Beckman Institute) Session 3: Star Formation: Galactic and Extragalactic Chair: Charles Lada, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 3:00 - 3:30 Galactic Star Formation and SOFIA (invited) Karl Menten, MPIfR Bonn 3:30 - 4:00 Extragalactic Star Formation and SOFIA (invited) Jean Turner, UCLA 4:00 - 4:15 Spitzer Observations of TMC: New Targets for SOFIA L. M. Rebull, IPAC 4:15 - 4:30 Ratio of Atomic and Molecular Gas in M51 M. Hitschfeld, U. Köln 4:30 - 4:45 Break Session 4: The Solar System Chair: Chick Woodward, U. Minnesota 4:45 - 5:10 The Kuiper Belt and Trans-Neptunian Objects (invited) John Stansberry, U. Arizona 5:10 - 5:35 Planetary Atmospheres (invited) Cathy Olkin, Southwest Research Institute 5:35 - 6:00 Comet Studies with SOFIA (invited) Chick Woodward, U. Minnesota 6:00 - 6:25 The Solar System as Viewed in the Far-infrared: What Can SOFIA Contribute Post-Herschel? (invited) Paul Hartogh, MPI Lindau 6:25 - 9:00 Reception and WORKSHOP DINNER Chandler Café (Building #52 on the Caltech campus map)   Friday, December 7, 2007 7:30 - 8:15 Coffee and rolls Session 5: Technology for Imaging and Polarimetry Chair: Erick Young, U. Arizona 8:15 - 8:30 Infrared Detector Technology (invited) Harvey Moseley, NASA/GSFC 8:45 – 9:00 Quantum Well Intersubband Photoconductors (QWISP): A Pathway to Large–format far–infrared Arrays David Ting, NASA/JPL 9:00 – 9:20 Far–infrared polarimetry with SOFIA (invited) Giles Novak, Northwestern 9:20 - 9:35 Mid-infrared polarimetry: new vistas for SOFIA Christopher Packham, U. Florida 9:35 - 9:50 Lunar Occultations at Far–infrared Wavelengths: a Niche for SOFIA? Paul Harvey, U. Texas 9:50 - 10:05 Break Session 6: Galaxy Formation and Evolution Chair: Linda Tacconi, Max–Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 10:05 - 10:35 Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution with SOFIA (invited) Gordon Stacey, Cornell 10:35 - 11:05 BLAST as a Pathfinder for SOFIA (invited) David Hughes 11:05 - 11:25 The Galactic Center (invited) Mark Morris, UCLA 11:25 - 11:40 Break Session 7: Technology for Direct-Detection Spectroscopy Chair: Harvey Moseley, NASA/GSFC 11:40 - 12:10 Direct Detection Infrared Spectroscopy (invited) John Lacy, U. Texas 12:10 - 12:30 Opportunities in Far–infrared Spectroscopy with SOFIA (invited) Jason Glenn, U. Colorado 12:30 - 12:45 A far–infrared Mapping Spectrometer for SOFIA Thomas Nikola, Cornell 12:45 - 1:00 Objective Prism Spectrographs for SOFIA Dominic Benford, NASA/GSFC 1:00 - 1:15 Hot–electron Direct Detector Arrays for Terahertz Spectroscopy Boris Karasik, NASA/JPL 1:15 - 2:00 Catered Lunch Session 8: Extrasolar Planets, Planet Formation, and Disks Chair: Xander Tielens, NASA/Ames 2:00 - 2:30 Extrasolar Planet and Brown Dwarf Studies with SOFIA (invited) Mark Marley, NASA/Ames 2:30 - 3:00 SOFIA Observations of Protostellar/protoplanetary Disks (invited) Adwin Boogert, IPAC 3:00 - 3:30 From Transition Disks to Debris Disks (invited) Kate Su, U. Arizona 3:30 - 3:45 Break 3:45 - 5:15 Breakout Session: Topical Discussions 5:15 - 6:15 Session Leader Reports 6:15 - 6:35 Workshop Summary Erick Young, U. Arizona