Day 1
All times and dates TBC, the programme below is provisional.
Conference registration & morning refreshments from 9.30
Session 1 (10.45 - 12.30)
Session Chair: Vincent Van Eylen
10.45 - 11.00: Vincent Van Eylen (MSSL/UCL)
Welcome to the conference
Martin Barstow - University of Leciester (11:00 -11:20)
Building the HWO Community in the UK – recent activities and progress
Breann Sitarski - NASA Goddard (11:20 - 11:40)
HWO Architecture Studies
Paul Scowen - NASA Goddard (11:40 - 12:05)
HWO Instrument Concept Studies: Goals and Information
Richard Massey - Durham University (12:05 - 12:30)
News from NASA HWO Science Interest Group
Lunch break
Session 2 (14.00 - 15.25)
Session Chair: Paul Eccleston
Caroline Harper - UKSA (14:00 - 14:25)
An update from UKSA
Jesper Skottfelt - The Open University (14:25 - 14:45)
Study of a 4-band FUV to Near-IR High-Resolution Imager
Vincent Van Eylen - UCL/MSSL (14:45 - 15:05)
Towards a UK-led High Resolution Imager
Jérôme Amiaux - CEA (15:05 -15:25)
HWO-AGATE: Accurate Guiding and Astrometry Targeting Exo-earth for HWO
Afternoon coffee
Session 3 (16.00 - 17.15)
Session chair: Jesper Skottfelt
Feng Zhao - JPL (16:00 - 16:20)
HWO Coronagraph status and technology roadmap
Daniel Dicken (UK Astronomy Technology Centre) and Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh) (16:20 - 16:40)
High Contrast Frontiers: UK and European Contributions to the HWO Coronagraph
David Pearson - STFC RAL Space (16:40-17:00)
A UVMOS/IFU instrument for HWO: Instrument capability and technology development
Sasha Cryan - Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS (17:00 - 17:15)
Characterization Opportunities for Icy Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Networking Reception 17.30 to 20.30
Networking reception at UCL Main Quad
kindly offered by UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics
Day 2
Morning refreshments from 8.30
Session 4 (9.00 - 10.35)
Session Chair: Dan Dicken
TBD (9:00 - 9:25)
Ana Inés Gómez de Castro - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (9:25 - 9:50)
Activity and Instrumentation of interest for Spain's HWO WG
Adriano Fontana - INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (9:50 - 10:15)
Toward an Italian Contribution to HWO
Jeremy Drake - Lockheed Martin (10:15 - 10:35)
Disturbance-free Payload Technology Enabling Ultra-stable Next-Generation Observatories
Morning coffee
Session 5 (11.00 - 12.25)
Session Chair: Jo Barstow
Angaraj Duara - Centre for Electronic Imaging, Open University (11:00 - 11:20)
UV Performance and Space Qualification of CMOS Detectors for the HWO Mission
Hugh Jones - University of Hertfordshire (11:20 - 11:40)
Enhancing the dynamic range of an astronomical camera
Mei Ting Mak - University of Oxford (11:40 - 11:55)
Probing Hazy Archean-Earth-like Analogues with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Katy L. Chubb - University of Bristol (11:55 - 12:10)
The power of polarimetry for characterising exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces
Angharad Weeks - University of Sydney (12:10 - 12:25)
Understanding Planetary Oxygenation via Homogeneous Ages of HWO targets
Lunch break
Session 6 (14.00 - 15.00)
Open discussion
Conference close (15.00)