Monday, April 2
08:30 Coffee and Pastry (Lobby) 09:00 Welcome (Auditorium) Session 1 (Chair: Mike Fall) 09:15 Hiranya Peiris: Dynamical Behavior of Generic Dark Energy Models 09:45 Kris Sigurdson: The Effect of Rayleigh Scattering on Baryon Acoustic Oscillations 10:15 Rachel Mandelbaum: Intrinsic Alignments and Cosmic Shear: Current Status, Future Prospects 10:45 Coffee (Lobby) 11:15 Juerg Diemand: Formation and Evolution of CDM Halos and Their Substructure 11:45 Juna Kollmeier: Lyman-Alpha Emission from the Intergalactic Medium 12:15 Lunch (Cafeteria) Session 2 (Chair: Harry Ferguson) 14:00 Masami Ouchi: Progress of the Wide-Field Deep Surveys for Galaxies at z = 3-9 14:30 Joseph Hennawi: Shedding (Quasar) Light on High- Redshift Galaxies 15:00 Alison Coil: Galaxy and Quasar Clustering at z = 1 15:30 Tea (Lobby) 16:00 Zheng Zheng: Modeling the Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies 16:30 Nikhil Padmanabhan: New Estimators of the Galaxy Correlation Function 17:00 Adjourn
Tuesday, April 3
08:30 Coffee and Pastry (Lobby) Session 3 (Chair: Linda Smith) 09:00 Jenny Greene: A Test of the Black Hole/Bulge Paradigm: Galaxies with Intermediate-Mass Black Holes 09:30 Christy Tremonti: Post-Starburst Galaxies and Fossil Galactic Winds: New Constraints on Feedback and the Starburst-AGN Connection 10:00 Aristotle Socrates: The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies 10:30 Coffee (Lobby) 11:00 Janice Lee: Constraints on the Prevalence of Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies 11:30 Jason Kalirai: Globular Clusters: From the Nearest to the Most Distant 12:00 Group Photo 12:15 Lunch (Cafeteria) Session 4 (Chair: Kailash Sahu) 14:00 Rachel Osten: Transition Region Heating and Structure in M Dwarfs 14:30 Jeong-Eun Lee: Oxygen Isotope Anomalies of the Sun and the Original Environment of the Solar System 15:00 Anjum Mukadam: The High-Speed Time-Series CCD Photometer "Agile" 15:30 Tea (Lobby) 16:00 Niccolo Bucciantini: Relativistic Outflows from Compact Rotators: Pulsar Winds, Pulsar-Wind Nebulae, and GRB?s 16:30 Seth Redfield: The Dynamical Structure of the Local Interstellar Medium 17:00 Q&A Session 17:30 Adjourn
Wednesday, April 4
08:30 Coffee and Pastry (Lobby) Session 5 (Chair: Ron Allen) 09:00 Mark Krumholz: From Massive Cores to Massive Stars 09:30 Klaus Pontoppidan: Molecular Gas in the Terrestrial Zones of Planet-Forming Disks 10:00 Eric Ford: Extrasolar Planets: Testing Models of Planet Formation 10:30 Coffee (Lobby) 11:00 Gaspar Bakos: Exoplanet Search with the HAT Network 11:30 Scott Sheppard: Observations of Dwarf Planets 12:00 Adjourn