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Monday, March 10
8:30aCoffee & Pastry (Lobby)
9:00aWelcome (Auditorium)
Session 1 (Chair: Ron Allen; STScI)
9:15aMercedes Lopez-Morales (HF'07; Carnegie DTM)
Transit Timing: In Search for Earth-like Planets
9:45aSeth Redfield (HF'05; UTexas/Austin)
Observing the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets
10:15aBeth Biller (HF'07; IfA Hawaii)
An Imaging Survey for Extrasolar Planets around 45 Close, Young Stars with SDI at the VLT and MMT
10:45aCoffee Break (Lobby)
11:15aSean Andrews (HF'07; CfA/SAO)
Protoplanetary Disk Structure at High Resolution: A Glimpse at the Planet Formation Process
11:45aKlaus Pontoppidan (HF06: Caltech)
Straddling The Snow Line: Planet-Forming Regions of Circumstellar Disks at Very High Spectral And Spatial Resolution
12:15pJennifer Wiseman (Lab Chief, ExoPlanets and Stellar Astrophysics, GSFC, HF'98)
NASA's Exoplanet Program
12:45pLunch (Cafe Azafran)
Session 2 (Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, HF'98; GSFC)
2:00pNiccolo Bucciantini (HF'06; UCB)
Long Duration GRBs and the Birth of Magnetars
2:30pAlicia Soderberg (HF'07; Princeton)
A Unique View of the GRB-SN Connection through Radio and X-ray Observations
3:00pDavid Kaplan (HF'07; MIT)
Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars
3:30pTea (Lobby)
4:00pMark Krumholz (HF'05; Princeton)
The Secret Lives of Molecular Clouds
4:30pRachel Osten (HF'05; UMd)
Multiwavelength Signatures of Magnetic Activity from Young Stellar Objects in the Lk-Halpha 101 Cluster
5:00pDaniel Kasen (HF'07; UCSC)
Modeling Core Collapse Supernovae as Cosmological Probes
5:30pAdjourn
6-6:10pTransport to Restaurant
6:30pReception at Donna's Restaurant, Cross Keys
7:15pDinner at Donna's
Tuesday, March 11
8:30aCoffee & Pastry (Lobby)
Session 3 (Chair: Roelof de Jong, HF'98; STScI)
09:00aRachel Mandelbaum (HF'06; IAS)
Exploring the Dark Content of Galaxies with Weak Gravitational Lensing
09:30aJay Strader (HF'07; CfA/HCO)
Kinematics of Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems
10:00aMarusa Bradac (HF'07; UCSB)
Dark Matter and Highest Redshift Galaxies: Revealing the Invisible with the `Bullet Cluster'
10:30aCoffee Break (Lobby)
11:00aChristy Tremonti (HF'05; UAz)
Galactic Winds in Normal Star Forming Galaxies and Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
11:30aJason Kalirai (HF'05; UCSC)
Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
12:00pEric Smith (HST/JWST Program Scientist; NASA-HQ)
Astrophysics Forecasting: Will There Be Space Observatories for Future Hubble Fellows?
12:30p Group Photo
12:45pLunch (Cafe Azafran)
Session 4 (Chair: Eric Smith; NASA-HQ)
2:00pGlenn van de Ven (HF'06; IAS)
Triaxial Galaxy Models
2:30pJürg Diemand (HF'06; UCSC)
Formation of Cold Dark Matter Halos and Stellar Halos
3:00pJuna Kollmeier (HF'06; Carnegie Observatories)
Where are the Old Population Hypervelocity Stars?
3:30pTea (Lobby)
4:00pAlison Coil (HF'05; UAz)
PRIMUS: A Prism Redshift Survey to z=1
4:30pDominik Riechers (HF'07; Caltech)
Masses of the Highest Redshift Quasars and Their Host Galaxies
5:00pKen Sembach (Project Scientist for SM4, HF'92; STScI)
Progress Towards SM4 for HST
5:30pQ & A Session with Paula Sessa & Linda Greenwell
6:00pAdjourn
Wednesday, March 12
8:30a Coffee & Pastry (Lobby)
Session 5 (Chair: Harry Ferguson, HF'93; STScI)
9:00aIvo Labbe (HF'07; Carnegie Observatories)
The Emergence of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Between 1 < z < 3
9:30aNikhil Padmanabhan (HF'06; LBNL)
From Quasars to Dark Energy: Adventures with the Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies
10:00aJanice Lee (HF'06; Carnegie Observatories)
H-alpha Imaging Surveys of Galaxies Near and Far
10:30aCoffee Break (Lobby)
11:00aJonathan Pritchard (HF'07; CfA/HCO)
Evolution and Application of the 21cm Signal Throughout Cosmic History
11:30aJudd D. Bowman (HF'07; Caltech)
"First Light" from New Probes of the Dark Ages and Reionization
12:00pMassimo Stiavelli (STScI Project Scientist for JWST)
JWST - Science Highlights and Status Report
12:30pAdjourn


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