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Monday, March 9th
08:30 Coffee and Pastries (Rear Lobby)
09:00 Welcome (STScI Director, Matt Mountain)
Bahcall Auditorium
Session 1 (Chair: Ron Allen, STScI)
1.1 09:15 Mercedes Lopez-Morales (HF'07; Carnegie DTM)
Characterizing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets
1.2 09:45 Emily Schaller (HF'08; U Hawaii)
Understanding Titan's Meteorological Cycle with IRTF and Gemini
1.3 10:15 Klaus Pontoppidan (HF06: Caltech)
Observing Planet Formation with Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy
10:45 Coffee Break (Rear Lobby)
1.4 11:15 Sean Andrews (HF'07; CfA/SAO)
Protoplanetary Disks at High Angular Resolution: Disk Structure,
Evolution, and A Glimpse at the Planet Formation Process
1.5 11:45 Asaf Pe'er (GF'07; STScI)
Thermal Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts
1.6 12:15 Alceste Bonanos (GF'08; STScI)
A Survey of the Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe
12:45 Lunch (Cafe Azafran)
Session 2 (Chair: Neill Reid, STScI)
2.1 14:00 Niccolo' Bucciantini (HF'06; UCB)
Investigating Magnetar Spindown during Core-Collapse Supernovae:
Magnetized Relativistic Jets and Long-Duration GRBs
2.2 14:30 Alicia Soderberg (HF'07; Harvard)
A Diversity of Massive Star Death
2.3 15:00 David Kaplan (HF'07; UCSB)
What Can We Learn From Timing Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars?
15:30 Tea (Rear Lobby)
2.4 16:00 Daniel Kasen (HF'07; UCSC)
Origins of Diversity in Type Ia Supernovae
2.5 16:30 Suvi Gezari (HF'08; JHU)
Results from Time-Domain Studies in the UV with GALEX:
Tidal Disruption Flares from Supermassive Black Holes Shock Breakout
Flashes in Core-Collapse Supernovae
2.6 17:00 Louis Strigari (HF'08; Stanford)
Milky Way Satellites: Mass Distributions and Indirect Detection
17:30 Adjourn
Tuesday, March 10th
08:30 Coffee & Pastries (Rear Lobby)
Session 3 (Chair: Michael Fall, STScI)
3.1 09:00 Jong-Hak Woo (HF'08; UCLA)
Cosmic Evolution Of Black Hole-Galaxy Correlations
3.2 09:30 Brandon Kelly (HF'08; SAO)
The Distribution and Evolution of Black Hole Mass in Broad Line Quasars
3.3 10:00 Marusa Bradac (HF'07; UCSB)
Dark Matter in the "Bullet Cluster" 1E0657-56 and MACSJ0025-1222: Revealing
the Invisible with 2 Cosmic Supercolliders
10:30 Coffee Break (Rear Lobby)
3.4 11:00 David Law (HF'08; UCLA)
Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
3.5 11:30 Elena Gallo (HF'08; MIT)
AMUSE-Virgo: Super-Massive Black Holes In Low-Mass Early Type Galaxies
3.6 12:00 Eric Smith (NASA-HQ)
NASA HQ Perspective
12:30 Group Photo
12:45 Lunch (Cafe Azafran)
Session 4 (Chair: Eric Smith; NASA-HQ)
4.1 14:00 Glenn van de Ven (HF'06; IAS)
Probing Dark Matter In Galaxies With Gravitational
Lensing And Kinematics
4.2 14:30 Jurg Diemand (HF'06; UCSC)
Simulations Of Galactic Cold Dark Matter Halos
4.3 15:00 Kevin Bundy (HF'08; UCB)
The Mass-Dependent Role of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution
15:30 Tea (Rear Lobby)
4.4 16:00 Julio Chaname (HF'08; DTM)
On the Full Exploitation of Discrete Velocity Data: The case of
Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Galactic Globular Clusters
4.5 16:30 Richard Cool (HF'08; Princeton}
PRIMUS: The PRIsm MUlti-object Survey
4.6 17:00 Jenny Greene (HF'06; Princeton)
The Growth of Black Holes: Insights From Obscured Quasars
17:30 Q & A Session with Paula Sessa & Dana Rohr
18:00 Adjourn
18:00 & 18:10 Transport to Restaurant
18:30 Reception at Gertrude's Restaurant, Baltimore Museum of Art
19:15 Dinner at Gertrude's
Wednesday, March 11th
08:30 Coffee & Pastries (Rear Lobby)
Session 5 (Chair: Harry Ferguson, HF'93; STScI)
5.1 09:00 Ivo Labbe (HF'07; Carnegie Observatories)
The NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: stellar populations of the most massive
galaxies at z>1.5
5.2 09:30 Nikhil Padmanabhan (HF'06; LBNL)
A Cosmic Yardstick : Measuring Dark Energy with Baryon Oscillations
5.3 10:00 Janice Lee (HF'06; Carnegie Observatories)
A Comparison of H-alpha and UV Star Formation Rates in the
Local Volume: Systematic Discrepancies in Dwarf Galaxies
10:30 Coffee Break (Rear Lobby)
5.4 11:00 Jonathan Pritchard (HF'07; Harvard)
Astrophysics and cosmology from observations of the redshifted 21 cm line
5.5 11:30 Judd D. Bowman (HF'07; Caltech)
On the Doorstep of Reionization
5.6 12:00 Andrei Mesinger (HF'08; Princeton)
Investigating Early Universe UV Feedback Processes using Numerical and Semi-
Numerical Approaches
12:30 Adjourn