| Tuesday, 8 March 2011 |
| 8:30 AM | | Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 AM | Tom Soifer | Welcome and Logistics |
| AGN and Supermassive Black Holes |
| 9:10 AM | Brandon Kelly | Probing Accretion Physics with X-ray Variability of AGN and New Methods of Estimating Black Hole Mass |
| 9:30 AM | Debora Sijacki | Gravitational Recoils of Super-massive Black Holes in Massive Gas-rich Galaxies |
| 9:50 AM | Lisa Winter | Searching for Clues to the Black Hole-Galaxy Relationship Through Nearby AGN Surveys |
| Galaxy Structure and Formation |
| 10:10 AM | Louis Strigari | The Dark Matter at the End of the Milky Way |
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| 10:30 AM | | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM | Kevin Bundy | Building Massive Galaxies: Hierarchical Assembly and the Structure of Brightest Group Galaxies. |
| 11:20 AM | Julio Chaname | Constraining Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Star Clusters with Hubble |
| 11:40 AM | Selma de Mink | The Mysterious Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters: The Role of Stellar Rotation and Massive Binaries |
| 12:00 PM | Kristian Finlator | Understanding Galaxy Growth Using Fundamental Relations |
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12:20 PM | | Lunch |
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| 1:50 PM | Dusan Keres | Detectability of Gas Infall into Galaxies |
| 2:10 PM | Evan Kirby | Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellites and High-Resolution Follow-Up |
| 2:30 PM | Matthew Walker | Wide Binary Stars in Dwarf Galaxies: Prospects for a
New Test of Lambda-CDM Cosmology |
| Distant Universe I |
| 2:50 PM | Ryan Keisler | Testing Early Universe Physics with the CMB |
| 3:10 PM | David Law | Rest-Frame Optical Imaging of z ~ 2-3 Star-Forming Galaxies with HST/WFC3 |
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| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM | Pascal Oesch | Hunting for the First Generations of Galaxies with HST |
| 4:20 PM | Ryan Quadri | The Evolution of the Star Formation-Density Relation |
| 4:40 PM | Naveen Reddy | Systematics in the UV Dust Attenuation Curve at High Redshift |
| 5:00 PM | Beth Reid | Modeling Redshift Space Distortions in the Quasi-Linear Regime |
| 5:20 PM | | Adjourn for the day |
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| Wednesday, 9 March 2011 |
| 8:30 AM | | Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 AM | | Logistics |
| Distant Universe II |
| 9:10 AM | Brant Robertson | Did Star-Forming Galaxies Reionize the Universe? |
| 9:30 AM | John Wise | From the First Stars to Galaxy Formation |
| 9:50 AM | Andrei Mesinger | Studying the First Galaxies with the Cosmological 21cm Line |
| 10:10 AM | Caitlin Casey | Working towards Completeness in Extreme Starburst Galaxies at z>1 |
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| 10:30 AM | | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM | Michael Cooper | Understanding the Global Course of Galaxy Evolution at z < 1 |
| 11:20 AM | S. Mark Ammons | New Insights Into the Use of Cosmic Telescopes |
| Results from Surveys |
| 11:40 AM | Suvi Gezari | The Variable Ultraviolet Universe |
| 12:00 PM | Mario Juric | Milky Way Asymmetries and Substructure in SDSS III |
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| 12:20 PM | | Lunch |
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| 1:50 PM | Shelley Wright | NOMADS : Physical Origins of Line-Emitting Gas in High-Redshift (1 < z < 3) Galaxies |
| Star Formation and Young Stars |
| 2:10 PM | Lucas Cieza | The Nature of Transition Disks in Nearby Star-forming Regions |
| 2:30 PM | Melissa Enoch | A Candidate Detection of the First Hydrostatic Core |
| 2:50 PM | Elise Furlan | The Last Remnants of Primordial Disk Material |
| 3:10 PM | Karin Oberg | Resolving the Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks |
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| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM | Thomas Robitaille | Modeling star formation throughout the Milky-Way |
| Stars and Stellar Remnants I |
| 4:20 PM | Jose Prieto | The Isolated, the Energetic, and the Unseen: A Tale of Bright Supernovae |
| 4:40 PM | Mukremin Kilic | Stars that Go Boom |
| 5:00 PM | Maryam Modjaz | Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Environments |
| 5:20 PM | | Adjourn for the day |
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| 6:00 PM | Symposium banquet |
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| Thursday, 10 March 2011 |
| 8:30 AM | | Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 AM | | Logistics |
| Stars and Stellar Remnants II |
| 9:10 AM | Tabetha Boyajian | Sizing Up the Stars: Fundamental Properties of Stars with Interferometry |
| 9:30 AM | Trent Dupuy | Fundamental Tests of Theory with Ultracool Binaries |
| Exoplanets |
| 9:50 AM | Josh Carter | Stellar and Planetary Characterization with Kepler |
| 10:10 AM | Kevin Covey | Identifying and Characterizing the Lowest-mass Exoplanet Hosts with Near-infrared Spectroscopy |
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| 10:30 AM | | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM | Daniel Fabrycky | Planetary Systems from Kepler |
| 11:20 AM | Adam Kraus | A Young Exoplanet Caught at Formation |
| Solar System |
| 11:40 AM | Henry Hsieh | Main-Belt Comets: Ice in the Inner Solar System |
| 12:00 PM | Hilke Schlichting | Runaway Growth During Planet Formation |
| 12:20 PM | | Adjourn |
