Eric Gawiser (Rutgers), Brian Keating (UCSD), Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard), Jennifer Hoffman (Berkeley)
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January 5th, 2007
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1:00
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Opening
Remarks: Wayne van Citters (NSF)
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1:15
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Keynote
Address: Jay Pasachoff (Williams) "Syzygies:
Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations"
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2:00
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2:15
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Ginny
McSwain -- "The Comings and Goings of Be Stars in NGC
3766"
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2:30
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Matt
Browning -- "Dynamo Action in the Solar Convection
Zone and Tachocline"
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2:50
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Coffee
Break
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3:15
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Katherine Rhode -- "Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, & Black Holes" |
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3:30
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Tom
Renbarger -- "The Cosmic Infrared Background
Explorer"
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3:45
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Chris
Groppi -- "Updating and recomissioning the Steward
Observatory Student Radio Telescope"
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4:00
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Kurtis
Williams -- "Finding White Dwarfs via Proper Motions"
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4:15
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Panel
Discussion: Transition from Postdoc to Career
Position
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panelists: Julianne Dalcanton (U. Washington), |
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5:30
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Informal
discussion
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7:00
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Symposium
Dinner (By Invitation)
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| Saturday,
January 6th, 2007
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9:00
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Results of
the NSF Senior Review: Eileen Friel (NSF)
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9:45
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Peter
Frinchaboy -- "Determination of the Local Galactic
Rotation Curve using High Precision Tracers"
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10:00
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Coffee
Break
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10:30
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Sukanya Chakrabarti -- "Simulating
Merging Galaxies: The Infrared View"
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10:45
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11:00
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Education
AAPF Talk: Doug Duncan (U. Colorado)
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11:45
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Panel
Discussion: New Directions in Undergraduate Education
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Confirmed
panelists: Doug Duncan (U. Colorado), Gina Brissenden
(CAPER), Brian Patten (NSF), Nate McCrady (AAPF)
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12:45
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Lunch
Break
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1:45
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Jeff Bary
-- "A Multi-Epoch Study of Near-Infrared Accretion
Signatures from T Tauri Stars"
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2:00
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Kelle Cruz
-- "A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs in the
Field"
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2:15
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Chris
Groppi -- "Supercam, a 64 pixel imaging spectrometer
for the 870 micron atmospheric window"
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2:30
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Tom
Renbarger -- "A Sounding Rocket for the UCSD COSMOS
program"
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2:40
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Coffee
Break
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3:15
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Nate
McCrady -- "Probing Super Star Clusters with Laser
Guide Star Adaptive Optics"
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3:30
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Hector
Arce - "Outflows, Chemistry and Low-Mass Star
Formation" and "The Hayden Astrophysics Enrichment
and Research Program"
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3:45
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Marcel Agueros -- "Weird Compact Objects from SDSS: Low-Mass White Dwarfs and Isolated Neutron Star" |
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4:00
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Josh Faber
-- "Better to burn out, than to fade away"
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4:15
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Panel
Discussion: Teaching the Night Sky in the Modern
World
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Confirmed
panelists: Jay Pasachoff (Williams), Alice Enevoldsen
(Pac. Sci. Ctr.), Anna Hurst (ASP), Ginny McSwain
(AAPF), Burley Packwood (Seattle Astron. Society)
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5:30
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Concluding
Remarks: Dana Lehr (NSF)
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7:00
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AAS
Opening Reception
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