9 November 2001
 

Time	Title	Authors
SESSION 1:	The Extragalactic Universe	Chair: Michael Rupen
9:00	WELCOME	Miller Goss (NRAO)
9:05	A Megamaser in the Jet of Mrk 348	Alison Peck (MPIfR), Christian Henkel (MPIfR), & James Ulvestad (NRAO)
9:20	Parsec-Scale Faraday Rotation Measures in Radio Galaxies	Bob Zavala (NRAO & NMSU) & Greg Taylor (NRAO)
9:35	The Frequency of Active and Quiescent Galaxies with Companions	Henrique Schmitt (NRAO)
9:50	RR Lyrae Stars and Anomalous Cepheids in the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy	Karen Kinemuchi (Mich. St.), Horace A. Smith (Mich. St.), Hugh C. Harris (USNO-Flagstaff), Nancy Silbermann (SIRTF Science Center), Aaron LaCluyze (Mich St.), Cathy Clark (Mich St.), & Lucas Snyder (DePauw Univ.) (NRAO)
10:05	Star Formation Characteristics of HI Selected Galaxies	Joe Helmboldt (NMSU), Rene Walterbos (NMSU), Greg Bothun (Oregon), Erwin de Blok (ATNF), & Karen O'Neil (Arecibo)
10:20	New Results on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays	John A.J. Matthews for the HiRes Collaboration (UNM)
10:35	BREAK--POSTER VIEWING	All
SESSION 2:	Instrumentation, Techniques, & Transients	Chair: Mark McKinnon
11:00	The ALMA Fine Tuning Synthesizer	Mike Revnell (NRAO)
11:15	Dark Sky Magnitude Measurements at West Gate	K. Koski, J. Balfour, A. Morris, D. Vigil, H. Vahle, & J. Cooper (Trex Enterprises Corp.)
11:30	Patrolling the Sky for Optical Transients: The Raptor Project	James Wren & the Raptor Team (LANL))
11:45	The RITE (Radio Interferometer Transient Experiment) and FSA (Fairly Small Array)	Joe Reynolds (UNM/LA)
12:00	Massive Variability Searches in Astronomy	Przemyslaw Wozniak (LANL)
12:15	Microlensing Search Toward the Galactic Center	Cristina Afonso (NMSU)
12:30	LUNCH--POSTER VIEWING	All
SESSION 3:	Stars: Formation to Death	Chair: Mark Claussen
14:00	Star Formation in Nearby Lynds Dark Clouds	Claire Chandler (NRAO), John Richer (Cavendish), & Anja Visser (Cavendish)
14:15	Interfacial Instabilities Driven by Self-Gravity	R.M. Hueckstaedt (LANL)
14:30	The Galactic Low Frequency Radio Background Spectrum as an Indicator of Structure in the WIM	Jason Peterson (NMSU), W. R. Webber (NMSU)
14:45	L-Dwarf Photometric Variability	Christopher R. Gelino (NMSU) & Jon A. Holtzman (NMSU)
15:00	Predicting the Frequency Spectrum of the Delta Scuti Star FG Virginis	Joyce A. Guzik (LANL) & Paul A. Bradley (LANL)
15:15	A 421d Activity Cycle in the Be X-ray Transient A0538-66	Katherine McGowan (LANL), Phil Charles (Univ. Southampton), & MACHO Collaboration
15:30	BREAK--POSTER VIEWING	All
15:50	Low Frequency Observations of Galactic Supernova Remnants	C.L. Brogan (NRAO), N. Kassim (NRL), J. Lazio (NRL), M. Nord (NRL), & C. Lacey (U. South Car.)
16:05	The Circular Polarization in Individual Pulses from Pulsars and the Detection Statistics of Radio Polarimetry	Mark McKinnon (NRAO)
SESSION 4:	Our Own Solar System	Chair: Bryan Butler
16:20	Thermal and Dynamic Structure of Sunspots	K.S. Balasubramaniam (NSO)
16:35	New Observations of the Venus Visible Nightglow	N.J. Chanover (NMSU), K.S.J. Anderson (NMSU), T.G. Slanger (SRI Int'l.), P.C. Cosby (SRI Int'l.), & D.L. Huestis (SRI Int'l.)
16:50	Analysis of Color Photometric Measurements of Artificial Satellites	Tamara Payne (Schafer Corp.) & Stephen Gregory (UNM)
17:05	The Big Splash: Tsunami from Asteroid Impacts	Jack Hills (LANL)