18th Annual New Mexico Symposium Oral Program

1 November 2002
 
Time
Title
Authors
SESSION 1:
Star Formation & Evolution
Chair: Claire Chandler
9:00
WELCOME Jim Ulvestad (NRAO)
9:05
Invited talk:   Space Interferometry Mission: Planets and More Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
9:35
Deriving the Physical Structure of B335 Using Dust Continuum and Dust Exinction Yancy L. Shirley (NRAO)
9:50
Multiwavelength Observations of Herbig Ae/Be Stars Mario R. Perez (LANL), Mario van den Ancker (ESO)
10:05
Monitoring RFI in NM Neb Duric, Alex Theodorou, Kate Smith, Ghazi Zouaoui and Mark Harris (UNM)
10:20
The Summer Science Program Opens New Mexico Campus Richard D. Bowdon, Stephen L. Cotler, Summer Science Program
10:35
BREAK/POSTERS All
 
   
SESSION 2:
Our Solar System
Chair: Bryan Butler
11:00
Invited talk:   Water on Mars: Lowell's Revenge? Jim Murphy (NM State University)
11:30
Spectro-Photometry of Saturn by a Passband-Tunable Imaging System Takafumi Temma, Nancy Chanover (NMSU), Amy Simon-Miller, David Glenar (NASA/Goddard), John Hillman (U. of Maryland), David Kuehn (Pittsburg State U.)
11:45
Characterizing the methane and haze distribution in Titan's lower atmosphere Carrie Anderson, N.J. Chanover (NMSU), C.P. McKay (Ames), P. Rannou (Universite de Paris), D.A. Glenar (Goddard), & John Hillman (U. of Maryland)
12:00
Astrobiology: Bacterial Survivability in Collisional Events Eileen Ryan (MRO/NMT), Gordon Southam (U of Western Ontario), William Ryan (NM Highlands/NMT), Jennifer Lindline, Ruth Juarez, Lacey Stewart, Josh Woddlee (NM Highlands)
12:15
Patterns of helicity in the solar chromosphere and corona Pevtsov, A.A. (NSO), Balasubramaniam, K.S. (NSO), Rogers, W.J. (NSO/RET)
12:30
LUNCH/POSTERS All
     
SESSION 3:
The Nearby Universe
Chair: Jean Eilek
2:00
Invited talk:   A New Look at our Partner Galaxy (M31/Andromeda) in the X-ray Band Bill Priedhorsky (LANL), S. Trudolyubov, and the XMM/OM team
2:30
Star Formation in HI Selected Galaxies J.F. Helmboldt and R.A.M. Walterbos (NMSU), G.D. Bothun (U. of Oregon), W.J.G. de Blok (ATNF)
2:45
Constraints on the Formation of Spiral Bulges from Absorption Line Studies Bhasker Moorthy & Jon Holtman (NMSU)
3:00
High Resolution Extragalactic Radio Recombination Lines from Starburst Galaxies C. A. Rodriguez-Rico (NRAO/UNAM), W. M. Goss (NRAO), J.-H. Zhao, F. Viallefond
3:15
Mining the Sky with Both Eyes Open: The Utility of Stereoscopic Monitoring of the Night Sky W. T. Vestrand on behalf of the Raptor Team (LANL)
3:30
BREAK/POSTERS All
     
SESSION 4:
The More Distant Universe
Chair: Dale Frail
4:00
Invited talk:   Studying the Neutral Intergalactic Medium Prior to the Epoch of Reionization Chris Carilli (NRAO), F. Owen, & N. Gnedin
4:30
Searching for Strongly-Lensed Quasars Dinesh Loomba (UNM)
4:45
A view through Faraday's fog: Rotation Measures in AGN cores R. T. Zavala (NRAO & NMSU) and G. B. Taylor (NRAO)
5:00
Sensitive VLBI observations of the Seyfert-2 NGC 7674: First Science with VLBA, VLA and ARECIBO E. Momjian (NRAO/U. of Kentucky), J. D. Romney (NRAO), C. L. Carilli (NRAO), T. H. Troland (U. of Kentucky)
5:15
First Evidence for TeV Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galaxy Todd Haines (LANL) and the Milagro collaboration.
     
5:30
Cocktails/Dinner (in Macy Center) All
     
8:00
JANSKY LECTURE (in Macy Auditorium):   The Brightest Explosions in the Universe Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)