3 October 2003
 

Time	Title	Authors
SESSION 1:	Astronomy Close to Home	Chair: Claire Chandler
9:00	WELCOME	Greg Taylor (NRAO)
9:05	Invited talk:   The LOFAR Project: Impact on Regional Astronomy	Neb Duric (UNM)
9:35	Status of the EVLA Fiber Optic LO system	Steven Durand (NRAO)
9:50	Information-based analysis of the CLEAN deconvolution algorithm	Douglas Hope (UNM)
10:05	Laser experiments on Omega and the modeling of jet-driven SN	Robert Coker (LANL), Bernie Wilde (LANL), and Alexei Khokhlov (NRL)
10:20	Results From the Astronomy Diagnostic Test: Gender Matters (Sometimes!)	Michael Zeilik, M. Jennifer Markus, and Vicky Morris (UNM)
10:35	BREAK/POSTERS	All
SESSION 2:	Our Solar System	Chair: Bryan Butler
11:00	Binaries in the Vesta Family of Asteroids	William Ryan (NMT), Eileen Ryan (NMT), and Carlos Martinez (UNM)
11:15	Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (LINEAR) at Lincoln Laboratory's ETS	Tom Ruekgauer (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
11:30	Invited talk:   Three-Dimensional Simulations of the K-T Impact Event at Chicxulub	Galen Gisler (LANL), Robert Weaver (LANL), Michael Gittings (SAIC), and Charles Mader (LANL)
12:00	LUNCH/POSTERS	All
SESSION 3:	The Nearby Universe	Chair: Mark Claussen
2:00	Invited talk:   Massive Star Formation	Peter Hofner (NMT)
2:30	The most detailed picture yet of an embedded high-mass YSO	C. J. Chandler (NRAO), L. J. Greenhill, M. J. Reid (CfA), P. J. Diamond (Jodrell), & M. Elitzur (Univ. of Kentucky)
2:45	Gravitational Astrophysics with the RAGE Code	R.M Hueckstaedt, R.F.Coker, K.C.B. New, and M.L.Gittings (LANL)
3:00	XMM-Newton Observations of Radio Pulsars	Katherine McGowan, Tom Vestrand, Cheng Ho (LANL), Silvia Zane, Mark Cropper (MS\SL), Jamie Kennea, France Cordova (UCR), Tim Sasseen (UCSB)
3:15	Invited Talk:   Probing Microturbulence in the ISM via Pulsars	Don Backer (UCB)
3:30	X-ray decline during the quiesence of dwarf novae SS Cyg	W. Priedhorsky and K. McGowan (LANL)
3:45	BREAK/POSTERS	All
SESSION 4:	The Distant Universe	Chair: Joan Wrobel
4:20	The Race to Build Supermassive Black Holes	Craig Tyler, Brent Janus, and Diego Santos-Noble (Fort Lewis College)
4:35	Ram Pressure Stripping in the Low Luminosity Virgo Cluster Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4476	Danielle Lucero (NMT), Lisa Young (NMT), and J.H. VanGorkom (Columbia)
4:50	Radio astronomy into the EoR: Molecular gas and dust in the most distant QSO	Chris Carilli (NRAO)
5:05	Results from the Cosmic Background Imager	Steve Myers (NRAO)
5:30	Cocktails/Dinner (in Macey Center)	All
8:00	JANSKY LECTURE (in Macey Auditorium):   Massive Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Pulsars	Don Backer (UCB)