Scientific Program

Tuesday, May 17

6:00-8:00pm: Welcoming Reception at Strater Hotel

Wednesday, May 18

Morning Session: (Un)solved Problems of the Interstellar Medium
Chair: Luis Rodriguez

9:00-9:10	Welcome
9:10-9:40	Bob O'Dell	"Unsolved Important Problems in the ISM"
9:40-9:55	Paul van der Werf	"Tearing the Veil: Revisiting the HI Associated with the Orion Nebula"
9:55-10:10	Ron Allen	"OH Emission in the Outer Galaxy"
10:10-10:25	Doug Roberts	"Making the Invisible Universe Visible"
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	Peter Roelfsema	"Heterodyne Spectroscopy from Space: Recent Results and Future Prospects"
11:30-12:00	Snezana Stanimirovic	"Galaxy Evolution Begins at Home: GALFA, 21-SPONGE, and GASKAP"
12:00-12:30	Carl Heiles	"Magnetic Fields and the Fifth Phase of the Interstellar Medium"
12:30-2:30		Lunch at Strater Hotel

Afternoon Session: Star formation, Supernova Remnants and the Galactic Center
Chair: Laura Chomiuk

2:30-2:55	Gloria Dubner	"Supernova Remnants From Radio to Gamma-Rays: A Trip From Socorro to Space Guided by Miller Goss"
2:55-3:20	Dave Green	"Some Statistics of Galactic SNRs, Plus G1.9+0.3"
3:20-3:35	Claudia Cyganowski	"A New Sample of Massive Young Stellar Object Outflow Candidates: Extended Green Objects (EGOs) from the GLIMPSE Survey"
3:35-4:00	Crystal Brogan	"Early Results from an EVLA Survey of Massive Protostars"
4:00-4:30	Tea Break
4:30-4:55	Francois Viallefond	"Recombination Lines and Star Formation in M82"
4:55-5:20	Cornelia Lang	"The Galactic Center Interstellar Medium"
5:20-5:40	JunHui Zhao	"SgrB2 Main: A Cluster of Ultra-compact HII Regions & Massive Protostellar Cores"
5:40-6:00	Jim Moran	"What Polarization Tells Us About the Accretion Disk in SgrA*"

Thursday, May 19

Morning Session: Radio Transients and Compact Objects
Chair: Patrick Palmer

9:00-9:30	Shri Kulkarni	"Crystal-Ball Gazing: Transients & Variables (PTF to LSST)"
9:30-9:45	Ashley Zauderer	"Searching for Radio Emission from GRBs"
9:45-10:15	Geoff Bower	"Radio Transient Surveys"
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:05	Heino Falcke	"Getting to the Event Horizon in Sgr A*"
11:05-11:25	Shami Chatterjee	"Neutron Stars, Radio Transients, and Precision Astrometry"
11:25-11:45	Walter Brisken	"Imaging a Pulsar's Scattering Disk"
11:45-12:00	G.B. Cornucopia	"Chaco, a Preview"
12:00-1:45		Lunch at Strater Hotel

Afternoon Session: History of (Radio) Science
Chair: Woody Sullivan

1:45-2:15	Woody Sullivan	"The Intellectual and Technical Ancestry of Miller's Early Career in Radio Astronomy"
2:15-2:45	Ron Ekers	"The Development of Aperture Synthesis"
2:45-3:15	Harry Wendt	"The Amazing Radiophysics Field Station at Potts Hill, Sydney"
3:15-3:30	Bob Hayward	"The Colgate Paramp and Its Impact on Radio Astronomy"
3:30-4:00	Tea Break
4:00-4:30	Ken Kellermann	"The NRAO-OVRO Wars: I, II, and III"
4:30-5:00	Miller Goss	"J. L. Pawsey: The Second Director of NRAO 1961-1962"
5:00-5:30	Andrew Goss	"Remarks on the History of Science and Astronomy in Modern Indonesia."
6:30-9:30		Banquet at Train Museum

 

Posters

Laura Chomiuk	Novae with the EVLA
Vincent Fish	Observing the Galactic Center with Millimeter VLBI
Vincent Fish	OH Maser Flares in W75N
Remy Indebetouw and Kelsey Johnson	The ISM Around Natal Star Clusters
Peter Teuben	CARMA images
Jacqueline van Gorkom	A Pilot for an EVLA HI Deep Field