A PostScript Version of the Program is also available as well as a PS version of the abstract booklet (including program).
Sunday, September 6th
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17:00-20:00 | Registration (Lobby Mezzanine) | |
19:00-21:00 | Reception (Poolside) | |
Monday, September 7th
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Session I: What is the Central Matter Distribution? | ||
Session moderator: Eric Becklin (Seminar Room) | ||
08:55-09:00 | Introduction and Workshop Welcome (Angela Cotera) | |
09:00-09:30 | The Dark Mass in the Center of the Milky Way | (Reinhard Genzel)* |
09:30-09:50 | New Proper Motion Data | (Andreas Eckart)* |
09:50-10:10 | High Proper Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sgr A* | (Andrea Ghez)* |
10:10-10:30 | Constraints on the mass of SgrA* from its proper motion | (Mark Reid)* |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
11:00-11:30 | NICMOS observations of the central Parsec | (Marcia Rieke)* |
11:30-11:50 | NICMOS Observations of the Central Parsec: Deep Imaging at 1.6 microns, Short-Term Variability, and Ionized Emission | (Susan Stolovy)* |
11:50-12:30 | Discussion | |
12:30 | Lunch (Sundance Cafe) | |
Session II: Can VLBI constrain the size and structure of Sgr A*? | ||
Session moderator: Anton Zensus (Seminar Room) | ||
14:30-14:50 | Corruption of the Visibility of Sgr A* by Intervening Plasma | (Don Backer)* |
14:50-15:10 | 7mm evidence for intrinsic source size and structure of Sgr A* | (K.Y. Lo/J.H. Zhao)* |
15:10-15:30 | 7 mm VLBI Imaging of Sgr A* | (Geoff Bower)* |
15:30-15:50 | Millimeter Observations of Sgr A* | (Thomas Krichbaum)* |
15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
16:20-16:40 | 86GHz VLBI observations of Sgr A* | (Shep Doeleman)* |
16:40-17:00 | Flare of Sgr A* at 100 Ghz | (Masato Tsuboi)* |
17:00-18:00 | Discussion | |
20:00 | Volleyball (Sportsfield, Volleyball Courts) | |
Tuesday, September 8th
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Session III: How to reconcile Models and Observations of Sgr A*? | ||
Session moderator: Reinhard Genzel (Seminar Room) | ||
09:00-09:30 | Introduction | (Fulvio Melia)* |
09:30-09:50 | Explaining the spectrum of Sgr A* using a two temperature plasma | (Rohan Mahadevan)* |
09:50-10:10 | The Influence of an Advection-dominated Accretion Flow on the Appearance of Sgr A* | (T. Beckert)* |
10:10-10:40 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
10:40-11:00 | The jet model for Sgr A* and the nature of the submm-bump | (Heino Falcke)* |
11:00-11:20 | Sgr A* - The radio spectrum | (Wolfgang Duschl)* |
11:20-12:20 | Discussion | |
12:20 | Lunch (Sundance Cafe) | |
Session IV: Morphology and Gas Dynamics within Sgr A West: How are the various components of Sgr A West related? | ||
Session moderator: Peter Mezger (Seminar Room) | ||
14:20-14:50 | The Various Components of the Sgr A Complex and their Interrelationship | (Farhad Yusef-Zadeh)* |
14:50-15:10 | 3D Simulations of the Gas Dynamics in the Central Region | (Robert Coker)* |
15:10-15:30 | Proper Motions and Structure of the Radio Components around Sgr A* | (Jun-Hui Zhao)* |
15:30-15:50 | Sgr A* in the Mid-Infrared Reference Frame: The Relationship Between the Radio and Infrared Sources in the Central Parsec | (Dan Gezari)* |
15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
16:20-16:40 | Mid-infrared observations of Sgr A West from Keck | (Angela Cotera)* |
16:40-17:00 | Theoretical studies of the Circumnuclear Disk | (Robert Sanders)* |
17:00-18:00 | Discussion | |
Wednesday, September 9th
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08:00-12:00 | Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum | |
12:00 | Lunch (on your own) | |
Session V: How, when, where and why are stars formed in the GC? | ||
Session moderator: Kris Sellgren (Seminar Room) | ||
13:30-13:50 | Stellar Content of the Galactic Center | (Bob Blum)* |
13:50-14:10 | Stellar Content of the central 30pc | (Peter G. Mezger)* |
14:10-14:30 | The star formation/AGN connection in the GC and Other Galaxies | (George Rieke)* |
14:30-15:00 | Discussion | |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
15:30-15:50 | Properties of stars in the galactic center | (Thomas Ott)* |
15:50-16:10 | The Arches Cluster | (Gene Serabyn)* |
16:10-16:30 | NICMOS observations of the Quintuplet Cluster | (Don Figer)* |
16:30-16:50 | Theoretical modelling of stars | (Paco Najarro)* |
16:50-17:30 | Discussion | |
18:30 | No host Cocktail Hour (The Last Territory) | |
19:30 | Workshop Banquet (The Last Territory) | |
Thursday, September 10th
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Session VI: What is the metallicity as determined by old and new stars? | ||
Session moderator: Wolfgang Duschl (Seminar Room) | ||
09:00-09:20 | Stellar abundances at the GC | (Solange Ramirez)* |
09:20-09:40 | OH/IR stars as signposts for ancient starburst activity in the Galactic center | (Lorant Sjouwerman)* |
09:40-10:00 | Discussion | |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
Session VII: How do the various components of the inner 100 parsecs interact with each other? | ||
Session moderator: Miller Goss (Seminar Room) | ||
10:30-10:50 | Wide-field Imaging of the Galactic Center | (Namir Kassim)* |
10:50-11:10 | Sgr East and it's interactions with the surrounding gas | (Robert Zylka)* |
11:10-11:30 | Recombination lines from the SgrA complex near 20 cm | (K.R. Anantharamaiah)* |
11:30-12:00 | Discussion | |
12:00 | Lunch (Sundance Cafe) | |
14:00-14:20 | OH 1720 MHz Masers at the GC | (Mark Wardle)* |
14:20-14:40 | Free Electrons and Radio-Wave Scattering in the GC | (T. Joseph Lazio)* |
14:40-15:30 | Discussion | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
Session VIII: What is the strength of the magnetic field in the GC and what are its large and small scale effects? | ||
Session moderator: Yoshiaki Sofue (Seminar Room) | ||
16:00-16:20 | Magnetic Fields in the Sagittarius A region | (Doug Roberts)* |
16:20-16:40 | Far-infrared/Submillimeter Polarimetric Observations of the Galactic Center | (Giles Novak)* |
16:40-17:00 | The Galactic Center Radio Threads: A Multifrequency, Polarimetric Study | (Cornelia Lang)* |
17:00-17:30 | Discussion | |
19:30 | Tour of the Mirror Lab (meet in the Seminar Room) | |
Friday, September 11th
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Session IX: How "standard" are the central regions of our Galaxy? What would the GC look like from 1 Mpc? | ||
Session moderator: Heino Falcke (Seminar Room) | ||
09:00-09:20 | The GC in comparison to AGN | (Ski Antonucci)* |
09:20-09:40 | The MIR Spectrum in the GC: a Starburst Nucleus | (Janet Simpson)* |
09:40-10:00 | Discussion | |
10:00-10:20 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
Session X: What can we learn from High-energy emission in the GC? | ||
Session Moderator: Fulvio Melia (Seminar Room) | ||
10:20-10:40 | Cosmic rays in the GC | (Peter Biermann)* |
10:40-11:00 | gamma -rays from the GC: A Point-like or Diffuse Source? | (Sera Markoff)* |
11:00-11:20 | The Galactic Center EGRET Source and the Broad-band Spectrum of Sgr A East | (Marco Fatuzzo)* |
11:20-11:40 | Cold Matter measurements in the GC with the X-ray satellite ASCA | (Masaaki Sakano)* |
11:40-12:00 | Coffee Break (Canyon Suite II) | |
12:00-12:30 | Discussion | |
12:30-13:00 | Closing Thoughts and Workshop Summary | (Charles Townes)* |
14:00 | Leave for the Grand Canyon (optional) | |
All Week
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POSTER SESSION | ||
(only first Author is listed here, poster size is 4x4 ft.) | ||
Accretion Disk Instabilities in the Vicinity of Black Holes | (W. Auer)* | |
Gas Streamer Feeding the Circumnuclear Disk | (Alison Coil)* | |
EDAF models for Sgr A* | (Alina-Catalina Donea)* | |
SHARC 350 micron Mapping of the Galactic Center from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory | (C. Darren Dowell)x | |
Acceleration processes towards a quasi-monoenergetic electron distribution | (Zeno Jauch)* | |
A Wide Field Image of the Galactic Center Region at 330 MHz | (Ted LaRosa)x | |
ASCA Observations of the Sgr A region | (Y. Maeda)* | |
Is the Sgr B2 cloud an X-ray Reflection Nebula? | (Hiroshi Murakami)x | |
Life Time of the Radio Arc Filaments determined by mm-Wave Observations with the 100-m Telescope | (Y. Sofue)* | |
Spatially Resolved Dust Shells in the Central Parcec | (Angelle Tanner)* | |
The Minispiral revisited | (Bernd Vollmer)* | |
Physical Properties of OH/IR Stars Close to the Galactic Center | (Anders Winnberg)* |
The conference is jointly organized by the Galactic Center Newsletter, the Sonderforschungsbereich 328 (Heidelberg), the Physics Department and the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (Bonn).