Volume GC98 - GC98 Program

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Sunday, September 6th
17:00-20:00	Registration (Lobby Mezzanine)
19:00-21:00	Reception (Poolside)
Monday, September 7th
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
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
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
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
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
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)*