Carnegie Institution

Science With A Large Millimeter Telescope Array

October 6-8, 1999
Carnegie Institution of Washington
16th and P Streets, NW
Washington, D. C.


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Schedule, Topics and invited speakers (tentative)

This is a list of speakers who have been invited. The final schedule will be determined based upon acceptance of the invitations we have issued.

Wednesday Afternoon, 5:30 pm -7:30 pm 6 October, 1999
  • 5:30 pm Display in Committee Room of US Capitol. Food, drink, various mixer blocks, etc., demonstration of remote observing on 12m, displays of site, array, science. Arranged through Rep. Ehlers' office.

    Thursday Morning, 7 October, 1999
    • 8:00 am Press Conference, The Board Room. During the Press Conference, members of the ECC and a suitable representative of the US will sign the formal MOU. ESO Council members. Posters erected in Reception Room.
    • 9:00 am Keynote Address - Anneila Sargent, California Institute of Technology
    • The Array in the context of the 21st Century - Joe Taylor, Princeton University

    Investigation of galaxies from near the time of their formation at very high redshift to the present
    • Protogalactic Dawn - David Spergel, Princeton

    10:30 am Coffee, Posters
    • Galactic Morning -- Andrew Blain, Cambridge
    • A View of Young Galaxies -- Simon Lilly, University of Hawaii
    • Molecular Emission from Distant Galaxies -- Stephane Guilloteau, IRAM
    • The Central Regions of Galaxies -- N. Scoville, Caltech

    Lunch
    Thursday Afternoon, 7 October, 1999
  • The Central Region of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies -- R. Genzel MPIfEP
  • Normal Galaxies -- T. Helfer, NRAO

    3:30 pm Coffee, Tea, Posters
    • Detection and study of planets and disks around nearby stars
      • Disks around Young Stars -- S. Beckwith, STScI
      • Molecular Disks -- A. Dutrey, Grenoble
      • The Formation of Planets -- A. Boss, DTM Carnegie
      • Near-Stellar Gas and Dust -- Lee Mundy, U. Maryland

      Thursday Evening, 7 October, 1999
      • Banquet. Speaker: Jack Welch, Berkeley

        Friday Morning, 8 October, 1999
      • Planetary Signatures -- Lee Hartmann,Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
      • Primitive Solar System Objects -- D. Jewitt, U. Hawaii
        Study of star formation
        • Astrochemical evolution of star-forming regions -- E. van Dishoeck, Leiden University
        • High Mass Star Formation -- Karl Menten, Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie
        • Star Formation at High Resolution -- Neal Evans, U. Tx.

        10:30 am Coffee, Posters
        • New Molecular Views of Southern Star Forming Regions -- Y. Fukui, Nagoya
        • Inerferometric Views of Star Formation -- R. Plambeck, Berkeley
        • Clusters Forming Low Mass Stars -- Philippe Andre, Saclay
        • Jets and Flows from Young Stars -- F. Shu, U. California at Berkeley

        Lunch
        Friday Afternoon, 8 October, 1999
            Study of the origin, distribution and evolution of the elements and their isotopes
            • Dispersal, winds, shocks, dust destruction -- David Hollenbach, Ames Research Center
            • Magnetic Fields -- R. Crutcher, U. of Illinois
            • Formation and Structure of Molecular Clouds as Revealed by Sub-mm line Observations -- S. Yamamoto, University of Tokyo

            4:00 pm Coffee, Tea, Posters
            • Stellar Mass Loss -- H. Olofsson, Stockholm Observatory
            • Formation of Dust -- Xander Tielens, Groningen
            • Molecules -- T. Millar, UMIST
            • From Dust to Biomolecules -- C. Chyba, University of Arizona
            • Conference Summary -- R. Wilson, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

            The preliminary conference program contains a complete list of the talks to be given at Carnegie. Abstracts for most contributions can be found in the abstract book.

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