Topics and Reviews
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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
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