IAU Colloquium 164: Oral Scientific Program
IAU Colloquium 164: Oral Scientific Program
Go to IAU164 Home Page Version 5.4 / 17 April 1997
Responsible: Anton Zensus
(azensus@nrao.edu) and the IAUC 164 Scientific Organizing Committee
Except where noted, all oral contributions will be given 10 minutes (firm) plus 5 minutes for questions.
| Tuesday, 22 April 1997 | ||
| 0745 |
Breakfast and Registration | |
| 0900 | ||
| Vanden Bout | Welcome (Director NRAO) (5) | |
| Lopez | Welcome (President NMIMT) (5) | |
| Moran | 30 Years of VLBI: Early Days, Successes, and Future (invited) (25+5) | |
| Hirabayashi | The VSOP Mission - A New Era for VLBI (invited) (20+5) | |
| Pearson | The Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Surveys (review) (20+5) | |
| 1030-1100 | ||
| Marscher | The Blazar Paradigm: Synchro-Compton Emission from Relativistic Jets (review) (20+5) | |
| Burbidge | Ejection Phenomena in Radio Galaxies and QSOs. Are We Going Far Enough? | |
| Valtaoja | Structure And Properties Of AGN Cores From VLBI And Total Flux Density Variations | |
| Krichbaum | Sub-mas Jets in Active Blazars, Results from High Frequency VLBI | |
| Mattox | The VLBI Properties of Blazars Detected by EGRET | |
| 1225-1400 | ||
| Bower | Millimeter VLBI Observations of the Gamma-Ray Blazar NRAO 530 | |
| Britzen | Monthly VLBI Monitoring of Selected Gamma-bright Quasars | |
| Edwards | Markarian 421: TeV Gamma Ray Flares and VLBI Structure | |
| Abraham | Model of a precessing jet in 3C279 | |
| Gomez | Relativistic Numerical Simulations of Superluminal Sources | |
| Lobanov | Synchrotron Spectra of Compact VLBI-jets | |
| 1530-1600 | ||
| Murphy | VLBI of Southern EGRET Identifications | |
| Cohen | Unification of Radio Galaxies | |
| Hough | First VLBA Images of the Nuclei in 3CR Lobe-dominated Quasars | |
| Giovannini | Relativistic Jets in Low Power Radio Galaxies | |
| Tingay | Sub-Parsec-Scale Structure and Evolution of Centaurus A at 8.4 and 22.2 GHz | |
| TBD | TBD | |
| 1730-1830 |
Poster Session and Bar | |
| Wednesday, 23 April 1997 | ||
| 0745 | ||
| 0900 | ||
| Herrnstein | The Water Masers in NGC 4258: Warped Disks, Synchrotron Jets, and Proper Motions (20+5) | |
| Maoz | Shock-Origin of High-Velocity Maser Emission from Circumnuclear Disks | |
| Satoh | The water maser and continuum emission in NGC 3079 | |
| Greenhill | Water in NGC 1068 | |
| Diamond | VLBA Observations of the H2O Megamaser in NGC 1052 | |
| 1025-1055 | ||
| Watson | Spectra of Maser Emission From Circumnuclear Disks | |
| Lonsdale | Imaging of the Arp 220 OH Megamasers with VLBI | |
| Menten | VLA and VLBA Observations of SiO and H2O Masers in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy | |
| Conway | VLBI Observation of Broad HI Absorption in AGN; Evidence for Circumnuclear Atomic Gas | |
| Wardle | Latest Polarization Results on AGN from the VLBA (review) (20+5) | |
| Aaron | A Multi-frequency VLBA Polarization Study of 3C 309.1 | |
| 1235-1400 | ||
| Aller, M. | What Can Single-dish Measurements Tell Us about the Physical Conditions in BL Lac Jets? | |
| Flatters | VLBA Rotation-Measure Mapping of 3C119 | |
| Ludke | A Polarimetric Survey of a Complete Sample of Classical Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources with the VLA at 22 GHz | |
| Meier | A Possible Magnetic Switch Mechanism Governing the Production of Radio Jets | |
| Taylor | Faraday Rotation Measure Observations on the Pc-scale-probing the AGN Environment | |
| Cornwell | The AIPS++ Software Package (overview; separate demonstrations) (20+5) | |
| 1540-1610 | ||
| 1615-1815 | ||
| 1730-1830 | ||
| Thursday, 24 April 1997 Tour day, no oral session, but posters can be viewed all day | ||
| Friday, 25 April 1997 | ||
| 0745 | ||
| 0900 | ||
| Wagner | Intraday Variability (review) (20+5) | |
| Gabuzda | VLBI Observations of Intraday Variability | |
| Kedziora-Chudczer | PKS 0405-385: The Smallest Radio Quasar? | |
| Walker, M. | Scintillations of Extragalactic Sources | |
| Rickett | Scintillation and Broadening in the Interstellar Medium | |
| 1025-1055 | ||
| O'Dea | Constraints on Radio Galaxy Evolution from GPS and CSS Sources | |
| Morganti | A Sample of Southern CSS: Radio and Optical Properties | |
| Jeyakumar | The Evolution of Compact Steep Spectrum Sources | |
| Snellen | A Population Study of Faint Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum Sources from WENSS | |
| Mantovani | VLBA and MERLIN Polarization Observations of Compact Steep-spectrum Sources | |
| Roy | Survey of Milliarcsec Structure in Eight Seyfert Galaxies: Results on NGC 1068, NGC 4151, & NGC 2639 | |
| 1225-1400 | ||
| Porcas | EVN Observations of Gravitational Lenses (review) (20+5) | |
| Fassnacht | Measuring the Hubble Constant with the Gravitational Lens 1608+656 | |
| Garrett | Multi-epoch 15 and 43 GHz VLBA Observations of the Gravitational Lens PKS 1830-211 | |
| Lovell | Measuring the Properties of the Strong Gravitational Lens PKS 1830-211. | |
| Carilli | Imaging the Pc-scale Structure in the Molecular ISM at z = 0.9 Towards 1830-211 | |
| 1525-1555 | ||
| Beasley | VLBI Observations of Active Late-type Binaries | |
| Falcke | Sgr A* and CO The Nature of Compact Radio Cores in the Center of Galaxies | |
| Guirado | Astrometric Detection of a Very Low Mass Companion Orbiting a Late-type Radio Star | |
| Gwinn | Nanoarcsecond Structure of the Vela Pulsar | |
| Lazio | Scattering in the Outer Galaxy: A VLBA Survey | |
| Nunes | VLBI Astrometry of the Planetary-System Millisecond Pulsar B1257+12 | |
| 1730-1830 | ||
| 1930 | ||
| Saturday, 26 April 1997 | ||
| 0800 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 0900 | ||
| Pooley | GRS 1915+105: flares, QPOs and other events at 15 GHz | |
| Reid | Progress Toward a Trigonometric Parallax of Sgr A* | |
| Spencer | Apparent Relativistic Motion in Cygnus X-3 | |
| Marcaide | Expansion of a Radio Supernova (15+5) | |
| Rupen | Evolution of Supernova 1993J in M81 + Movie by Bartel (15+5) | |
| 1025-1055 | ||
| Langevelde | Phase-referencing Observations of Galactic Circumstellar Masers | |
| Doeleman | SiO Masers in VX Sgr | |
| Kemball | Imaging the Magnetic Field in the Atmosphere of TX Cam | |
| Claussen | Water Masers Near Low-Luminosity Young Stellar Objects | |
| Strelnitski | Spatially Resolved H2O Masers as Probes of Supersonic Turbulence | |
| Desmurs | EVN Observations of 5 cm OH Main Lines in Massive Star Forming Region | |
| 1225-1400 | ||
| Horiuchi | OH and H_2O Maser distribution in Orion-KL | |
| Ellingsen | VLBA Imaging of Methanol Masers | |
| Norris | Methanol Masers - Are They in Circumstellar Disks? | |
| Slysh | 0.4" Resolution BIMA Array Maps of the 107 GHz Methanol Masers in W3(OH) | |
| Eubanks | Astrometric Cosmology: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters From VLBI Proper Motion Estimates | |
| Lestrade | The Final Link of the VLBI and Hipparcos Reference Frames by Phase-Referenced VLBI Observations of 12 Non-Thermal Radio-Emitting Stars | |
| 1530-1550 | ||
| Gaume | The Radio Reference Frame | |
| Ratner | Progress in VLBI Stellar Astrometry for the NASA/Stanford Relativity Mission (Gravity Probe B) | |
| Jones | The Astronomical Low-Frequency Array (ALFA) Mission | |
| Nakajima | Giga-bit VLBI Data Recorder, New Concept of Formatter Independent System | |
| Ulvestad | ARISE - A Proposed Future Space VLBI Mission | |
| 1705-1800 | ||
| 1800 | ||