Session 34. Interacting Galaxies: A Multi-wavelength Look at their Role in Galactic and Cosmic Evolution

Topical Session Oral, Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 8:30am-12:30pm, 2:00-5:30pm, C106

34.01 Arp Atlas Galaxies: Peculiar or Prescient?

B.F. Madore (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

34.02 Galaxy Interactions: Overview

F. Schweizer (Carnegie Observatories)

34.03 The Fate of Gas in Merger Remnants: an HI perspective

J. H. van Gorkom (Columbia University)

34.04 Dynamical Modeling of Interacting Galaxies: Observations Confront Theory

C. Mihos (CWRU)

34.05 OH Megamasers: Luminous Radio Beacons of Merging Galaxies

J. Darling, R. Giovanelli (Cornell University)

34.06 Structure Formation in Tidal Debris

J. E. Hibbard (NRAO)

34.07 Ultraviolet Observations of Infrared-Luminous Merging Galaxies

J.A. Surace (SIRTF Science Center)

34.08 The Merger-Starburst-AGN Connection in QSOs

G. Canalizo (LLNL)

34.09 The Mass Function of Supergiant Molecular Complexes in the Antennae Galaxies

C.D. Wilson (McMaster), N.Z. Scoville (Caltech), S.C. Madden (Saclay), V. Charmandaris (Cornell)

34.10 H2/CO in Mergers/ULIRGs:feeding the Central Source

N. Scoville (Caltech)

34.11 HST NICMOS Observations of Infrared Luminous Galaxy Mergers

A.S. Evans (SUNY at Stony Brook)

34.12 Dust and Mid-Infrared Properties of Interacting Galaxies

V. Charmandaris (Cornell University)

34.13 Radio Continuum and FIR Properties of Interacting Galaxies

M. Yun (University of Massachusetts)

34.14 Gas Concentrations in the Disk-disk Overlapping Regions

Y. Gao (IPAC, Caltech)

34.15 X-ray Properties of Interacting Galaxies / Chandra Results

G. Fabbiano (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

34.16 Imaging Study of a Complete Sample of Luminous Infrared Galaxies

C.M. Ishida, D.B. Sanders (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

34.17 The Evolution of Galaxy Mergers to z ~ 3.5

C.J. Conselice (STScI), M.A. Bershady (U. Wisconsin-Madison), M Dickinson (STScI)

34.18 Detecting Molecules in High-z Mergers with ALMA

F. Combes (Observatoire de Paris)

34.19 Observational Constraints on Building Galaxies Through Mergers

M. Bershady (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

34.20 Cosmological Implications of the SCUBA Sources

A. W. Blain (Institute of Astronomy, UK)