Session list

Welcoming Address

Monday, 8:15-8:30am

The Honorable Mr. Bill Bogaard, Mayor of Pasadena
Dr. David Baltimore, President, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Session 1. Walter Baade: Father of the Two Stellar Populations and Pioneer Supernova Researcher

Invited, Monday, 8:30-9:20am, C101-104

Session 2. First Science Results from the Gemini North Telescope

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 3. Analysis, Data and Distances

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 4. Instruments: Real and Proposed

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 5. Ground Based Instruments and Surveys

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 6. The Early Universe

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 7. Clusters of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 8. Normal Galaxies: Stellar Pops, ISM and Dynamics

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 9. Dwarf, Irregular and Starburst Galaxies

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 10. Black Holes

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 11. Cataclysmic Variables, Novae

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 12. Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 13. Planetary Nebulae

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 14. Old Stars and the Material Around Them

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 15. Education: Projects, Techniques and Outreach

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 16. Outstanding Programs in Education and Public Outreach

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 17. Galaxies: Chandra's Perspective

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C101-103

Session 18. Protostellar Disks

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C104

Session 19. First Science Results from the Gemini North Telescope

Special Session Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C106

Session 20. Galaxian Grab-bag

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C107

Session 21. Cosmology and Dark Matter

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C105

Session 22. A Variety of Stellar Properties

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C211

Session 23. Outstanding Programs in Education and Public Outreach

Special Session Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, C212-214

Session 24. SIRTF's First Year: Science Plans and Science Opportunities

Invited, Monday, 11:40am-12:30pm, C101-104

Session 25. A Preview of the SIRTF Legacy Science Program

Special Session Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C101-104

Session 26. Galaxy Clusters and the Intergalactic Medium

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C106

Session 27. Neutron Stars, Pulsars Gamma ray Bursts

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C107

Session 28. Winds and Outflows

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C105

Session 29. Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C211

Session 30. Education and Instrumentation

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, C212-214

Session 31. Nearby Young Stars and Star Clusters: The IMF, Brown Dwarfs, and Prospects for Planet Formation

Invited, Monday, 3:40-4:25pm, C101-104

Session 32. Recent Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Invited, Monday, 4:30-5:15pm, C101-104

Session 33. The Big Picture: Latest Science Results from 2MASS

Topical Session Oral, Tuesday, 9:00am-12:30pm, 2:00-5:30pm, C101-104

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

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

Session 35. GRBs: A Mystery and a Tool

Topical Session Oral, Tuesday, 8:30am-12:30pm, 2:00-5:30pm, C107

Session 36. Interacting Galaxies

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 37. Gravitational Lenses, Relativistic Astrophysics

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 38. GRBs: A Mystery and a Tool

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 39. Supernovae

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 40. Supernova Remnants

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 41. The Milky Way Galaxy

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 42. Star Clusters

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 43. Stellar Evolution

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 44. Stellar Spectroscopy and Related Results

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 45. Stellar Observations with FUSE

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 46. Variable and Binary Stars - Photometry

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 47. Variable and Binary Stars - Spectroscopy

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 48. YSOs

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 49. Latest Results from 2MASS

Display, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 50. Intermediate-luminosity X-ray Objects and Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, 8:30am-12:30pm, C101-104

Session 51. Optical Interferometry

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, 8:30am-12:30pm, 2:30-6:00pm, C106

Session 52. The Cosmological Impact of Galactic Winds

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, 8:30am-12:30pm, C107

Session 53. Cluster Properties and Large Scale Structure: New Correlations

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 54. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 55. Measuring the History of Star Formation using the Rest Ultraviolet

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 56. Intermediate-Luminosity X-ray Objects and Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 57. Cosmological Impact of Galactic Winds

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 58. The Intergalactic Medium

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 59. Galactic ISM

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 60. Galactic Halo

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 61. Optical Interferometry I - CHARA

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 62. Optical Interferometry II - SIM, TPF

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 63. Optical Interferometry III

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 64. Laboratory Astrophysics

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 65. Computational Astrophysics

Display, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 66. Cluster Properties and Large Scale Structure

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, 2:30-6:00pm, C101-104

Session 67. Measuring the History of Star Formation Using the Rest Ultraviolet

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, 2:30-6:00pm, C107

Session 68. Hale Prize Lecture

Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, C101-104

Session 69. Planet Searchs and Dwarfs

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 70. Planets, Comets and Beyond

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 71. The Sun

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 72. Seyfert Galaxies

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 73. Radio Galaxies

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 74. QSOs

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 75. Observing with the Upgraded Arecibo Telescope

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 76. Beyond SIRTF/SOFIA/Herschel: New Generation FIR Telescopes

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 77. The Promise and Pitfalls of High Contrast Imaging

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 78. A New Look at Quasars - Recent Results from the SDSS

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, C101-104

Session 79. Galaxy Surveys

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, C106

Session 80. Black Holes, Supernovae, Supernova Remnants

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, C107

Session 81. Dwarf, Irregular, and Starburst Galaxies

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, C105

Session 82. Beyond SIRTF/SOFIA/Hershel: New Generation FIT Telescopes

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 2:00-3:30pm, C211

Session 83. The Promise and Pitfalls of High Contrast Imaging

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, C212-214

Session 84. Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary

Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, C101-104

Session 85. Bars and Black Holes in Galaxies

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C101-103

Session 86. The Sun, Extrasolar Planets and Dwarf Stars

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C104

Session 87. Galactic Star Forming Regions

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C106

Session 88. Seyfert Galaxies and QSOs

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C107

Session 89. Observing with the Upgraded Arecibo Telescope: Methods and Recent Results

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C105

Session 90. Turbulence

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, C212-214