Session 51. The New Radio Universe

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, Ballroom C

51.01 Accretion Disk Structures, Black Hole Masses, and Cosmic Distances

L. Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

51.02 The Environs of Massive Black Holes and Their Relativistic Jets

G.B. Taylor (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

51.03 Microquasars: Relativity for the Impatient

M.P. Rupen (NRAO)

51.04 Theory and Simulation of Relativistic Jet Formation

D. L. Meier (JPL/Caltech)

51.05 Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Afterglows

D. A. Frail (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

51.06 Active Galactic Nuclei in Nearby Galaxies

H. Falcke, S. Markoff, F. Yuan (MPIfR Bonn), N. Nagar (Arcetri Observatory), A.S. Wilson (University of Maryland), G.C. Bower (UC Berkeley)

51.07 Large-Scale Jets from High Luminosity AGN

J. P. Leahy (University of Manchester)

51.08 Gas in Galaxy Clusters

T.E. Clarke (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

 

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51.09 Initial Conditions for Star Formation

N. J. Evans (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

51.10 Disks and Outflows

L. F. Rodriguez (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM)

51.11 Star Formation in the Galactic Center

C.C. Lang (UMASS)

51.12 Super Star Clusters and Starburst Galaxies

K.E. Johnson (NRAO/U.Wisconsin)

51.13 Radio observations of high redshift star forming galaxies

C.L. Carilli (NRAO)

51.14 Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

A.C.S. Readhead, T.J. Pearson, B. S. Mason, M.S. Shepherd, J. Sievers, P.S. Udomprasert, J.K. Cartwright, S. Padin, A. Farmer (California Institute of Technology), S.T. Myers (NRAO), J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, U. Pen, D. Pogosyan, S. Prunet (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics), W.L. Holzapfel (U. C. Berkeley), J.E. Carlstrom, E.M. Leitch, J. Kovac, C. Pryke (University of Chicago), L. Bronfman, J. May, P. Altamirano (Universidad de Chile), M. Joy (Marshall Space Flight Center)

51.15 Gravitational Lenses

C.S. Kochanek (Center for Astrophysics)

51.16 Assessing the State of Galaxy Formation in the Nearby Universe

E. M. Wilcots (University of Wisconsin - Madison)