| 40 YEARS OF INFRARED ASTRONOMY: A TRIBUTE TO ERIC BECKLIN |
| April 1 &
2, 2005 at the Doubletree Hotel, 10740 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, CA |
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THURSDAY, March 31, 2005 |
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| 5-8pm |
Registration & Informal Reception from
6-7pm |
Bruin Den Lounge; 1 drink ticket. No host bar also
available. |
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FRIDAY, April 1 2005 |
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| 7:30-8:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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Speaker |
Inv'd/Contr'd |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 8:30am |
Ian McLean |
Chair |
UCLA |
Welcome |
| 8:35am |
Roberto Peccei |
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UCLA |
Opening remarks from UCLA Vice-Chancellor Peccei |
| 8:45am |
Gareth Wynn-Williams |
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UH/ IfA |
Looking under the Lampost - infrared astronomy in the
1970s |
| 9:15am |
Ben Zuckerman |
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UCLA |
On and off the mountain top with Eric |
| 9:45am |
Jay Frogel |
C |
AURA |
Infrared astronomy in the Dark Ages: when you had to work
hard |
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| 10:00am |
Coffee Break |
(30 min) |
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| 10:30am |
Davy Kirkpatrick |
C |
IPAC/Caltech |
The Legacy of the First L Dwarf, GD165B |
| 10:45am |
Bruce Macintosh |
C |
LLNL |
Imaging companions: from GD165B to exoplanets |
| 11:00am |
Patrick Lowrance |
C |
SSC |
Searching for Substellar Companions |
| 11:15am |
Alycia Weinberger |
C |
Carnegie/DTM |
Disks, Dust and Planet-Building |
| 11:30am |
Motohide Tamura |
C |
NAO Japan |
SUBARU Explorations of Disks and Exoplanets |
| 11:45am |
Murray Silverstone |
C |
Steward Observatory |
Debris disks from ISO to Spitzer |
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch Break |
(1hr 15 min) |
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| 1:15pm |
Mark Morris |
Chair |
UCLA |
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| 1:15pm |
Tom Greene |
C |
NASA Ames |
Embedded Protostars: The Becklin Legacy |
| 1:30pm |
Ed Erickson |
C |
NASA Ames |
What's going on around BN? |
| 1:45pm |
Ralph Shuping |
C |
USRA/SOFIA |
Mid-IR Observations of Star Forming Regions in the Orion Nebula |
| 2:00pm |
Goran Sandell |
C |
USRA/SOFIA |
Accretion rates in high-mass protostars |
| 2:15pm |
Charlie Townes |
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UCB |
The Mid-infrared Spatial Interferometer System (ISI) on
Mt. Wilson |
| 2:30pm |
Jonathon Weiner |
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UCB |
Asymmetry in the dusty environment of IK Tau |
| 2:45pm |
Rachel Akeson |
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MSC |
Observing T Tauri and Herbig disks with the Keck
Interferometer |
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| 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
(30 min) |
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| 3:30pm |
Charlie Lindsay |
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Northwest Res. Assoc. |
Bright Matter: Infrared Radiometry of the Sun |
| 3:45pm |
Inseok Song |
C |
Gemini Obs |
HIP 24930: A remarkable New Young Triple Star |
| 4:00pm |
Lisa Prato |
C |
Lowell Obs |
New low-mass spectroscopic binaries in Ophiuchus |
| 4:15pm |
Mike Jura |
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UCLA |
Do White Dwarfs have asteroids? |
| 4:30pm |
Dale Cruikshank |
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NASA Ames |
The Outer Solar System: Odds & Ends of Interest to
Eric Becklin |
| 4:45pm |
Jackie Davidson |
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USRA |
From Kuiper to SOFIA |
| 5:15pm |
Adjourn |
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Vacate room promptly - setup for banquet dinner |
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| 7:00-10:00pm |
Banquet Dinner |
MC/ Ian McLean |
Assigned
Seating at Tables - see registration packet |
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Harry Hyland, Steve Willner, Steve Beckwith, Dale Cruikshank,
Bob Joseph, Alan Tokunaga, Mike Jura, Roberto Peccei, Ian McLean |
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SATURDAY, April 2 2005 |
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| 7:30-8:30am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Speaker |
Inv'd/Contr'd |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 8:30am |
Andrea Ghez |
Chair |
UCLA |
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Chas Beichman |
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IPAC/Caltech |
From the IRTF to TPF: From Protostars to Planets |
| 9:00am |
Alan Tokunaga |
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UH IfA |
Another 25 years for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility |
| 9:15am |
Thijs de Graauw |
C |
SRON-Groningen |
Highlights of ISO spectroscopy |
| 9:30am |
Ned Wright |
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UCLA |
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
| 9:45am |
James Larkin |
C |
UCLA |
OSIRIS: a new era in infrared imaging and spectroscopy |
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| 10:00am |
Coffee Break |
(30 min) |
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| 10:30am |
Rodger Thompson |
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UA |
Near Infrared astronomy: From M_H=0, z=0 to M_H=30 z=8 |
| 11:00am |
Harry Teplitz |
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SSC |
A decade of H-alpha at z>1 |
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Ranga-Ram Chary |
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SSC |
Delivering the GOODS on Galaxy Evolution |
| 11:30am |
Bob Joseph |
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UH IfA |
Do mergers of Spirals form Ellipticals? |
| 11:45am |
James Colbert |
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SSC |
The High-z ULIRGs Producing Lyman-alpha Blobs |
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch Break |
(1hr 15 min) |
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| 1:15pm |
Ian McLean |
Chair |
UCLA |
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Mark Morris |
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UCLA |
The Discovery of the Galactic Center: Peeling Away the
Layers |
| 1:45pm |
Andrea Ghez |
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UCLA |
A decade of diffraction-limited observations of the
Galactic Center |
| 2:15pm |
Reinhard Genzel |
C |
MPI ExP |
News from the Galactic Center |
| 2:30pm |
Tom Geballe |
C |
Gemini Obs. |
GC/IRS8: then and now |
| 2:45pm |
Michael Rich |
C |
UCLA |
Star Formation History of the Nuclear Bulge |
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| 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
(30 min) |
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| 3:30pm |
Michael Werner |
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JPL |
Spitzer: A Bridge to the Future |
| 4:00pm |
Tom Soifer |
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SSC |
The Spitzer view beyond the Galaxy |
| 4:30pm |
Steve Beckwith |
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STScI |
The Ascendancy of Infrared Astronomy 1960-2010 |
| 5:00pm |
Eric Becklin |
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UCLA |
Closing remarks |
| 5:30pm |
ADJOURN |
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Participants are free to make their own dinner
arrangements |
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