40 YEARS OF INFRARED ASTRONOMY: A TRIBUTE TO ERIC BECKLIN
April 1 & 2, 2005 at the Doubletree Hotel, 10740 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, CA
THURSDAY, March 31, 2005
5-8pm Registration & Informal Reception from 6-7pm Bruin Den Lounge; 1 drink ticket. No host bar also available.
FRIDAY, April 1 2005
7:30-8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast
       
Speaker Inv'd/Contr'd Affiliation Title
8:30am Ian McLean Chair UCLA Welcome
8:35am Roberto Peccei I  UCLA Opening remarks from UCLA Vice-Chancellor Peccei
8:45am Gareth Wynn-Williams I UH/ IfA Looking under the Lampost - infrared astronomy in the 1970s
9:15am Ben Zuckerman I 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
10:00am Coffee Break (30 min)
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
12:00pm Lunch Break (1hr 15 min)
1:15pm Mark Morris Chair UCLA
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 C UCB The Mid-infrared Spatial Interferometer System (ISI) on Mt. Wilson
2:30pm Jonathon Weiner C UCB Asymmetry in the dusty environment of IK Tau
2:45pm Rachel Akeson C MSC Observing T Tauri and Herbig disks with the Keck Interferometer
3:00pm Coffee Break (30 min)
3:30pm Charlie Lindsay C 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 C UCLA Do White Dwarfs have asteroids?
4:30pm Dale Cruikshank C  NASA Ames The Outer Solar System: Odds & Ends of Interest to Eric Becklin
4:45pm Jackie Davidson I USRA From Kuiper to SOFIA
5:15pm  Adjourn Vacate room promptly - setup for banquet dinner
7:00-10:00pm Banquet Dinner MC/ Ian McLean Assigned Seating at Tables - see registration packet 
Harry Hyland, Steve Willner, Steve Beckwith, Dale Cruikshank, Bob Joseph, Alan Tokunaga, Mike Jura, Roberto Peccei, Ian McLean
SATURDAY, April 2 2005
7:30-8:30am Continental Breakfast
       
Speaker Inv'd/Contr'd Affiliation Title
8:30am Andrea Ghez Chair UCLA
8:30am Chas Beichman I IPAC/Caltech From the IRTF to TPF: From Protostars to Planets
9:00am Alan Tokunaga C 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 I UCLA The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
9:45am James Larkin C UCLA OSIRIS: a new era in infrared imaging and spectroscopy
10:00am Coffee Break (30 min)
10:30am Rodger Thompson I UA Near Infrared astronomy: From M_H=0, z=0 to M_H=30 z=8
11:00am Harry Teplitz C SSC A decade of H-alpha at z>1
11:15am Ranga-Ram Chary C  SSC Delivering the GOODS on Galaxy Evolution
11:30am Bob Joseph C UH IfA Do mergers of Spirals form Ellipticals?
11:45am James Colbert C SSC The High-z ULIRGs Producing Lyman-alpha Blobs
12:00pm Lunch Break (1hr 15 min)
1:15pm Ian McLean Chair UCLA
1:15pm Mark Morris I UCLA The Discovery of the Galactic Center: Peeling Away the Layers
1:45pm Andrea Ghez I 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
3:00pm Coffee Break (30 min)
3:30pm Michael Werner I  JPL Spitzer: A Bridge to the Future
4:00pm Tom Soifer I SSC The Spitzer view beyond the Galaxy
4:30pm Steve Beckwith I STScI The Ascendancy of Infrared Astronomy 1960-2010
5:00pm Eric Becklin - UCLA Closing remarks
5:30pm ADJOURN
Participants are free to make their own dinner arrangements