Keck Science Meeting 2004

University of California, Los Angeles

Moore Hall (Room 100)

September 17

8:00-8:30 am Registration & Poster Set-Up
8:30 am I. McLean (UCLA) Welcome
8:35 am J. Cohen (CIT) J.B. Oke: In Memorium
8:45 am A. Bouchez (WMKO) Got an AO guide brighter than R = 19? The Keck Laser Guide Star AO system
9:00 am A. Ghez (UCLA) The Galactic Center
9:15 am D. Erb (CIT) Dynamical & Stellar Masses of Star-forming Galaxies at z~2
9:30 am T. Treu (UCLA) Black-hole mass velocity dispersion relation at z~0.37
9:45 am C. Martin (UCSB) Cool Winds and Hot Winds: Are they Compatible?
10:00 am N. McCrady (UCB) The IMF in M82 Super Star Clusters, a population study
10:15 am BREAK Refreshments & Posters on Kerckhoff Patio
10:45 am I. de Pater (UCB) Keck AO Observations of Uranus & Neptune and their ring systems
11:00 am M. Adamkovics (UCB) Titan: Visualization and analysis of Spectral Image Data Cube at 1.14-1.8 micron
11:15 am T. Greene (NASA Ames) Astrophysical properties of accreting low mass protostars: results of a NIRSPEC survey
11:30 am J. Rhoads (STScI) Lyman-alpha galaxies
11:45 am J. Kalirai (UCSC) The Initial-Final Mass Relation
12:00 pm A. Boesgaard (UH) New Light on the Light elements
12:15 pm (Very) Short Poster Talks 1-minute presentations – overheads only!
12:30 pm BREAK Lunch & Posters on Kerckhoff Patio
1:30 pm R. Ellis (CIT) Searching for the Sources Responsible for Cosmic Re-ionization
1:45 pm M. Davis (UCB) Progress with the Deep2 Survey
2:00 pm T. Soifer (CIT/SSC) Keck observations of Spitzer/MIPS sources in the NDWFS Bootes Field
2:10 pm G. Helou (CIT/SSC) Spectroscopic Follow-up of Faint Spitzer Sources Using DEIMOS and LRIS
2:20 pm M. Barsony (SFSU) A Mid-infrared imaging survey of embedded young stellar objects in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Core
2:30 pm S. Brittain (Notre Dame) CO Emission & Absorption toward v1647 Ori (McNeil’s Nebula)
2:40 pm S. Metchev (CIT) Brown dwarf companions to solar-type stars from the Palomar-Keck Adaptive optics Young Star Survey
2:50 pm P. Kalas (UCB) High contrast imaging of circumstellar debris disks using NIRC2 coronagraphy
3:00 pm M. Liu (UH) Substructure in the disk around the young star AU Mic (GJ 803)
3:10 pm BREAK Refreshments & Posters on Kerckhoff Patio
3:40 pm R. Akeson (MSC) How to observe with the Keck Interferometer
3:50 pm D. Crabtree (NRC-HIA) Size Matters: The Scientific Impact of the Keck Telescopes
4:00 pm R. M. Rich (UCLA) Abundances of Galactic Bulge stars
4:15 pm M. Beasley (UCSC) Globular Clusters in M31: The view from Keck
4:30 pm A. Stockton (UH) Old massive disks at high redshifts
4:45 pm S. Kulkarni (CIT) Gamma-ray Bursts: Lighthouses
5:00 pm J. Larkin (UCLA) OSIRIS - The next Keck instrument
5:15 pm R. Goodrich (WMKO) Observing support at Keck: What we are doing for you
5:25 pm Fred Chaffee (WMKO Director) The State of the Observatory
6:05-7:30 pm BREAK Posters: Wine & Cheese on the Kerckhoff Patio
7:30-7:45 pm Remove posters & Adjourn
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