Scientific Sessions Schedule

Saturday, 06 June 2009
Workshop
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM The Alt-Az Initiative for Lightweight Research Telescopes: Scientific Research Programs
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CAE Astro 101 Teaching Excellence Workshop
Event
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM AstroZone: Pasadena
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Workshop
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Early Science Opportunities with SOFIA IV
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM The Alt-Az Initiative for Lightweight Research Telescopes: Engineering Developments
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CAE Astro 101 Teaching Excellence Workshop
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Getting Started in Astronomy Education Research
Event
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Undergraduate Orientation
7:15 PM – 10:00 PM Opening Reception
Monday, 08 June 2009
Invited Session
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM100 Welcoming Address
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM101 Cassini at Saturn
Poster Session
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM400 International Year of Astronomy 2009
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM401 Education
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM402 Bridging Laboratory Astrophysics
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM403 Laboratory Astrophysics: Chemistry, Spectroscopy, & Plasmas
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM404 Computational Astrophysics
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM405 Astronomy with WISE
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM406 COSMOS
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM407 Sky Surveys
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM408 Spitzer Exploration Science
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM409 Instrumentation: In Space, On the Ground or in the Air
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM410 Science with the WIYN ODI
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM411 2010-2020: The Decade of Astrometry
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM412 Gravitational Lenses & Waves
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM413 The CMB, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM414 Large Scale Structure & Cosmology
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM415 Galaxy Clusters: Evolution
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM416 Evolution of Galaxies
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM417 AGN: Variability, Outflow, Surveys, and Theory
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM418 Starburst Galaxies, IR and sub mm
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM419 Normal Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies, Spiral Galaxies, Dwarf Galaxies, Irregular Galaxies
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM420 The Active Galactic Center
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM421 Star Associations, Star Clusters - Galactic & Extra-galactic
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM422 Young Stellar Objects, Very Young Stars, T-Tauri Stars, H-H Objects
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM423 Star Formation
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM424 Dust in the Universe
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM425 Molecular Clouds, HII Regions, Interstellar Medium
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM426 Planetary Nebulae, Supernova Remnants
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM427 Supernovae
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM428 Evolved Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Novae, Wolf-Rayet Phenomena
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM429 Neutron Stars, IS Scattering, Pulsars, & Black Holes in Galaxies
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM430 Variable Stars
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM431 Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries & Circumstellar Disks
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM432 Stellar Atmospheres, Evolution, & Populations
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM433 Stars, Cool Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM434 Extrasolar Planets, Substellar Companions
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM435 The Solar System
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM205 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
Special Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM200 The Cosmic Evolution Survey -- COSMOS
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM201 Follow-up Observations of Exoplanet Transits
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM202 Warm Spitzer Exploration Science: Near, Far, Deep, Wide and Things That May Bump into the Earth I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM203 Introduction to Adaptive Optics & Black Holes observed with AO
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM204 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Molecules, Dust and Ices in Regions of Stellar and Planetary F
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM206 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM207 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM208 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM300 Data Mining The Sky
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM301 Circumstellar Disks & Binaries
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM102 Simulating Black Holes, Disks, and Jets
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM209 NSF Town Hall
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM304 Evolved Stars: Abundances, Shells, and Black Holes
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM210 Warm Spitzer Exploration Science: Near, Far, Deep, Wide and Things That May Bump into the Earth II
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM211 Stellar Astronomy with AO
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM212 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Molecules, Dust and Ices in Regions of Stellar and Planetary F
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM213 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM214 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM215 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM216 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM302 Distance Scale, Dark Matter, Dark Energy & VERITAS
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM303 Active Gagaxies: Starbursts , AGN, and Blazars
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM305 Astrobiology & the Solar System
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM103 How Spitzer is Changing Our View of Star Formation
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM104 New Views of Old Galaxies
Event
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM500 Carnegie Observatories Reception
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM105 Supernova Surveys and Cosmology
Special Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM217 Astronomy with WISE
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM218 2010-2020: The Decade of Astrometry 1: Ground based narrow-angle astrometry
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM219 Solar System Studies with AO
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM220 An Overview of the WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI) and Its Technical Capabilities
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM221 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Molecules in Circumstellar Gas, Planetary Nebulae and the Diff
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM222 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM223 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM224 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM225 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM306 Extrasolar Planets, Substellar Companions
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM307 Galaxy Clusters: Measurements and Theory
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM106 Probing the Birth of Super Star Clusters
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM226 The Square Kilometer Array
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM227 NASA Town Hall
Special Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM228 IYA2009 Cornerstone Projects
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM229 2010-2020: The Decade of Astrometry 2: Ground based astrometric surveys
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM230 The Search for Exo-planets and Debris Disks with AO
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM231 Planned ODI Science by the WIYN Partners: An Invitation to Participate in the Yale Survey
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM232 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: The Dusty Universe - From Spitzer to Herschel
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM233 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM234 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM235 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM236 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM308 Evolution of Galaxies
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM309 Late Stellar Evolution: Giants, White Dwarfs, Pulsars
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM107 Hale Prize: Remote-Sensing Observations of the Corona and Solar Wind
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM108 Jets and Disks in Young Stellar Objects
Event
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM501 Graduate Student Decadal Survey Town Hall
Special Session
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM237 Planet Classification in the 21st Century
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM109 Delivering the Starry Message
Special Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM238 New Media in the International Year of Astronomy
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM239 2010-2020: The Decade of Astrometry 3: Space-based astrometry
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM240 Stellar Populations and the Galactic Center with AO
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM241 Looking Up and Out: Community Interest in ODI
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM242 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Comets and Planets
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM243 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM244 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM245 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM246 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM310 Molecular Clouds, HII Regions, Interstellar Medium
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM311 Normal, Elliptical, Spiral, Dwarf, and Irregular Galaxies
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM110 Stories from the Outer Solar System
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM247 AAS Members Meeting
Special Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM248 IYA2009 Outreach: Reports from the Field
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM249 2010-2020: The Decade of Astrometry 4: Microarcseconds and beyond
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM250 Stellar Populations with AO
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM251 Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Outer Planets
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM252 Astro2010 Program: Room 1
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM253 Astro2010 Program: Room 2
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM254 Astro2010 Program: Room 3
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM255 Astro2010 Program: Room 4
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM312 Education
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM313 Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology & CMB
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM111 Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Ellipticals, Quasars, Feedback, and Disks?
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM112 History of Astronomy at the Huntington Library
Event
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM502 Society Banquet
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM113 Cosmic Evolution of Accretion and Fusion Power
Special Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM256 IYA2009 Citizen Science Programs
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM257 Stellar Populations, Galaxies and Cosmology with AO
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM314 Stars, Stellar Populations & Clusters, Winds, & Dust
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM315 Star Formation, Young Stellar Objects, & The Galactic Center
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM316 Supernovae, Planetary Nebulae & Supernova Remnants
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM114 Formation of the Galactic Halo