| Conference Agenda
|
| [links on speakers'
names connect to their electronic file of their presentation
(7/1/03)] |
| Sunday, June 15th |
| 1:00-5:00pm |
Registration Desk Open |
Student Village First
Floor |
| 6:00-9:00pm |
Opening Reception |
Student Village 17th Floor
Lounge |
| Monday, June 16th |
| 7:30-8:30am |
Continental
Breakfast and Poster Set up |
Ziskind
Lounge |
| 8:30-9:00am |
Meeting Opening: Boston University
Provost Dennis Berkey
|
Conference Auditorium |
| Session 1. HI Surveys |
Conference Auditorium |
| 9:00-9:30am |
IR |
|
ATNF, Australia
|
New HI Surveys of the Milky Way |
| 9:40-9:55am |
IT |
Juergen Kerp
|
Bonn University
|
A New Whole HI Sky Survey |
| 10:05-10:20am |
IT |
|
NRAO
|
VLA Galactic Plane Survey (VGPS) |
| 10:30-11:00am |
Coffee Break & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 2. Molecular Surveys |
Conference Auditorium |
| 11:00-11:30am |
IR |
|
Boston University
|
The Boston University-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic
Ring Survey |
| 11:40-11:55am |
IT |
Akira Mizuno
|
Nagoya University
|
Physical properties of molecular
clouds from the galactic center to the galactic warp |
| 12:05-12:20pm |
IT |
Tom Dame
|
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
|
A Large Extension of the 1.2-Meter Galactic
CO Survey |
| 12:30-2:00pm |
Buffet Lunch & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 3. Infrared Surveys |
Conference Auditorium |
| 2:00-2:30pm |
IR |
Robert Benjamin
|
Univ. Wisconsin
|
GLIMPSE: a SIRTF Legacy Project to Map the
Inner Galaxy |
| 2:40-2:55pm |
IT |
|
AFRL, Hanscom AFB
|
Mid-Infrared Survey of the Galactic Plane |
| 3:05-3:20pm |
IT |
Martin Weinberg
|
University of Massachusetts
|
Finding the Milky Way in 2MASS |
| 3:30-4:00pm |
Coffee Break & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 4. Continuum/Optical Surveys I: |
Conference Auditorium |
| 4:00-4:30pm |
IR |
|
University of Oxford,
UK
|
Microlensing Surveys |
| 4:40-4:55pm |
IT |
Zeljko Ivezic
|
Princeton University
|
Reaching to the edge of the Milky Way with
SDSS |
| 5:05-5:20pm |
IT |
|
University of Wisconsin
|
The WHAM Northern Sky Survey |
| 5:30-7:00pm |
Poster Viewing / Cash
Bar |
Ziskind Lounge |
| 7:30-10:00pm |
Conference Banquet |
The Castle at Boston
University |
| Tuesday, June 17th |
| 7:30-8:30am |
Continental Breakfast
& Poster Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 5. Continuum/Optical
Surveys II: |
Conference Auditorium |
| 8:30-9:00am |
IR |
|
NASA GSFC
|
Galactic Emission in the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Maps |
| 9:10-9:25am |
IT |
|
Cornell University
|
A New Model for the Galactic Electron Density
and its Fluctuations |
| 9:35-9:50am |
IT |
|
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
|
Radio Synchrotron Emission from the Milky
Way |
| 10:00-10:15 |
IT |
Robert Becker
|
UC Davis
|
A Three-Configuration VLA
Galactic Plane Survey at 1400 MHz |
| 10:25-10:55am |
Coffee Break & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 6. Galactic Structure and Evolution
I: |
Conference Auditorium |
| 10:55-11:25am |
IR |
|
IoA, Cambridge Univ.
|
The Bulge and halo: populations and histories |
| 11:35-11:50am |
IT |
Eve Ostriker
|
University of Maryland
|
Molecular Cloud Formation |
| 12:00-12:15am |
IT |
Steve Majewski
|
University of Virginia
|
Accretion and the Formation of the Galactic
Halo |
| 12:25-1:45pm |
Buffet Lunch & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 7. Galactic Structure and Evolution
II: The Bar |
Conference Auditorium |
| 2:15-2:45pm |
IR |
|
Univ. Nottingham,
UK
|
The Galactic Bar |
| 2:55-3:10pm |
IT |
Peter Englmaier
|
Astr. Inst., Univ.
Basel
|
Large-scale Gas Dynamics in the
Milky Way: Evidence for 2 Pattern Speeds |
| 3:20-3:35pm |
IT |
Konrad Kuijken
|
Sterrewacht Leiden
|
Kinematics in the galactic bulge/bar |
| 3:45-4:15pm |
Coffee Break & Poster
Viewing |
Ziskind Lounge |
| Session 8. Galactic Structure and Evolution:
III |
Conference Auditorium |
| 4:15-4:45pm |
IR |
Carl Heiles
|
Univ. Cal. Berkeley
|
Physical Properties of the Galactic HI |
| 4:55-5:25pm |
IR |
Francesca Matteucci
|
Univ. Trieste, Italy
|
The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way |
| 5:30pm |
Conference Ends |
