Palomar Science Meeting 2012 – Agenda
Day 1: 15 November 2012 (All times PST)
08:45 | Boden/Akeson | Welcome & Logistics |
09:00 | Heather Knutson (CIT) | Life on the Edge: Planetary Atmospheres in Extreme Environments |
09:25 | Gene Serabyn (JPL) | Observing very close to stars with nulling interferometry & vortex coronagraphy |
09:50 | Rachel Stevenson (JPL) | Cometary Mass Loss from Main Belt Asteroid P/2012 F5 (Gibbs) |
10:05 | Coffee/Posters | Patio & Library |
10:35 | Phil Muirhead (CIT) | Discovering Sub-Earth-sized Exoplanets with Palomar-TripleSpec |
11:00 | Bonnie J. Buratti (JPL) | From Asteroid 4 Vesta to Earth: Evidence from Palomar |
11:15 | Aren Heinze (SBU) | Weather on Other Worlds: joint Hale/Spitzer observations of patchy clouds on a brown dwarf |
11:30 | J Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC/CIT) | A Search for the Solar Neighborhood's Coldest Brown Dwarfs using WISE |
11:55 | Judy Cohen (CIT) | Wal Sargent Recognition |
12:05 | Lunch | Patio |
13:15 | Mansi Kasliwal (Carnegie) | The Palomar Transient Factory |
13:40 | Nick Konidaris (CIT) | The SED Machine |
13:55 | Christoph Baranec (CIT) | Rise of the machines: Robo-AO and the evolution of automated astronomy |
14:10 | Todd Boroson (NOAO) | A Search for Binary Supermassive Black Holes |
14:35 | Ryan Houghton (Oxford) | SWIFT seeing-limited observations of Coma Galaxies |
15:00 | Coffee/Posters | Patio & Library |
15:25 | Xue-Bing Wu (Peking U) | Weighing black holes at z~3.5 with Hale P200 Triplespec observations |
15:50 | Jifeng Liu (NAOC) | Discovering the quiet stellar mass black holes |
16:05 | Evan Kirby (UCI/CIT) | Extremely Red Stars in the Milky Way Bulge |
16:30 | Sabrina Stierwalt (UVa) | Breaking the Metallicity-Luminosity Relation with HI-selected Dwarf Galaxies |
16:55 | Adjourn/Wine & Cheese | Patio & Library |
Palomar Science Meeting 2012 – Agenda
Day 2: 16 November 2012 (All times PST)
08:45 | Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH) | Project 1640: Palomar's Exoplanet Reconnaissance Program |
09:10 | Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt) | Gyrochronology and Light Curve Analysis Tools with PTF |
09:25 | Ming Zhao (PSU/JPL) | Detection and Characterization of Planetary Atmospheres with WIRC and PHARO |
09:55 | Stan Metchev (SBU) | Debris Disk Science with PALM-3000: First Results |
10:20 | Coffee/Posters | Patio & Library |
10:45 | Lynne Hillenbrand (CIT) | Young Star Variability |
11:10 | Sasha Hinkley (CIT) & Laurent Puyeo (JHU) | New Insights into Young Binary Systems from Project 1640 at Palomar |
11:25 | Sergi Hildebrandt (CIT) | First observations from TMAS at the Hale telescope |
11:40 | Branimir Sesar (CIT) | Mapping the Galactic Halo with RR Lyrae Stars |
11:55 | Chris Martin (CIT) | The Cosmic Web Imager: Tracing Faint Gas from the Milky Way to the IGM |
12:20 | Adjourn |
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