Keck Science Meeting 2003: Talks

Talks are 9:00am-6:00pm in Arms Lecture Hall (Room 155)

Posters are up 8:30am-7:00pm in the Arms/Robinson Courtyard and specially viewed from 10:35-11:00am, 12:20-1:30pm, 2:35-3:00pm, and 6:15-7:00pm


(Information as of 2 October)

Time Speaker Title
08:30-08:50 BREAK Refreshments and Posters, Outdoors
08:55-09:00 Hillenbrand / Rich
Welcome & Logistics
09:00-09:15 Andrew Blain
CIT
The ongoing submm galaxy effort
09:15-09:30 Crystal Martin
UCSB
The Space Density of Redshift 5.7 LyA Emitters: First Constraints from a Multislit Windows Search
09:30-09:45 Aaron Barth
CIT
An intermediate-mass black hole in the dwarf Seyfert 1 galaxy POX 52
09:45-10:00 Derek Fox
CIT
Multiple High-Redshift GRB Absorption Systems from Keck Spectroscopy
10:00-10:15 Alison Coil
UCB
Early Results from the DEEP2 Redshift Survey
10:15-10:30 David Sand
CIT
The Dark Matter Distribution in the Cores of Galaxy Clusters: Implications for Cold Dark Matter Structure Formation
10:30-10:35 [5 presenters] 1-minute Poster Talks
(TBD)
10:35-11:00 BREAK Refreshments and Posters, Outdoors
11:00-11:15 Andrea Ghez
UCLA
New Results from the Galactic Center
11:15-11:30 Carmen Sanchez-Contreras
CIT
The jet-sculpting of AGB winds: optical spectroscopy of proto-planetary nebulae with Keck
11:30-11:45 David Alves
UCD/Columbia
Mass Loss from Red Giants in 2nd-Parameter Globular Clusters
11:45-12:00 Inese Ivans
CIT
Chemical Composition of the Outer Halo Sgr dSph Cluster, NGC~5634
12:00-12:15 Matthew Barczys
UCLA
A Deep Near-Infrared AO Luminosity Function for the Galactic Bulge
12:15-12:20 [5 presenters] 1-minute Poster Talks
(TBD)
12:20-13:30 BREAK Lunch and Posters, Outdoors
13:30-13:45 James Larkin
UCLA
Galaxy Evolution at the Keck Diffraction Limit
13:45-14:00 James Colbert
UC/SSC
Uncovering the Hidden z=1.5-2.5 Bright Ages
14:00-14:15 Jean Brodie
UCSC
Keck Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Globular Clusters: Ruling out Accretion and Major Mergers as the Dominant Mechanisms of Galaxy Assembly
14:15-14:30 Claire Max
UCSC
Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging and Spectroscopy of NGC 6240, a Starburst Galaxy Hosting Binary AGNs
14:30-14:35 [5 presenters] 1-minute Poster Talks
(TBD)
14:35-15:00 BREAK Refreshments and Posters, Outdoors
15:00-15:15 Bill Merline
SWRI (NASA use)
Progress on the Search for Binary Asteroids using AO
15:15-15:30 Lisa Prato
UCLA (NASA use)
Young Star Dynamical Mass Ratios Down to and Across the Substellar Boundary
15:30-15:45 Eduardo Martin
UH
Spectroscopy of young brown dwarfs
15:45-16:00 Russel White
CIT
High Dispersion Optical Spectra of Emerging Protostars in Taurus
16:00-16:15 Gaspard Duchene
UCLA
The first high resolution, high contrast 3.8 micron scattered light image of a protoplanetary disk
16:15-16:30 Chris Koresko
MSC (NASA use)
A Search for Debris Disks around Young Sun-Like Main Sequence Stars
16:30-16:45 SHORT BREAK
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16:45-17:00 David Le Mignant
WMKO
AO characterization/performance/operations/development/results
17:00-17:15 Rachel Akeson
MSC (NASA use)
First science results from the Keck Interferometer: DG Tau and NGC 4151
17:15-17:30 Keith Taylor
CIT
KIRMOS Science and Development
17:30-17:45 Jim Beletic
WMKO
ESO and Keck: same planet, different worlds
17:45-18:15 Fred Chaffee
WMKO
State of the Observatory Address
18:15-18:20 Barbara Schaefer
WMKO
The Beauty of Mauna Kea (a slide show)
18:20-19:30 SOCIAL EVENT
/ ADJOURN
Posters and adult beverages, outdoors.
Also time to "grill the director".