Second Meeting of the 3rd Coast Astronomical Society
May 8 - 10, 2008
University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, May 8th
Session 1: Active Galactic Nuclei ACES 2.402
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Fred W. Hamann - University of Florida
"Accretion Disk Outflows in Quasars"
Giovanni Fossati - Rice University
"Radio-Loud AGN Unification: Demographics and Blazar Sequence"
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 1: Active Galactic Nuclei (Continued)
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Gregory A. Shields - University of Texas at Austin
"Observational Signatures of Recoiling Black Holes in Quasars"
Martin Gaskell - University of Texas at Austin
"AGN Kinematics and the M-sigma Relationship: No Evidence for Separate
Evolution of Bulges and Supermassive Black Holes"
Noon - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 2: Gamma Ray Bursts
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Pawan Kumar - University of Texas at Austin
"Mass Fall-Back and Accretion in the Central Engine of GRBs"
Robert D. Preece - University of Alabama at Huntsville
"GRB Prompt Emission: New Directions"
3:30 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 2: Gamma Ray Bursts (Continued)
3:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Bradley E. Shaefer - Louisiana State University
"The GRB Hubble Diagram"
Chryssa Kouvelioutou - NASA/MSFC
"Energetics of GRB-SN"
Friday, May 9th
Session 3: Observations of Compact Objects
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Gary L. Case - Louisiana State University
"Low Energy Gamma-Ray Emission of Galactic Black Holes"
Miguel V. Charcos-Llorens - University of Florida
"Spectropolarimetry of the Jets of SS433"
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 3: Observations of Compact Objects (Continued)
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Reba M. Bandyopadhyay - University of Florida
"Hunting for Buried Treasure: IR and X-Ray Observations of the Galactic Center"
Mark H. Finger - USRA
"Discovery of a Long-Period Pulsation in the Flux from the Enigmatic
High-Mass X-Ray Binary 4U 2206+54"
Noon - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 4: Supernovae
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Justyn Maund - University of Texas
"Asymmetries of Core-Collapse Supernovae"
G. Howie Marion - Texas State University
"Analysis of Forty-One Near-IR Spctra of Type Ia Supernovae"
Christopher L. Gerardy- Florida State University
"Late-Time Infrared Observations of Thermonuclear Supernovae"
3:30 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 4: Supernovae (Continued)
3:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Kevin Krisciunas - Texas A&M University
"Host Galaxy Dust and the Intrinsic Colors of Type
Ia and Type II-P Supernovae"
Peter H. Hoeflich- Florida State University
"3-D Signatures of Type Ia Supernova"
Saturday, May 10th
Session 5: Accretion, Jets, and White Dwarfs
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Phillip E. Hardee - University of Alabama
"Jets and Accretion Disks"
Charles Bradley - Louisiana State University
"Modeling the Transitions between Luminosity States in LMXBs"
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK - ACES Connector Lobby
Session 5: Accretion, Jets, and White Dwarfs (Continued)
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Joel E. Tohline - Louisiana State University
"Simulations of Mass-Transfer in Double-White-Dwarf Binaries"
Michael H. Montgomery - University of Texas
"Measuring Surface Inhomogeneity of Metals on Accreting White Dwarfs"
