Facing the Future:
A Festival For Frank


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Session 1: Formation and Evolution of Stars


Toward a New Paradigm of Star Formation: Does Nature Abhor a Singular Isothermal Sphere?
Brenda Matthews - UC Berkeley

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The Quest for the Most Metal-Poor Stars: From Ongoing to Future Surveys
Norbert Christlieb - University of Hamburg, Germany

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The Vigorous Afterlife of Stars: From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Accreting Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Kristen Menou - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

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Session 2: Formation and Evolution of Planets


Planet Embryos in Vortex Wombs
Joseph Barranco - UC Berkeley

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Circumstellar Disks: Past, Present, and Future
Michael Liu - University of Hawaii

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The Future of Extrasolar Planet Detection and Characterization
Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas - Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

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Session 3: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies


Populations of Galaxies and their Formation at Redshifts z < 7
Christopher Conselice - Caltech

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The Evolution of Galaxies: From the Local Group to the Epoch of Reionization
Fabian Walter - NRAO

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Old Galaxies and New Instruments
Andrew Baker - Max Planck Institute, Germany

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24 November 2003
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