Sunday, October 18th

7:30pm

Reception (Appetizers and Drinks)
Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, UT Austin Campus [map]

Monday, October 19th

7:30am

Continental Breakfast, ACES Atrium

9:00

Welcoming Statements
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302, UT Austin Campus [map]

Neal Evans, Chairman, Department of Astronomy
Peter Riley, College of Natural Sciences

SESSION I (Chair: Neal Evans)

9:20

Young star/protostellar evolution

Manoj Puravankara

10:00

Planets

Ruth Murray-Clay

10:40

Coffee & Posters, ACES 2.402

11:20

AGB stars

Jason Nordhaus

12:00

Supernova-GRB Connection

Maryam Modjaz

12:40

Lunch* & Posters
*includes a 1 hour Q&A session with postdoc speakers and graduate students

SESSION II (Chair: Craig Wheeler)

14:10

GRB (accretion discs) & compact objects

Brian Metzger

14:50

Micro-Poster Presentations

Multiple speakers

15:30

Coffee & Posters, ACES 2.402

16:00

ISM, ALMA & Herschel

Thomas Greve

16:40

Posters, Informal Discussion

17:20

End

19:00

Conference Dinner + Talk
Clay Pit, Austin, TX [map]

Tuesday, October 20th

7:30am

Continental Breakfast, ACES Atrium

SESSION III (Chair: Frank Bash)
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302, UT Austin Campus [map]

9:00

Long baseline optical & near-IR interferometry

Tabetha Boyajian

9:40

Missing Satellite Problem, Local Group Dwarfs

Josh Simon

10:20

Coffee & Posters, ACES 2.402

11:00

N-body galaxy formation, cold flow accretion

Alyson Brooks

11:40

Lyman-alpha emitters

Steven Finkelstein

12:20

Lunch* & Posters
*includes a 1 hour Q&A session with postdoc speakers and graduate students

SESSION IV (Chair: Eiichiro Komatsu)

13:50

Dark Matter, Theory

Pearl Sandick

14:30

CMB Lensing and its Implications for Cosmology

Kendrick Smith

15:20

Coffee & Posters, ACES 2.402

16:10

Cosmic Reionization and 21cm Cosmology

Matt McQuinn

17:00

The Astronomy Job Market Discussion

Peter Yoachim, moderator

17:30

Concluding Remarks

Frank Bash

18:00

End

Evening:

Informal "Night on the Town"