Sunday, October 9th

7:30pm

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

Monday, October 10th

8:15

Coffee
(Drinks are not allowed in the auditorium. Please come early enough to enjoy your coffee.)

8:45

AM Welcome
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302, UT Austin Campus [map]

David Laude, Interim Dean, College of Natural Sciences
Karl Gebhardt, Associate Chair, Department of Astronomy

SESSION I (Chair: Colette Salyk)

9:15

Protoplanetary disks and planet formation

Meredith Hughes

10:00

Extrasolar Planets

Simon Albrecht

10:45

Coffee

11:15

Stellar Pulsations

Patrick Lenz

12:00

Astrobiology and solar system chemistry

Michel Nuevo

12:45

Flash Poster Talks

1:00

Lunch

Poster session, Visualization lab, RLM tours and individual meetings and discussions; afternoon break

3:15

Coffee

SESSION II (Chair: Joel Green)

3:45

Late-type compact objects

Elizabeth Jeffery

4:30

ISM/HII Regions

Matt Povich

5:15

Black hole mergers

Mike Kesden

7:30-10:30pm

Dinner + UT speaker (Fritz Benedict)
at Iron Cactus Downtown [map]

Tuesday, October 11th

8:30

Coffee
(Drinks are not allowed in the auditorium. Please come early enough to enjoy your coffee.)

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

9:00

Environmentally-Driven Galaxy Evolution

Stephanie Tonnesen

9:45

Quasars

Eilat Glikman

10:30

Coffee

11:00

Black Hole Galaxy Coevolution

Kevin Schawinski

11:45

HETDEX/GMT

Sarah Tuttle

12:30

Lunch/break

SESSION IV (Chair: Andreas Pawlik)

2:00

First Light

John Wise

2:45

Reionization

Kristian Finlator

3:30

Coffee

4:00

Dark Matter

Annika Peter

4:45

Inflation and the Early Universe

Mustafa Amin

7:30pm

Informal after-meeting dinner/drinks/chat