Wednesday, April 24

7:00-9:00 pm

Welcome Reception
Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street [map]

Thursday, April 25 - Neal Fest Day I
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 [map]

Times include discussion (5 min for talks 20-30 min; 3 min for talks 15 min)

8:30-8:45 am

Welcome, logistics

Protostellar evolution and star formation

8:45-9:15

Protostellar evolution overview

Phil Myers :: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

[pdf]

9:15-9:40

The legacy of the Spitzer c2d Legacy project

Michael Dunham :: Yale University

[pdf]

9:40-9:55

Magnetic activities of YSOs

Minho Choi :: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

[pdf]

9:55-10:10

Early ALMA results on massive star formation

Manuel Merello :: University of Texas at Austin

[pdf]

10:10-10:35

Revisiting cloud structure: wide-area, high-resolution Mapping with CARMA

Lee Mundy :: University of Maryland

10:35-11:00

Coffee break

Interstellar molecules: chemistry and excitation

11:00-11:30

Dust, ice and gas: from c2d and DIGIT to ALMA

Ewine van Dishoeck :: Leiden Observatory

[pdf]

11:30-11:55

Chemical evolution in low-mass star formation

Jeong Eun Lee :: Kyung Hee University

[pdf]

11:55-12:10

Chemical tracers of episodic accretion in embedded protostars

Ruud Visser :: University of Michigan

[pdf]

12:10-12:25

Learning about free radicals: Neal as a young mentor

Steven Beckwith :: University of California

[pdf]

12:30-1:30

Lunch

Physical properties of molecular clouds

1:30-2:00

Herschel overview of the link between clouds and star formation

James di Francesco :: National Research Council of Canada

[pdf]

2:00-2:15

What have we learned about massive star formation and Galactic structure from the Bolocam galactic plane survey?

Miranda Dunham :: Yale University

[pdf]

2:15-2:30

Large cloud legacy: Spitzer's Perseus

Kaisa Young :: Nicholls State University

[pdf]

2:30-2:50

The physical properties of the earliest phase of star formation: starless cores and starless clumps

Yancy Shirley :: University of Arizona

2:50-3:05

Follow up studies of Planck Cold Clumps

Yuefang Wu :: Peking University

[pdf]

3:05-3:30

Coffee break

Beyond astronomy

3:30-3:55

Identifying the genetic basis of common human diseases using genome-wide association studies

Dan Evans :: California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

[pdf]

3:55-4:10

Security & privacy in the era of cloud computing and cyber warfare

Yangsheng Wang :: Private Sector

[pdf]

4:10-4:25

Building networks for the 21st century

Shudong Zhou :: Big Switch Networks

[pdf]

Protostars II

4:25-4:40

YSOvar: mid-infrared variations in young stars

Luisa Rebull :: Caltech

[pdf]

4:40-4:55

Determining protostar masses: L1527 IRS in Taurus

Susan Terebey :: California State University, Los Angeles

4:55-5:10

Alignment between flattened protostellar infall envelopes and ambient magnetic fields

Nicolas Chapman :: Northwestern University

[pdf]

6:30-9:00 pm

Celebration Banquet

Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street [map]