Friday, April 26 - Neal Fest Day II
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 [map]

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

Submillimeter and infrared observations

8:30-8:55

The future of far-infrared space astrophysics

David Leisawitz :: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

[pdf]

8:55-9:10

ALMA first results

Al Wootten :: National Radio Astronomy Observatory

[pdf]

Interstellar molecules and protostars II

9:10-9:25

The physical structure of high-mass protostellar envelopes

Floris van der Tak :: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

[pdf]

9:25-9:40

Chemical variation in the molecular cloud cores in Orion A GMC

Ken Tatematsu :: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

[pdf]

9:40-9:55

The Herschel Oxygen Project

Jo-Hsin Chen :: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[pdf]

9:55-10:15

An H3+ perspective

Tom Geballe :: Gemini Observatory

[pdf]

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

Connecting the Milky Way to other galaxies

10:45-11:15

Star formation rates and efficiencies overview

Charles Lada :: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

11:15-11:30

Tracing Galactic star formation with infrared and radio emission

Nalin Vutisalchavakul :: University of Texas at Austin

[pdf]

11:45-12:00

The dense cores and star-forming galaxies connection: multi-lines and multi-J

Yu Gao :: Purple Mountain Observatory

[pdf]

12:00-12:15

Star formation in interacting galaxies from the VIXENS survey

Amanda Heiderman :: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

[pdf]

12:15-12:30

Hot DOGs: WISE discovers the most luminous galaxies in the universe

Jingwen Wu :: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

[pdf]

12:30-12:45

Simulating metal-poor, clustered star formation in the first galaxies

Chalence Safranek-Shrader :: University of Texas at Austin

[pdf]

12:45-2:00

Lunch

Beyond astronomy II

2:00-2:30

Gas eruptions from volcanoes on Earth

Bill Evans :: US Geological Survey

[pdf]

2:30-2:45

Online education in astronomy

Andrea Urban :: Sapling Learning

2:45-3:00

The physics of movies

Chad Young :: Nicholls State University

[pdf]

3:00-3:05

Remote Greetings

Claudia Knez :: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)

3:05-3:30

Coffee break

3:30-3:45

Unveiling the nature of transitional disks in Chamaeleon with Herschel (remote)

Bruno Merin :: Herschel Science Center

3:45-4:00

Measuring disk masses with HD observations with Herschel-PACS (remote)

Ted Bergin :: University of Michigan

4:00-4:15

TBD

Harold Butner :: James Madison University

4:30

Closing remarks

5:00

End of meeting

6:30 pm

Open House

Evans Residence
6607 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin [map]
(512) 453-8513

Saturday, April 27

Activities around Austin/ TBD