NWNH Program
March 7
Invited Speakers (Conference room: Anasazi Ballroom)
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Introduction/Welcome | D. Frail/J. Lazio |
| 9:00 | "New Worlds, New Horizons" | L. Hillenbrand |
| 9:30 | The Astro2010 Science Frontiers | M. Haynes |
| 10:00 | "New Worlds, New Horizons for RMS" | N. Evans |
| 10:30 | coffee | |
Origins I
Questions include: How did the Universe begin? What were the first objects to light up the Universe ...? How do cosmic structures form and evolve? What are connections between dark and luminous matter? What is the fossil record of galaxy assembly ...? How do stars and black holes form? How do circumstellar disks evolve ...?
| Chair: C. Chandler | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Keynote Talk | J. Carlstrom |
| 11:30 | Counting Giants: Cosmology from Massive Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope | F. Menanteau |
| 11:45 | Using High Angular Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Measurements to Understand the Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters | B. Mason |
| 12:00 | How will the James Webb Space Telescope measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly in the post-Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 Era? | R. Windhorst |
| 12:30 | lunch | |
Origins II
| Chair: A. Sargent | ||
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | The Structure and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks | J. Carpenter |
| 14:20 | Early Phases of Massive Star Formation | S. Ragan |
| 14:35 | Studies of Star Formation in the Early Universe | G. Stacey |
| 14:50 | 21-cm Cosmology | M. Morales |
| 15:15 | coffee | |
Origins III
Chair: N. Evans
| 15:45 | Quasar Probes of Reionization | I. McGreer |
| 16:00 | PAPER: Status and Recent Observations | D. Jacobs/J. Pober |
| 16:15 | Observing Cosmic Dawn with the Long Wavelength Array | J. Hartman |
| 16:30 | Dark Ages Radio Explorer | J. Burns |
| 16:45 | Discussion appropriate balance between large facilities and small experiments | |
| 18:00 | adjourn | |
March 8
Understanding the Cosmic Order I
Questions include: How do black holes work ...? How do rotation and magnetic fields influence stars? How do massive stars end their lives? What are the progenitors of Type Ia SNe ...? How diverse are planetary systems ...? How do baryons cycle in and out of galaxies? What are flows of matter and energy in circumgalactic medium? What controls the mass-energy-chemical cycles within galaxies?
| Chair: S. Myers | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Keynote Talk: A New Cosmic Order | C. Carilli |
| 9:30 | Exploring the Physics of Galaxy Cluster Mergers and AGN Feedback | T. Clarke |
| 9:50 | The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Rich Galaxies at z = 0 | M. Haynes |
| 10:10 | H I Signatures of Galaxy Evolution | T. van der Hulst |
| 10:25 | Diffuse H I and the Evolution of Galaxies | J. Lockman |
| 10:40 | coffee | |
Understanding the Cosmic Order II
| Chair: C. Brogan | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array | Carol Lonsdale |
| 11:30 | Astrophysics with CCAT | J. Glenn |
| 11:50 | New Horizons with CARMA | L. Mundy |
| 12:10 | Studies of Molecular Gas and Star Formation with the Large Millimeter Telescope | P. Schloerb |
| 12:30 | lunch | |
Understanding the Cosmic Order III
| Chair: A. Baker | ||
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | EVLA Constraints on the Progenitors of Type Ia SNE | L. Chomiuk |
| 14:15 | The Evolution of Molecular Tracers in Galaxies | J. Ott |
| 14:30 | Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Local Universe: Lessons from G1 | J. Wrobel |
| 14:45 | Tracing Molecular Material from Circumstellar Envelopes in the Diffuse ISM | L. Ziurys |
| 15:10 | The Power of RMS Observations for Answering Fundamental Stellar Questions | R. Osten |
| 15:30 | coffee | |
| 16:00 | Solar Physics with the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) | T. Bastian |
| 16:30 | Discussion: How do we foster the training of young people and increase the size of the community? | |
| 17:30 | adjourn | |
March 9
Frontiers of Knowledge I
Questions include: Why is the Universe accelerating? What is dark matter? What are the properties of neutrinos? What controls the masses, spins, and radii of compact objects?
| Chair: J. Lockman & R. Osten | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Keynote Talk | S. Church |
| 9:30 | Probing Inflation and Neutrinos by Measuring CMB Polarization | M. Niemack |
| 9:45 | First Results from the Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) | J. Zwart |
| 10:00 | Cosmological Galaxy Surveys: The Molecular Perspective | S. Myers |
| 10:15 | A Pulsar Trifecta for the Galactic Center | J. Cordes |
| 10:30 | coffee | |
| 11:00 | The Event Horizon Telescope: (sub)mm VLBI of Sgr A* and M87* | S. Doeleman |
| 11:20 | X-ray--radio connections | D. Schwartz |
| 11:40 | Early NWNH Science with Pan-STARRS and the Outlook for the Decade | K. Chambers |
| 12:00 | A Brief Overview of the LSST | Z. Ivezic |
| 12:30 | lunch | |
Discovery I
Science frontier discovery areas include nearby habitable exoplanets, gravitational wave astronomy, time-domain astronomy, astrometry, EoR
| Chair: J. Cordes | ||
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Keynote Talk: Data Discovery and Access for the Next Decade | R. Hanisch |
| 14:30 | Wide Field Radio Transient Surveys | G. Bower |
| 14:50 | Low Frequency Time Domain Astronomy with the LWA | S. Tremblay |
| 15:05 | Astrometry: What Does RMS Have to Offer | M. Reid |
| 15:30 | coffee | |
Discovery II
| Chair: S. Ransom | ||
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | Galaxy Motions with Radio Astrometry | A. Brunthaler |
| 16:15 | Proper Motion of the Andromeda Galaxy | J. Darling |
| 16:30 | Laser Interferometer Space Array (LISA) | J. Centrella |
| 17:00 | A Pulsar Timing Array for Gravitational Wave Detection | P. Demorest |
| 17:30 | adjourn | |
| 18:30 | conference dinner reception (Eldorado Court) | |
| 19:00 | conference dinner (Sunset Room) | |
March 10
Discovery III
Implementing the Program
| Chair: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | The View from the NSF | J. Ulvestad |
| 9:00 | Up the (Radio) Decade | V. Trimble |
| 9:20 | A Roadmap for the SKA | E. Schreier |
| 9:45 | Science Opportunities with EoR Arrays | Colin Lonsdale |
| 10:05 | A Roadmap for Discoveries in the New World | S. Weinreb |
| 10:20 |
Panel Discussion: Technical Capabilities needed for New Discoveries
|
K. Kellermann (lead), Weinreb, Ulvestad, Trimble, Hanisch, Lo, Carlstrom |
| 12:00 | Adjourn | |
Posters
| Title | Presenter |
|---|---|
| The LABOCA/ACT Survey of Clusters at All Redshifts | A. Baker |
| Physical and Chemical Properties of the Envelopes of Supermassive Stars | J.Dodd |
| MMIC Array Technology for CMB Polarization | T. Gaier |
| A Confusion-Limited Millimeter/Submillimeter Survey of the Giant Molecular Cloud Sgr B2(N) | D. Halfen |
| Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry with Feedhorns: Coupled Superconducting Polarimeters | J. Hubmayr |
| Deep Neutral Hydrogen Surveys with the Arecibo 305-m Telescope | R. Minchin |
| The Context of Star Formation | K. O'Neil |
| From Comets to Clusters: The Next Decade of Science and Instrumentation on the GBT | K. O'Neil |
| Direct Measurement of the Expansion of Galactic UCHII Regions | A. Roshi |
| Advanced Multibeam Spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope | A. Roshi |
| Technology Developments for a W-band Spectrometer Array | M. Sieth |
| CARMA Technical Developments on the Horizon | N. Volgenau |
| A Prototype 150 GHz Heterodyne Receiver Module for Large-Scale Astronomical Instruments | P. Voll |
| FASR and Solar/Stellar Magnetic Fields | S. White |
| ALMA in the Decade: A Development Program for the Future | A. Wootten |
| Probing Cosmic Structures using the LMT | M. Yun |
