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All Science Sessions are in the Jansky Lab Auditorium

All times are presented in Eastern US Time.

TUESDAY May 28, 2013

7:30 - 9:30pm Evening Reception in the Residence Hall Lounge

WEDNESDAY May 29, 2013

7:30 - 9:00am Breakfast in the Cafeteria
9:00 Introduction and Welcome Jay Lockman
9:15 Gaseous Galaxy Halos (45+10) Mary Putman
10:10 Disk-halo clouds in the inner Milky Way (15+5) Alyson Ford
10:30 Coffee Break
10:55 Low N(HI) HVCs as a major source of fuel for the Milky Way (25+5) Chris Howk
11:25

Large reservoirs of metal-poor gas around galaxies: evidence for cold inflow (35+5)

Nicolas Lehner
12:05pm Low-redshift surveys for high column density neutral gas using quasar absorption lines (35+5) Dave Turnshek
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch in the Cafeteria
1:45 Tour of the GBT (weather permitting, backup is Thursday same time)
3:30 Coffee and Group Photo
3:40 How does gas accrete onto the Milky Way: A look at the neutral and ionized gas of Complex A and the Magellanic Stream (25+5) Kat Barger
4:10 A low metallicity molecular cloud in the lower galactic halo (15+5) Audra Hernandez
4:30 The Smith Cloud (25+5) Jay Lockman
5:00 Searching for Star Formation in the Smith Cloud (10+5) David Stark
5:15 HVC and the Lyman Alpha Forest (40+5) Bart Wakker
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner in the Cafeteria
7:30 Magnetic fields in high velocity clouds Alex Hill
7:45 Panel: What are the high velocity clouds? Howk, Wakker, Putman, Fox
9:00 Discussion continues in the Residence Hall Lounge

THURSDAY May 30, 2013

7:30 - 9:00am Breakfast in the Cafeteria
9:00 The Magellanic Stream (35+5) David Nidever
9:45 The Magellanic Stream: Abundances, Ionization, and Fueling the Galaxy (35+5) Andrew Fox
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 The discovery of discrete neutral hydrogen clouds between M31 and M33 using the Green Bank Telescope, and HVCs in the GASS (35+5) Spencer Wolfe
11:40 Probing M31 gas with quasar absorption lines (25+5) Gendith Sardane
12:10pm The Outer Disk and HI Environment of M101 (25+5) Chris Mihos
12:40 Searching for starlight in the Leo ring (15+5) Aaron Watkins
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch in the Cafeteria
2:00 GBT mapping of diffuse HI around THINGS galaxies (35+5) D.J. Pisano
2:40 Probing Extended Gas surrounding low-redshift galaxies with quasar absorption lines (35+5) Sandhya Rao
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Environmental effects on the circumgalactic medium (25+5) JooHeon Yoon
4:30 Finding tiny, gas-rich galaxies in the GALFA-HI survey (15+5) Jennifer Meyer
4:50 Finding galaxies for galaxy-absorber studies from NED data mining (10+5) David French
5:15

External Perturbations in the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy Haro 36

Trisha Ashley
6:00 Visit the Science Center exhibits
6:30 Dinner in the Science Center

THURSDAY May 31, 2013

7:30 - 9:00am Breakfast in the Cafeteria
9:00 Star Formation and Molecular Gas in the XUV disk of NGC 4625 (35+5) Paul Martini
9:45 Deep X-ray and UV views of the halo of NGC 891 (35+5) Edmund Hodges-Kluck
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Gas Accretion History of Simulated Galaxies (25+5) Jeremy Bailin
11:30 Atomic Hydrogen in a Galactic Center Outflow (10+5) Jay Lockman
11:45 FLAG-- the next generation of 21cm receivers (10+5) Anish Roshi
12:00pm Final Comments and Discussion
12:30 Lunch in the Cafeteria