Program

 

  

 

 Fred Lo Science Symposium  
Monday Tuesday Wednesday  
7:30AM  Registration - Room 290  
8:00AM   
8:30AM  Talks Talks  
9:00AM   
9:30AM   
10:00AM  Break & Posters Breaks & Posters  
10:30AM  Talks Talks  
11:00AM   
11:30AM   
12:00PM   
12:30PM  Lunches in Abbott Dining Room  Lunch  
1:00 PM   
1:30PM   
2:00PM  Talks  







 
2:30PM   
3:00PM   
Celebration of Fred's Life and Career
 Abbott Auditorium
 
3:30PM   Breaks & Posters  
4:00PM  Talks  
4:30PM   
5:00PM   
5:30PM 


 
6:00PM     

Fred Lo Celebration of Life
Start End Session Speaker  Session Chair
Monday, July 24, 2017  
3:00 PM 4:00 PM Family and Friends    Tony Beasley
Jan & Derek Lo (Lo & Sons, Inc., sons)  
Bob Williams (STScI, colleague & friend)  
Art Weldon (WVU, friend MIT)  
Bob Uyeda (Pasadena architect, friend)  
Joan Liem (UMass Boston, friend)  
Ramsay Liem (Boston College, friend)  
    Weng-Cho Chew (UI Engineering, friend)    
Jerry McGann (UVA English, friend)  
Ken Tung (UVA Med School), friend)  
Additional Remembrances:  

Barb and Stan Cohen (MIT host parents), Shih-Hsiung Chen, Tom Gabelle, Tim Bastian, Mort Roberts

 
4:00 PM 5:00 PM Colleagues  
Bernie Burke: MIT days  
Tony Readhead: Caltech days  
Jack Welch: Berkeley days  
Lisa Young: Illinois days (student perspective)  
You-Hua Chu: Illinois days (faculty perspective), Taiwan days  
Ethan Schreier: NRAO days  
    Phil Jewell: NRAO days    
Jim Moran: Summary of Fred's career  
5:00 PM 5:10 PM Slide Show  
5:10 PM 6:10 PM Reception  
Fred Lo Science Symposium  
Tuesday, July 25, 2017  
8:00 AM 8:45 AM Registration  
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Welcome Jim Condon  
9:00 AM 9:30 AM What Determines Star-formation Rates? Neal Evans Jim Condon
9:30 AM 10:00 AM Star Formation Near SgrA* Al Wootten  
10:00 AM 10:30 AM High-dynamic-range Imaging the Radio Bright Zone at the Galactic Center" Jun-Hui Zhao  
10:30 AM 11:00 AM Break & Posters  
11:00 AM 11:30 AM The Local Spiral Structure of the Milky Way Ye Xu  Jim Braatz
11:30 AM 12:00 PM Status and Future Plans for the EHT Vincent Fish  
12:00 PM 12:30 PM Fred Lo and the Genesis and Science of NANOGrav Scott Ransom  
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch (90 min)  
2:00 PM 2:30 PM The Beginnings of ALMA and Fred Lo: a View from Chile Eduardo Hardy  Kristina Nyland
2:30 PM 3:00 PM ALMA Construction Crystal Brogan  
3:00 PM 3:30 PM ALMA Science Liz Humphreys  
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Break & Posters  
4:00 PM 4:30 PM The Turbulent Central Engine of the Dwarf AGN Hosted by NGC 404: New Clues from the VLA and ALMA Kristina Nyland  Catherine Vlahakis
4:30 PM 5:00 PM Upgrading the Allen Telescope Array Jack Welch  
5:00 PM 5:30 PM Symmetric Achromatic Variability Tony Readhead  
Wednesday, July 26, 2017  
9:00 AM 9:30 AM HI in Nearby Galaxies Lisa Young  Liz Humphreys
9:30 AM 10:00 AM NGC 4258 James Moran  
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Exploring the Universe with H2O Mega-Masers Jim Braatz  
10:30 AM 11:00 AM Break & Posters  
11:00 AM 11:30 AM Using Megamaser Disk Galaxies to Reveal Black Hole Demographics Jenny Greene  Ken Kellermann
11:30 AM 12:00 PM AGN Accretion Disk Physics Using Water Megamasers Dominic Pesce  
12:00 PM 12:30 PM Probing AGN with VLBI at mm Wavelengths Anton Zensus  
12:30 PM 12:50 PM Closing  
12:50 PM 2:20 PM Lunch (90 min)  

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