Vera Rubin Symposium

GALAXIES: MIND OVER MATTER 

A Celebratory Symposium for Vera Rubin

January 10-11, 2002

Carnegie Institution of Washington
1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC

 


SCIENCE PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JAN 10, 2002
Public Lecture (4:00 p.m.):
Maxine Singer (CIW) Welcoming Address
Allan Sandage (OCIW)
 Creation? Evolution? Is the Expansion of the Universe Real?

 

FRIDAY, JAN 11, 2002

Scientific Talks:

 
Session I (8:30 a.m.):  
Anne Kinney (NASA) Introduction
Sara Seager (DTM) Characterizing Extrasolar Planets
Alycia Weinberger (DTM) Dust Disks Around Stars
Bruce Carney (UNC) The Origin of the Galaxy's Thick Disk

 

Session II (10:40 a.m.):

  
Stacy McGaugh (Maryland) Dynamics of Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies
Deidre Hunter (Lowell) Structure and Evolution of Irregular Galaxies
Margaret Geller (SAO) Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies

 

Session III (2:00 p.m.):

  
Donald Lynden-Bell (IoA) Magnetostatic Theory of Jet Collimation
Megan Urry (Yale) Jets, Black Holes, and the AGN-Galaxy Connection
Dava Sobel A World Apart—The Lives of Women in Galileo's Time

 

Session IV (4:00 p.m.):

  
Judith Young (UMass) Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies
David Koo (UCSC) Weighing Galaxies Billions of Light Years Afar
Neta Bahcall (Princeton) Weighing the Universe

GENERAL SCHEDULE

Name badges and detailed programs will be available to all registered participants at the registration desk. The desk will open at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, and at 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning.

Coffee and lunch breaks: On Friday, coffee will be served during the mid-morning (10:10-10:40 a.m.) and mid-afternoon (3:30-4:00 p.m.) session breaks. There will be a relatively long break at noon (12:10-2:00 p.m.) to allow participants to have lunch at nearby restaurants.

Friday's dinner at The Washington Hilton, Jefferson Room, will begin at 7:00 p.m., with the cash bar opening at 6:30 p.m.