Second Magellan
Science Symposium
Preliminary Program
Monday, October 29, 2007
Session 1: Extrasolar Planets/Solar System ----- Chair: M. Meyer
9:00 Introductions: Dupree, Alcock, Freedman, Szentgyorgyi
9:15 Mercedes Lopez Morales (DTM) - Extra-solar Planet
Search Projects at Las Campanas
9:45 Matt Holman (CfA) - Transits of Exoplanets
10:15 James Elliot (MIT) - Tenuous Atmospheres in the Outer Solar System
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 2: Solar System/Stars ----- Chair: M. Meyer
11:00 David Osip (LCO) - Physical Characterization of Small Solar
System Bodies
11:15 Adam Burgasser (MIT) - Rich Dwarf, Poor Dwarf, Red Dwarf, Blue Dwarf
11:45 Andrea Dupree (CfA) - Intensive MIKE Spectroscopy of the Nearest Accreting T Tauri Star
12:00 Maureen van den Berg (CfA) - The ChaMPlane Project
12:30 Lunch
Session 3: Old Stars ----- Chair: P. Schechter
2:00 George Preston (OCIW) - A MIKE Survey of Metal Poor Stars
2:30 Javier Alonso-Garcia (Michigan) - Uncloaking Globular Clusters of the Inner Galaxy
2:45 Inese Ivans (OCIW/Princeton) - Nucleosynthetic Histories of Stellar Populations with
MOE/IMACS
3:15 Thomas G. Brink (Michigan) - The Kinematics of the Sagittarius Stream
3:30 Coffee Break
Session 4: Inter/Extra Galactic ----- Chair: P. Schechter
4:00 Rob Simcoe (MIT) - The Evolution of Intergalactic Chemical Abundances as seen with Magellan
4:15 Edo Berger (OCIW/Princeton) - Gamma-Ray Burst Science with the Magellan Telescopes
4:30 Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland) - Extragalactic Science with the Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter (MMTF)
4:45 Mark Phillips (LCO) - New Instrumentation for the Magellan Telescopes
BANQUET:
Wendy Freedman (OCIW) - The Giant Magellan Telescope
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Session 5: Extra-Galactic/Cosmology ----- Chair: J. Greene
9:00 Matt Walker (IoA) - Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
9:30 Edward Olszewski (Arizona) - Abundance Distributions, Substructure, Mass Determinations in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
9:45 Julie Nantais (CfA) - Globular Clusters in Nearby Spiral Galaxies: Color and Metallicity
10:00 Wendy Freedman (OCIW) - The Carnegie Supernova Project
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 6 Extra-Galactic/Cosmology ----- Chair: J. Greene
11:00 Bob Kirshner (CfA) - ESSENCE Survey
11:30 Douglas Clowe (Ohio) - Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing
11:45 Daniel Kelson (OCIW) - Studying Wide-Fields around Distant Clusters with the IMACS Low-Dispersion Prism
12:00 Christopher Burns (OCIW) - The Carnegie Supernova Project: from PANIC to Dark Energy
12:15 Ivelina Momcheva (Arizona) - The Environments of Strong Gravitational Lenses - An Inconvenient Truth
12:30 Lunch
Session 7: Extra-Galactic/Cosmology ----- Chair: J. Huchra
2:00 Richard Cool (Arizona) - PRIMUS: PRIsm MUlti-object Survey
2:30 Kim McLeod (Wellesley) - Probing the Assembly of Massive Galaxies via Quasar Hosts at z=4
2:45 Jeffrey McClintock (CfA) - Measuring the Masses and Spins of Stellar Black Holes
3:00 Jenny Greene (Princeton) - Searching for Black Hole Feedback in Type II Quasar
3:15 Haojing Yan (OCIW) - Magellan Very-High-z Lya Emitter Survey
3:30 Coffee Break
Session 8: Extra-Galactic/Cosmology ----- Chair: J. Huchra
4:00 Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) - Lyman Alpha Emitters at z=3.1: L Progenitors Experiencing Rapid Star Formation
4:15 Martin Elvis (CfA) - AGNs in the COSMOS Survey
