Celebrating 100 Years of the Leavitt Cepheid
Period-Luminosity Relation
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Thanks to Henrietta LeavittNovember 6, 2008Phillips Auditorium,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center
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Astrophysics |
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Thanks to Henrietta LeavittNovember 6, 2008Phillips Auditorium,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for
Astrophysics |
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| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 12:15 | George Johnson (New York Times) | The Search for Henrietta Leavitt |
| 1:00 | Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Obs.) | The Leavitt Period-Luminosity Relation: Past, Current, Future |
| 2:00 | Fritz Benedict (Univ. Texas) | Galactic
Cepheid Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope in Aid of the Cosmic Distance Scale |
| 3:00 | Tea Break | |
| 3:30 | Nancy Remage Evans (SAO) | Multiplicity and Masses of Cepheids: Fundamental Parameters |
| 4:00 | Gail Schaefer (CHARA) | Direct
Detection of the Close Companion of Polaris with the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 4:15 | Massimo Marengo (SAO) | Galactic Cepheids as Seen with Spitzer |
| 4:30 | Annie Baglin (Paris/Meudon) | Pulsation in the Era of Corot |