Keck Science Meeting Agenda

September 19, 2007
155 Arms, Caltech

8:30 Coffee
8:55 Soifer Introduction and logistics
9:00 Brown Dwarf planets with big telescopes
9:20 Capak Physics of the first galaxies
9:35 Eisner Spatially resolved spectroscopy of protoplanetary disks: the inner AU
9:50 Kocevski Structure Formation and Galaxy Evolution at High Redshift
10:05 Schaefer Resolving Young Star Binaries Using Adaptive Optics and Interferometry
10:20 Do The Infrared Variability of Sgr A*
10:35 Posters 5 Poster Previews
10:40 Coffee
11:00 Prochaska Probing the ISM of High z Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy
11:20 de Pater First results from Keck Observations of the Ring Plane Crossings of Uranus
11:35 Stark A Keck Survey for Lyman-alpha Emitters at z>8
11:50 Adamkovics Measurements of condensed-phase methane on Titan using OSIRIS
12:05 Wright OSIRIS LGSAO: Kinematics of z~1.5 Star Forming Galaxies
12:20 Posters 10 Poster Previews
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Rich A Keck View of the Galactic Bulge from Baade's Window to the Galactic Center
13:50 Tytler Absorption in Pairs of QSOs
14:05 Herbst KH 15D Update: Reflected Light from the Terrestrial Region of a CS Disk
14:20 Marshall Super-resolving Tiny Galaxies
14:35 Cohen The Rise of the AGB in the Galactic Halo
14:50 Gilbert Reconstructing a Recent Collision in Andromeda
15:05 Coffee
15:25 Steidel Densely Sampling the High Redshift Universe
15:45 Kasliwal GRB070610 : a curious galactic transient
16:00 Foley Potential Differences Between High and Low-z Type Ia Supernova Spectra
16:15 MacArthur The Fundamental Plane of Bulges at Intermediate Redshift
16:30 Kalirai Stellar Evolution in Metal-Rich Environments
16:45 Armandroff State of the W. M. Keck Observatory
18:00 Reception