NRAO 50th Anniversary Symposium: Home

(Some presentations are available on-line; use the "VIEW" links in the rightmost column of the table).

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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Town Hall Meeting 5:30pm–7:00pm	Committee on the Future of Radio Astronomy Separate from the symposium, open to all registrants; in Preston Room
Registration 6:00pm–9:00pm	For Symposium Registrants; in the Omni Atrium
Ice-breaker Reception 7:30pm–9:00pm	For Symposium Registrants; in the Omni Atrium
Monday, June 18, 2007
Session 1 8:15am–10:15am	Fred K. Y. Lo	Introduction: NRAO, Present and Future
	Jim Braatz	Investigating the Nature of Dark Energy with Observations of Water Vapor Megamasers	View
	John Carlstrom	Cosmology from radio measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
	Rashid Sunyaev	The Richness and Beauty of Physics of Cosmological Recombination
Break 10:15am–11:00am	Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 2 11:00am–12:00pm	Tony Readhead	Cosmic Microwave Background Observations in the Era of Precision Cosmology	View
Session 2 11:00am–12:00pm	Steve Rawlings	Cosmology with next-generation radio telescopes
Lunch 12:00pm–1:00pm	Served in the Omni Atrium
Session 3 1:00pm–3:00pm	Jim Condon Paul Vanden Bout	Zapped by Hostile Space Aliens How One Thing Can Lead to Another	View
	Ue-Li Pen	21 cm observations of the Epoch of Reionization
	Garth Illingworth	First Light: Observing Galaxy Buildup in the Reionization Epoch
	Fabian Walter	First Light - cm/mm
Break 3:00pm–3:45pm	Symposium Photo—Outside Atrium Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 4 3:45pm–5:15pm	Avi Loeb	The First Billion Years: Probing Reionization as well as the Inflationary Initial Conditions
	Jacqueline Hewitt	21 cm Power Spectrum Measurements	View
	Heino Falcke	Detecting the highest energy cosmic particles with radio telescopes	View
NTC Tours 5:30pm–8:00pm	Tours of the NRAO Technology Center (CDL)
Reception 5:45pm–8:00pm	Reception at NRAO Headquarters
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Session 5 8:15am–10:15am	Ger de Bruyn	Searching for HI in the era of reionization	View
	Andrew Bunker	High-redshift galaxies: the Universe at z>5 and reionization	View
	George Helou	Galaxy Evolution: Progress and Prospects in the Infrared
	Aaron Evans	Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Luminous Infrared Galaxies and QSO Hosts
Break 10:15am–11:00am	Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 6 11:00am–12:00pm	Martha Haynes	HI Cosmology in the Local Universe: Then and Now	View
Session 6 11:00am–12:00pm	Karen Masters	Mapping Mass in the Local Universe	View
Lunch 12:00pm–1:00pm	Served in the Omni Atrium
Session 7 1:00pm–3:00pm	Craig Hogan	The New Science of Gravitational Waves	View
	Ed Fomalont	Radio Continuum Surveys
	Amy Barger	AGN and the Faint Radio Population
	Paul Butler	Extrasolar Planets Around Nearby Stars
Break 3:00pm–3:45pm	Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 8 3:45pm–5:45pm	Frank Drake	SETI - The Early Days and Now
	Patrick Thaddeus	Discovery of Negative Molecular Ions in the Interstellar Gas
	Robert Wilson	Discovering CO and Other Interstellar Molecules with the NRAO 36 Foot Antenna	View
	Claire Chandler	Disks, Young Stars, and Radio Waves
Reception 6:30pm–7:00pm	Omni Prefunction area
Dinner 7:00pm–8:00pm	Served in the Omni Atrium
Speakers 8:00pm–9:00pm	After Dinner Speakers
After-dinner Bar 9:00pm–9:30pm	Omni Prefunction area
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Session 9 8:45am–10:15am	Ingrid Stairs	Extreme Neutron Stars
	Michael Kramer	Strong-field gravity with the double pulsar and in the future
	Don Backer	Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with a Pulsar Timing Array	View
Break 10:15am–11:00am	Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 10 11:00am–12:00pm	Barry Barish	Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection
Session 10 11:00am–12:00pm	Jim Moran	The Black Hole Accretion Disk in NGC4258: One of Nature's most beautiful Dynamical Systems	View
Lunch 12:00pm–1:00pm	Served in the Omni Atrium
Session 11 1:00pm–3:30pm	Morton Roberts	M 31 and a Brief History of Dark Matter
	Rich Bradley	The Search for Axions: Non-Conventional Radio Astronomy	View
	Sandy Weinreb	Technology for the Next 50 Years	View
	Nissim Kanekar	Probing fundamental constant evolution with radio spectroscopy
Reception 3:30pm–4:30pm	Poster Session Reception
Town Hall Meeting 4:30pm–6:00pm	Committee on the Future of Radio Astronomy Open to all; in Salons A/B
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Session 12 8:45am–10:15am	Henry Ferguson	Multi-wavelength Synoptic Surveys of the Universe: Recent Progress and Future Promise	View
	Shri Kulkarni	An explosion of cosmic explosions	View
	Jim Cordes	Axes of Discovery: the Time Domain	View
Break 10:15am–11:00am	Prefunction and Poster Display areas
Session 13 11:00am–11:30am	Dave Heeschen	Origins and Early Years of NRAO	View
Lunch 11:30am–1:00pm	Served in the Atrium
Session 14 1:00pm–2:00pm	Roger Blandford	Raconteur - What are the Big Questions and How Can Radio Telescopes Help to Answer Them?
End of Symposium