Schedule 2000
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MONDAY: THEORY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION

Moderator:  C.H. Townes

• 0830-0845 [15 min] Welcome- R. Danner (JPL) / C.H. Townes (UC Berkeley)
• 0845-1005 [80 min] Interferometry and Stellar Interferometers - T.A. ten Brummelaar (Georgia State Univ.) & P.R. Lawson (JPL)
• 1005-1015 [10 min] Questions
• 1015-1045 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1045-1205 [80 min] Introduction to Stellar Evolution - Erika Bohm-Vitense (Univ. Washington)
• 1205-1215 [10 min] Questions
• 1215-1345 [90 min] Lunch

• 1345-1505 [80 min] Mechanics of Star Formation - Frank Shu (UC Berkeley)
• 1505-1515 [10 min] Questions
• 1515-1545 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1545-1705 [80 min] Mechanics of Late Stellar Evolution- Chris Sneden (Univ. Texas)
• 1705-1715 [10 min] Questions

TUESDAY: SINGLE STARS

Moderator:  H.A. McAlister

• 0830-0920 [50 min] Why We Study Single Stars - John Davis (U. Sydney)
• 0920-0930 [10 min] Questions
• 0930-1020 [50 min]     Pulsation Mechanisms - Michael Scholz (Univ. of Heidelberg)
• 1020-1030 [10 min] Questions
• 1030-1100 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1100-1150 [50 min]     Stellar Atmospheres: Structure, Composition and Limb Darkening -  Mel Dyck (USNO)
• 1150-1200 [10 min] Questions
• 1200-1330 [90 min] Lunch

• 1330-1420 [50 min] Stellar Convection in late-type giants and supergiant - Alec  Brown (Univ. Colorado)
• 1420-1430 [10 min] Questions
• 1430-1520 [50 min] Circumstellar Mass Loss - W.C. Danchi (UC Berkeley)
• 1520-1530 [10 min] Questions
• 1530-1600 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1600-1650 [50 min] Review of Interferometric Measurements and Prospects - John Davis (U. Sydney)
• 1650-1700 [10 min] Questions
• 1900 - Banquet

WEDNESDAY: BINARY STARS

Moderator: J.Davis

• 0830-0920 [50 min] Why We Study Binary Stars - H.A. McAlister (Georgia State Univ)
• 0920-0930 [10 min] Questions
• 0930-1020 [50 min] Fundamental Properties of Stars (M, L, R, [D]) - C.A. Hummel (USNO)
• 1020-1030 [10 min] Questions
• 1030-1100 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1100-1150 [50 min] Radial Velocity Studies/Orbital Element Distributions -  Roger Griffin (Cambridge)
• 1150-1200 [10 min] Questions
• 1200-1300 [60 min] Lunch

• 1300-1800 [5hrs] Road trip to Muir Woods National Monument (optional)

THURSDAY:  BINARY STARS AND STELLAR COMPANION

Moderator:  A.F. Boden

• 0830-0920 [50 min] Duplicity Statistics/Binary Formation - Robert Mathieu (Univ. Wisconsin)
• 0920-0930 [10 min] Questions
• 0930-1010 [40 min] A closer Look at Interacting Binaries.- Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine)
• 1010-1020 [10 min] Questions
• 1020-1050 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1050-1130 [40 min] Review of Interferometric Measurements and Prospects: Speckle - H.A. McAlister (Georgia State Univ)
• 1130-1140 [10 min] Questions
• 1140-1220 [40 min] Review of Interferometric Measurements and Prospects: Long Baseline -  A.F. Boden (JPL)
• 1220-1230 [10 min] Questions
• 1230-1400 [90 min] Lunch

1400-1450 [50 min] Radial Velocity Method of Companion Detection - Debra Fischer (UC Berkeley)

1450-1500 [10 min] Questions

1500-1550 [50 min] Planet Formation and the Characteristics of Extrasolar Planets - Jack J. Lissauer (NASA, ARC)

1550-1600 [10 min] Questions

1600-1630 [30 min] Coffee Break

1630-1720 [50 min] Astrometric Detection of Planets - Mike Shao (JPL)

1720-1730 [10 min] Question

FRIDAY:  STELLAR COMPANIONS AND HIGH RESOLUTION ASTROMETRY

Moderator:  D. Fischer

• 0830-0920 [50 min] Exozodiacal Dust: one man's noise another man's signal - C.A. Beichman (JPL)
• 0920-0930 [10 min] Questions
• 0930-1020 [50 min] Planetary spectroscopy and imaging - W.A. Traub (Harvard CfA)
• 1020-1030 [10 min] Questions
• 1030-1100 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1100-1150 [50 min] Active Galactic Nucleii and Distant Galaxies - Huub Rottgering (Leiden Observatory)
• 1150-1200 [10 min] Questions
• 1200-1330 [90 min] Lunch

• 1330-1420 [50 min] Astrometric Gravitational Microlensing - A. Gould (Ohio State Univ.)
• 1420-1430 [10 min] Questions
• 1430-1520 [50 min] Galactic Dynamics- Kathryn Johnston (Wesleyan Univ.)
• 1520-1530 [10 min] Questions
• 1530-1600 [30 min] Coffee Break

• 1600-1650 [50 min] Astrophysics Roundup/ Review - A.F. Boden (JPL)
• 1650-1700 [10 min] Questions
• 1700-1720 [20 min] Closing