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Dr. David Spergel
(Princeton University)
“General Relativity: Dynamics and
Shape of the Universe”
“Inflation: Motivation and
Implications”
“Microwave Background Fluctuations”
“Growth of Structure”
“Open Questions and Future
Observations”
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Dr. Jacques M. Beckers
(University of Chicago)
"Interferometric
Imaging in Astronomy: A Personal Retrospective" |
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Prof. Davis D. Sentman
(University of Alaska)
“Recent
Discoveries of Electrical Breakdown Phenomena in the
Atmospheric
D-Region above Thunderstorms”
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Prof. Michael Ashley
(University of New South Wales)
"Extremely
Large Telescopes in Antarctica" |
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Dr. Romano Corradi
(Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma)
"The
Study of Planetary Nebulae With Large Telescopes"
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Lucas
Macri (Hubble/Goldberg Fellow)
“Improving
the Cepheid Distance Scale” |
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John
Blakeslee (Johns Hopkins)
“12
Billion Years of Galaxy Evolution in Clusters”
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Gordon
Richards (Princeton University)
“Quasars
and Cosmology: Accretion Related Feedback
and the Growth of
Galaxies”
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Adwin
Boogert (Caltech)
“Interstellar
Ices, from Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks”
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Ivan
Baldry (Johns Hopkins)
“Galaxy
Bimodality, Evolution and the SDSS U-band Galaxy Survey” |
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Knut
Olsen (CTIO)
“Tracing
M31's Bulge and Disk Stellar Populations with Gemini”
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Mark
Gieles (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
“The
Evolution of Star Cluster Population” |
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Roberto De Propris
(University of Bristol)
“Galaxy
Formation and Evolution in the Infrared Era”
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Simon Driver
(Australian National University Canberra)
“Cosmology,
Galaxies and Galaxy Structure” |
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Félix Mirabel
(ESO/Chile)
“Microquasars”
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THE LARGE
SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE (LSST)
Victor
Krabbendam (NOAO/LSST
Corporation, Project Manager)
"The
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope – Celestial
Cinematography"
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THE LARGE SYNOPTIC SURVEY
TELESCOPE (LSST)
Abhijit Saha (NOAO)
"Simulating
the Operation of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope"
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Stephen Eikenberry
(University of Florida, Department of Astronomy)
"A
Near-IR Integral Field Spectrograph for the Kitt Peak 4-meter"
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Sandrine Thomas (NOAO / CTIO)
"Tertiary Companions to Close Spectroscopic Binaries" |
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Eduardo Cypriano (SOAR/LNA)
"Fossil Groups, Compact Groups and High-z Galaxy Clusters
with the Gemini Telescopes"
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Chow-Choong Ngeow (University of
Illinois (UC))
"Non-liearity of the Cepheid PL Relation: An Old Subject
with a New Twist" |
Carlos Alexandre Wuensche (INPE)
Intututo Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Divisão
de Astrofísica, Brasil)
"The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"
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Gary Da Costa (Mt. Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatory
Canberra)
"Stellar Populations of dE Galaxies in Nearby Groups" |
Kenji Bekki (University of New South
Wales, Australia)
"Globular Cluster Systems and Galaxy Formation"
See Animations used in this Talk ( .AVI format)
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Marc Sarazin (European Southern Observatory
- ESO)
"European Site Testing Program for ELT: An Update"
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Hans Zinnecker (Astrphys. Inst. Potsdam,
Germany)
"Giant Exo-planets around White Dwarfs?"
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