| Friday, November 12 |
4:00 -
6:00 pm |
Open house and informal tours
of the department's new student observatory and the WIYN remote
observing system |
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Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories |
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5:30 -
7:00 pm |
Reception
Peabody Museum, Hall of Birds, 3rd Floor |
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7:00 -
8:00 pm |
Welcoming remarks and opening address
Peabody Museum Auditorium, 3rd Floor |
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Charles Bailyn '81
Chairman, Yale Department of Astronomy
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Susan Hockfield,
Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
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My First Meeting with Pierre Demarque:
Yale Astrophysics "Before" and "After" |
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Dorrit Hoffleit
Senior Research Astronomer
Yale Department of Astronomy |
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| 8 pm |
Dinner
Peabody Museum, Hall of Dinosaurs, 1st Floor |
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Saturday, November 13, 1999 |
8:00 -
9:00 am |
Continental breakfast
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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9:00 -
10:15 am |
Yale Astronomy: Present and Future
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor |
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A panel of current faculty and students |
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10:15 -
11:00 am |
Coffee Break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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11:00 -
11:45 am |
Perspectives on Yale Astronomy in the Past
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor |
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The Yale Astronomy Department in 1949 |
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George Preston '52
Carnegie Observatories |
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The Yale Astronomy Department in 1969: 1 A.D. |
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James Heasley '73 PhD
University of Hawaii |
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Computing Stellar Models: The Early Days |
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Pierre Demarque
Munson Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy Emeritus
Yale University |
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Modem?? What's a Modem?? |
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Charles Bailyn '81
Yale University |
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11:45 -
12:30 pm |
New Frontiers in Astronomy
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor |
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NASA's Astrobiology Program |
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Douglas A. O'Handley '67 PhD
Director, Ames Astrobiology Academy
NASA |
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Solar Variability and Climate Change |
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Sabatino Sofia '63, '66 PhD
Yale University |
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Science Teaching: A Critical Responsibility |
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David Pierce '66 PhD
El Camino College |
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12:30 -
2:00 pm |
Buffet Lunch
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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2:00 -
3:20 pm |
Scientific workshop:
"Challenges in Stellar Evolution for the 21st Century."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor |
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The Newest Yale Isochrones |
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Yong-Cheol Kim '93 PhD
Yonsei University |
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Ages of Globular Clusters |
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Brian Chaboyer '93 PhD
Dartmouth College |
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Population III Stars |
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Volker Bromm
current graduate student
Yale Department of Astronomy |
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Stellar Seismology |
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David Guenther '83 PhD
St. Mary's College |
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3:20 -
3:40 pm |
Coffee break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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3:40 -
4:40 pm |
Scientific workshop, continued
Luce Hall Auditorium,1st Floor |
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Chromospheric and Coronal Physics |
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Peter Ulmschneider '66 PhD
University of Heidelberg |
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The Solar/Stellar Connection |
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Marc Pinsonneault '88 PhD
Ohio State University |
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Population Synthesis in Elliptical Galaxies |
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Sukyoung Yi '96 PhD
California Institute of Technology |
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| 6:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner
Donaldson Commons, Yale School of Management |
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| Sunday, November 14, 1999 |
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8:00 -
9:00 am |
Continental breakfast
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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9:00 am -
10:40 |
Scientific workshop: "Challenges in Stellar
Evolution for the 21st Century."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor |
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Blue Metal-Poor Halo Stars |
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George Preston '52
Carnegie Observatories |
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Evolution of the Galactic Halo |
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Robert Zinn '74 PhD
Yale University |
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Building the Galactic Halo |
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Dana Dinescu '98 PhD
University of Virginia |
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Red Clump Stars in Open Clusters |
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Ata Sarajedini '86, '92 PhD
Wesleyan University |
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Rotation of Cluster Stars |
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Sydney Barnes '90, '98 PhD
Lowell Observatory and University of Wisconsin |
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10:40 - 11 Coffee break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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11:00 -
12:20 |
Scientific workshop, continued
Luce Hall Auditorium,1st Floor |
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Light Elements: A Common Thread for Stellar
Interiors, Chemical Evolution, and Big Bang Cosmology |
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Constantine Deliyannis '90 PhD
Indiana University |
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Astronometry and Stellar Masses |
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Elliott Horch '89 MS
Rochester Institute of Technology |
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Brown Dwarfs |
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John Gizis '92
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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From Stellar Evolution to Global Change
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Michael Prather '69, '76 PhD
University of California, Irvine |
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12:20 -
1:45 |
Buffet Luncheon
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
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