Keck Science Meeting 2006: Talks


last updated September 12

Time Speaker Title
8:15-8:55
Breakfast

8:55-9:00
Organizing Committee
Welcome & Logistics
9:00-9:15
Franck Marchis (Berkeley)
Search for multiple Jupiter Trojan asteroids with Keck LGS
9:15-9:30
Kristina Barkume (Caltech)
Discovery of a Collisional Family in the Kuiper Belt
9:30-9:45
Quinn Konopacky (UCLA)
New Very Low Mass Binaries in the Taurus Star-Forming Region
9:45-10:00
Michael Liu (Hawaii) Substellar Astrophysics from Brown Dwarf Binaries
10:00-10:15
Stanimir Metchev (UCLA) First High-Contrast Science with an IFU:
the Sub-Stellar Companion to GQ Lup
10:15-10:30
John Monnier (Michigan) Resolving YSO disks in the mid-IR with Keck Segment Tilting
10:30-10:35
Poster talks
Presenters: Perrin, Hoffman, Rich, Rich
10:35-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-11:15
Livia Origlia (Bologna)
Chemical Abundances of Galactic Bulge Field &
Cluster Stars with NIRSPEC
11:15-11:30
Ann Merchant Boesgaard (Hawaii) Beryllium in Ultra-Li-Deficient Halo Stars
11:30-11:45
Jessica Lu (UCLA) Orbits and Origins of Young Stars in the
Central Parsec of the Galaxy
11:45-12:00
Josh Simon (Caltech)
A Metallicity Map of M33
12:00-12:15
Tammy Smecker-Hane (Irvine) The Stellar Populations of M33
12:15-12:20
Poster talks
Presenters: Rafelski, Campbell, Le Mignant, Wiktorowicz, Rice
12:20-1:30
Lunch

1:30-1:45
Michael Cooper (Berkeley)
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey:
Status Report and New Results
1:45-2:00
Johan Richard (Caltech)
Strong Lensing by massive clusters at z~0.2 - 0.5
2:00-2:15
Vandana Desai (Caltech)
Keck Spectroscopy of Spitzer/MIPS Sources
in the NDWFS Bootes Field
2:15-2:30
Kai Noeske (Santa Cruz)
DEEP2/AEGIS: History and modes of star formation in
field galaxies since z=1.4
2:30-2:45
David Law (Caltech)
OSIRIS observations of star-forming galaxies at z=2-3
2:45-3:00
Eilat Glikman (Caltech)
A Search for the Earliest Luminous Quasars
3:00-3:15
Jeff Cooke (Irvine)
The Mass of Systems at 2.5 < z < 5.0
3:15-3:20
Poster talks
Presenters: Ireland, Wang, Kibrick, McGrath
3:20-3:45
Coffee Break

3:45-4:00
Ryan Chornock (Berkeley)
Spectropolarimetry of Type Ia Supernovae
4:00-4:15
S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)
A New Class of Cosmic Transients
4:15-4:30
Josh Eisner (Berkeley) New Science with the Keck Interferometer:
From Exoplanets to Black Holes
4:30-4:45
James Larkin (UCLA)
OSIRIS
4:45-5:00
Virginia Trimble (Irvine)
Keck Publication Statistics
5:00-5:15
Bob Goodrich (WMKO)
Observing Support at WMKO
5:15-6:10
Taft Armandroff (WMKO)
Director's Address: The State of the Observatory
6:10-7:30
Refreshments