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Program Agenda and Presentations
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Monday, July
23 |
7:30-8:45 |
Breakfast at the Beckman Center
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8:45-9:00 |
Welcome address
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9:00-9:30 |
Gary Sanders (TMT)
TMT: A Project Introduction and Update |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Jerry Nelson (UC Santa Cruz)
The Capabilities of TMT |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Doug Lin (UC Santa Cruz)
Young
Disks
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break
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11:00-11:25 |
Yoshiko Okamoto (Ibaraki)
Protoplanetary
Disks and Debris Disks Revealed by Mid-infrared
Observations with High Spectral Resolution
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| 11:25-11:50 |
Ray Jayawardhana (Toronto)
Big Questions About Little Ones: The Sub-Stellar Realm |
| 11:50-12:15 |
Matthew Richter (UC Davis)
Mid-infrared
Spectroscopy of Protoplanetary Disk Gas
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12:15-1:15 |
Lunch at the Beckman Center
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| 1:15-2:15 |
Special Session:
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| 2:15-2:40 |
Jonathan Tan (U. Florida)
TMT
and the Frontiers of Star Formation
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| 2:40-3:00 |
Alan Tokunaga
(Hawaii)
Attacking
Planet Formation with a High Spectral Resolution Mid-infrared
Spectrograph
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3:00-3:30
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Coffee Break
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| 3:30-3:55 |
Joshua Bloom (UC Berkeley)
Gamma Ray Bursts
and Transient Phenomena
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| 3:55-4:20 |
Mark Sullivan
(Toronto)
High-redshift
Supernovae with 30m Class Telescopes |
4:20-4:40
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Jeff Cooke (UC
Irvine)
Detection
of 2 < z < 6 Type II Supernovae |
5:00-7:00 |
Reception at the Beckman Center
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Tuesday, July 24
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| 7:30-9:00 |
Breakfast at the Beckman Center |
9:00-9:25 |
Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine)
Well,
It Was Big When We
Built It! |
| 9:25-9:45 |
Isobel Hook
(Oxford)
Overview of the European ELT Science Case and Design Studies Reference
Mission |
9:45-10:05
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Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State University)
Synergy
Between the Thirty Meter Telescope and the James Webb Space
Telescope: When 1 + 1 > 2 |
10:05-10:40
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Coffee break
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| 10:40-11:05 |
Raja Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz)
Studying
Galaxy Assembly in the Local Volume in the TMT Era
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| 11:05-11:30 |
James Bullock (UC Irvine)
Near
Field Cosmology |
| 11:30-11:55 |
Knut Olsen (NOAO)
Star
Formation Histories with Extremely Large Telescopes |
11:55-1:00 |
Lunch at the Beckman Center
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1:00-1:50 |
Special Breakout Sessions: Legacy Projects
with ELTs |
| 1:50-2:10 |
Chris Evans (UK ATC)
Stellar
Populations in the Local Volume
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| 2:10-2:30 |
Bryan Miller
(Gemini)
Extragalactic
Globular Cluster Systems with TMT
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| 2:50-3:10 |
Mike Rich
(UCLA)
Abundances
and Kinematics of Distant Giants on the Minor Axis of M31 |
| 3:10-3:30 |
Rolf Kudritzki
(Hawaii)
Extragalactic
Stellar Astronomy with the Brightest Stars in the Universe |
3:30-4:00 |
Coffee break
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| 4:00-4:25 |
Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Precision
Astrometry with TMT |
| 4:25-4:50 |
Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
The Galactic Center
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4:50-5:15
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Aaron Barth (UC Irvine)
The
Bulge-Nuclear Black Hole Connection |
| 5:15-5:35 |
Stephen Eikenberry (Florida)
Understanding
the Physics of the Bulge/Black-Hole Connection with ELTs |
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Wednesday,
July 25 |
7:30-9:00 |
Breakfast at the Beckman Center
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Mike Brown (Caltech)
Probing
the Kuiper belt and the Outer Solar System
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| 9:30-9:55 |
James Graham (UC Berkeley)
TMT
Planet Imager |
9:55-10:20
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Olivier Guyon (Subaru)
New
Concepts for Extreme-AO on ELTs: Expolanet Imaging with TMT
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10:20-10:45 |
Coffee break
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| 10:45-11:15 |
Roberto Abraham (Toronto)
Galaxy
Formation at the Peak of the Cosmic Star Formation History |
| 11:15-11:45 |
Alice Shapley (Princeton)
Big
Questions in Galaxy Formation |
| 11:45-12:10 |
Masanori Iye (NAOJ)
From
Subaru to TMT, Extremely Distant Galaxies |
| 12:10-1:15 |
Lunch at the Beckman Center
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| 1:15-1:35 |
Sangeeta Malhotra (Arizona State)
The
Physical Nature of Lyman-alpha Galaxies |
| 1:35-1:55 |
David Law (Caltech)
Spatially
Resolved Spectroscopy of High Redshift Galaxies |
| 1:55-2:15 |
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
(AAO)
A New Era of
Ultra-deep Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Sources |
| 2:15-2:40 |
Romeel Davé (Arizona)
The
Interface Between Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium at High
Redshifts
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| 2:40-3:00 |
Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine)
Mapping
Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies |
3:00-3:30 |
Coffee break
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| 3:30-4:00 |
Richard Ellis (Caltech)
The
End of the Cosmic Dark Ages
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| 4:00-4:25 |
Steve Furlanetto (Yale)
Reionization
from High-Redshift Galaxy Searches |
| 4:25-4:45 |
Crystal Martin (UC Santa Barbara)
Probing
Reionization with Emission Lines |
| 4:45-5:10 |
George Becker (OCIW)
The
Very High Redshift IGM and the End of the Reionization Era |
| 5:10-6:00 |
Panel Discussion: What might TMT do that
we (most of us) aren’t even
thinking about yet?
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