| 1st Santa Barbara Astrophysics Meeting |
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Final Program
May 4, 2007
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Talk Title | Slides |
| Session 1: 9:00-10:30am, Chair: Lars Bildsten | ||||
| 9:05 | Jong-Hak Woo | UCSB | Coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies | Download slides: pdf, 2.2M |
| 9:13 | Tommaso Treu | UCSB | Eggs before chickens? Scaling relations of galaxies and black holes at z=0.37 | Download slides: pdf, 25M |
| 9:21 | Philip Lubin | UCSB | Cosmology from Low Frequency Measurements of the CMB | Download slides: pdf, 1.9M |
| 9:29 | Brian Williams | UCSB | B-machine: prototype polarimeter for CMB polarization detection | Download slides: pdf, 672K |
| 9:37 | Man-Hoi Lee | UCSB | Formation and Dynamics of Planetary Systems | Download slides: pdf, 624K |
| 9:45 | Ken Shen | UCSB | Thermally Stable Nuclear Burning on Accreting White Dwarfs | Download slides: pdf, 896K |
| 9:53 | Eric Pfahl | KITP | Gravitational Waves from Fragmented Collapsar Disks | Download slides: pdf, 1.1M |
| 10:01 | Peter Meinhold | UCSB | Current status of the Planck Mission | Download slides: pdf, 3.2M |
| 10:09 | Rodrigo Leonardi | UCSB | UCSBs constributions to the Planck CMB Mission | Download slides: pdf, 460K |
| 10:17 | Marc Favata | KITP | Issues in eccentric binary inspiral | Download slides: pdf, 440K |
| 10:25 | Marton Hidas | LCOGT/UCSB | Extrasolar planets from two sides of the Pacific | Download slides: pdf, 13M |
| 10:33-11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| Session 2: 11:00am-12:30pm, Chair: Marc Favata | ||||
| 11:00 | Taro Sato | UCSB | Gone with the Wind? Na I Outflows in AEGIS DEEP2 Survey | Download slides: pdf, 1.9M |
| 11:08 | Nairn Baliber | LCOGT | Angular Momentum Evolution in Pre-Main-Sequence Stars | Download slides: ppt, 300K |
| 11:16 | Marusa Bradac | KIPAC | (Stanford) Observing z>6 Universe with the Bullet Cluster | Download slides: pdf, 1.9M |
| 11:24 | Randall Cooper | Harvard/KITP | The Latitude of Type I X-ray Burst Ignition on Accreting Neutron Stars | Download slides: pdf, 964K |
| 11:32 | Fulai Guo | UCSB | Simulating Cosmic-ray Heating in Clusters of Galaxies | Download slides: pdf, 856K |
| 11:40 | Peng Oh | UCSB | New Views of the High-Redshift Universe | Download slides: pdf, 2.3M |
| 11:48 | Christian Leipski | UCSB | The properties of radio galaxies in the MIR | Download slides: pdf, 916K |
| 11:56 | Raphael Gavazzi | UCSB | The mass budget of lensing elliptical galaxies from SLACS | Download slides: pdf, 804K |
| 12:04 | Carl Gwinn | UCSB | Statistics of Noise and Scintillation, for Pulsar Radio Emission | Download slides: pdf, 2.3M |
| 12:12 | Justin Steinfadt | UCSB | Pulsations of the Low Gravity ZZ Ceti Star HS 1824+6000 | Download slides: pdf, 1.3M |
| 12:20-1:30 | Lunch (KITP courtyard) | |||
| Session 3: 1:30-3:00pm, Chair: Nairn Baliber | ||||
| 1:30 | Crystal Martin | UCSB | Building a Time Machine to Visit the Young Milky Way | Download slides: pdf, 14M |
| 1:38 | Phil Marshall | UCSB | Finding and Using Gravitational Lenses | Download slides: pdf, 3.2M |
| 1:46 | Ken Henisey | UCSB | Dynamics of Inner Tori | Download slides: pdf, 552K |
| 1:54 | Omer Blaes | UCSB | The Vertical Structure of Accretion Disks | Download slides: pdf, 4.9M |
| 2:02 | Evan Scannapieco | KITP | Where are the first stars now? | Download slides: ppt, 2.0M |
| 2:10 | Kurt Soto | UCSB | CIV enrichment of the IGM | Download slides: pdf, 4.3M |
| 2:18 | Ted Tao | UCSB | Radiative MHD Instabilities in Accretion Disks | Download slides: ppt, 1.0M |
| 2:26 | Eric Depagne | LCOGT | A Global study for variable stars featuring VSOP | Download slides: pdf, 320K |
| 2:34 | Nada Petrovic | UCSB | Foregrounds for 21cm Observations of the High-Redshift Universe | Download slides: pdf, 5.4M |
| 2:42 | Robert Antonucci | UCSB | The True IR/optical/uv spectra of quasars: not what you think | Slides not available |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Coffee Break | |||
| Session 4: 3:30-5:00pm, Chair: Phil Marshall | ||||
| 3:30 | Nathan Stebor | UCSB | Large Format Detector Array Using NIS Tunnel Junctions | Download slides: pdf, 360K |
| 3:38 | Elena Gallo | UCSB | Jets from black hole X-ray binaries | Download slides: pdf, 1.7M |
| 3:46 | Tim Lister | LCOGT | Magnetic activity cycles on variable stars from wide-field surveys | Download slides: pdf, 1.8M |
| 3:54 | Jeremy Jacob | UCSB | Supermassive black holes, active galactic nuclei, and galaxy formation | Download slides: pdf, 3.0M |
| 4:02 | Rachel Street | UCSB/LCO | Planet Hunting: sorting the wheat from the chaff | Download slides: pdf, 2.0M |
| 4:10 | Victor Sciortino | UCSB | X-ray Properties of ULIRGs | Download slides: ppt, 4.7M |
| 4:18 | Hugh ONeill | UCSB | The COsmic Foreground Explorer | Download slides: pdf, 2.3M |
| 4:26 | Tim Brown | LCOGT | LCOGT Science Overview | Download slides: pdf, 1.9M |
| 4:34 | Lars Bildsten | KITP | Explosions on White Dwarfs and .Ia Supernovae | Download slides: pdf, 332K |
| 4:42 | Bill Paxton | KITP | Tools for stellar astrophysics | Download slides: pdf, 1.1M |
| 5:00pm | Wine and Cheese reception | |||
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