Understanding the Universe through IR and Submillimeter Astrophysics
May 2-3, 2005
The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Agenda
 

Sunday, May 1, 2005

2:00 – 5:00 pm Executive Committee meeting

7:00 pm           Reception at Hilton Suites 

Monday, May 2, 2005

8:15 am          Bus Service from Hilton Suites to Workshop site

8:45 – 9:00     Coffee/Tea/Doughnuts

 

Opening Session: Gary Ferland, Chair

 

9:00 – 9:15     Welcome

9:15 – 9:50     James Houck “Recent Results from Spitzer:  The Mid-IR View of the Universe at z-2”

9:50 – 10:25   Tom Phillips “Multiply Deuterated Molecules and the Anomalous Distribution of
                           Deuterium in the ISM”

 

10:25 – 11:00  Coffee Break – Posters

 

11:00 – 11:35  John Black “Submillimeter Astronomy: From the Sun to the Most Distant Galaxies”

11:35 – 12:10  Linda Brown “Databases of Infrared Molecular Parameters for Astronomy”

12:10 – 12:45  Elizabeth Lada "Nature of Embedded Clusters"

 

12:45 – 2:00    Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session: Phillip Stancil, Chair

 

2:00 – 2:35     Steven Doty "Modeling Massive Star-Forming Regions"

2:35 – 3:10     Jonathan Tennyson “Calculating and Observing the Spectrum of Water”

 

3:10 – 3:45     Coffee Break – Posters

 

3:45 – 4:20     Balakrishnan Naduvalath "Oxygen Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium"

4:20 – 4:55     Martin Vala “Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Molecules”

 

5:30               Bus Service back to hotel

 

6:30               Workshop Buffet at Hilton Suites
 

 Tuesday, May 3, 2005

8:15 am          Bus Service from Hilton Suites to the Workshop site

 

8:45 – 9:00     Coffee/Tea/Doughnuts

 

Morning Session: Daniel Savin, Chair

 

9:00 – 9:35     Peter Stockman “NIR and Mid-IR Astronomy with JWST:  Observing the Origins
                           of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies”

9:35 – 10:10    Al Wootten “ALMA—Imaging the Universe at the Outer Limits of Radio Astronomy"

 

10:10 – 11:00  Coffee Break – Posters

 

11:00 – 11:35  Joe Weingartner “Dust Modelling:  Gas-Grain Interactions”

11:35 – 12:10  Joel Bowman “New Global Potential Energy Surfaces for CH5+ and H5+ and

                           Some Vibrational and Dynamical Calculations Using Them”

12:10 – 12:45  Daniel Zajfman “The Heidelberg Cryogenic Storage Ring:  Physics with Colder
                           Molecular Ions”

 

12:45 – 2:00   Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session: Teck Lee, Chair

 

2:00 – 2:35    Tom Greene “A Recent IR Spectroscopic Survey of Accreting Protostars and
                            Looking Forward to the SOFIA Airborne Observatory”

2:35 – 3:10     Ed Bergin “Interstellar Chemistry and Submillimeter Astronomy”

 

3:10 – 3:45     Coffee Break – Posters

 

3:45 – 4:20     Perry Gerakines "Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Ices in the Near-
                           and Mid-Infrared"

4:20 – 4:55     Phillip Stancil “Molecular Opacities and Collisional Processes for IR/Sub-mm Brown
                           Dwarf and Extrasolar Planet Modeling”

 

4:55               Conclusion of Workshop

 

5:30               Bus Service back to Hilton Suites

 

Note:  Posters will be in the Gallery for duration of the Workshop.