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To: Yale Astronomy Department Students, Staff, Faculty and Affiliates From: Bill van Altena
We hope that you will all come to Dorrit's Conference and the Banquet on Friday night. Please let Sue know as soon as possible about your plans.
A Conference in Honor of Dorrit Hoffleit's 90th Birthday Third Announcement 5 February 1997
The Yale Astronomy Department will hold a day and a half conference in New Haven in honor of Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit's 90th Birthday on March 7th and 8th, 1997. The sessions will be held from 1:00-5:00 PM on Friday, followed be a banquet on Friday evening. On Saturday morning, the meeting will start at 9:00 AM and adjourn by 5:00 PM, thus making it more economical for those who may wish to stay over on Saturday night to obtain more economical airfares. Informal dinners can be arranged for Saturday evening.
The Registration Fee for the meeting will be 50.00. This figure has been set to cover the cost of the Proceedings of the Conference, and will include one copy of the book. We expect that the Banquet will cost an additional 25 to 30, with options for Prime Rib, Salmon or Chicken.
We have blocked out rooms at the Holiday Inn at Yale, 30 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT (203)-777-6221 or 1-800-HOLIDAY. You should mention the "Hoffleit 90th Birthday Symposium" to get the special rate of 79.00/night. Please call the Holiday Inn directly as soon as possible to ensure that you can get one of the rooms.
New Haven can be reached along the Eastern Corridor most easily by AMTRAK trains which run through New Haven. If you come by Air, then the local airport is Tweed-New Haven, which has some Commuter Airlines. More frequent schedules are obtained through the Hartford-Springfield Bradley Airport, which is about a 50-minute drive from New Haven, or the New York Airports, which are about a two-hour drive from New Haven. Limousine service from New York and Hartford is available through the New Connecticut Limousine which normally has hourly service to New Haven and can be found at the Ground Transportation Centers at the Terminals. The cost is about 35 one-way and 70 round-trip. In Hartford call 1- 800-922-6162 at the airport for information on the location of the pick-up point. The Hartford-New Haven segment runs between 6:30 AM and 11:30 PM every hour on the half-hour and costs 21 one-way or 38 round-trip.
Attached is the Preliminary Program for the meeting. The time allocated for each paper is the total time and should be interpreted to include 5-minutes of discussion. We are also interested in anecdotes that can be collected into a section of the proceedings, which will be published by the L. Davis Press. The length of the papers will be limited to 4-pages for 15-minute talks, 6-pages for 20-minute talks, 8-pages for the 30-minute talks and 10-pages for the 45-minute talk.
Rather than have a Banquet Speaker, we are asking those with anecdotes about their interactions with Dorrit to briefly relate their experiences at the Banquet. Will those of you who would be willing to speak briefly please let me know so that I can make a count of the potential speakers. Those of you that are still on the list but unable to come, please send me your anecdotes and we will make them known!
We are looking forward to seeing you in New Haven. Bill van Altena
Scientific organizing Committee
Pierre Demarque inPhillip Lu inJanet Mattei inA. G. D. Philip inHorace Smith inArthur Upgen inWilliam van Altena inWayne Warren IN
A Conference in Honor of Dorrit Hoffleit's 90th Birthday Third Announcement 5 February 1997
Hoffleit Fest Program Kline Geology Auditorium 210 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06520 2/5/97 ***********************************************************************
Friday March 7th - 1:00 PM - Kline Geology Auditorium
1:00 PM Welcoming remarks
1:15 PM Spectroscopy
30 m. N. Houk Spectroscopy, Then and Now.
H. Levato
S. Malaroda
15 m. P. K. Lu Spectral Classification Using Spectral Energy Distributions for One Million Stars
2:15 PM Catalogues
30 m. W. Warren The Bright Star Catalogue
20 m. N. Roman Sources of Astronomical Data
3:00 PM Coffee break
3:15 PM History
30 m. D. DeVorkin Spectroscopic Parallaxes and Absolute Magnitudes
15 m. J. Briggs The Santa Clara Telescope Fiasco
15 m. M. Standish A Revolutionary Eclipse
4:15 PM Guest Speaker
45 m. Dorrit Hoffleit Suspected Variables Among Al Sufi Stars
5:00 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Cocktail party
7:30 PM Banquet
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Saturday March 8th - Kline Geology Auditorium
9:00 AM Variable Stars, I
30 m. J. Mattei Invited review
15 m. H. Smith Long Term Observations of RR Lyrae Stars
15 m. B. Schaefer & Type I supernovae T. Girard
15 m. C. Lopez, Astrometry of Variable Stars T. Girard, C. Predom, et al
15 m. H. Bond UU Sge: The key to things that go bang in the night
10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM Variable Stars, II
15 m. E. Milone Repaving the royal road of eclipses: modeling method improvement
15 m. N. Evans Cepheid Masses and Rotation
15 m. E. Belserene Taming the Blazhko Effect
15 m. L. Willson Miras
12:00 Lunch Break
1:30 PM Meteors and Comets
30 m. M. Hanner Comets, Frozen Time Capsules
15 m. H. Plotkin The Brenham, Kiowa County, Kansas meteorite
15 m. W. Osborn The Fall and Recovery of the Coleman Meteorite
15 m. W. Bidelman Mg 2, a New Molecule in Meteor Spectra
2:45 PM Education
15 m. A.G.D. Philip The Shapley Visiting Lecture Program
15 m. B. Welther
15 m. J. Percy The Role of Small Telescopes in Astronomy Education
3:30 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM Astrometry
30 m. H. Eichhorn Invited review
20 m. J. Morrison The Yale South Polar Zone
4:50 PM Closing Remarks
5:00 PM Adjourn