| Saturday, Sept. 20
|
Luce
Hall Auditorium - 34 Hillhouse Avenue |
| 8:00 - 900 |
Registration |
SESSION I - Astrometry |
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Fritz
Benedict (Univ. of Texas) "Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope - How Bill van Altena made it possible" |
| 9:45 - 10:00 |
Terry
Girard (Yale Univ.)
ppt , pdf "Culmination of the Southern Proper Motion Program" |
| 10:00 - 10:15
|
Norbert
Zacharias (USNO) ppt , pdf "From UCAC to URAT" |
| 10:15 - 10:30
|
Paul
Hemenway (Univ. of
Denver) ppt , pdf "R Cas: A Parallactic Conundrum" |
| 10:30 - 10:45
|
Coffee Break |
SESSION II - Fundamental Properties of Stars |
|
| 10:45 - 11:30
|
Todd
Henry (Georgia State Univ.)
ppt , pdf "Bill van Altena's Place in the (Local) Universe" |
| 11:30 - 11:45
|
Pierre
Demarque (Yale Univ.)
ppt , pdf "The Saga of Procyon" |
| 11:45 - 12:00
|
Jim
Heasley (Univ. of Hawaii) "Finding the Masses of Low-Metallicity Stars: Applying New Tools to Old Problems" |
| 12:00 - 12:15
|
Adam
Burgasser (MIT) ppt , pdf "Astrometry of the Lowest Luminosity Brown Dwarfs" |
| 12:15 - 1:15 |
Lunch
**NOTE** boxed lunches
will be provided for all attendees |
SESSION III - Star Clusters |
|
| 1:15 - 2:00 |
Bob
Mathieu (Univ. of
Wisconsin) pdf "Open Clusters, the WIYN Open Cluster Study, and Stars that Go Bump in the Night" |
| 2:00 - 2:15 |
Ata
Sarajedini (Univ. of Florida) "Photometric Surveys of Open and Globular Clusters" |
| 2:15 - 2:30 |
Richard Rees (Westfield State College & Yerkes
Obs.) ppt , pdf "Cleaning Globular Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams with Proper Motions" |
| 2:30 - 2:45 |
Imants
Platais (Johns Hopkins Univ.) "Heads and Tails of Star Clusters" |
| 2:45 - 3:00 |
Jose Antonio Uribe (National University of Columbia) ppt , pdf "M67 Most-Probable Members and Age Estimation from BaSTI Isochrones" |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Coffee Break |
SESSION IV - Galactic Structure and Kinematics |
|
| 3:15 - 4:00 |
Steve
Majewski (Univ. of Virginia) "Galactic Structure, Dynamics and Evolution in the Age of Microarcsecond Astrometry" |
| 4:00 - 4:15 |
Dana
Casetti-Dinescu (Yale Univ. /
Wesleyan
Univ.) ppt , pdf "Orbits of Milky Way Globular Clusters and Satellites" |
| 4:15 - 4:30 |
Rene
Méndez (Univ. of
Chile) pdf "Galaxies in Motion: The Proper Motion of the LMC and SMC" |
| 4:30 - 5:00 |
Timothy
Beers (Michigan State
Univ.) ppt , pdf "The Nature of the Galaxy as Revealed by SDSS/SEGUE (II)" |
| 5:00 |
Adjourn for
Dinner |
| Omni
Hotel Banquet Room - 155 Temple Street |
|
| 6:30 - 7:30 |
Cocktail
Reception |
| 7:30 |
Dinner |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Carlos
López (University of
San Juan, Argentina) ppt , pdf , (photo montage ppt) "The Félix Aguilar & Yale Southern Observatories: A Historical Travelogue" |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Kathy
Vieira (Yale University) pdf "Bill van Altena: A Histerical Travelogue" |
| Sunday, Sept. 21 |
Luce
Hall Auditorium - 34 Hillhouse Avenue |
| SESSION V -
Interferometry and
Other Astrometric Techniques |
|
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Mark
Reid (CfA) ppt , pdf "Radio Astrometry from the Milky Way to distant galaxies" |
| 9:45 - 10:00 |
Vera
Kozhurina-Platais (STScI) "Precision Astrometry and Photometry with the HST ACS" |
| 10:00 - 10:30
|
Elliott
Horch (Southern Connecticut
State Univ.) ppt , pdf "Astrometry of Binary Stars: What Are We Waiting For?" |
| 10:30 - 10:45
|
Coffee Break |
SESSION VI - Future of Astrometry |
|
| 10:45 - 11:30
|
Francois
Mignard (Côte d'Azur
Observatory) pdf "Astrometry of the next decades: Gaia, SIM and beyond" |
| 11:30 - 11:45
|
Dave
Monet (USNO-Flagstaff
Station) ppt , pdf "The Astrometric Promise of Large A*Omega" |
| 11:45 - 12:15
|
Brian Chaboyer
(Dartmouth College) "Parallaxes of Metal-Poor Stars" |
| 12:15 - 12:30
|
Concluding
Remarks |
| 12:30 |
Adjourn Symposium |