Spitzer Fellowship Symposium

Monday-Tuesday, March 26-27, 2007

Spitzer Science Center -- Keith Spalding Room 410

California Institute of Technology, 1200 California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125

Agenda

Monday, March 26

8:30-9:00Coffee
9:00-9:10Welcoming Remarks
9:10-9:45Christine Chen (NOAO)
The Origin and Evolution of Dust and Gas in Debris Disks
9:45-10:20Jonathan Fortney (NASA ARC/SETI Institute)
Extreme Planetary Atmospheres: Models of Hot Jupiters
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-11:15Nadia Zakamska (Institute for Advanced Study)
Obscured quasars: Multi-Wavelength Observations and Insights into Obscuration Structure from IRS Spectra
11:15-11:50Kevin Covey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Surveying the Scene: Studying Low-Mass Star Formation with Large Photometric and Spectroscopic Datasets
11:50-12:25Brant Robertson (Kavli Institute, U. Chicago)
The Photometric Properties of the Most Massive High-Redshift Galaxies

Tuesday, March 27

8:30-9:00Coffee
9:00-9:35Subhanjoy Mohanty (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Disk Evolution in Post-Accretion Brown Dwarfs: Dust Settling, Growth, and Evacuation of Large Inner Holes (by Planetesimal Formation?)
9:35-10:10Jane Rigby (Carnegie Observatories)
Lensed Galaxies at z~2.5: IRS Spectra of LIRGs & ULIRGs
10:10-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:05Stan Metchev (UCLA)
Completing the Census of T-Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood
11:05-11:40Casey Papovich (U. Arizona)
Spitzer Studies of the Infrared Emission from High Redshift Galaxies