Spitzer Fellowship Symposium

Monday-Wednesday, May 5-7, 2008

Spitzer Science Center -- Keith Spalding Room 410

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

(Warm mission logo cake)

Agenda (current as of May 1)

Monday, May 5

1:30-1:40Welcoming Remarks
1:40-2:15Subhanjoy (Subu) Mohanty (CfA)-- Spitzer Oservations of Young Brown Dwarfs: Flared, Flat and Transition Disks Down to the Planetary Mass Boundary
2:15-2:50Kelle Cruz (Caltech)-- Juvenile Brown Dwarfs in the Field
2:50-3:15Coffee and home-made! Refreshments
3:15-3:50Michael Cooper (U. Arizona)-- The Role of Environment in the Mass-Metallicity Relation
3:50-4:25Alexandra Pope (NOAO)-- The spectral energy distributions of high redshift ULIRGs
4:25-5:00Emeric Le Floc'h (U. Hawaii)-- On the use of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts as star formation probes

Tuesday, May 6

8:30-9:00Coffee and home-made! Refreshments
9:00-9:35Nadia Zakamska (Institute for Advanced Study)-- Relativistic MHD jets and other deviations from my Spitzer research proposal
9:35-10:10Brant Robertson (U. Chicago)-- A Physical Model for Molecular Gas, Interstellar Radiation, and the Scale-Dependency of Star Formation in Galaxies
10:10-10:40Coffee and home-made! Refreshments
10:40-11:15Christine Chen (NOAO)-- A Possible Icy Kuiper Belt around HD 181327
11:15-11:45Kevin Covey (CfA)-- Probing angular momentum transfer in young stars with optical and infrared spectroscopy
11:45-12:20Lucas Cieza (U. Hawaii)-- The Evolution of Primordial Circumstellar Disks: Dissipation Timescales and Disk Regulation of TTauri Rotation
12:20Afternoon free

Wednesday, May 7

8:30-9:30Coffee and home-made! Refreshments
9:30-10:05Stanimir (Stan) Metchev (UCLA)-- The Substellar Mass Function and Implications for Imaging Exoplanets
10:05-10:40Melissa Enoch (UC Berkeley)-- Characterizing the structure and evolution of deeply embedded protostars with Spitzer
10:40-11:15Jane Rigby (Carnegie) -- Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies, and Energy Reprocessing in Compton-Thick AGN
11:15Coffee and home-made! Refreshments
11:35Afternoon free