2009 Spitzer Fellowship Symposium

Monday-Tuesday, May 11-12, 2009

Spitzer Science Center -- Keith Spalding Room 410

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

Agenda (current as of Mar 9)

Monday, May 11

9:00--9:30coffee and home-made refreshments
9:30--9:40introductory remarks
9:40--10:15Kevin Covey (CfA) -- Unraveling the Star Formation History of B59 and the Pipe Nebula
10:15--10:50Melissa Enoch (UC Berkeley) -- Using CARMA and the IRS to map the disk and envelope structure of Class 0 protostars
10:50--11:25break with home-made refreshments
11:25--12:00Lucas Cieza (U. Hawaii) -- Understanding Circumstellar Disk Evolution: Disk Masses, Multiplicity, and Transition Disks
12:00--12:35Elise Furlan (JPL) -- Signposts of Disk Evolution in Young Protoplanetary Disks
12:35--2:05lunch (on your own)
2:05--2:40Mukremin Kilic (CfA/SAO) -- Planets and Disks Around White Dwarfs
2:40--3:15Sally Dodson-Robinson (IPAC/MSC) -- The Formation of Uranus and Neptune
3:15--3:50break with home-made refreshments
3:50--4:25Thomas Robitaille (Harvard) -- Young stellar objects observed by Spitzer in the Galactic mid-plane
4:25--5:00Kelle Cruz (Caltech) -- Young L Dwarfs

Tuesday, May 12

8:30--9:00coffee and home-made refreshments
9:00--9:35Michael Cooper (U. Arizona) -- The Large-Scale Environments of Type Ia Supernovae
9:35--10:10Dawn Erb (UC Santa Barbara) -- Young Galaxies in the Young Universe
10:10--10:45break with home-made refreshments
10:45--11:20Emeric LeFloc'h U. Hawaii) -- Hot dust and GRBs as two antagonistic tracers of star formation
11:20--11:55Alexandra Pope (NOAO) -- We still have a lot to learn about the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background
11:55--12:30Jane Rigby (OCIW) -- Star-forming Galaxies and Obscured AGN: New Diagnostics
12:30--13:05lunch, afternoon open for networking