Program




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Monday, April 10 (Rudder Tower Rm. 701)
8:30 AM	Robert Gates President, Texas A&M University Welcoming remarks
	Session Chair: David Toback
9:00 AM	Samuel Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The AMS Experiment in Space" (ppt,pdf)
9:35 AM	Daniel Green, Fermilab "LHC Introduction, general experimental considerations, and model-independent searches for SUSY" (ppt,pdf)
10:10 AM	David Cline, University of California at Los Angeles "The Dark Universe/The Search for Dark Matter: Indirect and Direct Methods"
10:45 AM	Break
	Session Chair: Robert Webb
11:15 AM	John Gunion, University of California at Davis "New Developments in the nMSSM and Implications for Cosmology" (pdf)
11:50 AM	Vernon Barger, University of Wisconsin "Neutrino physics and its implications for cosmology"
12:25 PM	Lunch
	Session Chair: Richard Arnowitt
2:00 PM	Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin "Quantum Contributions to Cosmological Correlations"
2:35 PM	Gordon Kane, University of Michigan "Overviews of Searching for Supersymmetry at Colliders, and of Dark Matter Issues"
3:10 PM	Break
	Session Chair: Bhaskar Dutta
3:45 PM	Marco Battaglia, University of California at Berkeley "Focused collider experiments for dark matter including ILC" (ppt,pdf)
4:15 PM	Keith Olive, University of Minnesota "The theory behind how experiments should focus on dark matter searches and cosmology in HEE, not just colliders" (pdf)
5:30 PM	Reception in Wayne Stark Galleries, adjacent to Rudder Tower
	Session Chair: Peter McIntyre
7:30 PM	Rudder Theatre: Michael Turner, University of Chicago [public talk] "Before and After the Big Bang: What we know and are trying to find out about how the Universe began"

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Tuesday, April 11 (Rudder Tower Rm. 701)
	Session Chair: Teruki Kamon
9:00 AM	Melvyn Shochet, University of Chicago "Current and Future Searches for Extra Dimensions at Colliders"
9:35 AM	Dimitri Nanopoulos, Texas A&M University "The String Coupling Accelerates the Expansion of the Universe"
10:10 AM	Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas at Austin "Three Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations" (ppt,pdf)
10:45 AM	Break
11:15 AM	Michael Turner, University of Chicago "Coming home" (ppt,pdf )
11:50 AM	George Efstathiou, Cambridge University
12:25 PM	Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago "SUSY at the Tevatron: overview of methods, past results, present activities, and future sensitivity"
1:00 PM	Lunch
	Session Chair: J. Craig Wheeler
2:00 PM	Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
2:35 PM	Brad Schaefer, Louisiana State University "The Gamma Ray Burst Hubble Diagram to z=6.6" (ppt,pdf )
3:10 PM	Gary Hill, University of Texas at Austin "Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment"
3:45 PM	Break
4:15 PM	Lisa Randall, Harvard University
4:50 PM	Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas at Austin "Black Holes of All Masses: Understanding the Fundamental Correlations" (ppt,pdf)
5:25 PM	Lam Hui, Columbia University "Correlated Fluctuations in Luminosity Distance - the Importance of Peculiar Velocity in Supernova Surveys"
6:00 PM	Ilian Iliev, University of Toronto "Simulating Reionization: Progress and Observability"
	Session Chair: Edward Fry
7:30 PM	Rudder Theatre: Lisa Randall, Harvard University [public talk] "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions"

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Wednesday, April 12 (Rudder Tower Rm. 501)
	Session Chair: David Lambert
9:00 AM	Adam Burrows, University of Arizona "A New Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions"
9:35 AM	Lifan Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "Supernovae"
10:10 AM	Douglas Richstone, University of Michigan "Quasars and Black Holes: The Inverse Dinosaur Problem" (ppt,pdf )
10:45 AM	Break
11:15 AM	Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories "The Giant Magellan Telescope Project" (pdf)
11:50 AM	Jonathan Feng, University of California at Irvine "Recent Progress in Supersymmetric Dark Matter" (pdf)
12:25 PM	Patrick McCarthy, Carnegie Observatories "Mass Down-Sizing and Early Galaxy Formation" (ppt,pdf )
1:00 PM	Lunch
	Session Chair: Nicholas Suntzeff
2:00 PM	Charles Townes, University of California at Berkeley "Infrared Interferometry on Old Stars, and Their Behavior"
2:35 PM	Tereasa Brainerd, Boston University "New Constraints on Dark Matter Halos from Satellite Galaxies"
3:10 PM	John Bally, University of Colorado "Recent Developments in Stellar and Planetary System Formation" (ppt,pdf )
3:45 PM	Break
4:15 PM	Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin "Cosmological Reionization and the End of the Dark Ages" (ppt,pdf )
4:50 PM	Tom Abel, Stanford University "First Structure Formation" (pdf)
	Session Chair: Christopher Pope
5:30 PM	Rudder Tower Room 301: George Efstathiou, Cambridge University [public talk] "The Fate of the Universe"
7:30 PM	Banquet at Messina Hof Winery

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Thursday, April 13 (Rudder Tower Rm. 501)
	Session Chair: Wendy Freedman
9:00 AM	Alex Filippenko, University of California at Berkeley "The Lick Observatory Supernova Search" (ppt )
9:35 AM	J. Craig Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin "Rotation and Magnetic Fields in Core Collapse" (ppt,pdf )
10:10 AM	Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona "The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy" (ppt,pdf )
10:45 AM	Break
11:15 AM	Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago "On Cosmic Acceleration without Dark Energy" (ppt,pdf )
11:50 AM	Lunch
	Session Chair: Robert Tribble
1:25 PM	Roger Angel, University of Arizona "Physics and the Feasibility of a Space-based Sunshield Against Global Warming"
2:00 PM	George Fuller, University of California at San Diego "Neutrino Flavor Transformation: Stellar Collapse, Nucleosynthesis and Cosmology"
2:35 PM	Taka Kajino, University of Tokyo "Explosive nucleosynthesis in the Big-Bang and Supernovae: New determination method of nu-oscillation parameters and mass hierarchy" (ppt,pdf )
3:10 PM	Tony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Ascertaining the Core Collapse Supernova Mechanism: Requirements, the State of the Art, and Recent Surprises" (ppt,pdf )
3:45 PM	Break
4:15 PM	Brad Meyer, Clemson University "Evidence for Explosive Nucleosynthesis in the Helium Shell in Massive Stars from Cosmochemical Samples" (ppt,pdf )
4:50 PM	Michael Wiescher, Notre Dame University "Neutron Sources in Stellar Helium and Carbon Burning"
5:25 PM	Michael Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Using Radioactive Beams to Probe Nuclear Reactions in Supernovae" (pdf)
6:00 PM	Sarah Higdon, Cornell University "Tidal Dwarf Galaxies"
6:35 PM	Fritz Benedict, University of Texas at Austin "Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry - Turning Stellar Companions into Extrasolar Planets"
	Session Chair: George Kattawar
7:30 PM	Rudder Tower Room 301: Gregory Laughlin, University of California at Santa Cruz [public talk] "Extrasolar planets" (pdf)

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Friday, April 14 (Rudder Tower Rm. 501)
	Session Chair: Carl Gagliardi
9:00 AM	Sam Austin, Michigan State University "The Properties of Supernova Stars and their Collapsing Cores: What Nuclear Physics Has to Say"(ppt,pdf )
9:35 AM	Peter Parker, Yale University "Al-26 Production in our Galaxy" (ppt,pdf )
10:10 AM	Ernst Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory "Studies of Alpha-Induced Stellar Reactions with and without using Helium" (ppt,pdf )
10:45 AM	Break
11:15 AM	Gregory Laughlin, University of California at Santa Cruz "Extrasolar planets" (pdf)
11:50 AM	Karen Meech, University of Hawaii "Ice Physics and Astrobiology - Insights from Comets to the Kuiper Belt" (pdf)
12:35 PM	Lunch
	Session Chair: Saskia Mioduszewski
2:00 PM	Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University "Cosmology, Information Processing and Civilization"
2:35 PM	Don Winget, University of Texas at Austin "Extreme Physics and Extrasolar Planets"
3:10 PM	Ted von Hippel, University of Texas at Austin "White Dwarfs, Debris Disks, and the Fate of Planetary Systems"
3:45 PM	Break
	Session Chair: Ralf Rapp
4:15 PM	Eric Schlegel, University of Texas at San Antonio "The X-Ray Emission of Supernovae"
4:50 PM	Peter Hoeflich, University of Texas at Austin "Physics of Thermonuclear Explosions & Cosmology"
5:25 PM	James Higdon, Cornell University "Unveiling 'Invisible' Galaxies With The Spitzer Space Telescope"
6:00 PM	Hans Schuessler, Texas A&M University "Precision Spectroscopy and the Limits on the Drift of Fundamental Constants"
	Session Chair: Mark Lemmon
7:30 PM	Rudder Tower Room 301: Karen Meech, University of Hawaii [public talk] "Deep Impact: Secrets of the Comet"

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Saturday, April 15
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM	Rudder Exhibit Hall: Physics Festival with Exhibits and Demonstrations
3:00 PM	Rudder Theatre: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University [public talk] "The Physics of Star Trek"

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