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Keck Science Meeting 2008

University of California, Santa Cruz

September 18, 2008

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PROGRAM (DRAFT)      PDF version here
8:15 - 8:30 AM Opening Remarks

Mike Bolte
UCSC

8:30 - 10:00 AM Science Session #1: 6 talks  
   8:30 - 8:45 AM "Morphology Trends Within z~2 Dust Obscured Galaxies from Keck Adaptive Optics" Jason Melbourne
Caltech
   8:45 - 9:00 AM "Search for z ~ 7 Galaxies in the COSMOS Field: Keck/NIRSPEC Spectroscopy" Bahram Mobasher
UC Riverside
   9:00 - 9:15 AM "Stellar populations and the dissolution of super star clusters" Nate McCrady
UCLA
   9:15 - 9:30 AM "Dual Supermassive Black Holes in DEEP2 Early-type Galaxies" Julie Comerford
UC Berkeley
   9:30 - 9:45 AM "The Abundances of Metal-poor Stars in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way" David Lai
UCSC
   9:45 - 10:00 AM "The Outburst of V1647 Orionis and its Relationship to FUor and EXor Eruptions" Colin Aspin
IfA, U Hawaii
10:00 - 10:15 AM Rapid Fire Poster Session #1  
10:15 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break  
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Science Session #2: 6 talks  
   10:45 - 11:00 AM "The DEEP2 Survey and Beyond" David Rosario
UCSC
   11:00 - 11:15 AM "Keck Cosmic Web Imager" Chris Martin
Caltech

   11:15 - 11:30 AM

"Determining the Physical Properties of Very-Low-Mass Stars and Brown
Dwarfs with NIRSPEC"
Emily Rice
UCLA
   11:30 - 11:45 AM "Dynamical Constraints on the Masses of the Nuclear Star Cluster
and Black Hole in the Late-Type Spiral Galaxy NGC 3621"
Aaron Barth
UC Irvine
   11:45 AM - 12:00 PM "A 600 minute near-infrared lightcurve of Sgr A*" Leonard Meyer
UCLA
   12:00 - 12:15 PM "Exploring galaxy halos with Deimos" Duncan Forbes
Swinburne University
12:15 - 1:30 PM Lunch  
1:30 - 3:00 PM Science Session #3: 6 talks  
   1:30 - 1:45 PM "The evolution of black hole-galaxy correlations of active galaxies" Jong-Hak Woo
UCLA
   1:45 - 2:00 PM "Spectroscopic and Photometric Landscape of Andromeda's Stellar Halo (SPLASH)" Raja Guha Thakurta
UCSC
   2:00 - 2:15 PM "Dynamical Mass of the Substellar Benchmark Binary HD 130948BC" Trent Dupuy
IfA, U Hawaii
   2:15 - 2:30 PM "Integral Field Spectroscopy of Local Lyman-Break Analogs" Thiago Gonçalves
Caltech
   2:30 - 2:45 PM "LGS-AO observations of the HV Tau C edge-on protoplanetary disk" Gaspard Duchene
UC Berkeley
   2:45 - 3:00 PM "Dark Matter, Dynamics, and Rotation in Early-type Galaxy Halos" Aaron Romanowsky
UCSC
3:00 - 3:15 PM Rapid Fire Poster Session #2  
3:15 - 3:45 PM Coffee Break  
3:45 - 5:00 PM Science Session #4: 5 talks  
   3:45 - 4:00 PM "Studying Substructure in Moderate-redshift Galaxies with Keck AO" Chris Fassnacht
UC Davis
   4:00 - 4:15 PM "Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds?" Hai Fu
Caltech
   4:15 - 4:30 PM "Stars on double duty: Probing cool gas properties of galaxies at z ~ 0.6" Kate Rubin
UCSC
   4:30 - 4:45 PM The Fundamental Properties of Low-Mass Stars" Adam Kraus
Caltech
   4:45 - 5:00 PM "WKMO Observing Support in 2008" Bob Goodrich
W.M. Keck Obs.
5:00 - 6:00 PM Taft's Address Taft Armandroff
W.M. Keck Obs.