The 2007 NRAO Postdoctoral Symposium April 26-27, 2007, Green Bank, WV

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NRAO Postdoctoral Research Talks
Wednesday April 25th
19:00 - Bedtime Welcome Reception At The Site Director's House.

Thursday April 26th
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Time Speaker Topic
9:00 - 9:10 Richard Prestage and Fred Lo Welcome And Introduction
9:10 - 9:40 Poonam Chandra Three 'sub-talks' (a) Radiative cooling in young supernovae (b) Efficiency of acceleration mechanism in SN 1993J (c) The brightest radio GRB in the SWIFT era
9:40 - 10:10 Juergen Ott "The ATCA Galactic Center Ammonia Survey"
10:10 - 10:40 David Whysong "Searching For A Cosmological Halo"
10:40 - 11:20 Intermission/Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50 Marijke Haverkorn "The Parkes Galactic Meridian Survey: ISM And Magnetism In The Galactic Halo"
11:50 - 12:20 Jean-Pierre Macquart (a) "A Detection Of Turbulence In The Ionized IGM", (b) 8 Min Variations In A Quasar At 5GHz (And Its Microas Structure)" or (c) "Intra-Day Variability In Sgr A* At 3mm."
12:20 - 12:50 D.J. Pisano "Constraining The Nature And Evolution Of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies"
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Kristine Spekkens "Modeling Non-Circular Motions In Disk Galaxies"
14:30 - 15:00 Dan Marrone "The Submillimeter View Of Sagittarius A* Accretion"
15:00 - 15:30 Vincent Fish "W3(OH) Demystified"
15:30 - 16:00 Intermission/Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Aeree Chung "Galaxy Clusters: Now And Then"
16:30 - 17:00 Nissim Kanekar "21cm Absorption Studies Of High Redshift Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems"
18:00 - Bedtime Conference Dinner : Barbeque On Science Centre Patio (Or Inside Science Centre Dependant Upon Weather), With Live Music

Friday April 27th
07:45 - 08:30 Breakfast
Time Speaker Topic
8:30 - 11:00 GBT Tour : Bus Picks Up Outside Residence Hall
11:00 - 11:10 LOC Announcements
11:10 - 11:40 Teddy Cheung "Resolving Relativistic Jets"
11:40 - 12:10 Jeff Wagg "Using the SMA to trace large-scale structure at z~4"
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 David Jansky Memories Of Karl Jansky
15:00 - 15:30 Rob Reid "Circles In Linear Polarization"
15:30 - 16:00 Neal Miller "The VLA Survey Of The Coma Cluster"
16:00 - 16:30 Anthony Remijan "Investigating Benzene Derivatives toward Protoplanetary Nebulae:A Search for /o/-Benzyne (/o/-C_6 H_4 ) and Phenyl (C_6 H_5 ) toward CRL 618"
16:30 - 17:00 Intermission/Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30 Wei-Hao Wang "The Mid-IR, Submillimeter, And Radio Extra-Galactic Background Radiation"
17:30 - 18:00 Vladislav Kondratiev "Searching For Radio Pulsed Emission From XDINSs"
18:00 - 18:30 Dale Frail Concluding Remarks
18:30 - Bedtime Dinner In Cafeteria, Followed By Drinks In The Residence Hall Lounge

Saturday April 28th
08:30 - 09:30 Breakfast
TBA Hike to Ramshorn, dependent upon weather, details to follow.