The Carnegie Science Day is a biannual event that serves as a forum for Carnegie astronomers to discuss their latest research results and share their ideas. The next CSD will take place on Friday, April 13, 2012. Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to participate. Light breakfast items and lunch will be provided. A preliminary draft of the program, including the list of speakers and topics, is posted here.
PROGRAM
| 08:30-09:00 | Breakfast (provided) | |
| 09:00 -09:20 | Rik Williams: X-ray Absorption Systems: Circumgalactic Media or Missing Cosmic Baryons? | |
| 09:20 -09:40 | Josh Simon: The Heart of Darkness: The Dark Matter Density Profiles of Dwarf Galaxies | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Francois Schweizer: Close-up Look at a Major-Merger Remnant | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Ian Roederer: Oh the Thinks You Can Think (Detecting Exotic Elements in UV Spectra) | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Michael Rauch: Insights into Hierarchical Galaxy Formation from Lyman-alpha Emission | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Ryan Quadri: The Growth of the Red Sequence with Time | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Chien Peng: Why Supermassive Black Holes Tell Us That Big Galaxies Growby Factors of ~3 Through Minor Mergers Since z~2 | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Eric Persson: The FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch (provided) | |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Eric Murphy: Line Detection Rates in Deep, Next Generation FIR/Submm Spectroscopic Surveys | |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Dan Masters: Faint, Low-metallicity Galaxies and Dwarf Stars in WISPS | |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Lori Lubin: ORELSE in the Radio: Starbursts and AGN in High-redshift Structures | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Juna Kollmeier: First Results From The Carnegie RR Lyrae Survey | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Song Huang: Two-phase Build-up of Elliptical Galaxies | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Luis Ho: Molecular Clouds and Cluster Formation in Starburst Environments | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Wendy Freedman: The Status of the GMT | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | T. J. Cox: What We Can Learn from Simulations of Ring Galaxies | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Chris Burns: Two Kinds of Dust in Type Ia Supernovae? | |
| 16:30 | Adjourn |
Note: All talks 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion. Please stay on schedule.