Carnegie Science Day serves as a forum for Carnegie astronomers old and new to learn about each others' work. Presentations are generally informal and can focus on recent papers, preliminary results, speculative project ideas, or all of the above. The next CSD will take place on Friday, October 18, 2013. 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 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:20 Andrew Benson: Quantifying the Uncertainty in Galaxy Formation
09:20 - 09:35 Andrew Wetzel: Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters in a hierarchical Universe
09:35 - 09:50 ANdy McWilliam: Alpha Elements in Dwarf Galaxies
09:50 - 10:05 Barry Madore: The Oosterhoff Dichotomy, Bailey Diagrams and Sturch's Law
10:05 - 10:20 Dan Masters: FIRE spectroscopy of emission line galaxies
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 - 10:55 Drew Newman: A Massive Galaxy Cluster at z=1.8 Confirmed Through HST/WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy
10:55 - 11:10 Elisa Toloba: Angular momentum and dark matter distribution in Virgo dwarf elliptical galaxies
11:10 - 11:25 Guillermo Blanc: Bayesian Inference of Metallicities and Ionization Parameters
11:25 - 11:40 Gwen Rudie: The Gas inside and around High-z Galaxies
11:40 - 11:55 Hyun-Jin Bae: Gas outflows in SDSS Type 2 AGN
11:55 - 12:10 Janet Colucci: Chemical Abundances in Extragalactic Globular Clusters
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch (provided)
13:30 - 13:45 Alan Dressler: A steep LF for LAEs at z=6
13:45 - 14:00 Jeff Rich: More 3D Spectroscopy
14:00 - 14:15 John Mulchaey: Abell 133: The deepest X-ray image ever taken of a cluster
14:15 - 14:30 Josh Adams: Dark Matter Density Profiles in Late-type Dwarfs from Stellar Kinematics
14:30 - 14:45 Josh Simon: The Most Metal-Poor Stars: Following in Shec and George's Footsteps 30 Years Later
14:45 - 15:00 Juna Kollmeier: It's not a Day without Carnegie Science
15:00 - 15:15 Louis Abramson: Who is this kid, what has he done, and why is he still here?
15:15 - 15:35 Coffee
15:35 - 15:50 Mansi Kasliwal: The Dynamic Infrared Sky  
15:50 - 16:05 Minjin Kim: An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Accreted Onto the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5252  
16:05 - 16:20 Sean Johnson: A transparent sightline at ρ < 20 kpc from an interacting pair of galaxies  
16:20 - 16:35 Shannon Patel: The structural evolution of Milky Way-like star forming galaxies since z~1.3  
16:35 - 16:50 Wendy Freedman: A Brief Status Report on H0    
16:50 - 17:05 Yue Shen: Reverberation Mapping of a thousand quasars    
17:10 Friday Social Hour  

 

Note:  All talks are 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion.