CO:
Twenty-five Years of Millimeter-wave Spectroscopy
Schedule --
*** Sunday, May 28 *** Topical Sessions affiliated with IAU Symposium 170 URSI/IAU JOINT COMMITTEE ON A LARGE MILLIMETRE/SUBMILLIMETRE ARRAY 9:00 to 12:00 Roy Booth and Masato Ishiguro For further information on this session, please contact Roy Booth, Onsala Space Observatory, roy@oso.chalmers.se. LARGE MILLIMETER TELESCOPE (LMT) PROJECT 13:00 to 17:00 Andrew Harris For further information on this session, please contact Andy Harris, FCRAO, (413)545-2085, harris@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu. ************************************************************************* 15:00 - 19:00: Registration and Poster Setup 19:00 - 22:30: Reception -- The Flying V *** Monday, May 29 *** 7:00 - 9:00: Poster Setup and Viewing Registration 9:00 - 9:30: Welcome and LOC comments. - Paul Vanden Bout, Bob Martin MOLECULAR CLOUDS AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM OF THE MILKY WAY AND BEYOND 9:30 - 10:00: ``CO Surveys of the Milky Way and Its Nearest Neighbors'' - Patrick Thaddeus 10:00 - 10:30: ``The Milky Way'' - Leo Blitz - break - 11:00 - 11:20: ``Structure of Disks in the Circumnuclear Regions of Seyfert Galaxies'' - Linda Tacconi 11:20 - 11:40: ``Molecular Gas at High z in the Milky Way'' - Tom M. Dame 11:40 - 12:00: ``Molecular Clouds Observed with the EGRET Gamma-Ray Telescope'' - Seth W. Digel 12:00 - 12:20: ``A Shocking Origin for the Ursa Major High-Latitude Clouds'' - Marc W. Pound - lunch and poster viewing - 14:00 - 14:30: ``CO and the Phases of the ISM'' - Christopher F. McKee 14:30 - 14:50: ``FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy'' - Mark H. Heyer 14:50 - 15:20: ``Giant Molecular Clouds -- Beyond the Milky Way'' - Philip Solomon 15:20 - 15:40: ``Extinction, CO, and the Structure of Molecular Clouds'' - Charles J. Lada - break - 16:30 - 16:50: ``The Fractal Structure of Molecular Clouds'' - Jurgen Stutzki 16:50 - 17:20: ``CO 2-1/1-0 Ratio'' - Tetsuo Hasegawa 17:20 - 17:40: ``Origin and Structure of Molecular Clouds'' - John Bally - Dinner and Posters - 20:30 - 21:30: Poster Session *** Tuesday, May 30 *** CHEMISTRY 8:45 - 9:15: ``Theoretical Chemistry'' - Eric Herbst 9:15 - 9:45: ``Observational Chemistry'' - Malcolm Walmsley 9:45 - 10:05: ``Millimeter-wave Absorption Studies of the Onset of Dark-Cloud Chemistry'' - Robert Lucas 10:05 - 10:25: ``The Abundance of Water in Molecular Clouds'' - Jonas Zmuidzinas - break - 11:00 - 11:30: ``CO at other wavelengths'' - John Black 11:30 - 11:50: ``Carbon Monoxide Isotopes: On the Trail of Galactic Chemical Evolution'' - William Langer 11:50 - 12:10: ``Unravelling CO Isotopic Abundance Ratios in the Interstellar Medium'' - Glenn J. White 12:10 - 12:30: ``Short Sub-Millimeter Observations of Carbon Monoxide'' - Andy Harris - lunch - 14:00 - 14:30: ``Photon Dominated Regions (PDRs)'' - Reinhard Genzel CLOUDS, CORES, AND STAR FORMATION 14:30 - 14:50: ``Observations and Interpretation of C[18]O and Dust Continuum Emission from Giant Molecular Cloud Cores'' - Paul Goldsmith 14:50 - 15:10: ``Velocity Coherence in Dense Cores'' - Alyssa A. Goodman 15:10 - 15:30: ``Star Formation in the Gem OB1 Molecular Cloud Complex'' - John M. Carpenter 15:30 - 16:00: Conference photo - break - 16:30 - 17:00: ``Structure of Molecular Clouds and Turbulence'' - Edith Falgarone 17:00 - 17:30: ``From Molecular Clouds to Stars'' - Philip Myers - dinner and poster viewing - **Special evening session** 20:00 - 22:00: Panel Discussion ``The X-Factor'' - Led and organized by Hans Bloemen *** Wednesday, May 31 *** STAR FORMATION 8:00 - 9:00: Poster Session 9:00 - 9:30: ``Proto-Stellar and Proto-Planetary Disks'' - Anneila Sargent 9:30 - 9:50: ``350 AU Scale Circumstellar Rotating Gaseous Disk Around a T Tauri Star, DM Tau'' - Masao Saito 9:50 - 10:10: ``The Kinematics of Circumstellar Disks Around T Tauri Stars'' - David W. Koerner - break - 10:40 - 11:10: ``CO Outflows in Star Forming Regions'' - Bo Reipurth 11:10 - 11:30: ``CO J=6-5 Observations of Protostellar Outflows'' - Lawrence Chernin 11:30 - 11:50: ``The Distribution of Dense and Cold Gas in Two Nearby Southern Low-Mass Star Forming Regions: Correlations with Newly Born Stars, Molecular Outflows, and Cold Dust Far IR Emission'' - Lauri Haikala 11:50 - 12:20: ``Surveys with Focal Plane Arrays'' - Hans Ungerechts 12:20 - 12:40: ``The Submillimeter Telescope'' - Robert Martin - lunch and poster viewing- AFTERNOON FREE - Dinner and Poster viewing - **Special evening session** INSTRUMENTATION Organized by Jaap Baars 19:30 - 20:00: ``Single dishes: the potential of present big dishes and the promise of the LMT'' - Andy Harris. 20:00 - 20:30: ``Interferometers: Potential of the Enlarged Arrays (OVRO, BIMA, IRAM, NRO) and promise of the SMA and MMA'' - Jack Welch 20:30 - 21:00: ``Increasing the Yield of Our Telescopes'' - Darrel Emerson 21:00 - 21:15: ``Broad Band Millimeter / Sub-Millimeter Wavelength Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of the Giant Planets and the Interstellar Medium'' - Gene Serabyn 21:15 - 21:30: ``The Large Millimeter Telescope'' - Peter Schloerb 21:30 - 21:45: ``The Future Potential for CO Observations Using the JCMT'' - Ian Robson 21:45 - 22:00: ``ODIN-A Swedish Sub-Millimeter Satellite for Astronomy and Aeronomy'' - Ake Hjalmarson *** Thursday, June 1 *** 8:00 - 8:50: Poster Session MORE CLOUDS, CORES, AND STAR FORMATION 8:50 - 9:10 ``[12]CO(6-5) and [13]CO(6-5) Observations of the Orion Bar'' - Darek Lis 9:10 - 9:30 ``The C/CO Ratio Problem: A Chemical Effect of Turbulence'' - Taoling Xie STARBURSTS, GALACTIC NUCLEI, AND GALAXIES 9:30 - 10:00: ``The Inner Galaxy and Galactic Center'' - Mark Morris 10:00 - 10:20: ``Modeling of Molecular Emission from Centers of Galaxies'' - Susanne Aalto-Bergman - break - 11:00 - 11:30: ``Comparative Studies of Other Galaxies'' - Andreas Eckart 11:30 - 11:50: ``CO Mapping of the Inner Few Hundred Parsecs of the Galaxy'' - Tomoharu Oka 11:50 - 12:10: ``Star Formation and Dynamics of Molecular Gas in the Circumnuclear Kiloparsec Regions of Barred Galaxies'' - Sumio Ishizuki 12:10 - 12:30: ``The LMC/SMC ESO-SEST Key Project'' - Monica Rubio - lunch and poster viewing - 14:00 - 14:30: ``High Resolution Observations of Galactic Nuclei'' - N. Scoville 14:30 - 14:50: ``BIMA Observations of CO, HCN, and [13]CO in NGC 1068'' - Tamara T. Helfer 14:50 - 15:20: ``CO in Nearby Galaxies'' - Yoshiaki Sofue 15:20 - 15:40: ``Trends in Molecular Gas and Star Formation Among Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence'' - Judy Young - break - 16:10 - 16:30: ``Molecular Clouds and CO Emission in Low Metallicity Galaxies'' - Phil Maloney 16:30 - 16:50: ``CO in Galactic Centers'' - Rainer Mauersberger 16:50 - 17:10: ``Star Formation and Gas Contents in Disk Galaxies: Complex Relationships'' - Fabienne Casoli 17:10 - 17:30: ``The Atomic and Molecular Gas Phases in the Large Magellanic Cloud'' - Jurgen Osterberg - poster viewing - 19:00 - : Conference Dinner - ``Reflections on CO and mm-wave Spectroscopy'' - Robert W. Wilson *** Friday, June 2 *** MORE EXTRAGALACTIC CO 8:00 - 9:00: Poster Session 9:00 - 9:30: ``CO in High Redshift Galaxies'' - Simon Radford 9:30 - 9:50: ``Multiple CO Transitions and CI in the Cloverleaf Quasar'' - Richard Barvanis 9:50 - 10:10: ``Centaurus A - A Multi-line Study of the Disk Molecular Gas'' - Wolfgang Wild 10:10 - 10:30: ``CO Observations of High Redshift Galaxies with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array'' - Min Su Yun - break - 11:00 - 11:20: ``Observations of Luminous Infrared Galaxies and QSOs with the 12m Telescope'' - David B. Sanders CO IN PLANETARY SYSTEMS AND IN STELLAR DEATH (POST-AGB, PN, SN) 11:20 - 11:50: ``CO in the Solar System'' - Therese Encrenaz 11:50 - 12:20: ``Mass Loss from AGB Stars'' - Michel Guelin 12:20 - 12:40: ``Unraveling the Mysteries of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution: The Enigma of the S-type Stars'' - William B. Latter - lunch and poster viewing- 14:10 - 14:30: ``New Detections of Metal-Bearing Molecules in IRC+10216: From Chemistry to Nucleosynthesis'' - Lucy Ziurys 14:30 - 15:00: ``CO in Planetary Nebulae and Proto-Planetary Nebulae'' - Sun Kwok 15:00 - 15:20: ``Shocked and Pre-Shocked Abundances of CO and Atomic Carbon in IC443G'' - Jocelyn Keene - break - FUTURE INSTRUMENTATION 15:50 - 16:10: ``European Plans for a Millimetre Array'' - Roy Booth 16:10 - 16:30: ``LMSA: Japanese Plan for a Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array'' - Masato Ishiguro 16:30 - 16:50: ``New Instruments, New Science: Future Opportunities'' - Robert Brown SUMMARY 16:50 - 17:30: ``The impact of 25 years of CO as we head into the 21-st Century'' - Charles J. Lada