The 2008 NRAO Postdoctoral Symposium

A workshop to be held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
in Charlottesville, Virginia

April 28-29, 2008

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Abstract Book for all the presentations is now available!

Sunday, April 27 - 8:00 PM - 11:00 Opening Reception at Residence Inn

Monday, April 28 -- Introduction and Talks - All talks +5 min for Questions

8:45 AM - Registration Opens at Edgemont Road.

Time Speaker Title
9:00-9:10a P. Chandra Welcome
9:10-9:20a Fred Lo Welcome
9:20-9:35a Miller Goss Background on new Jansky program
9:35:10:00a A. Remijan The Distribution, Excitation and Formation of Cometary Molecules: Methanol, Methyl Cyanide and Ethylene Glycol
10:00-10:25a P. Demorest Detecting Gravitational Radiation with a Pulsar Timing Array
10:25-10:50a BREAK
10:50-11:15a L. Morgan Varied Mechanisms for Star Formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds
11:15-11:40a P. Chandra Mystery of chromatic jet breaks in Gamma Ray Bursts
11:40-12:05p A. Chung 12CO Survey of Local ULIRGs using the Redshift Search Receiver
12:05-12:30p N. Miller The VLA 1.4GHz Survey of the E-CDF-S
12:30-1:45p LUNCH + Special Colloquium - Jeremy Lim The case for an X-ray Cooling Flow in the Perseus Cluster
1:45-2:10p D. J. Pisano A Multiwavelength Study of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies
2:10-2:35p J. E. Aguirre First Science Results from the Bolocam 1.1 mm Galactic Plane Survey
2:35-3:00p J. Miller-Jones High Resolution Observations of the Quiescent Jets in X-ray binaries
3:00-3:25p N. Kanekar Probing Fundamental Constant Evolution with Radio Spectroscopy
3:25-3:45p BREAK
3:45-4:10p B. Hesman Saturn's Stratospheric Acetylene and Ethane Emission
4:10-4:35p A. Hales Probing Planetary Formation
4:35-5:00p D. P. Marrone Measurements of Galaxy Clusters with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array
5:00-5:25p D. Meier A Nearby Gas-Rich Luminous Infrared Galaxy Hiding in Plain Sight

6:30 PM - Dinner will be held at the Millmont Grille,
which is only a few doors down from the Residence Inn at 1035 Millmont Street.
http://www.millmontgrille.com/
Drinks 6:30, dinner 7:00.

Tuesday, April 29 -- Talks and tour of the NTC - All talks +5 min for Questions

Time Speaker Title
9:00-9:25a J. Ott VLA-ANGST: Star Formation History and ISM Feedback in Nearby Galaxies
9:25-9:50a K. Spekkens Searching for Radio Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilations in Draco
9:50-10:15a J. Wagg The Molecular Gas Content and Large-Scale Environments of z~6 Quasars
10:15-10:40a BREAK
10:40-11:05a M. Pannella Eight billion years of galaxy evolution in the COSMOS
11:05-11:30a V. Stazzuko Galaxy populations in high-redshift clusters
11:30-11:55p W. H. Wang Approaching the Dark Age
11:55-12:20p D. Whysong A Possible Thompson Scattered Halo around 3c295
12:20-1:30p LUNCH
1:30-1:55p V. Kondratiev Probing the Limits of the Giant Pulse Population
1:55-2:20p M. Yun Nature of Submillimeter Galaxies Identified by the AzTEC 1100 Micron Surveys
2:20-2:35 M. Bishop You Have Written a Paper - Now What?
2:35-2:45p D. Frail Thanks and Closing Remarks
2:45 Coffee Break and NTC Tour

5:30 - 9:00 Cocktails and Dinner -- On your own