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Program Sessions and Topics (Preliminary)



Plenary Session: Monday, December 8, Morning

Time Speaker: Topic Room
8:45WelcomeTBD
9:00Virginia Trimble: A remarkable achievement ... Texas at 45 TBD
9:45 Shri Kulkarni: Gamma Ray BurstsTBD
10:20Morning Break--
10:50TBD: tbd TBD
11:25Paul Sommers: Pierre Auger ObservatoryTBD
12:00Lunch--

Parallel Session 1: Monday, December 8, Afternoon

Topics: Gamma Ray Bursts / High Energy Cosmic Rays

Session organizers: Soderberg, Fruchter / Blasi, Mostafa

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--

Parallel Session 2: Monday, December 8, Afternoon

Topics: CMB polarization / SZ surveys

Session organizers: Hinshaw, Sievers / Dobbs, Halpern

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--



Plenary Session: Tuesday, December 9, Morning

Time Speaker: Topic Room
9:00 Manuela Campanelli: Black Hole collisions TBD
9:45 Sterl Phinney: Gravity WavesTBD
10:20Morning Break--
10:50Henk Hoekstra: Gravitational Lensing TBD
11:25Wendy Freedman: The cosmological distance scaleTBD
12:00Lunch--

Parallel Session 1: Tuesday, December 9, Afternoon

Topics: Black Hole mergers / Electromagnetic signature of Gravity Waves

Session organizers: Shoemaker / Schnittmann, Hughes

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--

Parallel Session 2: Tuesday, December 9, Afternoon

Topics: Gravitational Lensing / Supernovae

Session organisers: Van Waerbeke, Hoekstra / Pritchet, Garnavich

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--



Plenary Session: Wednesday, December 10, Morning

Time Speaker: Topic Room
9:00 Eiichiro Komatsu: IUPAP Prize Talk: Non-Gaussianity TBD
9:45 Peter Michelson: GLASTTBD
10:20Morning Break--
10:50Reinhard Genzel : The black hole at the Galactic CentreTBD
11:25Craig Hogan: Problems with the Standard ModelTBD
12:00Lunch--



Plenary Session: Thursday, December 11, Morning

Time Speaker: Topic Room
9:00 Clifford Will: Constraints on General Relativity TBD
9:45 Ingrid Stairs: The Double PulsarTBD
10:20Morning Break--
10:50Andrew Liddle: Progress in Inflation TBD
11:25Tom Abel: ReionizationTBD
12:00Lunch--

Parallel Session 1: Thursday, December 11, Afternoon

Topics: Inflation / Galaxy Clusters

Session organizers: Easther / Evrard, Ellingson

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--

Parallel Session 2: Thursday, December 11, Afternoon

Topics: High-magnetic field Pulsar / Pulsar timing

Session organizers: Heyl, van Kerkwijk / Kaspi, Nice

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--



Plenary Session: Friday, December 12, Morning

Time Speaker: Topic Room
9:00 Sean Carroll: Dark Energy TBD
9:45 Jonathan Feng: Astroparticle PhysicsTBD
10:20Morning Break--
10:50Philip Hopkins: Galaxy formation, black holes and AGN TBD
11:25Lawrence Krauss: The Future of the UniverseTBD
12:00Lunch--

Parallel Session 1: Friday, December 12, Afternoon

Topics: Dark Matter / Dark Energy

Session organizers: TBD / Pogosian, Moss

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--

Parallel Session 2: Friday, December 12, Afternoon

Topics: Horizons / Black Holes in AGNs

Session organizers: Unruh / Dunlop

Time Speaker: Topic Room
13:30TBD: TBD TBD
15:30Afternoon Break--
16:00TBD: TBD TBD
18:00Adjourn--



 

 
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