Bash11 - (other bash conferences)
October 9-11, 2011
Austin, Texas, USA
published June 19, 2012
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Astronomy and McDonald Observatory will be hosting the fourth biennial Frank N. Bash Symposium on the topic of New Horizons in Astronomy, October 9-11, 2011. This meeting will bring together young researchers at the cutting edge of astronomy and astrophysics, to promote the exchange of research ideas and visions for the future of astronomy. The symposium will focus on invited review talks, and will include discussions and contributed poster papers from postdocs and graduate student
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Sessions
Introduction
Session I
Session II
Session III
Session IV
Posters
Introduction
Frank N. Bash Symposium 2011: New Horizons in Astronomy
S.T. Salviander, J. Green and A. Pawlik
Session I
Exoplanets
Asteroseismology of Stars on the Upper Main Sequence
P. Lenz
Laboratory Astrochemistry: A Powerful Tool to Understand the Origin of Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium, Comets, and Meteorites
M. Nuevo
Session II
Late-type Compact Objects
E. Jeffery
Beyond Strömgren Spheres and Wind-Blown Bubbles: An Observational Perspective on H II Region Feedback
M. Povich
Black Hole Mergers
M. Kesden
Session III
Environmentally-Driven Galaxy Evolution
S. Tonnesen
The Reddest Quasars: A Transitional Phase in Quasar/Galaxy Co-Evolution
E. Glikman
Black Hole Galaxy Coevolution
K. Schawinski
Spectroscopy and the Age of Giant Telescopes
S. Tuttle
Session IV
Recent Advances in Cosmological Hydrogen Reionization
K. Finlator
First Light
J. Wise
Dark Matter
A. Peter
Posters
Photometry of the Stellar Tidal Stream in the Halo of Messier 63
T.S. Chonis, D. Martinez-Delgado, R.J. Gabany, S.R. Majewski, G.J. Hill and I. Trujillo
The Effects of Primordial Non-Gaussianity on Giant-Arc Statistics: A Scale Dependent Example
A. D’Aloisio and P. Natarajan
The VIRUS-P Investigation of the eXtreme Environments of Starbursts (VIXENS): Survey and First Results
A.L. Heiderman, N.J. Evans II, K. Gebhardt, G. Blanc, T.A. Davis, C. Papovich, D. Iono and M.S. Yun
The Hunt for the First Supernovae: The Source Density and Observability of Pair-Instability Supernovae from the First Stars
J.A. Hummel, A. Pawlik, M. Milosavljevic, V. Bromm and M. Milosavljevic
Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Center of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal
J.R. Jardel, K. Gebhardt, M. Fabricius and N. Drory
The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
M. Jeon, A. Pawlik, T.H. Greif, S. Glover, V. Bromm, M. Milosavljevic and R.S. Klessen
Evidence of Episodic Accretion in Spitzer IRS Spectra of Low-Luminosity Embedded Protostars
H.J. Kim, N.J. Evans II, M.M. Dunham and J.W. Lee
Revisiting the Post-reionization Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations
H. Park, E. Komatsu and P.R. Shapiro
Primordial Star Formation in the First Galaxies
C.T. Safranek-Shrader, M. Agarwal, M. Milosavljevic, V. Bromm and M. Milosavljevic