| Wednesday | June 14, 2006 | |||
| 08:00-09:00 | Check-In and Coffee | |||
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome by Faith Vilas |
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| 09:15-09:50 | Warren Brown |
Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center |
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| 09:50-10:05 | Scott Gaudi |
A High-Precision Transit Survey for Hot Jupiters and Hot Neptunes with Megacam - I |
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| 10:05-10:30 | Joel Hartman |
A High-Precision Transit Survey for Hot Jupiters and Hot Neptunes with Megacam - II |
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| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:50-11:20 | Brian McLeod |
Deep Megacam Imaging of the Extended Groth Strip |
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| 11:20-11:55 | Daniel Eisenstein |
The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) |
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| 11:55-12:25 | Christine Jones |
Hectospec - AGN in Bootes and Mapping the Cosmic Web to z=3 |
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| 12:25-01:30 | Lunch | |||
| 01:30-01:55 | Michael Meyer |
Searching for Our Origins: Star and Planet Formation with the MMT |
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| 01:55-02:15 | Laird Close |
Hunting for Extrasolar Planets with ARIES and the Simultaneous Differential Imager (SDI) |
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| 02:15-02:35 | Ivelina Momcheva |
An MMT and Magellan Survey of the Environments of Strong Gravitational Lens Galaxies |
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| 02:35-03:00 | Xiaohui Fan |
High Redshift Quasars |
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| 03:00-03:25 | Break | |||
| 03:25-03:45 | Steven Finkelstein |
The Nature of High-Equivalent Width Lyman-Alpha Galaxies |
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| 03:45-04:10 | James Muzerolle |
The All Orion Spectroscopic Survey |
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| 04:10-04:30 | Gabor Furesz |
Application of Hectochelle: Dynamical Studies of Open Clusters |
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| 04:30-04:50 | Matthew Walker |
Kinematics of the Seven Dwarfs |
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| 06:00-09:30 | Banquet at Stillwell House |
| Thursday | June 15, 2006 | |||
| 08:30-09:00 | Coffee | |||
| 09:00-09:20 | Nelson Caldwell |
M31 Globular Clusters with Hectospec |
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| 09:20-09:40 | *David Burstein |
The Nitrogen Conundra for M31 and Galactic Globular Clusters |
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| 09:40-10:00 | Edward Olszewski |
Deep UV Imaging in the HST M31 Halo Field with Megacam |
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| 10:00-10:25 | Gary Schmidt |
The MMT's Role in Understanding Magnetic Accretion Binaries |
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| 10:25-10:50 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:50-11:10 | Beth Biller |
High Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of Dusty Circumstellar Structure
around AGB and Post-AGB Stars with the MMT Adaptive Optics System |
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| 11:10-11:25 | Jill Bechtold |
Blue Channel Spectroscopy of DLAs |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Joannah Hinz |
Dynamical Masses in Luminous IR Galaxies |
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| 11:45-12:05 | Grant Williams |
Your MMT: An Overview of Recent and Upcoming Technical Activities |
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| 12:05-12:20 | Dan Fabricant |
Binospec, a Wide-Field Imaging Spectrograph for the MMT |
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| 12:20-01:30 | Lunch | |||
| 01:30-01:50 | Jill Bechtold |
Status Report on MAESTRO |
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| 01:50-02:10 | Brian McLeod |
The MMT/Magellan IR Spectrometer (MMIRS) |
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| 02:10-02:25 | Douglas Miller |
Status of the f/15 NGS AO System |
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| 02:25-2:40 |
Thomas Stalcup |
MMT Laser Guidestar System Status |
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| 02:40-02:55 | Christoph Baranec |
Multi-Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics: Status and Results |
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| 02:55-03:10 | Michael Lloyd-Hart |
Multi-Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics: Science Goals |
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| 03:10-03:40 | Break | |||
| 03:40-3:55 |
Wilson Liu |
A Summary of Results from Nulling Interferometry |
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| 03:55-04:10 |
Ari Heinze |
Using the Adaptive Secondary to Find Planets at 3-5 Microns: Vega and Other Stars |
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| 04:10-04:25 | Tim Pickering |
The MMT All-Sky Camera |
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| 04:25-04:40 | Summary by Faith Vilas |
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| *Canceled |
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List of Participants
Poster Presentations
| Name | Institution | Title | ||
| J. Duane Gibson |
MMT Observatory |
Behind the Scenes: Data Acquisition and Analysis from MMTO Subsystems |
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| Tim Pickering |
MMT Observatory |
The MMT All-Sky Camera |
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| Dusty Clark |
MMT Observatory |
In-situ Aluminization of the MMT Observatory 6.5m Primary Mirror |
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