Astronomical Society of New York

Fall Meeting

21 October, 2006

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Program

Contributed talks are 15 minutes (10+5 min for questions).

Invited talks (*) are 45 minutes (40 + 5).

Student prize talks (**) are 30 minutes (25+5).

Only presenters are listed below; the printed program includes coauthors.

Poster Session (all day)
	Metallicities of HVCs Isobel Ojalvo (RPI)
Morning Oral Session (9:00-12:00)
9:00	Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Compact Blue Galaxies** Yanling Wu (Cornell)
9:30	Refurbishment and Modernization of the Hirsch Observatory Anthony Milano (RPI)
9:45	A Dynamical Mass Ratio Distribution for the Hyades Cluster Chad Bender (Stony Brook)
10:00	Precision UBV CCD Photometry of Open Clusters NGC 2420 and NGC 2506 Using WIYN Data Nathan Lauffenburger and Joe Hughto (co-presenters) (Geneseo)
10:15	The FLAMINGOS Extragalactic Survey and Galaxy Evolution to z=1.5 Eric McKenzie (Colgate)
Break (10:30-11:00)
11:00	Numerical Simulation with a Multidimensional Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics Code Kyujin Kwak (Stony Brook)
11:15	ALPACA: A Project Underway to Build an Inexpensive 8-Meter Telescope* Arlin Crotts (Columbia)
Lunch (12:00-1:15)
Afternoon Oral Session (1:30-4:15)
1:30	The Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope and Some Recent High-Redshift Galaxy and Galactic Plane Survey Results* Jason Glenn (Colorado)
2:15	How do Brown Dwarfs Form? Thomas Allen (Rochester)
2:30	Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets from the Ground with the Gemini Planet Imager Rémi Soummer (AMNH)
2:45	Formation and Collapse of Nonaxisymmetric Protostellar Cores in Magnetic Interstellar Clouds Glenn Ciolek (RPI)
Break (3:00-3:15)
3:15	The Warped Nuclear Disk of Radio Galaxy 3C 449** Grant Tremblay (STScI)
3:45	Infrared Spectroscopy of Low Mass Stars in the Cep A Star Forming Region Eric Boyd (Geneseo)
4:00	LogN-LogS Curve for Gamma Ray Bursts from Exploding Primordial Black Holes Nathaniel Hawes (Union)
Meeting Ends
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