Yale Astronomy Department Reunion
November 12 - 14, 1999
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, November 12
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open house and informal tours of the department's new student observatory and the WIYN remote observing system
Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Reception
Peabody Museum, Hall of Birds, 3rd Floor
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Welcoming remarks and opening address
Peabody Museum Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Charles Bailyn '81
Chairman, Yale Department of Astronomy
Susan Hockfield,
Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
My First Meeting with Pierre Demarque: Yale Astrophysics "Before" and "After"
Dorrit Hoffleit
Senior Research Astronomer
Yale Department of Astronomy
8 pm
Dinner
Peabody Museum, Hall of Dinosaurs, 1st Floor
Saturday, November 13, 1999
8:00 - 9:00 am
Continental breakfast
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
9:00 - 10:15 am
Yale Astronomy: Present and Future
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor
A panel of current faculty and students
10:15 - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
11:00 - 11:45 am
Perspectives on Yale Astronomy in the Past
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor
The Yale Astronomy Department in 1949
George Preston '52
Carnegie Observatories
The Yale Astronomy Department in 1969: 1 A.D.
James Heasley '73 PhD
University of Hawaii
Computing Stellar Models: The Early Days
Pierre Demarque
Munson Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy Emeritus
Yale University
Modem?? What's a Modem??
Charles Bailyn '81
Yale University
11:45 - 12:30 pm
New Frontiers in Astronomy
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor
NASA's Astrobiology Program
Douglas A. O'Handley '67 PhD
Director, Ames Astrobiology Academy
NASA
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Sabatino Sofia '63, '66 PhD
Yale University
Science Teaching: A Critical Responsibility
David Pierce '66 PhD
El Camino College
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Buffet Lunch
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
2:00 - 3:20 pm
Scientific workshop:
"Challenges in Stellar Evolution for the 21st Century."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor
The Newest Yale Isochrones
Yong-Cheol Kim '93 PhD
Yonsei University
Ages of Globular Clusters
Brian Chaboyer '93 PhD
Dartmouth College
Population III Stars
Volker Bromm
current graduate student
Yale Department of Astronomy
Stellar Seismology
David Guenther '83 PhD
St. Mary's College
3:20 - 3:40 pm
Coffee break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
3:40 - 4:40 pm
Scientific workshop, continued
Luce Hall Auditorium,1st Floor
Chromospheric and Coronal Physics
Peter Ulmschneider '66 PhD
University of Heidelberg
The Solar/Stellar Connection
Marc Pinsonneault '88 PhD
Ohio State University
Population Synthesis in Elliptical Galaxies
Sukyoung Yi '96 PhD
California Institute of Technology
6:30 pm
Reception and Dinner
Donaldson Commons, Yale School of Management
Sunday, November 14, 1999
8:00 - 9:00 am
Continental breakfast
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
9:00 am - 10:40
Scientific workshop: "Challenges in Stellar Evolution for the 21st Century."
Luce Hall Auditorium, 1st Floor
Blue Metal-Poor Halo Stars
George Preston '52
Carnegie Observatories
Evolution of the Galactic Halo
Robert Zinn '74 PhD
Yale University
Building the Galactic Halo
Dana Dinescu '98 PhD
University of Virginia
Red Clump Stars in Open Clusters
Ata Sarajedini '86, '92 PhD
Wesleyan University
Rotation of Cluster Stars
Sydney Barnes '90, '98 PhD
Lowell Observatory and University of Wisconsin
10:40 - 11
Coffee break
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor
11:00 - 12:20
Scientific workshop, continued
Luce Hall Auditorium,1st Floor
Light Elements: A Common Thread for Stellar Interiors, Chemical Evolution, and Big Bang Cosmology
Constantine Deliyannis '90 PhD
Indiana University
Astronometry and Stellar Masses
Elliott Horch '89 MS
Rochester Institute of Technology
Brown Dwarfs
John Gizis '92
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
From Stellar Evolution to Global Change
Michael Prather '69, '76 PhD
University of California, Irvine
12:20 - 1:45
Buffet Luncheon
Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor