Sunday, November 3
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Registration (Makai Lawn) |
| 17:30-19:30 |
Reception (Makai Lawn) |
ORAL SESSIONS (Kahalu'u II)
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Monday, November 4
|
| 08:00-08:55 |
Light Breakfast |
| 08:55-09:00 |
Workshop Welcome |
(Tom Geballe) |
| 09:00-09:25 |
The Galactic Center - A Unique Laboratory for Astrophysics |
(Heino Falcke) |
Session I - Large Scale Structures: Surveys and Interactions
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| Moderator: Miller Goss |
| 09:25-09:45 |
High-resolution HI Absorption Survey of the Central 300 pc |
(Cornelia Lang) |
| 09:45-10:05 |
High Resolution Imaging of the Galactic Center at Low Frequencies |
(Michael Nord) |
| 10:05-10:20 |
Spatially Resolved 74 MHz Absorption Toward the Galactic Center |
(Crystal Brogan) |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Chandra view of the central 300 pc of our Galaxy |
(Q. Daniel Wang) |
| 11:20-11:35 |
An XMM-Newton Survey of the Galactic Centre Region |
(Robert Warwick) |
| 11:35-11:50 |
Two Thousand X-Ray Stars in the Central 20 pc of the Galaxy |
(Michael Muno) |
| 11:50-12:20 |
Discussion |
| 12:20 |
Lunch: (Kamaaina Terrace) |
Session II: Molecular Clouds and Magnetic Fields
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| Moderator: Mark Morris |
| 14:00-14:15 |
A Molecular Face-on View of the Galactic Center Region |
(Tsuyoshi Sawada) |
| 14:15-14:30 |
The Inner 200pc: Hot Dense Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center |
(Christopher Martin) |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Gravitational Stability of Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center |
(Tomoharu Oka) |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Spectroscopy of Hydrocarbon Grains toward the Galactic Center and Quintuplet
Cluster |
(Jean Chiar) |
| 15:10-15:50 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 15:50-16:10 |
X-rays from the HII regions and Molecular Clouds |
(Katsuji Koyama) |
| 16:10-16:25 |
Reflected X-ray Emissions on Giant Molecular Clouds -Evidence of the
Past Activities of Sgr A* |
(Hiroshi Murakami) |
| 16:25-16:45 |
Observation of toroidal magnetic fields on 100 pc scales in the Galactic
center |
(Giles Novak) |
| 16:45-17:00 |
The origin and stability of strong vertical magnetic fields in the
central 150 pc of the Galaxy |
(Benjamin Chandran) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Discussion |
Tuesday, November 5
|
| 08:00-08:55 |
Light Breakfast |
Session III - Sagittarius A and its Environs
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| Moderator: Angela Cotera |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Deep X-Ray Imaging of the Central 20 Parsecs of the Galaxy with Chandra |
(Mark Morris) |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Mapping Magnetic Fields in the Cold Dust at the Galactic Center |
(David Chuss) |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Recent Observations and Theory of the Galactic Center Nonthermal Filaments |
(Ted LaRosa) |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Interaction between the Eastern Boundary of Sgr A East and Giant Molecular
Clouds |
(Sungho Lee) |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Hot and Cold Matter in Sgr A - The XMM-Newton View |
(Peter Predehl) |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Sgr A East and around - a view with XMM-Newton |
(Masaaki Sakano) |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Chandra View of Sgr A East |
(Yoshitomo Maeda) |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Discussion |
| 12:30 |
Lunch: (Kamaaina Terrace) |
Session IV - Stars and Star Formation
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| Moderator: Kris Sellgren |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Really Cool Stars and the Star Formation History at the Galactic Center |
(Robert Blum) |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Massive Stars and The Creation of our Galactic Center |
(Don Figer) |
| 14:40-15:00 |
The Galactic Center source IRS13E: a star cluster |
(Jean-Pierre Maillard) |
| 15:00-15:20 |
SiO Maser Sources Within 30 pc of the Galactic Center |
(Shuji Deguchi) |
| 15:20-16:00 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Expectations for Polarized Hard X-rays from 1E1740.7-2942 |
(Matthew Baring) |
| 16:20-16:40 |
X-Ray Emission from Stellar Clusters Near the Galactic Center |
(Casey Law) |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Simulated X-ray emission from the Arches Cluster |
(Pablo Velazquez) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Discussion |
Wednesday, November 6
|
| 08:00-08:55 |
Light Breakfast |
Session V - Sgr A* I: New Observational Results
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| Moderator: Ramesh Narayan |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Linear and Circular Polarization from Sgr A* |
(Geoff Bower) |
| 09:20-09:40 |
X-ray Flares and Quiescent Emission of Sgr A* |
(Fred Baganoff) |
| 09:40-10:00 |
The Intrinsic Variability of Sgr A* at Radio Wavelengths |
(Jun-Hui Zhao) |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Flares of Sagittarius A* at Short Millimeter Wavelengths |
(Atsushi Miyazaki) |
| 10:15-10:55 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 10:55-11:10 |
Limits on the Short Term Variability of Sgr A* in the Near-IR |
(Seth Hornstein) |
| 11:10-11:25 |
A New X-Ray Flare from the Galactic Nucleus Detected with the XMM-Newton |
(Andrea Goldwurm) |
| 11:25-11:45 |
Searching for Structural Variability in Sgr A* |
(Z-Q. Shen) |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Observations of the Galactic Centre at 610 MHz with the GMRT |
(Subhashis Roy) |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Discussion |
| 12:30 |
End of Sessions for the day |
14:00-18:30 |
Snorkel Cruise (reservations only; buses depart hotel at 13:30) |
Thursday, November 7
|
| 08:00-08:55 |
Light Breakfast |
Session VI - Sgr A* II: Theoretical Models
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| Moderator: Rashid Sunyaev |
| 09:00-09:25 |
Accretion Models for Sgr A* |
(Elliot Quataert) |
| 09:25-9:45 |
Jet-ADAF model for Sgr A* |
(Feng Yuan) |
| 09:45-10:05 |
Jet Models for Flaring in Sgr A* |
(Sera Markoff) |
| 10:05-10:25 |
Circular Polarization and the Radiation Efficiency of Sgr A* |
(Thomas Beckert) |
| 10:25-10:55 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 10:55-11:15 |
Relativistic Disk in Sgr A* |
(Siming Liu) |
| 11:15-11:30 |
On the Chandra Detection of Diffuse X-Ray Emission from Sgr A* |
(Martin Pessah) |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Condensing Flow model for the Galactic Center |
(Sergei Nayakshin) |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Comparison of the Black Hole and Fermion Ball Scenarios of the Galactic
Center |
(Raoul Viollier) |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Discussion |
| 12:30 |
Lunch: (Kamaaina Terrace) |
Session VII - The Central Parsec
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| Moderator: Fulvio Melia |
| 14:00-14:30 |
The Discovery of Sgr A* |
(Miller Goss) |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Position and Proper Motion of Sgr A* |
(Mark Reid) |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Tidal processes very near the black hole in the Galactic Center |
(Tal Alexander) |
| 15:10-15:25 |
Orbital accelerations and recent VLT MIR observations of the central
cluster |
(Andreas Eckart) |
| 15:25-16:05 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 16:05-16:25 |
The W. M. Keck Dynamical Study of the Galaxy's Central Stellar Cluster |
(Andrea Ghez) |
| 16:25-16:45 |
The GC stellar cluster: The central arcsecond |
(Rainer Schoedel) |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Stellar Dynamics in the Central Parsec: 1000 Proper Motions in 100
Nights |
(Thomas Ott) |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Discussion |
18:00 |
No Host Cocktail Hour (Kuakini Halau) |
| 19:00 |
Banquet (Kuakini Halau) |
Friday, November 8
|
| 08:00-08:55 |
Light Breakfast |
Session VIII - Morphology and Dynamics of the Central 10 Parsecs
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| Moderator: Fred Lo |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Hot Molecular Gas in the Central 10 Parsecs of the Galaxy |
(Robin Herrnstein) |
| 09:20-09:40 |
HST P alpha Imaging of Sgr A |
(Nick Scoville) |
| 09:40-9:55 |
Structural analysis of the Minispiral from high-resolution Brackett
gamma data |
(Thibaut Paumard) |
| 09:55-10:10 |
Resolving the Enigmatic Northern Arm Sources in the Central Parsec |
(Angelle Tanner) |
| 10:10-10:50 |
Poster Session/Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:10 |
The gas physics and dynamics in the central 30 pc of the Galactic Center |
(Berndt Vollmer) |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Determination of the 3-Dimensional Motions of Ionized Gas in the Galactic
Center |
(Doug Roberts) |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Simple Hydrodynamical Simulations of the Circumnuclear Disk |
(Robert Coker) |
| 11:50-12:20 |
Discussion |
| 12:20-12:50 |
Conference Summary |
(Eric Becklin) |
| 12:50-13:00 |
Conference Adjournment |
Saturday, November 9
|
| 9:00-18:30 |
Tour of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (incl. lunch at Volcano House), reservations only |
9:30-18:30 |
Tour of Mauna Kea Summit (incl. lunch at Hale Pohaku), reservations only |
POSTER SESSIONS (Kahalu'u I) Monday-Friday
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I -Large Scale Structures: Surveys and Interactions
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| I-1 |
Magnetic Field in the GC: Rotation Measure observations of extragalactic
sources |
(Subashis Roy) |
| I-2 |
Study of the Nuclear Bulge region of the Galaxy |
(Kiran Baliyan) |
| I-3 |
A morphological study of the Galactic Inner Bulge |
(Kiran Baliyan) |
| I-4 |
Ionized gas in the Nuclear Bulge |
(Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández) |
| I-5 |
Low Frequency Radio View of the Central 300 pc |
(Namir Kassim) |
| I-6 |
43 GHz masers and astrometry with VERA in the Galactic Center |
(Lorant Sjouwerman) |
| I-7 |
A Search for Radio Transients at 327 MHz in the Galactic Center |
(Scott Hyman) |
II. Molecular Clouds and Magnetic Fields
|
| II-1 |
On the heating of the Galactic center molecular clouds |
(Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández) |
| II-2 |
Propagation of charged particles from the source in the Galactic Center |
(Wlodzimierz Bednarek) |
| II-3 |
Discovery of new SNR candidates in the Galactic Center region with
ASCA and Chandra |
(Atsushi Senda) |
| II-4 |
Molecular Line Observations of the Tornado Nebula and its Eye |
(Jasmina Lazendic) |
| II-5 |
Water and Other Molecules Observed in the Galactic Centre with the
ODIN Satellite |
(Aage Sandqvist) |
III - The Inner 30 pc
|
| III-1 |
A Census of dust components in the Galactic Centre |
(Andy Adamson) |
| III-2 |
The Line-of-Sight distribution in the inner 30 pc of the Galaxy |
(Berndt Vollmer) |
| III-3 |
Thermal SiO observations of a shell attached to the nonthermal filaments
in Sgr A |
(Toshihiro Handa) |
| III-4 |
Absorption and Emission in the Four Ground-state OH Lines Observed
with the VLA Towards the GC |
(Roland Karlsson) |
| III-5 |
Constraints on distances to Galactic Centre non-thermal filaments from
HI absorption |
(Subashis Roy) |
| III-6 |
Discovery of a non-thermal X-ray filament in the Galactic Centre |
(Masaaki Sakano) |
| III-7 |
High-negative velocities in the inner 25 pc |
(Lorant Sjouwerman) |
| III-8 |
32 GHz polarization results for the ARC and the SGR A complex |
(Wolfgang Reich) |
IV - Stars and Star Formation
|
| IV-1 |
Dust features of AGB stars in the Inner Galaxy |
(Nicole van der Bliek) |
| IV-2 |
86 GHz SiO maser survey of late-type stars in the Inner Galaxy |
(Maria Messineo) |
| IV-3 |
C, N, and O Abundances in VR 5-7 Compared to IRS 7 |
(Kris Sellgren) |
| IV-4 |
Radio Detections of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Center Clusters |
(Cornelia Lang) |
| IV-5 |
New results on the helium stars in the Galactic Center |
(Thibaut Paumard) |
| IV-6 |
The Gemini Galactic Center imaging data set |
(Francois Rigaut) |
| IV-7 |
Structure of the central stellar cluster |
(Nelly Mouawad) |
| IV-8 |
Dynamical Friction Near the Galactic Center |
(Sungsoo Kim) |
| IV-9 |
First adaptive optics observations of the Galactic Center with NAOS/CONICA |
(Yann Cle'net) |
| IV-10 |
Radio Pulsars in the Galactic Center |
(Joseph Lazio) |
| IV-11 |
Review of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries near the Galactic Center |
(Alexander Lutovinov) |
| IV-12 |
Neutral radiation from the pulsar in the Galactic Center region |
(Wlodzimierz Bednarek) |
V - Sgr A*: Observations
|
| V-1 |
A Week-long Multiwavelength Campaign to Monitor the Flaring Activity
of SgrA* |
(Fred Baganoff) |
| V-2 |
Closure Amplitude Analysis of 7mm VLBA Observations of Sagittarius
A* |
(Geoff Bower) |
| V-3 |
VLBI observation of SgrA* at burst time |
(Makato Miyoshi) |
| V-4 |
A Chandra View of Diffuse X-ray Emission in the Vicinity of Sagittarius
A* |
(Sangwook Park) |
| V-5 |
Investigating the submillimetre variability of Sagittarius A* with
SCUBA |
(Douglas Pierce-Price) |
| V-6 |
Near-infrared flux limits for Sgr A* based on NICMOS data |
(Susan Stolovy) |
| V-7 |
The Wavelength Dependence of Sgr A* Size and the Unified Model of Compact
Radio Sources |
(Fedor Prigara) |
| V-8 |
Search for Circular Polarization toward Sagittarius A* at 100 GHz |
(Masato Tsuboi) |
VI - Sgr A* II: Theory
|
| VI-1 |
The formation and feeding of supermassive black holes in galactic centers |
(Wolfgang Duschl) |
| VI-2 |
Gamma-ray Emission from an Accretion Flow around a Kerr Black Hole |
(Kazutaka Oka) |
| VI-3 |
Unified Description of Dark Matter at the Center and in the Halo of
the Galaxy |
(Raoul Viollier) |
| VI-4 |
NGC 4258: a jet-dominated low-luminosity AGN? |
(Feng Yuan) |
VII - The Central Parsec
|
| VII-1 |
A bow shock of heated dust at IRS 8 |
(Francois Rigaut) |
| VII-2 |
The Magnetic Field in the central Parsec |
(Alistair Glasse) |
| VII-3 |
Mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy observation of the Galactic Center
with Subaru/COMICS |
(Takuya Yamashita) |
| VII-4 |
Physical Conditions in the Central parsec Derived from Mid-Infrared
Imaging Photometry |
(Daniel Gezari) |
VIII - Future Instrumentation
|
| VIII-1 |
The LBT interferometric camera LINC |
(Andreas Eckart) |
