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Program Topics
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The following material is based on the final published program from Wednesday, October 28—the day before the conference. It may differ in some details from the order and naming of the talks actually presented.
Also available on this site is an older program that includes e-mail links to the Superconvenors.
Thursday, October 28, 1999
8:00 — 12:30 Registration Ives Hall Lobby
After Thursday morning, the Registration & Information table will be located in the lobby of Darwin Hall
8:30 — 12:30 Opening Plenary Session Ives Hall/Warren Auditorium
8:30-8:35 Welcome from SSU president Ruben Armiñana
8:35-8:45 Welcome and orientation Elliott Bloom
8:45-9:15 From Accelerators to Asteroids Martin Perl
9:15-10:00 TBD Michael Turner
10:00-10:15 Break (Ives Hall lobby)
10:15-11:00 Future of Optical Astronomy Roger Angel
11:00-11:45 Future Visions of X-ray & Gamma Ray Astronomy, Nicholas White (link to outside Web site)
11:45-12:30 Structure of Physical Law Michael Dine
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 — 2:00 Education and Public Outreach Rachel Carson 10
NASA/OSS Education & Public Outreach Program, Isabel Hawkins
The QuarkNet Project, Andria Erzberger, Marge Bardeen
Astrophysics and Spectroscopy at LBNL Susana Deustua
High Energy Astrophysics Education and Public Outreach (EPO) programs, Lynn Cominsky
Science Museum Partnerships—Live@ The Exploratorium Mary Miller
Discussion and Next Steps
2:00 — 5:30 Parallel Sub-Group Sessions
- The Origin of the Universe Terrace Room
Supersymmetry and RHIC
2:00 SUSY DM Paolo Gondolo
SUSY Gordy Kane
SUSY inflation and monopoles Qaisar Shafi
3:30 Break (Terrace Room patio)
RHIC Spencer Klein
RHIC Johann Rafelski
Solar and Supernova Neutrinos John Beacom
Baryogenesis Marcelo Gleiser
5:30 Adjourn
Thursday, October 28, 1999 (continued)
- Evolution of the Universe to its Present State Residence Halls/Carneros Room
- Composition of the Universe
Joint Session - Survey of the Technical Frontiers of Viewing the Universe
2:00 Optical from the ground John Tonry
2:30 Submillimeter and IR, Jason Glenn
3:00 Gravitational waves Peter Bender
3:30 Break (Carneros Room)
4:00 Dark Matter, Blas Cabrera
4:30 Cosmic rays and neutrinos Robert Streitmatter
5:00 Discussion
5:30 Adjourn
- Structure of the Universe and of Physical Law Darwin 329
Click here to download the paper of the same title by Superconvenor Roberto Peccei
2:00 Violation of Lorentz and CPT Alan Kostelecky
2:45 Time Variation of c, Andreas Albrecht
3:15 Precision measurements of atomic electric dipole moments Tim Chupp
3:45 Break (Terrace Room patio)
4:00 Time-of-flight measurements of extremely high-energy photons & neutrinos originated from cosmological gamma rays bursts for possible detection of quantum gravity & deviation from the equivalence principle, Yoshiyuki Takahashi
4:30 Testing Hawking-Unruh radiation using ultra-intense lasers, Pisin Chen
5:00 Satellite test of the equivalence principle Rodney Torii
5:30 Adjourn
Friday, October 29, 1999
8:30 — 12:30 Parallel Sub-Group Sessions
- The Origin of the Universe Art 108
Inflation/Quintessence/Axions
9:15 Back reaction of fluctuations in
inflationary cosmology Robert Brandenberger
9:30 Signature for exotic cosmological
parity violation Arthur Lue
9:45 Energy conditions in inflationary cosmology Tanmay Vachaspati
10:00 CMB bispectrum & inflation models Limin Wang
10:15 A quantum gravitational model of inflation R. P. Woodard
10:30 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
Friday, October 29, 1999
10:45 Experimentally distinguishing different
inflationary models through the
measurement of ultra-long wavelength
EM waves Pisin Chen
11:00 Results from the large-scale US RF cavity
axion search Stephen Asztalos
11:15 Technology development for the next-
generation axion experiment Darin Kinion
11:30 Quark to hadron phase transition & RHIC Spencer Klein
11:45 New axion search experiment at RHIC Ariel Zhitnitsky
12:00 Adjourn
- Evolution of the Universe to its Present State Ives Hall/Warren Auditorium
- Composition of the Universe
Joint Session — Survey of Questions
9:00 Early Universe Marc Kamionkowski
9:30 Cosmological parameters Wendy Freedman & Craig Hogan
10:00 Dark Matter Charles Alcock
10:30 Break (Ives Hall lobby)
11:00 Black holes and accretion, Ramesh Narayan
11:30 Supermassive black holes & galaxies Roger Blanford
12:00 GRBs and early massive objects, Dieter Hartmann; see also this paper.
12:30 Adjourn
- Structure of the Universe and of Physical Law Rachel Carson 10
8:30 Cosmic acceleration & the Planck scale Andreas Albrecht
9:00 Solid dark matter Richard Battye
9:30 Quintessence and Susy QCD Francesca Rosati
10:00 Fifth-force Experiments Eric Adelberger
10:30 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
11:00 Gravitational-strength forces below one centimeter John Price
11:30 Tests of gravity Aharon Kapitulnik
12:00 Searching for ‘new’ long range
interactions in solar systems Ken Nordtvedt
12:30 Adjourn
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 — 5:30 Parallel Sub-Group Sessions
- The Origin of the Universe Art 108
Topological defects
1:30 Overview Andreas Albrecht
Defects & cosmic structure formation Richard Battye
Non-Gaussianity James Robinson
Sweeping away the monopole problem, Tanmay Vachaspati
3:30 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
Electroweak baryogenesis vis cosmological
phase mixing Marcelo Gleiser
Cosmological experiments in superfluid
3He-4He mixtures Masoud Mohazzab
5:00 Adjourn
- Evolution of the Universe to its Present State Darwin 143
2:00 Technology for detecting gravitational waves in space Bill Folkner
Massive Black hole mergers: the brightest sources Doug Richstone
3:30 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
The Far Horizons: Future missions & gravitational
backgrounds–Looking past the recombination curtain Ron Hellings & Neil Cornish
5:30 Adjourn
- Composition of the Universe Rachel Carson 68
Astroparticle physics & Cosmic Rays
2:00 Particle Signature for Dark Matter I Lars Bergstrom
2:20 Particle Signature for Dark Matter II Piero Ullio
2:40 SUSY parameter space for Dark Matter, James Wells
3:00 Cosmic-ray neutrino annihilation on relic neutrinos & super-GZK events Tom Weiler
3:20 Super-Kamiokande neutrinos in cosmology: HDM and cosmic rays Graciela Gelmini
3:40 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
4:00 Neutrino Astronomy Francis Halzen
4:20 UHE Cosmic Rays Angela Olinto
4:40 HE ground-based gamma rays Vladimir Vassiliev
5:00 Cosmic ray composition W. Robert Binns
5:20 Free fractional charge particles & very massive particles, Martin Perl
5:40 Additional contributions/discussions
6:00 Adjourn
Friday, October 29, 1999 (continued)
- Structure of the Universe and of Physical Law Rachel Carson 20
2:00 Supernova Results Saul Perlmutter
2:30 Dark Energy Parameters Lloyd Knox
3:00 Volume-redshift surveys Jonathan Baker
3:30 Break (Rachel Carson courtyard)
4:00 Dark Matter Telescopes, Tony Tyson
4:30 Quintessence Robert Caldwell
5:00 Couplings, Sean Carroll
5:30 Adjourn
6:00 — 7:30 Reception Commons
Saturday, October 30, 1999
8:30 — 12:30 Parallel Sub-Group Sessions
- The Origin of the Universe Student Union/ Multi-purpose Room
IV. Structure of the Universe and of Physical Law
Joint Session — Planck-scale Physics and Extra Dimensions
8:30 Physics inside sub-millimeter dimensions Savas Dimopoulos
9:15 New directions for new dimensions Keith Dienes
9:45 TBD John March-Russell
10:15 Break (Terrace Room patio)
10:45 Unification & exponentially large extra
dimensions Nima Arkani-Hamed
11:15 Branes and five dimensional cosmology Christopher Kolda
11:45 Search for new space dimensions at
high-energy accelerators, Michael Peskin
12:30 Adjourn
- Evolution of the Universe to its Present State Darwin 329
8:30 X-rays Claude Canizares
MACHOs Chris Stubbs
The Dark Matter Telescope Tony Tyson
10:15 Break (Terrace Room patio)
CMB George Smoot
Optical Transients, Carl Akerloff (Acrobat 4 format)
12:30 Adjourn
- Composition of the Universe Terrace Room
Astrophysics
9:00 Cooling flows; origin of cluster gas Larry David
9:20 Galaxy haloes, Pepi Fabbiano
9:40 Information about Massive Black Holes from Gravity Waves, Steinn Sigurdsson
10:00 Nuclear Gamma-ray Astrophysics in 2025:
New instrumentation & goals, Steve Boggs
10:20 Break (Terrace Room patio)
10:40 Connection between energy-dependent lags and peak luminosity in GRBs, Jay Norris
Three papers by Norris are presented. First, read the overview and annotation, then the combined slides from the Sonoma State conference, and finally a paper from the 26th ICRC.
11:00 Additional contributions/discussions
12:00 Adjourn
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)
2:30 — 6:30 Closing Plenary Session Ives Hall/Warren Auditorium
2:30 - 4:30 Reports from the subgroups (four talks of _ hour each)
4:30 — 4:45 questions/discussion
4:45 — 5:00 Break (Ives Hall Lobby)
5:00 — 5:15 Alan Bunner (NASA)
5:15 — 5:30 James Stone (DOE)
5:30 — 5:45 Gene Loh (NSF)
5:45 — 6:30 Toward the Planck Scale, Rocky Kolb
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