Thursday Schedule

CASCA 2013 Schedule for Thursday, May 30, 2013

0830	Education and Outreach	View Details
Location: Hennings 202 Chair: Jasper Wall
0830 Medupe, Thebe Astronomy Outreach and Education in South Africa: Lessons for Canada 0900 Morsink, Sharon Astronomy Education at the University of Alberta Observatory 0915 Reid, Michael Lessons Learned from the Transit of Venus at Varsity Stadium 0930 Donovan, Eric AuroraMAX!

0830	Star-formation and Disks	View Details
Location: Hebb Theatre Chair: Bill McCutcheon
0830 Murray, Norman Rapid Star Formation 0845 van der Wiel, Matthijs The molecular environment surrounding two massive star-forming cores in NGC6334 0900 Broekhoven-Fiene, Hannah A First Look at the Disk Population in the Auriga/California Giant Molecular Cloud 0915 Johnstone, Doug Continuum Variability of Deeply Embedded Protostars as a Probe of Envelope Structure 0930 Maddison, Sarah Radial dust migration in the TW Hydra protoplanetary disk 0945 Alexandersen, Mike The first known Uranian Trojan and the frequency of temporary giant-planet co-orbitals.

1000	Qilak Award	View Details
Location: Hebb Theatre Chair: Laura Ferrarese
1000 Hesser, James Provocative Reflections on Communicating Astronomy in 2013 Canada

1030	morning coffee Bevies & goodies provided by Nuba

1100	Prize Talks	View Details
Location: Hebb Theatre Chair: Laura Ferrarese
1100 Combes, Francoise Molecular gas in galaxies across the Hubble time 1130 Kaspi, Victoria Grand Unification of Neutron Stars 1200 Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Planet traps in protoplanetary disks and the formation and evolution of planetary systems

1200

lunch

1400	Nearby Galaxies	View Details
Location: Hebb Theatre Chair: Christine Wilson
1400 Venn, Kim Galactic Archaeology 1415 Cooper, Brendan The Magnetic Field at the Disk-Halo Boundary in the Milky Way 1430 Lee-Waddell, Karen A multi-wavelength investigation of the interacting galaxy group NGC 871/7 1445 Foyle, Kelly Dissecting the Dust - Compact Regions in the Far-Infrared Maps of M83 1500 Ferrarese, Laura Galaxy Scaling Relation and Luminosity Function from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey 1515 Taylor, James Fainter Dwarfs, Closer By

1400	Explosions & Accretion	View Details
Location: Hennings 202 Chair: Samar Safi-Harb
1400 Davis, Shane The Thermal Stability of Black Hole Accretion Flows 1415 Gladstone, Jeanette Exploring ultraluminous X-ray sources using the optical regime 1430 Sivakoff, Gregory Multiwavelength Revelations of the Accretion Disc - Relativistic Jet Connection 1445 Graham, Melissa Supernovae with The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network 1500 Zhu, Chenchong White Dwarf Merger Lite: Can Small White Dwarf Mergers Explain Type Ia Supernovae? 1515 West, Jennifer Modelling polarized radio emission from supernova remnants

1530	coffee Bevies & goodies provided by Nuba

1600	Distant Galaxies	View Details
Location: Hebb Theatre Chair: Chris Willott
1600 Taranu, Dan Forming Elliptical Galaxies via Mergers in Groups 1615 Côté, Benoit Galaxy Model for Galactic Winds in Cosmological Simulations 1630 Weijmans, Anne-Marie Integral-field spectroscopy of local nuggets: deciphering their structure and formation history 1645 Hill, Allison Quasars in the Mid-Infrared: The Suburban Real Estate Around a Growing Supermassive Black Hole 1700 Vernstrom, Tessa The Deepest View of the Radio Universe at 3 GHz 1715 Taylor, Russ The Deep Sky at 5 GHz

1600	Stars and Binaries	View Details
Location: Hennings 202 Chair: Kim Venn
1600 Wade, Gregg The BinaMIcS Large Programs 1615 Antonini, Fabio The origin of the S-star claster at the Galactic Center 1630 A. Nandez, Jose Luis What V1309 Sco can teach us 1645 David-Uraz, Alexandre Searching for the origin of the wind variability of OB stars 1700 Hoffman, Kelsey The Effect of Micro-lensing in Eclipsing Binary-star Systems 1715 Hejazi, Neda "New Photometric Calibrations of Metallicity and Temperature for M dwarfs",

1730	Closing Lecture