Papers presented at the First Symposium of Magellan Science, Pasadena, CA, Jan 7-8, 2005





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Presentations for Friday, January 7, 2005

Wendy Freedman (OCIW)
The Carnegie High z Supernova Project
Eric Gawiser (Yale)
Pushing IMACS to the Max: A Census of the Universe at z=3
Leopoldo Infante (Catolica)
ACS-Panic Search for z>7 Galaxies
Felipe Menanteau (JHU)
Morphological Evolution of Galaxies From HST/ACS and LDSS-2
Ann Zabludoff (Arizona)
The Importance of Lens Environments
Adam Bolton (MIT)
Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with the IMACS IFU
Jason Prochaska (UCSC)
The MIKE Survey for Lyman Limit Systems
Hsiao-Wen Chen (MIT)
Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows as Probes
Edo Berger (OCIW)
Probing the Metallicity and Kinematics of High Redshift Galaxies with GRB Afterglows
Jenny Greene (Harvard)
Mass and Accretion Rates of Double-Peaked AGN
Ezequiel Treister (Yale)
Optical Spectroscopy of X-ray sources
Marina Rejkuba (ESO)
Magellan Views of Centaurus A
Julius Nantais (Harvard)
Nearby Globular Cluster Systems I: Sculptor Group
Mike Gladders (OCIW)
Observations of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters
Dan Kelson (OCIW)
The Wide-Field Survey of MS1054
Paul Martini (Harvard)
The Magellan/Chandra Cluster AGN Survey
Mathew Walker (Michigan)
Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: New Observations
Armando Gil de Paz (OCIW)
LDSS2 spectroscopy of distant dwarf galaxies in the UDF
Gisella Clementini (INAF)
Variable stars in dense globular clusters of the Fornax dSph galaxy with Magellan
Mark Phillips (OCIW)

A High School for Alto del Carmen


Presentations for Saturday, January 8, 2005

Dennis Zaritsky (Arizona)
Dark Matter, Galaxy Evolution, and Colliding Galaxy Clusters
Steffen Mieske (Bonn)
Fornax Deep Field - SBF distances to LSB dEs
Aaron Romanowski (Concepcion)
Extragalactic Stellar Populations
Jon Fulbright (OCIW)
The Very Metal-Poor Content of the Sgr dSph
Silas Laycock (CfA)
Identifying the Galactic Center X-ray Source Population
Danny Steeghs (Harvard)
Mapping Accretion in Close Binaries
Andrea Dupree (Harvard)
Mass Outflows from Red Giants in Globular Clusters
Steve Shectman (OCIW)
Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Hamburg-ESO Survey
Andy McWilliam (OCIW)
Chemical Composition Studies of Stellar Systems
Michael Meyer (Arizona)
From the Centers of Galaxies to Where Planets are Born: Science Highlights from the MIRAC/BLINC Mid-IR Camera on the Baade Telescope
Kevin Luhman (Harvard)
Magellan Observations of Young Brown Dwarfs
Paul Butler (DTM)
Extra-solar planetary searches
David Osip (OCIW)
Magellan Observations of Binary Trans-Neptunian Objects: Orbits and Physical Characterization
Alex Athey (OCIW)
Ground-Layer AO and Other Image Quality Improvement Prospects for Magellan
Roger Angel (Arizona)
Magellan to GMT


Poster Presentations

Name
Institution
Title
Jeffrey Blackburne
MIT
Quadruple Lenses Through the Magellan Telescopes
Carmen Sanchez Contreras
Caltech
The companion to the central Mira star of the protoplanetary nebula O H231.8+4.2
Gaspar Galaz
U. Catolica
Constraining age and metallicity of bulges embedded in low surface brightness galaxies
Jin Koda
Caltech
Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS)
Xavier Koenig
Harvard
Optical Follow-up of Chandra XRay Point Sources in the Galactic Plane with Magellan LDSS2
Javier Alonso-Garcia  and Mario Mateo
U. of Michigan
Globular Clusters of the Inner Galaxy
Nidia Morrell
LCO
Spectroscopy of young stellar objects in M8
Bryan Penprase
Pomona College
Images and Spectra of the galaxy M83 with the Magellan telescope
Mark Phillips
LCO/OCIW
Calibrating SN Type Ia in Early-Type Galaxies using the Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function
Ian Thompson
OCIW
Eclipsing Binary Stars in Globular Clusters
E. Treister
U. De Chile/Yale
USYC: A Deep Square-degree Survey of the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes
Jong-Hak Woo
Yale
The Mass to Light Ratio Evolution of AGN Host Galaxies