| Day | Session | Time | Program |
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Wednesday 16 June |
1 |
9:00 9:10 9:15 9:30 10:00 |
Bruce Hevly & Karl Hufbauer: General house-keeping Woody Sullivan: Welcome Bruce Balick: Introduction Steven Dick: "The Biological Universe revisited" Chris Chyba: "Contingency and the cosmic perspective" |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| 2 |
11:00 11:30 12:00 |
Ken Kellermann: "Grote Reber: founding father of radio astronomy and professional amateur" Alastair Gunn: "Rays, radiants and radishes: early radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank" Richard Strom: "Radio astronomy in Holland before 1960: just a bit more than HI" | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 3 |
2:00 2:30 3:00 |
John Baross: "Parallel habitats on Earth, planets and moons" Peter Ward: "A taxonomy of habitable planets: assessing the odds of life in variable planetary systems" Carol Cleland: "The advent of historical science" | |
| 3:30 | Break | ||
| 4 |
4:00 4:30 5:00 |
Robert Smith: "The history of space astronomy: an attempt to see the big picture" Peter Abrahams: "Telescopes lofted to space" David DeVorkin: "SAO during the Whipple years: Project Celescope" | |
| 5:30 | End of Session; Reception to follow | ||
| Kane Hall | Public Lecture | 8:00 | Frank Drake: "New approaches in the search for SETI" |
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Thursday 17 June |
1 |
9:00 9:30 10:00 |
Wayne Orchiston & Bruce Slee: "The Radiophysics field stations and the early development of radio astronomy" Marshall Cohen: "Owens Valley Radio Observatory and dark matter" Ron Bracewell: "How J.J.B. Fourier influenced radio astronomy" |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| 2 |
11:00 11:30 12:00 |
Geoff Marcy: "Extra-solar planetary systems" Ed Turner: "Detection and characterization of extra-solar planets and plants" Rebecca Cummins: "Light work: contemporary artists consider the Sun" | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 3 |
2:00 2:30 3:00 |
Ron Brashear: "The transits of Venus and new astronomies: a time to reflect" Bruce Hevly: "X rays, extreme ultraviolet and the life of instruments" Virginia Trimble: "The origin of gamma ray astronomy: When one photon was a discovery, two was a spectrum, and three was the Rossi Prize" | |
| 3:30 | Break | ||
| 4 |
4:00 4:30 5:00
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Jim Evans: "Gnomonike Techne: the dialer's art and its
meaning in the Ancient World"
Karl Hufbauer: "Radio studies of solar phenomena, 1940-60: their significance?" Richard Jarrell: "'Radio astronomy … whatever that is': the marginalization of early radio astronomy in astronomy" | |
| 5:30 | End of Session | ||
| 5:30 - 6:00 |
Travel to Waterfront Activities Center, east of the Physics-Astronomy Buildings via Pacific Street and past Husky Stadium to the lake shore. | ||
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6:30 | Conference banquet | |
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Friday 18 June |
1 |
9:00 9:30 10:00 |
Mott Greene: "Astrobiology and anthropomorphism: are we still looking for ourselves?" Frank Drake: "Lessons from the history of SETI" Dan Werthimer: "Do we know how to search for ET?" |
| 10:30 | Break | ||
| 2 |
11:00 11:30 12:00
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Bruce Balick: "Discovery of Sgr A*: an exposé"
Miller Goss: "Fifty years of Galactic Center research: the impact of the discovery of Sgr A in 1951 and 1954 and Sgr A* in 1974" Woody Sullivan: "Enter the cleaning lady: the conference mop-up" | |
| 12:30 | End of conference |