PetrosianFest 2009: Schedule
Friday, April 17, 2009
| Sand Volleyball court
on Campus Drive East, next to the Taube South Tennis Courts and the
Ford Plaza. |
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| 5pm to
sundown |
Challenge Vahe to a game of volleyball on the Stanford campus. |
Saturday, April 18, 2009
| PetrosianFest A Symposium on Astrophysics and Cosmology |
|
| Hewlett
Teaching Center 370 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (Map) |
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| 9:30 a.m. |
Steve Allen – welcome & introductions |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Professor Joshua Bloom, University of
California, Berkeley "The Future of Gamma-Ray Bursts" |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Dr. Spiro Antiochos, NASA "What's New On the Sun?" |
| 11:30 p.m. | Lunch Break Varian Courtyard |
| 1:00 p.m. | Roger Romani – welcome back & introductions |
| 1:15 p.m. | Professor Marshall Cohen, Caltech "AGN, Relativistic Beams, and Superluminal Motion" |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Professor Alexandre Lazarian, University of
Wisconsin "Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field and Acceleration of Energetic Particles" |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Professor Anthony Tyson, University of
California,
Davis "Tales from the Dark Side" |
| 3:45 p.m. | Student Presentations |
| 4:15 p.m. | Greg Madejski - closing |
| Reception & Dinner | |
| 6:00pm | Sheraton Hotel, Phone: 650-328-2800 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (Map) |