| Thursday, January 22, 2009 | Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech |
| 9:00am | INVITED TALK - Sally Dodson-Robinson | Protecting the Building Blocks of Planets: Gas Drag in Diffusively Spreading Disks |
| 9:45 | Stephen Kane | Scanning the Parameter-Space of Exoplanets |
| 10:00 | Julian van Eyken | Dispersed Interferometry for RV Exoplanet Searches |
| 10:15 | Peter Plavchan | New M Dwarf Debris Disks Discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope |
| 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 | John Gizis | Activity in Young Brown Dwarfs of the TW Hya Association |
| 11:00 | Ken Marsh | Young Brown Dwarfs In The Deep (rho Oph field, that is) |
| 11:15 | Bruce McCollum | Spokes and a Horseshoe |
| 11:30 | Bill Reach | The Explosions of Comet Holmes in 1892 and 2007 |
| 11:45 | Kaspar von Braun | Observational Mishaps (things that can go wrong during observing runs) |
| 12:00-1:30pm | LUNCH |
| 1:30pm | INVITED TALK - Schuyler Van Dyk | Dust Production from Supernovae |
| 2:15 | Morten Andersen | Interacting Supernova Remnants: Evidence for Dust Processing? |
| 2:30 | Jeonghee Rho | Dust Formation Observed in Young Supernova Remnants |
| 2:45 | Nancy Elias de la Rosa | Dust Along the Supernovae Lines-of-Sight |
| 3:00 | Adwin Boogert | New Light on Extinction Laws |
| 3:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:30 | Tom Jarrett | A Complete (almost) Picture of the Local Universe |
| 3:45 | Louise Edwards | Infrared and Optical Photometry of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 1763 |
| 4:00 | Carl Grillmair | Dreams of Streams or Tales of Tails? |
| 4:15 | Susan Stolovy | A New HST/NICMOS Paschen Alpha Survey of the Ionized Gas in the Galactic Center |
| 4:30 | Solange Ramirez | Massive YSOs in the Galactic Center I: Sample Selection from Spitzer IRAC Observations |
| 4:45 | Deokkeun An | Massive YSOs in the Galactic Center II: Spitzer IRS Observations |
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| Friday, January 23, 2009 | Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech |
| 8:30am | INVITED TALK - Ranga-Ram Chary | The Mass Function of Stars: Nature-Induced Obesity at z>6! |
| 9:15 | Jessica Krick | MIPS 24 micron Sources in Galaxy Clusters at z=1 |
| 9:30 | Carolynn Moore | Morphological Contribution to the IR Luminosity from 0<z<1.5 |
| 9:45 | Harry Teplitz | Limits on the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction at z~1 |
| 10:00 | Matt Thomson | Type Ia SNe Host Galaxies in GOODS: Constraints on IMF Evolution and Evolutionary Delays |
| 10:15 | David Frayer | Spitzer Extragalactic Counts, Confusion, and Other Tidbits at 70 and 160 microns |
| 10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 | James Colbert | Buried Star Formation In The Heart of the Lyman Alpha Blob |
| 11:00 | Justin Howell | UV and Far-Infrared Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the GOALS Sample |
| 11:15 | Ben Chan | Archetypal Analysis of GOALS Spitzer-IRS Spectra |
| 11:30 | Michelle Cluver | Probing the nature and nurture of an HI-massive LIRG, HIZOA J0836-43 |
| 11:45 | Andreea Petric | Mid-IR Diagnostics and Molecular Gas in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies |
| 12:00-1:30pm | LUNCH |
| 1:30 | Luisa Rebull | New Taurus Members ... or Maybe Just More Galaxies |
| 1:45 | Amanda Cook | Molecular Composition and Chemistry of Isolated Dense Cores |
| 2:00 | Nicolas Flagey | Evidence for Dust Evolution within the Taurus Molecular Cloud |
| 2:15 | Nicolas Billot | Spitzer View of VulOB1: Elephant Trunks, Young Stellar Objects and Triggered Star Formation |
| 2:30 | Ronan Higgins | Terahertz Spectroscopy with HEB mixers for Herschel/HIFI |
| 2:45 | Chris Tibbs | Spitzer Analysis of the Perseus Cloud: Constraining the Anomalous Microwave Emission |
| 3:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:15 | Phil Appleton | The Coexistence of Million-degree X-ray Gas and Molecular Hydrogen in the Giant Shock in Stephan's Quintet |
| 3:30 | Hanae Inami | The Buried Starburst in the Interacting Galaxy, II Zw 096 as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope |
| 3:45 | Sebastian Haan | Feeding Black Holes: Gas Inflow Rates in Nearby AGN Galaxies |
| 4:00 | Seppo Laine | Excitation of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in the Outer Disks of Two Nearby Edge-on Galaxies |
| 4:15 | GEORGE HELOU | The State of IPAC |
| 5:00-7:00pm | RECEPTION | Keith-Spalding 410 |
