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Final Program of the 1997 Atacama Array Workshop

 
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Japan-US Workshop Program  (Final)
 
(I)   Invited talks will be 20 min. + 5 min. discussion
(C)   Contributed talks will be 10 min. + 5 min. for discussion 


*** March 16 (Sun.) Afternoon  (13:00 - 17:10) *******************************

0.  OPENING ADDRESS  (10 min.)                  Kei-ichi Kodaira (NAO, Japan)

1.  OVERVIEW
        (I)                                     W. Jack Welch (U.C. Berkeley, USA)

2.  PROJECT SUMMARY 
        (I) The Millimeter Array                Robert L. Brown (NRAO, USA)
        (I) The Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array
                                                Masato Ishiguro (NRO, Japan)
        (C) LSA: Large Southern Array           Peter A. Shaver (ESO, Germany)

                        Coffee Break  (15:00 - 15:30)

3.  OBSERVATIONS OF THERMAL SOURCES AT 10 MILLI-ARCSECONDS RESOLUTION

3.1  MAIN SEQUENCE AND EVOLVED STARS
        (I) Evolution in AGB Stars              Kentaro Kawaguchi (NRO, Japan)
        (I) High Resolution Imaging of Spectral Lines, Gas, and Dust 
            in Expanding Nova Shells            Robert M. Hjellming (NRAO, USA)
        (C) Imaging the Surface of Stars at mm-wavelengths: Betelgeuse
                                                Jeremy Lim (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
        (I) Stellar Astrometric Searches for Extrasolar Planets
                                                Richard Simon (NRAO, USA)

                        Reception  (17:30 - 18:30)


*** March 17 (Mon.) Morning    (09:00 - 12:30) *******************************

3.2  THE EARLY STAGES OF STAR FORMATION
        (I) Molecular Clouds                    Tetsuo Hasegawa (U. Tokyo, Japan)
        (C) Atomic Carbon in Individual Molecular Clouds in M33
                                                Christine D. Wilson (McMaster U., Canada)
        (I) Astrochemistry with Arrays          Lewis E. Snyder (U. Illinois, USA)
        (I) Observing Star-Forming Regions with the Atacama Array
                                                Neal J. Evans II (U. Texas, USA)

                        Coffee Break  (10:40 - 11:10)

        (I) Planet Formation                    Shoken M. Miyama (NAO, Japan)
        (I) Structure and Evolution of Pre-Main Sequence Accretion Disks
                                                Lee W. Hartmann (CfA, USA)
        (C) Kinematic Signatures of Protostellar and Protoplanetary Disks
                                                Anneila I. Sargent (Caltech, USA)

                        Lunch  (12:30 - 13:30)


--- March 17 (Mon.) Afternoon  (13:30 - 18:15) -------------------------------

3.2  THE EARLY STAGES OF STAR FORMATION  (continued)
        (C) Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks        Taku Takeuchi (GUAS, Japan)
        (C) Sub-arcsecond Observations of Dust around Young Stars
                                                Lee G. Mundy (U. Maryland, USA)
        (C) 0.01" Imaging of Dust Emission from Protoplanetary Disks 
            around Young Stellar Objects        Munetake Momose (GUAS, Japan)
        (C) Imaging HL Tau: The VLA Experience  David J. Wilner (CfA, USA)

3.3  THE SOLAR SYSTEM
        (I) Observing the Planets with the MMA/LMSA Array
                                                Bryan Butler (NRAO, USA)

                        Coffee Break & Poster Session  (15:00 - 16:30)

        (I) Asteroids / Comets                  Ryosuke Nakamura (Kobe U., Japan)
        (I) Sun                                 Stephen M. White (U. Maryland, USA)
        (C) Prospect of Coincident Observations of the Sun with LMSA and Solar-B
                                                Hiroshi Nakajima (NRO, Japan)

3.4  GALAXIES
        (I) Gas and Dust in Galactic Nuclei     Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Tohoku U., Japan)
        (C) Very High Angular-Resolution Imaging of Circumnuclear Dense Obscuring 
            Tori in Active Galactic Nuclei      Kotaro Kohno (U. Tokyo, Japan)


*** March 18 (Tue.) Morning    (09:00 - 12:30) *******************************

3.2  THE EARLY STAGES OF STAR FORMATION  (continued)
        (I) Chemical Evolution of Dark Cloud Cores
                                                Satoshi Yamamoto (U. Tokyo, Japan)

3.4  GALAXIES  (continued)
        (C) Luminous Infrared Galaxies along a Merging Sequence
                                                K. Y. Lo (U. Illinois, USA)
        (C) Nuclear-to-Outer Rotation Curves of Galaxies
                                                Yoshiaki Sofue (U. Tokyo, Japan)
        (I) High-z Galaxies                     Nicholas Z. Scoville (Caltech, USA)

                        Coffee Break  (10:30 - 11:00)

        (I) Cosmology                           Satoru Ikeuchi (Osaka U., Japan)
        (I) Gravitational Lenses and mm Array Observations
                                                Edwin L. Turner (Princeton U., USA)

4.  COMPACT NON-THERMAL SOURCES AT MM / SUBMM WAVELENGTHS
        (I) Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Observations of Active Galactic 
            Nuclei                              Seiji Kameno (NAO, Japan)

                        Lunch  (12:30 - 13:30)

--- March 18 (Tue.) Afternoon  (13:30 - 18:00) -------------------------------

4.  COMPACT NON-THERMAL SOURCES AT MM / SUBMM WAVELENGTHS  (continued)
        (I) Supernovae                          Ken'ichi Nomoto (U. Tokyo, Japan)
        (I) High Resolution Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of 
            Active Stars                        Tim S. Bastian (NRAO, USA)
        (I) Stellar and Interstellar Maser Sources
                                                Shuji Deguchi (NRO, Japan)

                        Coffee Break  (15:10 - 15:40)

5.  HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING IN OPTICAL / IR WAVELENGTHS WITH SUBARU TELESCOPE
        (I) General View  (10 min.)             Norio Kaifu (NAO, Japan)
        (C) SUBARU Adaptive Optics System and the Future Upgrade 
            for ~10 mas Resolution              Hideki Takami (NAO, Japan)
        (C) Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics (CIAO)
                                                Yoichi Itoh (U. Tokyo, Japan)

6.  THE COMBINED LMSA-MMA ARRAY
        (I) Configuration Issues for the Atacama Array (AA)
                                                Mark A. Holdaway (NRAO, USA)
        (I) Common Frequencies and Priorities   Ryohei Kawabe (NRO, Japan)
        (I) System Compatibilities              Peter J. Napier (NRAO, USA)

                        Conference Dinner  (18:30 - 20:30)


*** March 19 (Wed.) Morning    (09:00 - 12:30) *******************************

6.  THE COMBINED MMA-LMSA ARRAY  (continued)
        (I) Correlation and Signal Transmission of the Combined Array System
                                                Sachiko. K. Okumura (NRO, Japan)
        (C) System Design Considerations of the Atacama Array
                                                A. Richard Thompson (NRAO, USA)
        (I) Operation and Observing Modes  (15 min.)
                                                Masato Ishiguro (NRO, Japan)
        (C) Flexible Queue Scheduling           Remo Tilanus (JAC, USA)
        (I) Phase Calibration for Millimeter-Wave Arrays
                                                Oliver P. Lay (NASA/Ames, USA)

                        Coffee Break  (10:40 - 11:10)

        (C) Application of Phase Calibration Techniques at mm Wavelengths 
            on 33 km Baselines                  Chris L. Carilli (NRAO, USA)
        (C) Phase Correction with Paired Antennas Method and Fast Antenna 
            Switching Method                    Yoshiharu Asaki (GUAS, Japan)
        (C) Phase Correction with 183 GHz Radiometers
                                                Richard Hills (MRAO, UK)
        (I) LMSA-MMA Cooperation  (15 min.)     Robert L. Brown (NRAO, USA)

7.  CONCLUDING REMARKS                          Norio Kaifu (NAO, Japan)




Technical Discussions

--- March 19 (Wed.) Afternoon  (14:00 - 17:00) -------------------------------

                Place: to be announced