Schedule, Topics and Invited Speakers
Wednesday,
October 6
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. U.S. Capitol
Display in House Science Committee Room
Food, drink, various mixer blocks.
Demonstration of remote observing on 12m, displays of site, array, science. Arranged through Rep. Ehlers' office. Invite only
Thursday,
October 7
Carnegie Institute of Washington

7:00 a.m. Posters may be erected in reception room
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Keynote Address
Anneila Sargent
California Institute of Technology
Session Title: Investigation of Galaxies from Near the Time of their Formation at Very High Redshift to Present
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Protogalactic Dawn
David Spergel
Princeton University
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Galactic Morning
Andrew Blain
University of Cambridge
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. A View of Young Galaxies
Simon Lilly
University of Toronto
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Coffee, Posters

Carnegie Institute of Washington Board Room
Press Conference, members of the ECC and suitable representatives of the US ESO Council members.

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CO in Distant Galaxies
Philip Solomon
SUNY-Stony Brook
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Molecular Emission from Young Galaxies
Stephane Guilloteau
Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) and ESO
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Central Regions of Galaxies
Nicholas Scoville
California Institute of Technology
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch at area restaurants
Thursday,
October 7
Carnegie Institute of Washington

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Central Regions of Active Galaxies
Reinhard Genzel
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrial Physik
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Nearby Galaxies
Michele Thornley
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Coffee, Tea, Posters
Session Title: Detection and Study of Planets and Disks Around Nearby Stars
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Molecular Disks
Anne Dutrey
Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Formation of Planets
Alan Boss
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Deptment of Terrestrial Magnetism
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Near-Stellar Gas and Dust
Lee Mundy
University of Maryland
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Banquet: The Omni Shoreham Hotel
Speaker: Jack Welch, The University of California at Berkeley
Friday,
October 8
Carnegie Institute of Washington

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Planetary Signatures
Nuria Calvet
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Primitive Solar System Objects
David Jewitt
University of Hawaii
Session Title: Study of Star Formation
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Astrochemical Evolution of Star-forming Regions
Ewine van Dishoeck
Leiden University
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. High Mass Star Formation
Karl Menten
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Star Formation at High Resolution
Neal Evans
University of Texas, Austin
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee, Posters

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. New Molecular Views of Southern Star Forming Regions
Yasuo Fukui
Nagoya University
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Inerferometric Views of Star Formation
Richard Plambeck
University of California, Berkeley
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Clusters Forming Low Mass Stars
Philippe André
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Jets and Flows from Young Stars
Frank Shu
University of California, Berkeley
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch at area restaurants
Friday,
October 8
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Interferometric Imaging of Molecular Envelopes with and without YSOs
Nagayoshi Ohashi
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Magnetic Fields
Richard Crutcher
University of Illinois
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Formation and Structure of Molecular Clouds as Revealed by Sub-mm line Observations
Satoshi Yamamoto
University of Tokyo
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Coffee. Final Poster Viewing
Session Title: Study of the Origin, Distribution and Evolution of the Elements and their Isotopes
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Dispersal, Winds, Shocks, Dust, Destruction
David Neufeld
Johns Hopkins University
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Stellar Mass Loss
Hans Olofsson
Stockholm Observatory
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Formation of Dust
Xander Tielens
Groningen
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Molecules in High-Mass Star-forming Regions: Theory and Observations
Tom Millar
UMIST
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Conference adjourns