IAU Symposium 179

IAU SYMPOSIUM 179
New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys

26-30 August, 1996; Baltimore, Maryland, USA

All talks are in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University. The poster area is nearby, in the lobbies of the second (auditorium level) and third floors, which are also used for the coffee breaks. Computer demonstrations will be located in the lobby of the Space Telescope Science Institute, directly across the street from Bloomberg Auditiorium.

Phone: +1-410-516-4183 ----- FAX: +1-410-516-6864

Sunday, 25 August

15:00 - 21:00 Poster area accessible
15:00 - 19:00 Registration and opening reception, Space Telescope Science Institute

Monday, 26 August

08:30 - 09:00 OPENING SESSION

Introduction and Addresses of Welcome

SOC and IAU WG WFI B. Lasker

ST ScI Bob Williams

JHU Holland Ford

LOC Announcements M. Postman

09:00 - 12:30 SKY SURVEYS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM, the longer wavelengths: Session 1 (S. Okamura, chair)

40 min	Radio and mm Surveys	J. Condon
40 min	IR Surveys	C. Beichman
15 min	The MPIfR Radio Continuum Surveys and their WWW Distribution	E. Fuerst
40 min	Coffee break
30 min	Photographic Surveys	N. Reid
30 min	Electronic Surveys	T. McKay
15 min	A New H Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane	Q. Parker

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:30 WAVEBAND-INDEPENDENT CONSIDERATIONS: Session 2 (G. Djorgovski, chair)

45 min	Cross-Waveband Identification Techniques	J. Wall
15 min	Optical Identifications of 50000 Radio Sources	R. Becker
15 min	Optical Identification of X-ray Surveys	G. Hasinger
45 min	Coffee Break
30 min	Results from Hipparcos	F. Mignard
30 min	Results from Tycho	D. Egret
30 min	Prospects for future astrometric missions	K. Seidelman

17:30 End of formal session, Poster area accessible until 19:00.

Tuesday, 27 August

09:00 - 12:30 SKY SURVEYS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM (cont.), the shorter wavelengths: Session 3 (J.-s. Chen, chair)

40 min	UV Surveys	N. Brosch
40 min	X-Ray Surveys	J. Trumper
15 min	Astronomy of the Midcourse Space Experiment	S. Price
45 min	Coffee Break
40 min	Gamma Ray Surveys	N. Gehrels
15 min	The Milagro Project: Prospects for the First VHE Sky Survey	R. Miller
15 min	XMM Serendiptious Sky Survey	G. Stewart

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:30 WAVEBAND-INDEPENDENT CONSIDERATIONS (cont.), Session 4 (N. Epchtein, chair)

45 min	Survey Selection Effects and Biases	M. Disney
45 min	Criteria for Gauging the Promise of New Surveys	M. Harwit
45 min	Coffee Break
45 min	Statistical Methods Relevant to Very Large Surveys	E. Feigelson
15 min	Surveying in the Time Domain: The First 4 years and 4 Terrabytes of the MACHO Project	K. Cook
15 min	Techniques for Schmidt Plate Reductions, with Applications to GSC--II	J. Morrison

17:30 End of formal session, Poster area accessible until 22:00.
20:00 - 21:30 Public lecture by A. Kinney, Recent Results from HST

Wednesday, 28 August

09:00 - 12:30 Selected Sky-Survey and Astrophysics Topics, Session 5 (B. Lasker, chair)

45 min	Large scale structure in the universe, and its evolution	N. Bahcall
45 min	Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way	S. Majewski
45 min	Coffee/Poster session
15 min	The UTR-2 Very Low Frequency Sky Survey and its Main Results	K. Sokolov
15 min	A Deep 20 cm Mosaic of the ESP Redshift Survey	I. Prandoni
15 min	Faint Galaxies in Five Wavebands	S. Wagner
15 min	The AAT's 2-Degree Field Project	K. Taylor
15 min	The UVX Catalog for the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey	R. Smith

12:30 - End of formal session, Poster area accessible until 17:00.
12:45 - Free afternoon, followed by dinner cruise on The Bay Lady.

Thursday, 29 August

09:00 - 12:30 INNOVATIVE NEW GALACTIC ASTRONOMY: Session 6 (F. Mignard, chair)

40 min	Physical Processes in the Large Scale ISM and Dust	F. Boulanger
40 min	Relations between stars and the ISM	Y. Fukui
15 min	Investigation of Galactic Structure with DENIS Star Counts	S. Ruphy
45 min	Coffee break
40 min	Kinematics and the Galactic potential	O. Bienayme
15 min	A Survey of the Structure of the Halo and Thick Disk with the APS Catalogue of the POSS I	J. Larsen
15 min	Starcounts in the Hubble Deep FIeld: Constraining Galactic Structure Models	R. Mendez

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30 DATA PROCESSING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: Session 7 (N. Brosch, chair)

40 min	Cross wavelength comparison of images and catalogs	J. Bartlett
40 min	Exploration of Terrabyte Databases	A. Szalay
45 min	Coffee break
40 min	Global network access and publication of survey data	N. White
15 min	An Inside View of the SDSS Archive	R. Brunner
15 min	The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database as a Model of the Extragalactic Sky	B. Madore
15 min	The Astrographic Catalog -- A Gold Mine for Proper Motions	D. Jones

Friday, 30 August

09:00 - 12:30 INNOVATIVE NEW EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY: Session 9 (G. Hasinger, chair)

45 min	Galaxy formation and evolution	M. Dickinson
30 min	Gravitational lensing as a probe of the mass distribution in the universe	P. Schneider
15 min	Initial Scientific Results from the Digitized POSS--II	G. Djorgovski
45 min	Coffee break
30 min	Evolution of quasars and their clustering	P. Osmer
30 min	Towards a better physical understanding of AGN	P. Padovani
15 min	The European Large-Area ISO Survey	S. Oliver

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 BUSINESS MATTERS: Session 9a (H. MacGillivray, chair)

60 min Consideration of actions proposed by

the resolutions committee N. Brosch

15:00 - 15:45 Final coffee
15:45 - 17:15 CONCLUDING SESSION: Session 9b.

45 min Panel discussion: M. Disney, G. Djorgovski,

and O. Lahav V. Trimble, Moderator

45 min Summary of the meeting O. Lahav
PLEASE REMOVE POSTERS BY 17:00.

Last revised August 20, 1996

Daniel Golombek -- golombek@stsci.edu

Introduction and Addresses of Welcome
SOC and IAU WG WFI	B. Lasker
ST ScI	Bob Williams
JHU	Holland Ford
LOC Announcements	M. Postman

60 min	Consideration of actions proposed by
	the resolutions committee	N. Brosch

45 min	Panel discussion: M. Disney, G. Djorgovski,
	and O. Lahav	V. Trimble, Moderator
45 min	Summary of the meeting	O. Lahav

IAU SYMPOSIUM 179 New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys

26-30 August, 1996; Baltimore, Maryland, USA

IAU SYMPOSIUM 179
New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys