INPAC General Meeting
May 2-3, 1997
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Second Circular - Preliminary
Program
Updated 4/24/97
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INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
GENERAL MEETING
May 2-3, 1997
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2nd Circular
(Preliminary Program, Hotel and Transportation Information)
** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM **
Friday afternoon and evening, May 2, 1997
LBNL Main Auditorium
2:00
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
R. Stokstad, D. Caldwell
2:05 - 4:05
FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS OF COSMOLOGY
Chair: M.Davis UCB
New distances to old clusters: Hipparcos subdwarfs parallaxes and the
age of the Galaxy
I.N. Reid CIT 25+5 min
Cosmology from type IA supernova
A. Riess UCB 15+5 min
Determining qo, Omega, and Lambda from high-redshift supernova
S. Perlmutter LBNL 15+5 min
Observations of primordial deuterium and implications for BBNS
D. Tytler UCSD 20+5 min
Determination of Cosmological Parameters with the CMB
A. Jaffe UCB 20+5 min
4:05 - 4:30
BREAK
4:30 - 6:30
NEUTRINO MASSES AND OSCILLATIONS
Chair: R. Peccei UCLA
New results from SuperKamiokande
T. Haines LANL 25+5 min
Status of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
R. Stokstad LBNL 10+5 min
Neutrino masses from accelerators and reactors
D. Caldwell UCSB 20+5 min
What heavy elements can tell us about dark matter neutrinos
G. Fuller UCSD 25+5 min
Report on symposium on supernovae neutrino observations
D. Cline UCLA 15+5 min
6:30 - 7:00
NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS IN EDUCATION
Chair: B. Shen UCR
Perspectives on K-12 Education Programs
A. Palounek LANL 10+5 min
The Hands-On Universe: internet-mediated, science education for
Grades K-16 and beyond
S. Deustua LBNL 10+5 min
7:00 - 8:00
DINNER
LBNL Cafeteria
8:00 - 10:00
INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP DISCUSSIONS
INPAC Executive Committee Meeting
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Saturday morning and afternoon, May 3, 1997
8:30 - 10:00
DARK MATTER
Chair: P.B.Price UCB
Results from the cryogenic dark matter search experiment
R. Gaitskell UCB 25+5 min
Progress on the Axion Search Experiment
E. Daw MIT 25+5 min
The MACHO Project after four years: Review and Preview
S.Marshall LLNL 25+5 min
10:00- 10:30
BREAK
10:30 - 12:00
GAMMA-RAY BURSTERS AND SEARCHES FOR COUNTERPARTS
Chair: K. Griest UCSD
Overview of gamma-ray bursters and searches for counterparts
K. Hurley SSL 35+10 min
INPAC Fenton Hill site
G. Gisler LANL 20+5 min
The Automated Patrol Telescope
B. Grossan LBNL 15+5 min
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
LBNL Cafeteria
1:00 - 2:50
VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS AND NEUTRINOS
Chair: G.Yodh UCI
Recent results on TeV gamma ray emission from Markarian 421 and 501
S. Westerhoff UCSC 25+5 min
Optical depth of the universe to TeV gamma rays and the era of galaxy formation
J. Primack UCSC 15+5 min
Milagrito phase of MILAGRO
S. Hugenberger UCI 15+5 min
Status of AMANDA B
S. Barwick UCI 15+5 min
A kilometer-scale Neutrino Observatory
H. Crawford UCB/SSL 15+5 min
2:50 - 3:10
BREAK
3:10 - 4:10
INSTRUMENTATION
Chair: D. Coyne UCSC
Astronomical CCD's without thinning or fringing
D. Groom LBNL 20+5 min
CCD Development Program for the DEIMOS Spectrograph
R. Stover UCO/Lick 15+5 min
Cryogenic optical photon detector for ground-based astronomy
T. Shutt UCB 10+5 min
4:10 - 4:15
CLOSING COMMENT
D. Caldwell
4:15
ADJOURN
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DINNER
INPAC will host a dinner at the LBNL cafeteria on Friday night for all
participants, and will host lunch there on Saturday. If you will attend,
please make sure that you notify Jeanne Miller at inpa@lbl.gov by April 25,
so that she can give the caterer a precise number.
HOTEL INFORMATION
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Durant Hotel,
located one block from the University of California and Telegraph
Avenue. All participants desiring accommodations should make their own
arrangements. Using the information below, please phone the hotel
directly to make reservations. The special rates quoted include a
continental breakfast. The cut-off date for reserving rooms has been
extended to April 9, 1997. After this date rooms may not be available
at any rate.
Durant Hotel
2600 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Telephone: (510) 845-8981
Fax: (510) 486-8336
$79.00 per night, single occupancy, plus 12% tax
$89.00 per night, double occupancy, plus 12% tax
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
Transportation from both San Francisco International Airport and
Oakland International Airport is available through local shuttle services.
Advance reservations are recommended and may be made by phoning or
FAXing the service providers listed below. Rates given are currently in
effect and may change before the meeting.
Bay Area Shuttle Phone : (415) 873-7771 FAX: Not available
$10.00 per person each way from San Francisco Airport to any Berkeley hotel.
No service available from Oakland Airport.
Bayporter Express Phone : (415) 467-1800 FAX: (415) 467-8783
$13.00 per person each way from San Francisco Airport to any Berkeley hotel.
$12.00 per person each way from Oakland Airport to a hotel.
Taxi Service
$45.00 (average) for 1-5 persons to Berkeley/Oakland from San Francisco
Airport $35.00 (average) for 1-5 persons to Berkeley/Oakland from Oakland
Airport
Shuttle service to LBNL:
On Friday afternoon the regular LBNL shuttle bus can be boarded at the
corner of Bancroft Way and Bowditch Street, one block from the hotel.
It is a white bus with a blue sign over the windshield that says,
"Berkeley Lab." It runs every ten minutes until 4:00. After the
meeting on Friday and on Saturday complimentary shuttle service will
be provided from LBNL to the Durant Hotel. Service will also be provided
from the hotel to LBNL on Saturday morning. A bus will leave from the
front of the Durant at 8:00 AM.
Directions to LBNL by car:
Because of the shortage of parking at LBNL, we recommend that you
not drive to the meeting on Friday. Parking is not a problem on Saturday.
From San Francisco via Interstate Highway 80:
Take Highway 80 east towards Sacramento and exit at University
Avenue. Follow University Avenue, east, approximately one (1) mile to
Oxford Street (University Ave. dead ends at this point). Turn left onto
Oxford. Turn right at the second light onto Hearst Street. Follow
Hearst uphill (the University is on your right), past the University,
past Gayley Road, and past U.C. Berkeley dormitories.
From the Durant Hotel:
From the hotel's front door, drive up Durant Avenue (one way going
east). When Durant dead-ends into Piedmont Road, turn left. Drive north
on Piedmont to Hearst Street. Turn right onto Hearst Street.
When you come to the LBNL Blackberry Canyon guard gate, stop and
tell the guard you are with the INPAC meeting. The guard will give you a
parking permit and a site map. Follow the map and road signs to the
Building 50 parking lot.
If you have further questions on local arrangements, please contact
the Local Organizing Committee:
Jeanne Miller 510-486-5074 inpa@lbl.gov
Bob Stokstad 510-486-4451 stokstad@lbl.gov
George Smoot 510-486-5505 gfsmoot@lbl.gov
Tony Spadafora 510-642-0352 spadafor@physics.berkeley.edu
Information on this meeting (as well as the INPAC workshops) will also be
posted on the INPAC home page at http://cfpa.berkeley.edu/inpac/home.html.
First Circular - 3/12/97
University of California
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
General Meeting
May 2-3, 1997
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
*** First E-mail Circular ***
The next INPAC General Meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday,
May 2-3, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and is hosted by
the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics at LBNL and the
Center for Particle Astrophysics at UCB.
The Scientific Program will include the following topics
Fundamental Parameters of Cosmology
Gamma-ray Bursters, and searches for bursters at other wavelengths
Dark Matter
High Energy Neutrinos and Gamma Rays
Neutrino Mass and Oscillations
Instrumentation for Astrophysics
The meeting will begin at 2 pm on Friday, May 2, and will end at about
4 pm on Saturday. There will be a dinner on Friday evening.
We hope that you will plan on attending this meeting and ask that you
contact Jeanne Miller at "inpa@lbl.gov" by April 1 to indicate that
you will or might be coming.
*** If you will need lodging on Friday night, the deadline for
hotel reservations is April 1. (See hotel information below) ***
A second e-mail circular will appear at the end this month with
detailed information on the program and speakers. Information on the
General Meeting (as well as the INPAC workshops) will also be posted
on the INPAC home page at
http://cfpa.berkeley.edu/inpac/home.html
In the meantime, if you have questions or comments on the program,
please contact
David Caldwell caldwell@slac.stanford.edu
George Smoot gfsmoot@lbl.gov
Tony Spadafora spadafor@physics.berkeley.edu
Bob Stokstad* stokstad@lbl.gov
(*except during March 11-24)
We apologize to those who may have received more than one copy of
this e-mail, as we are attempting to consolidate our e-mail lists.
HOTEL INFORMATION
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Durant Hotel,
located one block from the University of California and Telegraph
Avenue. All participants desiring accommodations should make their own
arrangements. Using the information below, please phone the hotel
directly to make reservations. The special rates quoted include a
continental breakfast. The cut-off date for reserving rooms is
April 1, 1997. After this date rooms may not be available at any rate.
Durant Hotel
2600 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Telephone: (510) 845-8981
Fax: (510) 486-8336
$79.00 per night, single occupancy, plus 12% tax
$89.00 per night, double occupancy, plus 12% tax
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
Directions to LBNL and to the Durant Hotel, as well as information
on transit options, will be posted on the INPA home page
at
http://www-inpa.lbl.gov/INPAC/transportation.html.
If you have further questions on local arrangements, please contact
the Local Organizing Committee:
Jeanne Miller 510-486-5074 inpa@lbl.gov
Bob Stokstad 510-486-4451 stokstad@lbl.gov
George Smoot 510-486-5505 gfsmoot@lbl.gov
Tony Spadafora 510-642-0352 spadafor@physics.berkeley.edu>