Wittfest: Origins & evolution of Dust
October 10-12, 2010 University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

Overview
  • 2 1/2 day meeting, Sunday morning through Tuesday lunchtime
  • Talk and poster sessions held in the main lecture hall and adjoining commons of the Memorial Field House, on the campus of the University of Toledo
  • Welcome reception: Sunday, Oct 10th, 5:30-7:30pm (following Sunday Sessions), Toledo Botanical Gardens
  • Conference Dinner: Monday, Oct 11th, 7-9:30pm, Libbey Hall, UT Campus
Scientific Program

PDF Program | PDF versions of the talks are linked to their titles below; for posters, see below

Sunday, October 10
8:40 amWelcome & Logistics
Session 1: Dust Scattering (Chair: Bruce Draine)
8:55 amMonte Carlo Radiative Transfer Maarten Baes
9:20 am Diffuse Galactic LightKwang-Il Seon
9:45 am Dust Scattering Properties from Reflection Nebulae and Dark CloudsKarl Gordon
10:10 am Coffee & Posters
10:40 amThe Role of Scattering in the High Latitude H-alpha SkyGreg Madsen
10:55 amDust growth in molecular cloud cores revealed by scattered MIR radiation: the newly detected coreshine effectJuergen Steinacker
11:10 am Discussion
11:50 am Lunch
Session 2: Dust Extinction (Chair: Lew Hobbs )
1:20 pm Observed Extinction CurvesGeoff Clayton
1:45 pm 2175 A Bump in absorption and scatteringTed Stecher
2:10 pm Characterizing the Unidentified, Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs)Don York
2:35 pm Coffee & Posters
3:05 pm High Redshift Dust Darach Watson
3:30 pm Mg and Fe Depletions in Planetary Nebulae: Clues to the Dust Composition?Harriet L. Dinerstein
3:45 pm Dust attenuation properties in a AKARI-SDSS- GALEX sample of galaxiesElodie Giovannoli
4:00 pm Discussion
5:00 pm Buses to Reception
5:45 pm Reception, Toledo Botanical Gardens
Monday, October 11
8:30 am Logistics
8:45 am Poster Summary (1 slide/poster)
Session 3: Dust Emission (Chair: J.D. Smith)
9:15 am Dust in the Far (and very far) Infrared J-P Bernard
9:40 amHow was the mystery of the unidentified infrared emission features (UIRs) solved by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)?Kris Sellgren
10:05 amPhotoluminescence by Interstellar Dust: Extended Red Emission (ERE) and Blue Luminescence (BL)Uma Vijh
10:30 am Coffee & Posters
11:00 am The Story of Dust: Vignettes from SpitzerG. C. Sloan
11:15 amDust Factories: Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in the Magellanic CloudsMartha Boyer
11:30 am Discussion
12:00 noon Lunch
Session 4: Dust in the Laboratory (Chair: Geoff Clayton)
1:30 pm Hydrogentated Amorphous Carbon Now and Then Doug Furton
1:55 pm Polycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsFarid Salama
2:20 pm Silicates: Dust in the LaboratoryKarly Pitman
2:45 pm Coffee & Posters
3:15 pmPhotoluminescence of hydrogenated amorphous carbons compared with the extended red emissionMarie Godard
3:30 pmThe detection of fullerenes in the planetary nebula Tc 1Jan Cami
3:45 pm Discussion
Session 5: Topics in Dust (Chair: Karl Gordon)
4:30 pmSED fitting of nearby galaxies in the Herschel Reference SurveyLaure Ciesla
4:45 pmObservations of diffuse radiation in the far ultraviolet from the Large Magellanic CloudA. C. Pradhan
5:00 pmDust and the Cosmic Microwave BackgroundBen Gold
6:30 pm Conference Dinner, Libbey Hall
Tuesday, October 12
8:30 am Logistics
Session 5: Topics in Dust, Continued (Chair: Karl Gordon )
8:45 am The Red Rectangle: Recent Research on the inner Workings of its Dust EngineJoshua Thomas
9:10 am Formation of Dust in the ISMBruce Draine
9:35 am Origin and Evolution of Dust in the Early UniverseEli Dwek
10:00 am Dust and Radiation in the Translucent High-Latitude Cloud LDN1780Adolf Witt
10:25 am Coffee & Posters
10:55 am Future of Dust Astrophysics Panel & Discussion
12:15 pm Lunch/Departure

Poster presentations, by last name

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