Special Sessions 4 - Hot Topics

4a: Friday 18 August (Panorama Hall)

Scientific Oganising Committee: Ron Ekers (Australia, Chair), Division Presidents.

Chair: Lo Woltjer

Friday August 18 SPS4a
Planets
14:00-14:20	Planets around M dwarfs	Allan Boss
Galactic
14:20-14:40	Recurrent Galactic nova RS Ophiuchi	Mike Bode
14:40-15:00	The current outburst of RS Ophiuchi	Steward Eyres
15:00-15:20	Probing the Faintest in a Globular Star Cluster	Harvey Richer
Announcements
15:20-15:30	Aurigid Meteor Storm, 1 September 2007	Dr P Jenniskens
15:30-16:00	Coffee
Transients
16:00-16:20	Sunquakes: helioseismic response to solar flares caused by high-energy particles	Sasha Kosovichev
16:20-16:40	The double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B as a test bed for general relativity	Marta Burgay
16:40-17:00	Pulsing magnetar	Scott Ransom
Extragalactic
17:00-17:20	DEEP2 Survey of the distant Universe	Jeff Newman
17:20-17:40	Precision cosmology with H₂O using mega masers	Jim Braatz
17:40	Close

4b: Tuesday August 22 (Room Club E)

2IAU General Assembly XXVI, Prague Special Session 4

Chair: Patricia Whitelock

Tuesday August 22 SPS4b
09:00-09:20	Mergers and the Milky Way	Amina Helmi
09:20-09:40	Petal-shaped occulter for observing exoplanets	Eric Schindhelm
09:40-10:00	A Definitive Measurement of the Faraday Rotation in Sgr A*, and the constraints it provides on the Black Hole Accretion Flow	Jim Moran
10:00-10:20	Short duration GRB’s
10:20-10:40	On the birth, evolution and nature of neutron stars - Lessons from the double pulsar	Micheal Kramer
10:40-11:00	Coffee

Chair: Ron Ekers

Tuesday August 22 SPS4b
11:00-11:20	Large scale structure up to z ˜1 and beyond: VVDS Results	Bianca Garilli
11:20-11:40	Evidence for baryonic oscillations	Carlos Frenk
11:40-12:00	WMAP - observations	David Spergel
12:00-12:20	WMAP - cosmological parameters	Joanna Dunkley
12:20	Lunch

Update: September 20, 2006, 19:00