StarConn schedule

StarConn 2009 Final Schedule
StarConn 2010 Schedule will be finalized in the Spring

This daylong astronomy conference is held at room 150, the Exley Science Center Auditorium, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Presented by the Astronomical Society of Greater Hartford and with the kind and generous cooperation of the Astronomy Department

of Wesleyan University.

7:00-8:30 Setup for vendors and swap tables

8:30am Registration Opens: Attendee check-in, vendors open.

9:15 - 9:30 Convention Opening: Welcoming remarks, program updates.

9:30 – 10:30 Dr. Seth Redfield, Wesleyan University Astronomy Department
Transiting Extrasolar Planets and the Age of Comparative Exoplanetology

10:30 – 11:00 Break: Vendors, Exhibitors, refreshments.

11:00 – 12:00 Dr. Richard Greenberg, Lunar/Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona:

“Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter’s Ocean Moon"

12:00 – 1:30 Break: Vendors, Exhibitors, Lunch available in the Science Center.

1:30 – 2:30 Dr. Brice N. Cassenti, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT:
"Feasibility of Robotic Investigations of Extra-solar Planets"

2:30 – 3:30 Break: Vendors, Exhibitors, refreshments & Student Presentations.

3:30 – 4:30 Peter Kalajian, "Amateurs and Exoplanets"

4:30 - 7:00 Dinner Break, on your own at one of Middletown’s many eateries.

The Evening Program will begin at 7:00 p.m. sharp -- Same Hall – Science Building Room 150.

7:00 – 8:30 Evening Program: Awarding of raffle prizes, presentation of the ASGH Astronomer of the Year award and

The Charles Hammond Memorial Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University

"Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets"

Extra Solar Planets or Exo Planets is our theme for the International Year of Astronomy. Stay tuned for more information!

9:00 – 11:00 All are invited to visit the Van Vleck Observatory, weather permitting, to observe with the 20 inch Clark refractor. Anyone wishing to

set up equipment adjacent to the observatory is welcomed to do so.

StarConn will not be holding a Buffet Dinner.
Box lunches will be available for purchase near the registration table.

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