Cosmological Parameters Session

Tuesday, 17 December 1996, 4:15-6:15 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Robert Kirshner (CfA)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: kirshner@cfa.harvard.edu

Speakers

The numbers indicate (speaking time + discussion time)

4:15 Martin Hendrie (Sussex), Calibrating Cepheids and the Distance Scale (10 + 5)
4:30 Tomilsav Kundic (Caltech), Measuring H_o from the 0957 Lens System (10 + 5)
4:45 Doug Richstone (Michigan) Measuring H_0 from the PG1115 Lens System (10+5)
5:00 Robert Kirshner (CfA), Measuring H_o with Supernovae (10 + 5)
5:15 Saul Perlmutter (LBL), Toward Measuring Omega with Supernovae (10 + 5)
5:30 Chris Kochanek (CfA), Limits on Lambda (10 + 5)
5:45 Arthur Davidsen (JHU), The Baryon Density of the Universe (10 + 5)
6:00 Ue-Li Pen (CfA), Angular Diameter Distances to Galaxy Clusters (10 + 5)

Posters

• Stephen Boughn,
  
• Boudewijn Roukema,
  
• Li HauZong,
  
• Peter Hoelfich
  
• Chuck Keeton
  
• Masahiro Morkikawa
  
• Jon Loveday (Chicago), The Local Space Density of Dwarf Galaxies
  
• Paul Shapiro, Steven Weinberg, and Hugo Martel (Texas), Likely Values of the Cosmological Constant: An Anthropic Explanation for the Observed Value
  
• Christophe Adami (Laboratoire d Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille), Nearby Abell clusters: ENACS Key Program
  
• Xiangdong Shi (UCSD), Peculiar Hubble Flows in Lauer and Postman's Abell Cluster Catalogue"
  
  Other posters to be added.