FINAL  PROGRAMME

Monday, October 12, 1998

8:30         Session #1:  Introduction                                                                                          Chair:  Steve Holt

•  Virginia Trimble -- Beyond the Bright Searchlight of Science:  the Quest for the Edge of the World
•  Martin Rees -- Emergin from the Dark Ages

10:30        Session #2:  The Earliest Structure                                                                   Chair:  Joe Silk

• David Spergel -- The CMB and the Origin of Structure
• Avi Loeb -- The First Stars and Quasars
• Nick Gnedin -- Formation of Galactic Bulges (m15 min.)
• Mike Norman -- From Cosmological Initial Conditions to Pop III Protostellar Cores:  Results of a Direct,  Multiscale, 3D Numerical Simulation (15 min.)
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

2:00         Session #3:  First Discrete Structures                                                               Chair:  Virginia Trimble

• Carlos Frenk -- Forming Galaxies:  Theoretical Expectations
• Lisa Storrie-Lombardi -- Quasar Absorption Line Studies of Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium at z > 1.5
• Joe Silk -- Simulating Galaxy Evolution
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

4:30         Session #4:  Galaxy Formation Renaissance                                                   Chair:  Bob Williams

• Rodger Thompson -- The HST NICMOS Deep Survey
• Mark Dickinson -- Galaxy Properties at High Redshift
• Len Cowie -- Redshift Surveys
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

Tuesday, October 13, 1998

8:30         Session #5:  Largest Structures                                                                             Chair:  Eric Smith

• Richard Mushotzky -- Clusters at High Redshift?
• Chris Kochanek -- Results from the CASTLES Graviational Lens Survey
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

10:30       Session #6:  Galaxy Formation and Mergers                                                  Chair:  Guenther Hasinger

• Joshua Barnes -- Mergers and Galaxy Assembly
• Rogier Windhorst -- Clues from Deep HST Images to Galaxy Formation and the Role of Mergers
• Roger Blandford -- Supermassive Black Holes
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

2:00         Session #7:  QSOs, AGN, and the CXRB                                                         Chair:  Roger Blandford

• Don Schneider -- Surveys for High-Redshift Quasars
• Kim Weaver -- Observations of AGN at Intermediate Redshift
• Guenther Hasinger -- The X-ray Background - Echo of Black Hole Formation?
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

4:30         Session #8:  Star Formation History                                                                     Chair:  Dan Weedman

• Piero Madau -- The Evolution of Luminous Matter in the Universe
• Ian Smail -- Sub-mm Surveys for Distant Star-Forming Galaxies
• Tim Heckman -- Starbursts and Cosmogeny
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

• Vera Rubin -- Astrophysics from Antarctica:  A Visit to the South Pole

8:30         Session #9:  Gamma Ray Bursts                                                                             Chair:  Marvin Leventhal

• Neil Gehrels -- Recent Discoveries in Gamma Ray Bursts Astronomy
• Ralph Wijers -- Gamma-ray Bursts:  How Far, How Useful?
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

10:30       Session #10:  Next Generation Capabilities                                        Chair:  Steve Holt

• Eric Smith -- The Golden Age for Near IR Astronomy
• David Neufeld -- The Far IR and Sub-mm Frontier
• Discussion and 1-min poster presentations

• Dan Weedman