GALEXFEST A Conference to Celebrate Nine Years of Exploring the Ultraviolet Universe Sept. 4-7, 2012 Friends’ Hall, Huntington Library and Gardens

MONDAY, September 3 WEDNESDAY, September 5 5:30 – 7:30 pm – Opening Reception & Registration, Cahill Patio 8:15 am – Continental Breakfast

behind Cahill Astronomy building, Caltech Transient UV Phenomena

TUESDAY, September 4 9:00 am – The Transient Ultraviolet Universe – Suvi Gezari (Univ. of 8:15 am – Continental Breakfast Maryland) 9:00 am – Welcome and Opening Comments 9:40 am – Ultraviolet Shock Breakout and Prospects for Future Surveys – Nozomu Tominaga (Konan University) Young and Post Stellar Populations 10:00 am – The UV Variable Sky as Viewed by GALEX– Barry Welsh

9:10 am – The Evolution Explorer (GALEX): Exploring the UV (UC Berkeley) Universe – Chris Martin (Caltech) 10:20 am – Morning Break 9:40 am – Ultraviolet Eyes on Nearby Pre-Main Sequence and Young 10:40 am – Preliminary Results from a Combined Shallow-Wide Field Stars – Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) GALEX+PTF Transient Search – T. Barlow (Caltech) 10:20 am – A GALEX-based Study of Young Stellar Populations – Ana 11:00 am – PTF-GALEX Joint Study to Classical in M31– Yi Cao (Caltech) Gomez de Castro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 10:40 am – Poster POPs (Maebayashi, Neff, Hoversten, Hagen, Extracting Physical Parameters from UV and Multiwavelength Data Henry, Rich) 10:50 am – Morning Break 11:20 am – Insights from GALEX into the Co-Evolution of 11:15 am – A Stellar Legacy from the GALEX UV Surveys – Luciana and Black Holes – Tim Heckman (Johns Hopkins University) Bianchi (Johns Hopkins) 12:00 pm – Lunch (provided on the patio adjacent to the Friends Hall) 11:55 am – Advanced Evolutionary Phases of Low- and Intermediate- 1:30 pm – Results from the Lyman Break Analogs Key Project – Mass Stars: Current Progress and Open Issues – Paola Marigo Roderik Overzier (UT Austin) (University of Padova) 1:50 pm – Nature of Starburst in Local Analogs of Lyman Break 12:35 pm – Lunch (provided on the patio adjacent to the Friends Hall) Galaxies – Sanchayeeta Borthakur (Johns Hopkins University) 2:10 pm – Evolution of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies: Insights from Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables a Flux-Limited GALEX Sample at z~1– Isak Wold (Univ. of

Wisconsin) 1:45 pm – Hot Companions and Warm Disks Around Cool Stars – 2:30 pm – Afternoon Break Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) 3:00 pm – The GAMA Multiwavelength Survey – Richard Tuffs (Max- 2:05 pm – Cataclysmic Variables: 10 Breakthroughs in 10 Years – Planck Institute fur Kamphysik) Christian Knigge (University of Southampton)

2:45 pm – GALEX and the Intimate Nova-Dwarf Link – Mike Shara Transition Galaxies: Tales from the Green Valley (AMNH)

3:25 pm – Afternoon Break

3:40 pm – The Green Valley: Retirement, Rejuvenation or Both? – 3:45 pm – What GALEX Has Done for Cataclysmic Variables – Paula Mike Rich (UCLA) Szkody (University of Washington) 4:20 pm – Quenching Formation at Intermediate Redshifts – MW Gas, Dust, Winds, Nebulae Thiago S. Goncalves (Observatorio do Valongo/UFRJ) 4:40 pm – Hiking in the Green Valley: How Galaxies Evolve in Color- 4:25 pm – The Mysterious Blue Ring Nebulae – Mark Seibert Space – Andrew Benson (Carnegie Observatories) (Carnegie Observatories) 5:20 pm – Adjourn 4:55 pm – A 2175 Å Dust Map of the Milky Way Halo – Erik Hoversten (University of North Carolina) 5:30 - 7:00 pm – Tour of History of Science Hall at the Huntington 5:15 pm – FUV Signatures of Diffuse Galactic Clouds – Erika (optional; ticket required) Hamden (Columbia University) 5:35 pm – Adjourn agenda continued on other side Galexfest A Conference to Celebrate Nine Years of Exploring the Ultraviolet Universe Sept. 4-7, 2012 Friends Hall, Huntington Library and Gardens

THURSDAY, September 6 FRIDAY, September 7 8:15 am – Continental Breakfast 8:15 am – Continental Breakfast

Star Formation Laws from Normal to Extreme UV and Observational Cosmology

9:00 am – XUV-disk Galaxies: and Galaxy Evolution 9:00 am – The WiggleZ Galaxy Survey Shows that Dark Energy is Real on the Fringe – David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University) – Michael Drinkwater (Univ. of Queensland) 9:40 am – Insights into the Ultra-Low Star Formation Activity from 9:40 am – Ia Host Galaxies and GALEX –Brad Tucker (Mt. GALEX – Janice Lee (STScI) Stromlo Observatory/UC Berkeley) 10:20 am – Radial Variations in the H-alpha/FUV Ratio from SINGG 10:00 am – Morning Break and SUNGG – Gerhardt Meurer (ICRAR/Univ. of W. Building on the GALEX Legacy Australia) 10:40 am – Morning Break 10:20 am – Investigating Young Stars Near Earth with GALEX, WISE, and 2MASS – Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) UV and Star Formation in Galaxies vs. Gas Content, 11:00 am – The World Space Observatory- Ultraviolet – Ana Gomez de Density and Environment Castro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 11:00 am – Star Formation and Gas in the Local and Distant 11:20 am – LIMSAT– Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) Universe: Lessons from GALEX – David Schiminovich 12:00 pm – The Legacy of GALEX and the Future of UV Space (Columbia University) Astronomy – Chris Martin (Caltech) 11:40 am – Star Formation Along a Cluster-Feeding Filament – Dario 12:40 pm – Lunch (provided on the patio adjacent to the Friends Hall) Fadda (IPAC/Caltech) 1:45 pm – Adjourn 12:00 pm – Lunch (provided on the patio adjacent to the Friends Hall) 1:20 pm – Star Formation Across the Low Redshift Cosmic Web – Bruno Milliard (LAM, Marseille) 1:40 pm – The Cosmic Star Formation Rate as Seen by GALEX – Stephane Arnouts (CHFT) 2:20 pm – UKIDSS-UDS: UV- Density at 1

3:40 pm – UV from Quiescent Elliptical Galaxies – Young-Wook Lee (Yonsei University) 4:00 pm – GALEX-detected Star Formation In and Around E and S0 Galaxies – Lea Hagen (Pennsylvania State University) 4:20 pm – The Environmental Dependence of E/S0 Disk (Re)Growth – Amanda Moffett (UNC-Chapel Hill) 4:40 pm – Future of UV Talk and Discussion – Patrick Morrissey (Caltech) 5:30 pm – Adjourn

6:00 pm – Conference Banquet at the Caltech Athenaeum, dinner served at 7 pm (optional; ticket required) agenda continued on other side