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Important Dates
Jun 1, 2008: Deadline for Abstract submission

Jun 4, 2008: Deadline for Student Travel Grants application

Jul 24, 2008: Deadline for Early Registration Fee payment

Jul 25, 2008: Late Registration Fee payment

Aug 17, 2008: Banquet Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan

Aug 19, 2008: SDSS Collaboration Meeting @ the University of Chicago



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Early registration is $350 paid by July 24, 2008

Student registration is $250 paid by July 24, 2008

Late registration for all is $400 starting July 25, 2008

Additional adult banquet tickets are $85 each

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POSTERS SCHEDULE


AUGUST 15 - 16, 2008
AUGUST 17 - 18, 2008
 

AUGUST 15 - 16, 2008

 

GALAXIES

 

1.

Deokkeun An, Ohio State University
Galactic Globular and Open Clusters in SDSS: Crowded Field Photometry and Cluster Fiducial Sequences in ugriz

2.

Dmitry Bizyaev, APO/NMSU
Dust-free structural parameters of edge-on galaxies in SDSS [PDF]

3.

Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
The past 7 Gyr of Red Galaxy Growth [PDF]

4.

Chin-Wei Chen, Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University
Homogeneous ugriz Photometry for ACS Virgo Cluster Survey Galaxies

5.

Juan E. Gonzalez, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to test galaxy formation models [PDF]

6.

Stephane Herbert-Fort, University of Arizona
The Orbital Distribution of Satellite Galaxies [PDF]

7.

Rodrigo I. Herrera, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Star Formation in Pairs of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies [PDF]

8.

Ho Seong Hwang, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Kinematics of Satellite Galaxy Systems

9.

Yun Hee Lee, KSG
The central offset of nearby galaxies

10.

Yen-Ting Lin, Princeton
Statistical Properties of Radio Galaxies in the Local Universe

11.

John K. Parejko, Drexel University
X-ray Emitting Galaxies in the SDSS [PDF]

12.

Santiago G. Patiri, Case Western Reserve University
The properties of galaxies in voids [PDF]

13.

Molly S. Peeples, Ohio State University
Outliers from the Mass--Metallicity Relation [PDF]

14.

Jose Antonio Vazquez, Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM
A New Catalogue of Isolated Galaxies from SDSS

 
 

QUASARS, ABSORPTION SYSTEMS, AND THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM

 

1.

Kentaro Aoki, Subaru Telescope, NAOJ
Search for Balmer absorption lines in FeLoBAL quasars [PDF]

2.

Byron E. Bell, Kennedy-King College
Data analysis of multi-wavelength magnitudes the SDSS-DR3 using a AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) process [PDF]

3.

Stephan Frank, The Ohio State University
Searching for and finding OVI absorbers at high redshift

4.

Neeraj Gupta, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
GMRT survey of 21cm absorption in intermediate redshift DLA candidates from SDSS [PDF]

5.

Stephane Herbert-Fort, University of Arizona
The SDSS DLA Survey and Metal-Strong DLAs [PDF]

6.

Sebastian Lopez, Universidad de Chile
Probing cluster galaxies with background QSOs [PDF]

7.

Reinabelle Reyes, Princeton University-Astrophysics Department
Space density of optically-selected type 2 quasars [PDF]

8.

Takamitsu Tanaka, Columbia University Dept. of Astronomy
Assembly Models for Redshift 6 Sloan Quasar Black Holes

9.

Hartmut Winkler, University of Johannesburg
Seyfert galaxies with hyper-strong coronal emission lines (and other oddities discovered by SDSS) [PDF]

 
 

THE MILKY WAY AND ITS NEIGHBORS

 

1.

Daniela Carollo, RSAA, Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU Australia
Structural and kinematic parameters of the two halo components of the Milky Way: preliminary results

2.

Licai Deng, National Astronomical Observatories
LAMOST Galactic structure survey

3.

Chris Orban, The Ohio State University
Delving Deeper into the Tumultuous Lives of Galactic Dwarfs: Modeling Star Formation Histories [PDF]

4.

Branimir Sesar, University of Washington
Milky Way halo substructures in the SDSS [PDF]

 
 

STARS

 

1.

Jennifer Johnson, Ohio State University
M Giants in the Galactic Halo from SDSS

2.

Katharine J. Schlesinger, Ohio State University
Understanding Early Star Formation using Metal-Poor Stars and SEGUE

 
 

AUGUST 17 - 18, 2008

 

STARS (II)

 

1.

Dustin Lang, University of Toronto
Measuring the Undetectable: Parallaxes and proper motions for extremely faint sources

 
 

LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE AND GALAXY CLUSTERS

 

1.

James T. Annis, Fermilab
Weak Lensing Masses for the Abell Catalog

2.

Yanchuan Cai, Durham University
Exploiting the forthcoming Pan-STARRS dataset [PDF]

3.

James G. Cresswell, ICG, University of Portsmouth, UK
Scale and Magnitude Dependent Bias in DR5

4.

Fiona Hoyle, Widener University
Voids in the SDSS

5.

Hwajung Kang, Dartmouth College
Peculiar motion and power spectrum of early-type galaxies

6.

Issha Kayo, IPMU, University of Tokyo
Model independent method to measure peculiar velocity dispersion of galaxies

7.

Sergey E. Koposov, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
Quantitative explanation of the observed population of Milky Way satellite galaxies

8.

Felipe Marin, University of Chicago
Luminous Red Galaxies Bias from the 3-point correlation function

9.

Danny C. Pan, Drexel University
Cosmic Void Ellipticity in SDSS

10.

Beth A. Reid, Princeton University
Precise Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Mock Catalogs and Techniques for Large-Scale Structure Studies

11.

Ramin A. Skibba, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
A Halo Model of Galaxy Colors and Clustering in the SDSS [PDF]

12.

Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermilab
Voronoi Tesselation Cluster Finder

13.

Douglas Watson, Vanderbilt University
LasDamas Mock Catalogs [PDF]

14.

Edward L. Wright, UCLA
WISE - the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

 
 

SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA COSMOLOGY

 

1.

Rahul Biswas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bayesian Forecasting of Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from Future Experiments

2.

Chen Zheng, KIPAC/Stanford University
Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

 
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SDSS FROM ASTEROIDS TO COSMOLOGY SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

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