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LINDA HALL LIBRARY Kansas City, Missouri |
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2007
MEETING PICTURES
THE RETURN to LINDA HALL LIBRARY! 
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TITLE DEADLINE: Saturday, March 29
Send to SCOTT BAIRD
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Saturday, April 05
Send to BRUCE TWAROG
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT(word version)
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT(pdf version)
SCHEDULE of TALKS (word version)
SCHEDULE of TALKS (pdf version)
As part of the Saturday schedule, we are pleased to announce that one of our invited speakers will be Dr. Todd Boroson, Interim Director, NOAO. Dr. Boroson will address/discuss The NOAO Program - Post Senior Review. Anyone with an interest in the future of the national observatories and long-term future access to ground-based observing facilities should find this an important and informative discussion while providing a regional opportunity to communicate your ideas and concerns. Whether you intend to present a paper or not, we hope you will consider attending and being part of the dialog. If you have any questions about the meeting and/or the presentation by Dr. Boroson, please feel free to contact Bruce Twarog at btwarog@ku.edu or Angela Speck at speckan@missouri.edu. An abstract of the forum is given below.
The NOAO Program - Post Senior Review
Todd Boroson, Interim Director, NOAO
Following the Senior Review, NOAO has revised its program to provide access to a balanced suite of high-performance capabilities on telescopes of all apertures. Such a balance will require efforts to make more nights available by developing new partnerships or even building new telescopes, as well as developing new instruments to provide state-of-the-art capabilities. The success of this new mission depends on a renewed effort to engage the broad community. An initial step has been to form a community-based committee, ReSTAR, to help solicit and understand community input on small and mid-sized telescopes. A similar study of large telescopes will begin soon.
At this presentation, the interim NOAO Director will report on the current status and near-term plans of the NOAO program, with emphasis on the changes and new initiatives. The items covered will include additional access, new capabilities, and some exciting opportunities for the future. In addition, new mechanisms for community dialog will be announced.
LODGING
The two hotels that are most commonly used by attendees are:Embassy Suites Hotel on the Plaza
This is also the site for dinner on Friday evening, so it is convenient.
and
Best Western Seville Plaza Hotel
Note: there may also be cheaper lodgings in the area, so you are encouraged to check out other options if you wish.
MARAC DINNER: FRIDAY, APRIL 11 - 5:30 PM
(Updated Info: 03/24/08)
Possible Friday Evening Entertainment
In recent years we have scheduled a public talk on Friday evening after the dinner. Because of the somewhat mediocre response to these presentations, we have left the evening after dinner open for attendees to do whatever they wish. One potential option available the weekend of the meeting is to see the play COPENHAGEN by Michael Frayn. The play is being performed at the Off Center Theatre at Crown Center, Level 3. Tickets cost $20 or, for students, $10. If you are interested in obtaining tickets, the theatre can be contacted at 816-536-9464 or at www.metkc.org. For those unfamiliar with the play, it is a Tony Award-winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art. Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since. In Michael Frayn's ambitious, fiercely intelligent, and daring new play Heisenberg and Bohr meet once again to discuss the intricacies of physics and to ponder the metaphysical-the very essence of human motivation. Friday's performance begins at 8PM.
Contacts:
Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog:
bjat@ku.edu
Scott Baird sbaird@benedictine.edu
Jason Ferguson: jason.ferguson@wichita.edu
Bruce Twarog:
btwarog@ku.edu