A Celebration of the Science and Work of

Jim Peebles and Dave Wilkinson

March 14-15, 2003


PROGRAM

All Sessions Take Place in Jadwin Hall, Room A10

Friday Afternoon, March 14
Session Chair: Steve Boughn, Haverford
2:30 Dan Marlow & Shirley Tilghman, Princeton Welcome
2:45 Bruce Partridge, Haverford Primeval Galaxies and the Primeval Fireball: Primeval Science in the Gravity Group
3:25 Chuck Bennett, Goddard WMAP Observations
4:05 Break
Session Chair: Jeff Peterson, Carnegie Mellon
4:35 Dave Spergel, Princeton Cosmological Interpretation of WMAP Observations
5:15 Steve Meyer, Chicago CCDs and Galaxies
5:55 Libations and Discussion
Later: Dinner on One's Own
Saturday Morning, March 15
8:30 Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Phil Crane, NASA
9:00 Marc Davis, Berkeley Redshift Surveys, Past and Present
9:40 Jim Fry, Florida The Galaxy Correlation Hierarchy
10:20 Break
Session Chair: Jer Yu, City University, Hong Kong
10:50 Mike Hauser, STScI That Other Cosmic Background Radiation
11:30 Neil Turok, Cambridge Beyond Inflation: Developing the Cyclic Universe Scenario
12:10 Lunch (provided)
Saturday Afternoon, March 15
Session Chair: Juan Uson, NRAO
1:30 Brent Tully, Hawaii Least Action
2:10 Rai Weiss, MIT The Current Status of LIGO
2:35 Peter Saulson, Syracuse First Glimpses at LIGO Data
3:00 Gary Bernstein, Pennsylvania Measuring Not-So-Primordial Anisotropies with Weak Gravitational Lensing
3:40 Break
Session Chair: David Hogg, NYU
4:10 Andrew Lange, Caltech Future CMB
4:50 Joe Silk, Oxford Current Issues in Galaxy Formation
5:30 Jim Peebles, Princeton Remarks
5:45 Adjourn
Saturday Evening, March 15
6:30 Cocktails, Proctor Hall, the Graduate College (invited guests)
7:30 Dinner, Proctor Hall, the Graduate College (invited guests)