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THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
OF THE PACIFIC

110th ANNUAL MEETING

HISTORY SESSIONS
Presented by the ASP History Committee

HISTORY I: Astronomy in New Mexico
Sunday, 28 June 1998, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, NM

INVITED LECTURES

9:00 SKY WATCHING IN THE PUEBLO WORLD: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Michael Zeilik, University of New Mexico

9:45 ASTRONOMERS MEET THE V-2 MISSILE
David DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

10:30 Break

11:00 ASTROPHYSICS AT LOS ALAMOS
Arthur N. Cox, Los Alamos National Laboratory

11:45 IMAGING THE RADIO SKY: FROM NEW JERSEY TO NEW MEXICO
Kenneth I. Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

12:30 Break

HISTORY II: Cosmology 1948 - 1998
Sunday, 28 June 1998, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, NM

INVITED LECTURES

2:00 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE STEADY STATE THEORY
Helge Kragh, University of Aarhus

2:45 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIG BANG MODEL
Ralph A. Alpher, Union College and Dudley Observatory [Dr. Alpher's paper will be read in his absence]

3:30 Break

3:45 STELLAR EVOLUTION AND COSMOLOGY: THE EARLY DAYS AT PALOMAR
Allan Sandage, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

4:30 DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN AND OTHER ADVANCES SINCE 1948
Virginia Trimble, University of California, Irvine and University of Maryland, College Park

 

Presented by the ASP History Committee
Katherine Bracher, Whitman College
Roy Garstang, University of Colorado
Kevin Krisciunas, University of Washington
E.C. Krupp, Griffith Observatory
Donald E. Osterbrock, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph S. Tenn, Sonoma State University (chair)
Craig B. Waff, Macmillan General Reference USA
Barbara Welther, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thomas R. Williams, Rice University

JST
1998-06-22