2nd Annual Santa Barbara Astrophysics Meeting

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, May 2, 2008

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Announcement

Welcome to the website for the 2nd Annual Santa Barbara Astrophysics Meeting. The purpose of this meeting is for everyone actively doing astrophysics research at UCSB, KITP, and LCOGT to inform each other about their work. Faculty, postdocs, researchers, and especially graduate students are encouraged to attend and give talks. Young physics graduate students are also encouraged to attend so that they can learn about the different research groups at UCSB. For more information you can check out the website for last year's meeting. There will be no registration fee. Lunch will be provided for those who register by the April 16 deadline. Priority for speaking slots will be given to grad students (who are very strongly encouraged to give talks) and postdocs/research staff.

We look forward to seeing you!

Lars Bildsten
Marusa Bradac
Marc Favata
Marty Hidas

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Important Dates and Info


Registration

Registration is open to current members of the UCSB Physics Department, KITP, and LCOGT. There is no registration fee. Refreshments will be provided at coffee breaks, and there will be a catered lunch in the KITP courtyard for those who have registered by the deadline. There will also be a wine and cheese reception in the KITP courtyard following the meeting.

The registration deadline is April 16, 2008.
This early deadline is neccessary to help us facilitate our preparations. Please register if you plan to attend, and provide a talk title if you wish to give one. If you're not sure about your title by April 16, make up something that is vauge and general, yet impressive sounding. You can register at the:

This meeting is not an "official" KITP event, however, so please do not contact any of the KITP staff; send all inquiries to sbastro08@gmail.com. If you have an urgent question that requires a prompt response, email Marc or Lars.


Talks

The meeting will follow an informal format. There will be no plenary talks. All participants, especially postdocs and graduate students, are invited to contribute talks on their current research. We anticipate the duration of each talk to be about 6-10 minutes, and expect the meeting to run from about 9am to 5pm. We will provide more precise information once we know the number of speakers. There will be no printed proceedings, however, we may post the talks to this website after the meeting.

The meeting will take place in the Auditorium of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, located in Kohn Hall on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
Overhead and laptop projectors will be available, but we ask all speakers to send us their talks as a .pdf file so that we can use a single laptop to display the presentations and make them easily accessible via this website after the conference. In addition to the .pdf file, you may additionally submit a powerpoint file if you wish, but we ask everyone to also submit a .pdf file to ensure that the presenation will display correctly. Those wishing to show movies or animations that are likely to require special attention should let us know when you register (and remind us again on May 1st).


When you are ready to submit your presentation, email it to sbastro08@gmail.com and put "presentation" in the subject line. Put your [last name].pdf(ppt) as the filename. You must submit a .pdf version in addition to any optional .ppt version that you may choose to use. If you want to use Powerpoint during your talk, you will need to ensure that the fonts and graphics will display correctly. If they don't work, the pdf version will be used as a backup.
By 2pm on May 1st, you will need to either email your presentations to the above address, or send an email indicating that you will bring your talk on a flash drive prior to the start of your session.

Further resources:

For more information, please contact the organizers at: (sbastro08@gmail.com).
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