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Science program
Sunday 11 March
19:00-22:00 Reception and registration at the Crowne Plaza.

Monday 12 March
09:00-09:30 Welcome speeches and tribute to Jim Cohen

Session 1: maser theory
Chair: Phil Diamond 09:30-10:15 10:15-10:40 10:40-11:10 11:10-11:55 Prof Moshe Elitzur University of Kentucky Review: Maser theory Dr Malcolm Gray University of Manchester Invited: Tracing pumping routes in OH Morning tea Dr Vladimir Strelnitski Maria Mitchell Observatory Review: Masers as probes of supersonic turbulence USA USA UK

Session 2: Polarisation and magnetic fields
Chair: Athol Kemball 11:55-12:40 12:40-14:00 14:00-14:25 14:25-14:40 14:40-15:05 Dr Wouter Vlemmings Jodrell Bank Observatory Review: Polarisation and magnetic fields Lunch provided at Convention Centre Dr Richard Crutcher University of Illinois USA Invited: Magnetic fields in the non-masing ISM Dr Fabrice Herpin Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux France Magnetic field in AGB stars and (proto-)planetary nebulae: results and perspectives Prof JinLin Han National Astronomical Observatories China Invited: Magnetic fields of our Galaxy on large and small scales UK

Session 3: Masers and star formation
Chair: Mark Wardle 15:05-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-16:45 16:45-17:00 17:00-17:25 Dr Michele Pestalozzi University of Herfordshire UK Invited: Methanol masers as tools to study high-mass star formation. Afternoon tea Dr Vincent Fish NRAO, Socorro USA Review: Masers and star formation. Dr Sharmila Goedhart Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Periodic variations in 6.7GHz methanol masers South Africa

Dr James de Buizer Gemini Observatory Chile Invited: The infrared environments of methanol and water masers associated with star formation

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Tuesday 13 March
Chair: James Caswell 09:00-09:45 09:45-10:00 10:00-10:15 Mr Esteban Araya New Mexico Tech & National Radio Astronomy Observatory USA Review: Formaldehyde masers in the Galaxy Dr Tracey Hill Leiden Observatory Profiling young massive stars the Netherlands

Mr Steven Longmore University of New South Wales Australia The molecular environment of massive star forming cores associated with class II methanol maser emission Dr Miller Goss NRAO USA Intrinsic Short Term Variability in W3 (OH) and W49N Hydroxyl Masers Morning tea

10:15-10:30

10:30-11:00

Chair: James de Buizer 11:00-11:25 Prof Andrej Sobolev Ural State University Russia Invited: How do methanol masers manage to appear in the youngest star vicinities and isolated molecular clumps Dr Luca Moscadelli INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri Italy Massive star-formation in G24.78+0.08 studied by means of maser VLBI and thermal interferometric observations Dr Lynn Matthews Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics USA A documentary of high-mass star formation: Probing the dynamical evolution of Orion Source I on 10-100 AU scales using SiO masers Poster session I Lunch provided at Convention Centre

11:25-11:40

11:40-11:55

11:55-12:40 12:40-14:00

Session 4: Galactic maser surveys
Chair: Jessica Chapman 14:00-14:25 14:25-14:50 Dr James Caswell Australia Telescope National Facility Invited: Recent maser surveys Australia

Dr Shuji Deguchi Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ Japan Invited: SiO maser survey of evolved stars in the Galaxy: various environments of maser sources Dr Jagadheep Pandian Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy The Arecibo methanol maser Galactic plane survey Germany

14:50-15:05 15:05-15:30 15:30-16:00

Dr Simon Ellingsen University of Tasmania Australia Invited: Investigating high-mass star formation through maser surveys Afternoon tea

Chair: Hiroshi Imai 16:00-16:15 16:15-16:30 Mr James Green Jodrell Bank Observatory The Parkes methanol multibeam survey UK

Dr Jan Brand INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia Italy A 20-year water maser monitoring program with the Medicina telescope

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Session 5: Stellar masers, circumstellar winds and supernova remnants
16:30-17:15 17:15-17:30 Dr Athol Kemball University of Illinois USA Review: Stellar masers, circumstellar envelopes and supernova remnants Dr Markus Wittkowski European Southern Observatory Germany The Mira variable S Ori: SiO maser shells related to stellar photosphere and dust shell at three epochs Sounds of starlight dinner and show

18:45pm

Wednesday 14 March
Chair: Crystal Brogan 09:00-09:15 09:15-09:30 09:30-09:45 09:45-10:00 10:00-10:25 10:25-10:45 Dr Roberta Humphreys University of Minnesota USA The hypergiant sources: episodic mass loss, convective activity and magnetic fields Dr Terry Jones University of Minnesota USA The 3D morphology of the powerful OH/IR source VY Canis Majoris Dr Anita Richards Jodrell Bank Observatory UK The story of red supergiant winds written in water Dr Jun-ichi Nakashima ASIAA Taiwan SiO maser observations of a wide dust-temperature range sample Dr Valentin Bujarrabal Observatorio AstronСmico Nacional Spain Invited: The study of the close environments of evolved stars from SiO masers Morning tea

Chair: Miller Goss 10:45-11:10 11:10-11:25 Dr Hiroshi Imai Kagoshima University Japan Invited: Stellar molecular jets traced by maser emission Dr Jessica Chapman Australia Telescope National Facility Australia A search for water maser emission from post-AGB stars: Discovery of three highvelocity sources Dr Yolanda Gomez Centro de RadioastronomМa y AstrofМsica Invited: Maser emission in planetary nebulae Mexico

11:25-11:50 11:50-12:15

Dr Crystal Brogan National Radio Astronomy Observatory USA Invited: OH (1720 MHz) Masers: Signposts of supernova remnant/molecular cloud interactions Mr Jack Hewitt Northwestern University USA OH 1720 MHz maser emission from supernova remnants Free afternoon and outings (note that lunch is NOT provided at the Convention Centre)

12:15-12:30 12:30 onwards

Thursday 15 March Session 6: Masers Galactic Structure and the Galactic Centre
Chair: Luis Rodriguez 09:00-09:45 09:45-10:10 Dr Mark Reid Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Review: Masers as probes of Galactic structure Prof Harm Habing Leiden Observatory the Netherlands USA

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Invited: Maser stars in the Galactic bar 10:10-10:25 10:25-10:45 10:45-11:10 Dr Mareki Honma National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan Galactic rotation measurements based on water maser astrometry with VERA Morning tea Dr Farhad Yusef-Zadeh Northwestern University USA Invited:Masers as probes of interacting supernova remnants and massive star formation in the Galactic Center region

Session 7: Masers in AGN env ironments
Chair: Moshe Elitzur 11:10-11:55 11:55-12:10 12:10-12:25 Dr Lincoln Greenhill Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Review: Masers in AGN environments Dr Seiji Kameno Kagoshima University Japan Scanning accreting matter in the active galaxy NGC 1052 Prof Jim Moran Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics USA The Structure of the Accretion Disk in NGC4258 Derived from Observations of its Water Vapor Masers Dr James Braatz National Radio Astronomy Observatory USA Precision cosmology with H2O megamasers: Measuring distances to NGC 6323 and UGC 3789 Lunch provided at Convention Centre Poster session II USA

12:25-12:40

12:40-14:00 14:00-14:45

Session 8: Megamaser and starburst activ ity
Chair: Lincoln Greenhill 14:45-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-16:15 16:15-16:30 16:30-16:55 16:55-17:20 18:45 - eve Prof Jeremy Darling University of Colorado Review: Masers in starburst galaxies Afternoon tea Ms Megan Argo Jodrell Bank Observatory Main line OH masers in the M82 starburst UK USA

Dr Colin Lonsdale MIT Haystack Observatory USA OH emission and absorption associated with supernovae in Arp 220 Dr Willem Baan ASTRON the Netherlands Invited: Understanding the Arp 220 system Dr Christian Henkel Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie Invited: OH and H2O megamasers Banquet at Alice Springs Desert Park Germany

Friday 16 March Session 9: Diagnostics and interpretation in extragalactic env ironments
Chair: Colin Lonsdale 09:00-09:25 Dr Ylva Pihlstrom University of New Mexico USA Invited: OH megamasers as extragalactic diagnostics

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09:25-09:40 09:40-09:55 09:55-10:10 10:10-10:25

Dr Willem Baan Kapteyn Institute, Groningen the Netherlands Molecular diagnostics of ULIGs (given on behalf of Marco Spaans) Mr Rodrigo Parra Onsala Space Observatory Sweden Modelling of clumpy OH maser emission in starbursts Mr Edo Loenen Kapteyn Astronomical Institute the Netherlands Infrared and molecular properties of OH megamasers Mr Tim Robishaw University of California, Berkeley USA The discovery of extragalactic magnetic fields in OH megamasers

Session 10: New mm and sub-mm masers
Chair: Anne Green 11:00-11:45 11:45-12:10 12:10-12:25 12:25-14:00 Dr Liz Humphreys Harvard Center for Astrophysics Review: Millimeter and submillimeter masers USA

Dr Todd Hunter NRAO USA Invited: 658 GHz water masers with the submillimeter array Dr Nimesh Patel Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics USA SMA observations of 321 GHz water maser emission in Cepheus-A Lunch provided at Convention Centre

Session 11: Future facilities and conference summary
Chair: Liz Humphreys 14:00-14:45 14:45-15:10 15:10-15:35 15:35-16:00 Prof Karl Menten MPiFR, Bonn Germany Review: Exciting maser science with new instruments in the near and the far future Dr Anne Green University of Sydney Australia Invited: Opportunities for maser studies with the Square Kilometre Array Dr Alwyn Wootten National Radio Astronomy Observatory/ALMA Invited: ALMA's view of maser emission Afternoon tea USA

Chair: Karl Menten 16:00-16:15 16:15-17:00 Dr Yasuhiro Murata Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Next generation space VLBI project: VSOP Dr Mark Reid Harvard Center for Astrophysics Conference summary USA Japan

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