Workshop 1999

Washington University 

The annual
"WU - Clemson - Chicago - Goddard - Torino Presolar Grain Workshop"
was held October 29 -30, 1999 at Washington University.

Schedule

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Friday October 29 1999

8:00 Continental breakfast

8:30 Don Clayton: Kinetic chemical keys to large supernova grains

9:10 Roberto Gallino: Isotopic composition of SN graphite grains in O>C conditions

9:50 Tom Bernatowicz: Internal structure and composition of graphites from supernovae

10:30 Coffee break

10:55 Alex Meshik: Experimental evidence for the composite nature of Xe-HL

11:35 Bob Walker: The interest and feasibility of U isotopic measurements in sub-sets of presolar grains

11:55 Brad Meyer: C/O ratios in helium-rich burning environments

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Jim Truran: Nucleosynthesis in novae

2:40 Michael Pellin/Andy Davis: RIMS measurements of presolar SiC

3:20 Katharina Lodders: AGB-star condensates: Which ones and where do they go?

4:00 Coffee break

4:30 Anne Hofmeister/Angela Speck: Laboratory measurements of SiC spectra

5:10 Joe Nuth: A short comparison of the reservoir mixing model and mass-independent chemical isotopic fractionation model for oxygen

7:00 Dinner at the Thai Cafe

 

Saturday October 30 1999

8:00 Continental breakfast

8:30 Larry Nittler: Galactic evolution of Si, Ti, and O isotopic ratios

9:10 Paul Hink: ACE results of the isotopic composition of cosmic rays

9:50 Ernst Zinner: Si isotopes in mainstream grains: once again

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Brad Meyer: Injection of short-lived radioactivities into the Solar System

11:40 Bob Nichols: Collateral consequences of the inhomogeneous injection of short-lived nuclides

12:20 Lunch

1:50 Sachiko Amari: On the origin of SiC Y grains

2:30 Roy Lewis: At the limit: noble gases in individual presolar grains. Why and how

3:10 Frank Podosek: Cr-bearing interstellar grains?

3:50 Coffee break

4:10 Sanjib Gupta: Internal equilibration of 26Al

4:50 Scott Messenger: Interstellar matter in interplanetary dust

5:30 Tyrone Daulton: Direct transformation of carbonaceous materials to diamond by heavy-ion irradiation

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