[ CENIC News ] CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — A Stellar Lineup: Three Keynote Speakers Confirmed
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Thu Feb 7 08:12:09 PST 2008
[CENIC08: Lightpath to the Stars, March 10-12, 2008 Oakland, CA]
*CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — All the Latest News
*
* *Rachelle Chong* of the CPUC -- *Dan Bursch *of the Naval
Postgraduate School* -- Sandra Faber* of UC Santa Cruz/UCO Lick
* *Growing List of Presentations Online* — Come see what CENIC08 has
to offer!
* *Online Registration Available *— Discounted Hotel Rates End Soon!
* * * * *
*Lineup of Stellar Luminaries as Keynote Speakers for CENIC 08:
*
* *Monday, March 10: CA Public Utilities Commissioner Rachelle Chong*
* *Tuesday, March 11: Former Astronaut and NPS National
Reconnaissance Chair Dan Bursch*
* *Wednesday, March 12: UC Santa Cruz/UCO Lick Professor of
Astronomy Sandra Faber*
[Picture of Rachelle Chong]
Appointed to the Commission on January 11, 2006, *Rachelle Chong*
participated in her first Commission meeting on January 12, with an
historic vote on
the California Solar Initiative.
Since 1984, she has been a communications regulatory lawyer practicing
before both the Federal Communications Commission (FCC
<http://www.fcc.gov/>) and the California
PUC. In 1993, Commissioner Chong was appointed by President Clinton to
the FCC where she served as an FCC Commissioner for over three years.
During that time, she voted on rules for the first auctions of wireless
PCS spectrum, approved rules to create many new wireless and satellite
services,
finalized digital television rules, and implemented the historic
Telecommunications Act of 1996. Commissioner Chong also represented the
FCC at
international communications conferences, including the World Radio
Conference and the Asian Pacific Economic Council.
Commissioner Chong then became a General Counsel and Vice President of
Governmental Affairs for a start up CLEC/broadband/applications service
provider venture and has also recently been a mediator/arbitrator, owned
a small business, and operated an E-commerce store on the Internet. As a
result,
she brings to the CPUC a unique perspective as a federal regulator, long
time communications lawyer, small business owner, Web entrepreneur, and
mediator.
[Picture of Dan Bursch]
A former Naval Officer and NASA Astronaut, *Dan Bursch* now serves in
one of the chair positions in the Space Systems Academic Group at the Naval
Postgraduate School (NPS).
Dan Bursch was a Naval Flight Officer and graduate student at NPS before
being selected as an astronaut in 1990. Dan completed four missions to space
the most recent one as a member of the Expedition Four crew to the
International Space Station (ISS) from December 2001 to June 2002.
Bursch is an employee of The Aerospace Corporation, which fills the
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Chair position at NPS. The Space System
Academic Group at NPS is a unique interdisciplinary association
consisting of 20 faculty and 7 academic chairs. His primary
responsibility is to ensure
that education and research at NPS supports the mission of the NRO, and
he serves as a professor in several space systems courses. He is also
supporting a new initiative at NPS that will provide more hands-on
instruction for space systems students.
[Picture of Sandra Faber]
*Sandra Faber*'s research focuses on the formation and evolution of
galaxies and the evolution of structure in the universe. She utilizes
ground-based optical
data obtained with the Lick 3-meter and Keck 10-meter telescopes; she
also has several projects on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). She does most
of her work with graduate students and has several ongoing
collaborations with former students which have lasted many years.
Currently she is concentrating in three areas. A project is nearly
complete to measure the large-scale peculiar motion of local galaxies
and make
comparisons to density maps from IRAS and optical galaxy catalogs. The
aim is to measure the total mass-density of the universe. Related to
this is a
long-term project on the mass-to-light ratios and stellar populations of
elliptical galaxies. This work has culminated in methods to disentangle
age and
metallicity for stars in elliptical galaxies, with the result that many
elliptical stellar populations are found to be surprisingly young. Faber
is planning to hunt
for the presence of such galaxies using lookback studies of distant
clusters with the Keck Telescope.
Faber is a member of the Wide-Field Camera (I) Team of HST. With team
members (including three former students), she is studying stellar
populations in
nearby globular clusters, elliptical galaxies, and distant clusters of
galaxies. She also leads a group of scientists searching for nuclear
black holes in using
HST FOS (Faint Object Spectrograph) spectroscopy.
CENIC is thrilled to announce that Commissioner Chong, Chairman Bursch,
and Dr. Faber will play such an important part in our annual conference this
year. Given the success of our last conference, “Making Waves
<http://cenic07.cenic.org/>,” held in La Jolla, CA, exceeding the
standard set by that event will be a challenge, but
*
* * * * *
Updated List of Presentations for CENIC08 Now Available Online — See
what our program has to offer!
*We've been giving you updates for the past few months about the Keynote
Speakers and options for registration, and we're thrilled to be able to
share with
you now a preliminary list of speakers and presentations
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/program/index.html> for CENIC08!
With illustrious speakers anticipated from all segments of CENIC
Associates and topics ranging from remote observing and astrochemistry
to grid
computing, new media, collaborative teaching and learning, and workforce
development, you're sure to find plenty to fill all three days of conference
attendance. We'll be adding more and more presentations to the
conference website <http://cenic08.cenic.org/> and a scheduled program
before long, so be sure to check back
and watch your inbox for more updates as more information is added.
* * * * *
*Online Registration Open — Register Today and Reserve Your Hotel Room
Online
*If this sounds like something that you'd like to take part in, then why
not register today <http://cenic08.cenic.org/registration/index.html>?
Online registration for the conference is officially open, and
payment options for our attendees have expanded for increased
convenience. Your options now include payment by check before the
conference as well
as three options for payment by major credit card:
* You can *register and pay online* at the same time.
* You can also *register now and pay later*. If you choose this
option, you will receive a Payment ID via e-mail and link that you
can use at any time.
* You can also *register and pay at the conference*, using your
Payment ID and a major credit card.
Even more exciting announcements are in store in the weeks and months
ahead, so to make sure that you can take part in “Lightpath to the Stars
<http://cenic08.cenic.org/>,” be sure
to register <http://cenic08.cenic.org/registration/index.html> today!
[Picture of Oakland Marriott City Center]
The conference will be held this year at the Oakland Marriott City
Center <http://cenic08.cenic.org/hotel.html>, located in the heart of
downtown Oakland and convenient to fabulous shopping
and dining as well as historical sites such as Jack London Square
<http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/> and Oakland's Chinatown. The
conference hotel is also extremely conveniently located
within easy walking distance to BART
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=1245+Broadway++Oakland,+CA+94602&daddr=1001+Broadway,+Oakland,+CA+94607&sll=37.815015,-122.26451&sspn=0.028851,0.053558&ie=UTF8&ll=37.8024,-122.27238&spn=0.007214,0.01339&z=17&om=1>
and Amtrak
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=245+Second+Street+Oakland,+CA+94602&daddr=1001+Broadway,+Oakland,+CA+94607&sll=37.8024,-122.27238&sspn=0.007214,0.01339&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1>
stations (click links for walking maps), and through them may be reached
from all major Bay Area
airports. The conference website <http://cenic08.cenic.org/>, shown
below, features Hotel & Travel <http://cenic08.cenic.org/hotel.html>
information as well as links to local points of interest when visiting
Oakland <http://cenic08.cenic.org/tourism.html>.
Discounted hotel rates end on *February 16, 2008*, so be sure to book
your room before then for the special conference room rate!
We look forward to seeing you in Oakland in March 2008!
www.cenic.org
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