[ CENIC News ] CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — Keynote Speakers Confirmed, List of Presentations and Registration Available Online

Wed Jan 2 10:44:34 PST 2008

[CENIC08: Lightpath to the Stars: March 10-12, 2008 Oakland, CA]

*CENIC 08: Lightpath to the Stars — All the Latest News
*

    * *Sandra Faber* of UC Santa Cruz/UCO Lick and *Rachelle Chong* of
      the CPUC Keynote Speakers
    * *List of Presentations Online* — Come see what CENIC08 has to offer!
    * *Online Registration Available *— Register Today and Reserve Your
      Hotel Room Online

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*Sandra Faber of UC Santa Cruz/UCO Lick and Rachelle Chong of the CA 
Public Utilities Commission
*
[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.

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*[Picture of Rachelle Chong]

CENIC is also delighted to announce as Keynote speaker California Public 
Utilities Commissioner <http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/> Rachelle Chong.  
Appointed to the Commission on
January 11, 2006, 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.

CENIC is thrilled to announce that Dr. Faber and Commissioner Chong will 
play such an important part in our annual conference next 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 Dr. Faber and
Commissioner Chong's participation will play a crucial role in that.
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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 Hotel]

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>.

We look forward to seeing you in Oakland in March 2008!

CENIC: http://www.cenic.org/

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