PSI 2007 Annual Retreat Program

Westward Look Resort

Sunday, August 19

Monday, August 20

9:00-9:10 Welcome and Introductions (M. Sykes)
9:10-9:30 The State of PSI (M. Sykes) [Powerpoint presentation]
9:30-9:45 IT Evolution at PSI (T. Kemnitz-Michotte)

(15 min) Scott Mest - A Martian Moves to the Moon: On Becoming a Lunatic
(5 min) Randy Perry - Will Ancient Silica on Mars Provide Evidence for Early Life?
(5 min) Mark Everett - Target Selection for NASA's Kepler Mission
(5 min) Nic Richmond - The First Global Map of the Vector Lunar Crustal Magnetic Field
(15 min) Greg Vaughan - Monitoring Volcanic Thermal Features from Space
(5 min) Lijie Han (and Adam Showman, UA) - Implications of Shear Heating
(5 min) Steve Kortenkamp - New Visualization Techniques for the Old PSI Planet Building Code
(5 min) Emily Joseph - Uses of Raytracing in Planetary Science and Education
(15 min) Jim Head - Technologies to Realize Planetary Pinpoint Landing and Propulsive Relocation

(15 min) Amy Knudson - Dirt and Hematite on Mars
(5 min) Melissa Lane - Studies of Minerals Using Thermal Emission Spectroscopy
(5 min) Nader Haghighipour - From Dust to Habitable Planets
(5 min) Asmin Pathare - The Brittle-Ductile Transition in Mixtures of Rock and Ice: Experiments at Planetary Conditions
(15 min) Jack Drummond - Asteroid Rotational Poles and Triaxial Ellipsoid Dimensions from Adaptive Optics on Large Telescopes
(5 min) Eldar Noe Dobrea - Light-Toned Outcrops and Periglacial Features: The Aqueous History of Mars as Recorded in the Geology
(5 min) David O'Brien - Collisional and Dynamical Processes in the Solar System Fracture Zones for Ridge Formation on Europa
(5 min) Frank Chuang - Move, Publish, and Now a New Parent

Tuesday, August 21

(5 min) Matt Chamberlain - Thermal Radiation from Large Asteroids
(5 min) Bill Feldman - Research Opportunities for Studying Water on Mars, Mercury Surface Composition, Solar Neutron Generation, Vesta and Ceres Surface Composition, and Upward Lightning
(5 min) Pasquale Tricarico - Orbit@Home
(15 min) Natasha Artemieva - Making Impact Craters From Numbers
for Application to Mars and Meteorites.
(5 min) Betty Pierazzo - Blowing Things up With Sincerity
(5 min) Kim Kuhlman - Radiation-induced Reactivity of Lunar Regolith in Support of the Return to the Moon
(5 min) Dan Berman - Crater Degradation and Transverse Aeolian Ridges

(5 min) Beatrice Mueller - Cometary Rotation
(5 min) Les Bleamaster - Geologic Mapping of Venus and Mars
(5 min) Stu Weidenschilling - The PSI planet-building code: Multi-zone, multi-use
(5 min) David Crown - Gullies on Mars: Insights Regarding Contemporary Activity and Plans for Future Large-Scale Experimental Studies
(5 min) Nalin H. Samarasinha - Exploring Leftovers
(5 min) Mark Sykes - The Dawn Mission to the Largest Asteroid (Vesta) and Smallest Planet (Ceres)