Program

Welcome

• 9:00 - 9:05     Jean Turner

Debris Disks

• 9:05 - 9:30     Christine Chen (STScI), Title: Dust Debris Around Main Sequence Stars
• 9:30 - 9:50     Kate Su (University of Arizona), Title: Detection and Characterization of Exo-Asteriod Belts

Mass Loss from Red Giants

• 9:50 - 10:15     Jill Knapp (Princeton), Title: Mike Jura's Work on Mass-losing AGB Stars

Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs

• 10:15 - 10:40     Boris Gaensicke (University of Warwick), Title: Of serendipitous discoveries

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break

Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs, cont.

• 11:00 - 11:25     Siyi Xu (ESO), Title: Working with Michael Jura as a Graduate Student
11:25 - 11:45     Ed Young (UCLA), Title: Bayes' theorem and early solar short-lived radionuclides: the case for an unexceptional origin for the solar system

Fullerenes

• 11:45 - 12:10     Simon Balm (Santa Monica College) / Martha Jura, Title: The Discovery of the Fullerenes: When Harry met Michael

12:15 - 1:45 Lunch

Interstellar Gas and Dust

• 1:45 - 2:05     Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder), Title: Molecular Hydrogen Near and Far (ISM and IGM)
• 2:05 - 2:25     Don York (University of Chicago), Title: Mike Jura and the Impact of the Gifts of Nature
• 2:25 - 2:45     Ed Jenkins (Princeton), Title: Measurements of Thermal Pressures for Interstellar Diffuse Gas in the Local Part of our Galaxy
• 2:45 - 3:05     Raja Guhathakurta (UC Santa Cruz), Title: Studying Dust for Dust's Sake: How Mike Jura Inspired a Young Astronomer

3:05 - 3:35 Coffee break

Missions and UCLA

• 3:35 - 3:55     Bruce Margon (UC Santa Cruz), Title: Elements of Jura: The First UCLA Decade
• 3:55 - 4:20     Mike Werner (JPL), Title: Mike Jura, IRAS, SIRTF, and Spitzer
• 4:20 - 4:40     Eric Becklin (UCLA), Title: Mike Jura and the UCLA Infrared Lab — A World Class Program

Environmental Interests/Overview

• 4:40 - 5:00     Ben Zuckerman

6:00 - 9:00 Dinner at the Faculty Center

Last update: October 3, 2016.