Friday Aug 25th   UCLA Luskin Center Legacy Conference Room
0700-0830 Pick up name tags, meal vouchers      
CHAIR: Andrea  Ghez    
830-845: Jean Turner (UCLA) Introduction
845-915: Giovanni Fazio (Harvard/SAO) Flying High: Ned at Harvard
915-935: Fred  Baganoff (MIT) How Did I End Up in the Galactic Center?
935-955: Slava Turyshev (JPL/UCLA) From Pioneer anomaly to modern tests of fundamental gravitation
0955-1025: Mary-Beth Kaiser (JHU)  
         
Refreshments        
CHAIR: Tomasso Treu    
1100-1130: John Mather (NASA/GSFC) What I learned from Ned, from COBE to JWST and beyond
1130-1150: Kris Gorski (NASA/JPL) Reminiscences of COBE DMR
1150-1210: Mike Rich (UCLA) The legacy of COBE's bar
1210-1230: Mike  Werner (NASA/JPL) From SIRTF to Spitzer with Ned and Friends
         
1230-1400: Lunch      
CHAIR: Smadar Naoz    
1400-1420: Mike Hauser (STScI) Ned Wright and the Cosmic Background Explorer
1420-1450: Rainer Weiss (MIT) What I learned from Ned
1450-1510: Greg Taylor (UNM) From UCLA to the Long Wavelength Array
1510-1530: Mark Halpern (UBC) CHIME
         
Refreshments        
CHAIR: Sally Anne Rosenberg    
1600-1630: Chuck Bennett (JHU) The Standard Model of Cosmology
1630-1650: Xi Chen (Caltech/IPAC) The Bandmerged Planck ERCSC
1650-1710: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA) Gamma-rays, cosmic-rays, infrared light and the intergalactic magnetic fields
         
         
1800-2200: Banquet & Ned-Roast Ballroom Speakers: Chuck Rosenberg, Diana Wright, Patricia Wright, Eric Becklin, Xi Chen, Matt Malkan
         
Saturday Aug 26th   UCLA Luskin Center Legacy Conference Room
CHAIR: Mark Morris    
900-930: Lyman Page (Princeton) Measuring the CMB Polarization
930-1000: Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA) LiteBIRD-a satellite to find primordial gravitational waves from inflation in the CMB
1000-1020: Ranga-Ram Chary (Caltech/IPAC) Ned's Multiverse
         
Refreshments        
CHAIR: Jingwen Wu    
1045-1115: Peter Eisenhardt (NASA/JPL) Exploring the Universe with Ned and WISE
1115-1135: Varoujan Gorjian (NASA/JPL) The Cosmic Infrared Background with Ned from 1994 to 2017
1135-1200: Andrew Blain (Leicester) WISE's haul of hot and strange
1200-1220: Chao-Wei Tsai (UCLA/JPL) Hunt for the Most Luminous Galaxies with WISE
         
1220-1400: Lunch      
CHAIR: Ben Zuckerman    
1400-1430: Amy Mainzer (NASA/JPL) Watching for Wanderers: Asteroids and Comets
1430-1450: Joseph  Masiero (NASA/JPL) The asteroid belt, as seen by WISE/NEOWISE
1450-1520: Davy Kirkpatrick (Caltech/IPAC) How WISE Has Revolutionized our Knowledge of Nearby Stars and Brown Dwarfs
1520-1540: Amy Lo (Northrop-Grumman) JWST Progress
  Ned  Wright (UCLA) Final thoughts
Refreshments