Plenary 1: (Theatre) 08:30 – 10:20• Opening Remarks:

• Elder Victor Underwood: “Welcome to the Territory”• Jamie Cassels (President, University of Victoria)• Greg Fahlman (Director General, NRC Herzberg)

• Broughton: John Stanley Plaskett – Northern Star• Crabtree: Highlights from the First 100 Years of the DAO

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 10:20 – 10:50

Centennial 1: Optical & Infared Astronomy (Th) 10:50 – 12:30• Carlberg: The First University Astronomy: Contributions of the DDO and UTSO• Doyon: The OMM and Domestic Telescopes as Innovation Testbeds• Fahlman: CFHT – Canadian Astronomy at the Top of the World• Ferrarese: Gemini – Access to Both Hemispheres

S1: Instruments(Theatre) 14:45 – 15:30

• Sivanandam• Doyon• Boucher

Wednesday, 23 May Thursday, 24 May

Gemini Lunch (Theatre)12:30 – 14:00

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 15:30 – 16:00

Interaction Session & Cash Bar: 17:30 – 18:30

S2: Planets & Disks I(Saanich) 14:45 – 15:30

• Van der Marel• Dong• Shan

CASCA Public Lecture: (Theatre) 20:00 – 21:00Bob McDonald (CBC): What If Everything We Know is Wrong?

SKA Lunch (Saanich)12:30 – 14:00

Plenary 3: (Theatre) 16:00 – 17:30• Eadie: Hierarchical Bayes and the Mass of the Milky

Way (Plaskett Medal)• Cannon: The Unlikely Dawn of Joint Gravitational-Wave

and Electromagnetic Astronomy (Dunlap Prize)

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 10:10 – 10:35

Centennial 2: Radio Astr. (Th) 8:30 – 10:10• Robishaw: DRAO and ARO – The Foundations of

Canadian Radio Astronomy• Kirk: The Move to Higher Frequencies – Contributions of

the JCMT• Wilson: ALMA – Canada in the First “World Observatory”• Dobbs: Innovative Technologies in Radio Astronomy

S5: CHIME(Th) 14:00 – 15:30

• Shaw (Invited)• Scholz• Good• Fandino• Pinsonneault-

Marrotte

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 15:30 – 16:00

Interaction Session:17:30 – 18:30

S6: Stars & Remnants(Sa) 14:00 – 15:30

• St. Louis (Invited)• Tannock• Braun• Sakari• Zhao

S3: Gravitational Waves & Compact Sources(Th) 10:35 – 12:20

• Landry (Invited)• Haggard• Ruan• Nynka• Main

Banquet at the Royal BC Museum: 19:00 – 22:00

S4: Planets & Disks II (Sa) 10:35 – 12:30

• Lawler (Invited)• Stevenson• Deibert• Rogowski• Goldblatt• Rogers (Invited)

Elementary School

Teachers Workshop + Dinner (Es)

16:00 – 20:00

Secondary School

Teachers Workshop (Es)

Secondary School

Teachers Workshop

(Es)

Secondary School

Teachers Workshop

(Es)

Secondary School

Teachers Workshop

(Es)

Town Hall Lunch (Theatre)12:30 – 14:00

NCOA Session (Theatre)17:30 – 18:30

Plenary 4: (Theatre) 16:00 – 17:30• Halpern: Progress and Challenges in Experimental

Cosmology (Beals Prize)• Fahlman: Canadian Astronomy – A Look Back to the

Future (Executive Award)

Plenary 2: (Theatre) 14:00 – 14:45• Dumas and Sanders: The TMT: Science and Project Perspective

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 10:20 – 10:45

Centennial 3: Space Astronomy & Instrumentation (Theatre) 9:00 – 9:50

• Hutchings: Canada’s Place in Space Astronomy• Simard: Instrumentation as the Gateway to Great Science

S11: Space Astr.(Th) 14:00 – 15:30

• Côté (Invited)• Peeters (Invited)• Darveau Bernier• Hutchings

Friday, 25 May Saturday, 26 May

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 15:30 – 16:00

Interaction Session & Cash Bar: 17:30 – 18:30

S12: Galaxies(Sa) 14:00 – 15:30

• Cami• Boselli• Zhang• Taylor• Damjanov

Plenary 5: (Theatre) 09:00 – 10:45• Abraham: President’s Message• Thacker: Imaginations Gift (Qilak Award)• Elder Dr. Barney Williams: Education – the Key to Reconciliation

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 10:45 – 11:15

Centennial 4: Theory & Data Science

(Theatre) 14:15 – 15:30• CITA: A Pillar of the Canadian

Astronomical Community (Pen)

• CADC: Data, Data, Data! (Schade)

• Steffen: Publishing in AAS Journals

S13: Theory & Astroinformatics(Th) 11:15 – 12:45

• Herwig (Invited)• Neilson• Rucska• Barmby (Invited)

Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions: 15:30 – 16:00Poster papers not removed by 17:30 will be discarded

S14: Star Formation &

Planetary Systems(Sa) 11:15 – 12:45

• Marois• Fraser• Bannister• Fissel• Deb• Sing

EPO II(Sa) 14:15 – 15:15

• Neilson• Bridges• Kavelaars• Laychak

EPO I(Es) 11:15 – 12:30

• Claxton (Invited)• Zhang• Hesser• Crabtree

CASCA Business Meeting (Theatre)16:00 – 17:30

Closing Activities (Theatre): 16:00 – 17:00• NSERC Presentation• Award Presentations• Closing Remarks

VCC Room Legend: Th = Theatre; Sa = Saanich; Es = Esquimalt; Poster Displays/Demos in Oak Bay and Pre-Function

CFHT Lunch (Theatre)12:30 – 14:00

CITA Lunch (Saanich)12:30 – 14:00

History(ES) 14:00 – 15:15

• Trimble• Batten• Morton• Wallerstein

S9: AGN / Facilities (Theatre) 10:45 – 12:30

• Juneau (Invited)• Hebbar• Berg• Simons• Yoshida• Hall

S10: Cosmology(Saanich) 10:45 – 12:30

• Hložek(Invited)• Van Engelen• Foreman• Masui• Loggia• Woo

S7: Radio Initiatives(Theatre) 09:50 – 10:20

• Gaensler• Dempsey

S8: Stellar Halos(Saanich) 09:50 – 10:20

• Thomas• Henault-Brunet

DAO Centennial Celebration: 20:00 – 22:00Buses Depart VCC at 19:30

Meeting-Free Lunch (12:45 – 14:15)