**Future Directions in Ultraviolet Spectroscopy**

October 20-22, 2008

Annapolis, Maryland

Final Program

October 15, 2008

**Sunday, October 19, 2008**

17:00 -- 19:00 Registration and Opening Reception

**Monday, October 20, 2008**

Session I, Chair and Provocateur: B. Savage

9:00 C. Danforth (I) Finding \"Missing\" Baryons in the Local Universe?

9:30 T. Tripp (I) New Results on O VI Absorbers, Warm-Hot Intergalactic
Gas, and

Feedback

10:00 A. Narayanan (C) Probing the WHIM Gas Through Ne VIII Absorption

10:15 Discussion

10:30 -- 11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

Session II, Chair and Provocateur: C. Howk

11:00 R. Lallement (I) Local Interstellar Medium: New Perspectives

11:30 D. Bowen (I) The Distribution of Hot Gas in the Disk of the Milky
Way

12:00 V. Dixon (C) FUSE Observations of O VI Emission from the Milky Way

and Beyond

12:15 Discussion

12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session III, Chair and Provocateur: T. Heckman

13:30 A. Aloisi (I) A UV Perspective of Starburst Galaxies

14:00 G. Kriss (I) FUSE Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei and
Prospects for the

Future

14:30 N. Lehner (C) The Magellanic System - Accretion, Feedback

14:45 Discussion

15:00 -- 15:30 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

Session IV, Chair and Provocateur: A. Fullerton

15:30 R. Prinja (I) Mass Loss from Hot Stars

16:00 K. Werner (I) Abundances in Hot Evolved Stars

16:30 N. Walborn (C) Systematics of Magellanic Cloud OB Spectra from
FUSE

16:45 Discussion

Invited talks (I) -- 30 minutes, including discussion

Contributed talks (C) -- 15 minutes, including discussion

**Tuesday, October 21, 2008**

Session V, Chair and Provocateur: C. Froning

9:00 K. Long (C) Disks, Winds, and White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables

9:15 S. Engle (C) The Secret FUV/X-ray Lives of Cepheids

9:30 K. France (C) Far-UV Studies of H2 Emission from Photodissociation
Regions

9:45 V. Lebouteiller (C) Metal enrichment in the neutral gas of blue
compact dwarfs

10:00 S. Mathur (C) Super-solar metallicity in AGNs measured with FUSE

10:15 Discussion

10:40 -- 11:15 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

Session VI, Chair and Provocateur: J. Linsky

11:15 C. Oliveira (I) D/H Observations: Present Understanding and Future
Perspectives

11:45 G. Steigman (I) Tracking The Post-BBN Evolution Of Deuterium

12:15 Discussion

12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session VII, Chair and Provocateur: C. Grady

13:30 E. Guinan (I) The Sun in Time: Effects of the Young Sun\'s
Radiation

14:00 A. Brown (I) The Ultraviolet Environment of Protoplanetary Systems

14:30 A. Gomex de Castro (C) The formation of planetary disks and winds

14:45 -- 15:15 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

15:15 A. Vidal-Madjar (I) Ultraviolet Studies of Extra-Solar Planets

15:45 A. Roberge (I) Gas in Protoplanetary and Debris Disks

16:15 C. Martin-Zaidi (C) H~2~ in the circumstellar environments of
Herbig Ae/Be stars

16:30 Discussion

18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner (included with registration)

> W. Oegerle (I) After Dinner Remarks
>
> Director Astrophysics Division NASA GSFC

**Wednesday, October 22, 2008**

Session VIII, Chair and Provocateur: J. Morse

9:00 M. Shull (I) The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Future of UV
Astronomy

9:30 C. Martin (I) The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results and Future
Implications

10:00 S. McCandliss (C) Essential observations of the Lyman continuum

10:15 -- 10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

10:45 K. Werner (C) WSO/UV - Ultraviolet mission for the next decade

11:00 J. Green (I) Future Ultraviolet Observatories

11:30 M. Postman (I) Future of UV Astronomy

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00 End of Conference