Washington Area Astronomers
              Spring Meeting - 26 March 1998
                   Preliminary Program

All scientific sessions will be held in Room 300 of Building 52 at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Except where indicated, all talks are 15 minutes, which includes up to 5 minutes allowed for discussion.

8:30 - 9:00 REGISTRATION

9:00 - 10:30 SESSION I

1. Marc Murison (USNO) "Trans-Neptunian Dynamics: An Overview"

2. Harri Vanhala (DTM) "Simulations of Shock-Triggered Star Formation

3. Xin-Min Hua (USRA) "Frequency Dependent Lags -- A Common Property of Accreting Black Hole Candidates"

4. Lev Titarchuk (GMU) "Observational Evidence for the Existence of Black Holes"

5. Kevin Rauch (UMD) "The Dynamics of Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei"

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE

11:00 - 12:30 SESSION II

1. T. Joseph W. Lazio (NRL) "The Search for Pulsars in the Galatic Center"

2. Carole Mundell (UMD) "Using HI to Probe AGN Hosts and Their Nuclei"

3. David Devine (GSFC) "Long Winded Little Stars"

4. Brian Mason (USNO) "Speckle Interferometry at the U.S. Naval Observatory"

5. Michael Perryman (ESA - ESTEC) (30 min.) "Hipparcos: Results, Scientific Applications, and Future Directions"

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 3:30 SESSION III

1. Guenter Brueckner (NRL) "A New View of the Solar Corona and the Solar Wind"

2. Paul Goudfrooij (STScI) "Dusty Optical Nebulosity in X-ray Bright Ellipticals: Clues to the Nature of the Multi-Phase ISM of Ellipticals"

3. Susan Kayser (NSF) "The Gemini Telescopes"

4. Matthew Baring (USRA) "Can Gamma-Ray Pulsars be Radio Quiet?"

5. Gerhardt Meurer (JHU) "Starbursts, Dark Matter, and the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies"

6. Martin Dominik (STScI) "Science with PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies Network)"

3:30 - 4:30 RECEPTION AND EXHIBIT SESSION

4:30 - 8:00 TEACHERS' SESSION AND TOUR Astronomers Invited