Thursday 5-6pm Registration at Radisson Woodlands
Thursday 7-9pm Reception and registration at Lowell Observatory
     Shuttles from Radisson to Lowell: 6, 6:30
     Shuttles from Lowell to Radisson: 9, 9:30

Friday and Saturday Breakfast 7:30-8:30
Coffee 10:40-11:10
Lunch 12:45-2:15
Afternoon Break 3:40-4:10

Day I

Session I: Friday 8:45-10:40 Chair Way

Ayala Historian University of Applied Arts Vienna Space, time and structure: galactic redshifts in a historical context 30 min abstract YouTube video
Putnam Lowell Trustee Lowell Observatory An Introduction to V.M. Slipher 15 min abstract YouTube video
Smith Historian University of Alberta V.M. Slipher: Master of the Spectrograph 25 min abstract presentation YouTube video

Coffee 10:40-11:10

Session II: Friday 11:10-12:45 Chair Gingerich

Freeman Astronomer Mount Stromlo Observatory Slipher and the Nature of the Nebulae 30 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Nussbaumer Astronomer Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich Slipher's redshifts as support for de Sitter's universe? 30 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Bothun Astronomer University of Oregon Cosmological Models: Tenacious Myths and Epicycles 25 min abstract presentation YouTube video

Lunch 12:45-2:15

Session III: Friday 2:15-3:40 Chair Peacock

O'Raefertagh Physicist Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Who discovered the expanding universe? 20 min abstract YouTube video
Gingerich Astronomer Historian Center for Astrophysics The Critical Role of Russell's Diagram 25 min abstract YouTube video
DeVorkin Historian Smithsonian Institution Henry Norris Russell: A Loyal Lowellian? 25 min abstract YouTube video

Afternoon Break 3:40-4:10

Session IV: Friday 4:10-5:50 Chair Nussbaumer

Impey Astronomer University of Arizona A Century of Galaxy Redshifts -- From a Few Dozen to Millions 30 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Coles Astronomer Cardiff University Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 Eclipse Expeditions 25 min abstract YouTube video
Stanley Historian New York University The Varieties of Universal Expansion: Eddington and the Big Bang 30 min abstract YouTube video

6:30 Dinner Banquet: Don Lago, Edwin Hubble's Silence abstract presentation

Day II

Session V: Saturday 8:45-10:40 Chair

Ellis Astronomer California Institute of Technology A Century of Redshift Surveys: Past, Present and Future 30 min abstract presentation
Peacock Astronomer University of Edinburgh Slipher, galaxies and cosmic velocity fields 30 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Adams Astronomer University of Michigan The FUTURE History of Cosmic Expansion (and constituent astrophysical objects) 25 min abstract YouTube video

Coffee 10:40-11:10

Session VI: Saturday 11:10-12:45 Chair Matt Stanley

Thompson Astronomer University of Illinois Vesto Slipher and the development of nebular spectrographs 30 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Schindler Program Manager Lowell Observatory Serendipity and the Acquisition of the Lowell Spectrograph 15 min abstract YouTube video
Tenn Astronomer Historian Sonoma State University What else did V.M. Slipher Do? 25 min abstract presentation YouTube video
Briggs Astronomer HUT Observatory A Forgotten Small Telescope that Inspired the Discovery of Galaxies 10 min abstract YouTube video

Lunch 12:45-2:15

Session VII: Saturday 2:15-3:40 Chair Joe Tenn

Belenkiy Mathematician Historian British Columbia Institute of Technology The Big Bang and Accelerating Universe: Alexander Friedman and the Origin of Modern Cosmology 25 min abstract YouTube video
Farrell Free-lance writer Forbes Media Georges Lemaitre: A Personal Profile 25 min abstract YouTube video
Way Astronomer NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dismantling Hubble's Legacy 20 min abstract presentation YouTube video

Afternoon Break 3:40-4:10

Conference Summary 4:10-? YouTube video

Posters (up for the duration of the conference)

Armstrong Artist Deakin University Spectral Shifts abstract YouTube video
Marcus Astronomer St Louis, Missouri Another Underappreciated Lowell Observatory Achievement: The First Infrared Observation of a Comet abstract
Tifft Astronomer Steward Observatory The Nature of the Redshift abstract