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As explained in the Proceedings Web page, we provide here links to the manuscripts that have been submitted to astro-ph. If your paper has been submitted to astro-ph but we do not show the link here, please send an email to Nadine Manset with your name, astro-ph number and title of the paper. Please note that some papers may have suffered minor editing changes; therefore the published versions may differ. Session 1. The Nature of Time Time Since the Beginning 3   Alan H. Guth Time and Modern Physics 18   W. G. Unruh Implications of Spacetime Structure for Transience 24   Steven F. Savitt Session 2. Precision Timing in Astronomy Lessons Learned From Solar Oscillations 31   D. O. Gough Precision Pulsar Timing 44   V. M. Kaspi Dwarf Nova and Accretion Disks 57   Yoji Osaki The Most Stable Optical Clocks Known 65   Anjum Mukadam, S. O. Kepler, D. E. Winget Time Scale Invariant High--Low Transitions in Neutron Star/Black Hole Systems 74   H. Inoue On the Relationship Between Dynamical Time and Atomic Time 83   Y. B. Kolesnik Session 3. Planetary and Debris Disk Systems Time Scale of Disk and Planet Formation 89   Frank H. Shu The Epoch of Planet Formation 90   Douglas Lin Solar System Formation Time Scales From Oligarchic Growth 91   Edward W. Thommes, Martin J. Duncan, Harold F. Levison Lunar Formation From a Circumterrestrial Disk 101   E. Kokubo, S. Ida Radioactivity and Solar System Formation Time Scales 110   Typhoon Lee On the Accretion of Distant Planets 111   William R. Ward, Craig B. Agnor, Hidekazu Tanaka Dust to Dust: Evidence for Planet Formation? 121   Glenn Schneider, Dean C. Hines, Murray D. Silverstone, Alycia J. Weinberger, Eric E. Becklin, Bradford A. Smith Recent Solar Heavy Element Abundance Determinations and Implications for the History of the Solar System 130   E. Biemont Ages and Abundances Among beta Pictoris Stars 133   Michael L. Edwards, Robert E. Stencel Outer Solar System Survey 135   T. Fuse, D. Kinoshita, N. Yamamoto, J. Watanabe The Formation of the Planetary Sequence in a Rotating, Self-Gravitating Disk of Randomly Colliding Planetesimals 138   E. Griv, M. Gedalin, D. Eichler, E. Liverts Star Formation Studies With the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 135   P. M. McGehee Observing the Planet Formation Time Scale by Ground-Based Direct Imaging of Planetary Companions to Young Nearby Stars: Gemini/Hokupa`a Image of TWA-5 144   Ralph Neuhäuser, Dan Potter, Wolfgang Brandner Session 4. The Galaxy and the Local Group Galaxy Formation One Star at a Time: New Information From the Kinematics of Field Stars in the Galaxy 149   Timothy C. Beers, Masashi Chiba Globular Cluster Age Dating 162   Brian Chaboyer White Dwarf Stars as Cosmochronometers 173   G. Fontaine Relative Ages of Galactic Globular Clusters: Clues to the Milky Way Formation Time Scale 182   A. Aparicio, A. Rosenberg, I. Saviane, G. Piotto, M. Zoccali White Dwarfs in Open Clusters: New Tests of Stellar Evolution and the Age of the Galaxy 190   Ted von Hippel Stellar Seismology, Stellar Ages, and the Cosmological Constant 199   G. R. Isaak, K. G. Isaak The Dark Side of the Milky Way 207   Jan Bernkopf, Alex Fiedler, Klaus Fuhrmann The Age of the Galactic Bulge 216   R. Michael Rich Nucleosynthesis Clocks and the Age of the Galaxy 226   James W. Truran, Scott Burles, John J. Cowan, Christopher Sneden Neutron-Capture Element Abundances and Cosmochronometry 235   Christopher Sneden, John J. Cowan, Timothy C. Beers, James W. Truran, James E. Lawler, George Fuller First Measurement of the Uranium/Thorium Ratio in a Very Old Star: Implications for the Age of the Galaxy 244   R. Cayrel, M. Spite, F. Spite, V. Hill, F. Primas, P. Francois, T. C. Beers, B. Plez, B. Barbuy, J. Andersen, B. Nordström, P. Molaro, P. Bonifacio Hope and Inquietudes in Nucleocosmochronology 252   M. Arnould, S. Goriely The Oldest Stars: Diffusion and the Spite Plateau 262   A. Weiss, M. Salaris How Good Are New Ages for Old Stars? 271   Bengt Gustafsson, Michelle Mizuno-Wiedner The Dynamical Relaxation Time Scale of the Milky Way 280   E. Griv, M. Gedalin, D. Eichler, C. Yuan Dating and Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group 289   David Valls-Gabaud, Xavier Hernandez, Gerard Gilmore New Searches for R-Process Enhanced Stars 298   N. Christlieb, T. C. Beers, V. Hill, F. Primas, J. Rhee, S. G. Ryan, M. Bessell, J. E. Norris, C. Sneden, B. Edvardsson, B. Gustafsson, T. Karlsson, M. Mizuno-Wiedner Determination of Accurate Stellar Ages Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries 301   A. Giménez, I. Ribas, E. F. Guinan Eddington: A European Space Mission That Will Measure the Age of the Stars 304   A. Giménez, F. Favata The Light Elements in TO and SGB Stars of Two Globular Clusters: Implications for Photometric Age Determinations 307   VLT Globular Cluster Team: R. G. Gratton, P. Bonifacio, A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, V. Castellani, M. Centurion, A. Chieffi, R. Claudi, G. Clementini, F. D'Antona, S. Desidera, P. Francois, F. Grundahl, S. Lucatello, P. Molaro, L. Pasquini, C. Sneden, F. Spite, O. Straniero Cosmochronometry and New Constraints on R-Process Nucleosynthesis 310   M. Hannawald, B. Pfeiffer, K.-L. Kratz Luminosity Function and Age of White Dwarfs in the Disk 313   Hugh C. Harris, Conard C. Dahn, S. K. Leggett, James Liebert R-Process Pattern in the Very-Metal-Poor Halo Star CS~31082--001 316   Vanessa Hill, Bertrand Plez, Roger Cayrel, Timothy C. Beers Multi-Color Observations of Evolved Stars in omega Centauri 319   Joanne Hughes, George Wallerstein, Floor Van Leeuwen Age Gradients in the Sculptor and Carina Dwarf Spheroidals 322   Denise Hurley-Keller, Mario Mateo Planetary Nebulae in the Outer Spheroid of M 31 325   Denise Hurley-Keller, Heather Morrison, Paul Harding, George Jacoby What are White Dwarfs Telling Us About the Galactic Disk and Halo? 328   J. Isern, E. García--Berro, M. Salaris Nucleosynthesis of Heavy Elements in the First Generation Stars 331   Nobuyuki Iwamoto, Toshitaka Kajino, Wako Aoki Addressing Ambiguities in the Evolutionary Status of Solar-Mass Stars 334   Tuba Koktay New Gravities for Old Stars 337   A. J. Korn, T. Gehren Did the Inner Halo Globular Clusters Form Earlier Than Those in the Outer Halo? 340   Jae-Woo Lee, Bruce W. Carney, Laura K. Fullton, Peter B. Stetson Horizontal Branch Morphology as an Age Indicator 343   Young-Wook Lee, Suk-Jin Yoon, Soo-Chang Rey, Brian Chaboyer Ages of Cool White Dwarfs From Photometric and Spectroscopic Analyses 346   S. K. Leggett, P. Bergeron, María Teresa Ruiz Revised Ages for the Alpha Persei and Pleiades Clusters 349   Eduardo L. Martín, Scott Dahm, Yakiv Pavlenko Tidal Streams in the Galactic Halo: Evidence for the Sagittarius Northern Stream or Traces of a New Nearby Dwarf Galaxy 352   D. Martínez-Delgado, A. Aparicio, R. Carrera, M. A. Gómez-Flechoso Dwarf Spheroidals With Tidal Tails and Structure Formation 355   Lucio Mayer MACHO Project Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events With Clump Giants as Sources 358   P. Popowski, T. Vandehei, K. Griest, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, T. S. Axelrod, A. C. Becker, D. P. Bennett, K. H. Cook, A. J. Drake, K. C. Freeman, M. Geha, M. J. Lehner, S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti, C. A. Nelson, B. A. Peterson, P. J. Quinn, C. W. Stubbs, W. Sutherland, D. Welch (The MACHO Collaboration) Is the Short Distance Scale a Result of a Problem With the LMC Photometric Zero Point? 361   Piotr Popowski Chromospherically Young, Kinematically Old Stars 364   Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Walter J. Maciel, Bruno V. Castilho Atomic Diffusion in Stellar Interiors and Field Halo Subdwarfs Ages 367   M. Salaris, A. Weiss Is the Universe Younger Than the Galaxy? The Lesson of the Globular Clusters 370   Oscar Straniero, Alessandro Chieffi, Inmaculata Dominguez, Gianluca Imbriani, Marco Limongi Time Scales and Transitions During Stellar Pulsation and Evolution 373   R. Szabó, Z. Kolláth, Z. Csubry, J. R. Buchler Tuning the Clock: Uranium and Thorium Chronometers Applied to CS~31082-001 376   R. Toenjes, H. Schatz, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. C. Beers, J. Cowan, V. Hill Session 5. Galaxies Formation Histories Expected from Cosmological Simulations 381   Guinevere Kauffmann Merger Time Scales 382   Joshua E. Barnes Time Scales in Starbursts 390   Claus Leitherer Evolutionary Time Scales of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies 401   Gerhard Hensler The Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies 411   Bradley C. Whitmore Galaxy Deconstruction: Clues From Globular Clusters 420   Michael J. West The Formation Time Scales of Giant Spheroids 429   S. C. Trager, S. M. Faber, A. Dressler Time Scale of Chemical Enrichment, Transport, and Mixing 438   Jean-René Roy Dating Stellar Populations in Dwarf Starbursting Galaxies 439   A. Aloisi, C. Leitherer The Ages of Early-Type Galaxies from Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations 442   Joseph B. Jensen, John L. Tonry, Brian J. Barris, Michael C. Liu Age Estimation of Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems Using H-beta Index 445   Hyun-chul Lee, Suk-Jin Yoon, Young-Wook Lee An Infrared View of Galactic Spheroid Formation 448   F. J. Masci, C. J. Lonsdale, R. C. Carlberg Time Scales of Dynamical Processes in the Intergalactic Medium 451   M. Rauch, W. L. W. Sargent, T. A. Barlow Near IR Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in M~82 454   T. Usuda, N. Kobayashi, H. Terada, S. Matsushita, T. G. Tsuru, T. Harashima, T. Matsumoto, R. Kawabe, M. Goto, A. Tokunaga Spectro-Chemical Evolution of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies 457   Gerardo A. Vázquez, J. Jesús González, Leticia Carigi Time Scales and the Formation of Disk Galaxies 460   P. R. Williams, A. H. Nelson Protogalaxies and the Hubble Sequence 463   P. R. Williams, A. H. Nelson Session 6. Galaxy Clusters Is Cold Dark Matter Still a Strong Buy? The Lesson From Galaxy Clusters 469   Fabio Governato, Sebastiano Ghigna, Ben Moore Observational Constraints on Cluster Formation at Low Redshift 481   Lori M. Lubin Ages and Metal Contents of Early-Type Galaxies 491   Inger Jørgensen Time Scales in X-ray Clusters of Galaxies 500   Stefano Ettori Faint End of the Galaxy Luminosity Function: A Chronometer for Structure Formation 509   R. Brent Tully The Oldest Stellar Populations at z ~ 1.5 517   Alan Stockton Session 7. The Universe Time at the Beginning 529   Michael S. Turner The Hubble Constant and the Expansion Age of the Universe 542   Wendy L. Freedman Tunable Filter Surveys for Star Formation Across Different Lookback Times 552   Heath Jones, Joss Bland-Hawthorn The Evolution of the Lyman Alpha Forest From z ~ 3 -> 0 561   Romeel Davé Old Galaxies at High Redshift 569   G. B. Dalton High Redshift Quasars and Star Formation History 575   M. Dietrich, F. Hamann Cosmic Flows: A Status Report 584   S. Courteau, A. Dekel Type Ia Supernovae, the Hubble Constant, the Cosmological Constant, and the Age of the Universe 593   John L. Tonry, The High-Z Supernova Search Team Time Scales of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: Gold Mine in the Universe 603   Naoshi Sugiyama Cosmic Age in a Lepton-Asymmetric Universe: New Constraints From Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations 611   T. Kajino, M. Orito, K. Ichiki, S. Kawanomoto, H. Ando, G. J. Mathews, R. N. Boyd The Age of the Universe From Joint Analysis of Cosmological Probes 617   Ofer Lahav The Static Universe Hypothesis and Observational Proof 627   Thomas B. Andrews Lengths of the First Days of the Universe 628   Moshe Carmeli The Scale Expanding Cosmos Theory and a New Conception of the Progression of Time 629   C. Johan Masreliez JHK Spectroscopy of the z=2.39 Radio Galaxy 53W002 and Its Companions 634   K. Motohara, T. Yamada, F. Iwamuro, T. Maihara

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