All participants (Cornell University)
Who we are and how we spend our time in the Space Sciences Bldg.

Barbara Catinella (Cornell University) 
What we mean when we say "Interstellar Medium". 

Prof. Martha Haynes (Cornell University)
The Large Scale Distribution of Gas in Galaxies 

Prof. Gordon Stacey (Cornell University) 
Gas and Dust in the Galactic Center 
Special place: Galaxy Lunch @ Room 301  

Scrambled EGGs 
High Velocity Clouds: Galactic or Extragalactic? 
(For background reading on HVCs, take a look at Wakker & van Woerden 1997)

Prof. R. Brent Tully (University of Hawaii)  
Large Scale Structure of the Universe: From Big to Small (Tully et al. 2002)

Karen Masters (Cornell University) 
HI Deficiency in Cluster Galaxies  (Solanes et al. 2001)

Dr. Thomas Nikola (Cornell University) 
CO in Galaxies: the CO to H₂ Conversion 
(Tons of references on this topic can be found at the NED/Level5 Molecules in Galaxies web page)

Elise Furlan (Cornell University) 
Diagnostics of Dust Temperature and Composition: Hot Dust versus Cool Dust  (Laurent et al. 2000)

Chris Springob (Cornell University) 
Extinction and the Mixing of Gas, Dust and Stars in Spiral Disks  (Xilouris et al. 1999)

Dr. Carlos Valotto (Cornell University) 
Nebular Metallicity Diagnostics: Are BCD's Young?  (Melbourne & Salzer 2002)

Barbara Catinella & Karen Masters (Cornell University)  
Hot Gas Components in Galaxies  (Wang et al. 2001)

Jagadheep Pandian (Cornell University) 
Counterrotating Gas Disks in Galaxies  (This paper covers a small portion of the talk, but gives some basic background on the topic: Thakar & Ryden 1996)

Thanksgiving Break -- No Galaxy Lunch 

Kristine Spekkens (Cornell University) 
The Role of Gas in Starbursts  (Mihos 1999)