Ostrom Symposium Update

[Christine Chandler]

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF BIRDS,
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14,
1999

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Department of
Geology and Geophysics at Yale University present New Perspectives on the
Origin and Early Evolution of Birds, an international symposium in honor of
John H. Ostrom, Peabody Museum Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The symposium is held in conjunction with the opening of the new
exhibition China's Feathered Dinosaurs on view at the Peabody Museum of
Natural History, February 13-May 9, 1999.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
Nicholas Arnold
Head of Reptile Research, Natural History Museum, London
Inferring Structural Habitats from Morphology

Alan H. Brush
Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Connecticut
On The Evolution of Feathers

Phillip Burgers
Ph. D. Biomechanics, Comair Rotron, San Diego
A Load, Energy and Power Outlook at the Take-off of Archaeopteryx

Luis M. Chiappe
Chapman Research Fellow, American Museum of Natural History
Phylogenetic Relations Among Basal Birds

Joel L. Cracraft
Curator of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History
Early Avian Evolution and the Diversification of the Major Clades of Birds

Philip J. Currie
Curator of Dinosaurs and Birds, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology,=
 Canada
Skeletal Anatomy of the Feathered Dinosaurs from China

Per Ericson
Senior Curator of Ornithology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish
Museum of Natural History
Higher level systematics in living birds, or are the Galloanseres fact or
fiction?

Stephen M. Gatsey
Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Brown University
The Evolutionary History of the Theropod Caudal Locomotor Module

Jacques A. Gauthier
Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
What is a Bird?

George E. Goslow, Jr.
Professor of Biology and Medicine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Brown University
The function of the supracoracoideus muscle during take off in the European
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris): Maxheinz Sy revisited

Jeff G. Groth
Molecular Lab Supervisor, Cullman Lab, American Museum of Natural History
Nuclear DNA Phylogeny of the Neornithes

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Arctometatarsalia Revisited: The Problems of Homoplasy in Reconstructing
Theropod Phylogeny

James A. Hopson
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
Ecomorphology of Theropod Hands and Feet

Bradley C. Livezey
Associate Curator and Dean of Science, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Basal Neognathae: Morphological Data

Lawrence D. Martin
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Professor of Systematics and
Ecology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
Are There Any Flying Dinosaurs?

Mark A. Norell
Chairman of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History
Relationships Among Maniraptoriformes

Gregory S. Paul
Paleontologist and Illustrator
Archosaur Respiration

Steven F. Perry
Professor of Morphology and Systematics, Institut f=FCr Zoologie,=
 Universit=E4t
Bonn, Germany
Functional Morphology of the Lungs of Extant Reptiles and its Implications
for the Reconstruction of Dinosaur Lungs

Jeremy M.V. Rayner
Professor of Zoology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Origin and Evolution of Flapping Flight Aerodynamics in Birds

John A. Ruben
Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
Implications of pulmonary structure and function in theropod dinosaurs

Mary Schweitzer
Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Microbiology, Montana State
University, and
Assistant Curator, Museum of the Rockies
Feather Structure in Basal Raptors

Paul C. Sereno
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
Coelurosaurian Relationships and the Origin of Birds

Hans-Dieter Sues
Professor of Zoology, University of Toronto, and Senior Curator, Department
of Palaeobiology, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
Alternatives to the Theropod Origin of Birds

Zhonghe Zhou
Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph. D. candidate
at the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
Habit and Flight Capability of Confuciusornis


The symposium will be held at the OMNI Hotel in New Haven,
Connecticut. The registration fee is $150 per person and $60 (students) and
includes all sessions, program materials, and coffee breaks for both days.
The deadline for registration is JANUARY 22, 1999. For registration
materials and travel information, requests can be made to
ostrom.symp at yale.edu or by calling (203) 432-9855. Materials may also be
downloaded from the Peabody Museum website at http://www.peabody.yale.edu
Completed registration forms should be mailed to Yale Conference Services,
246 Church Street, Suite 101, New Haven, CT 06510, or faxed to that office
at (203) 432-7345. A block of rooms are being held at the OMNI Hotel until
January 22 for participants to the symposium. Rooms at the special Ostrom
Symposium rate of $79/double or $89/quad can be booked directly by calling
(800) 843-6664.

THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
The Peabody Museum of Natural History is located at 170 Whitney Avenue in
New Haven.  Visit our website at http://www.peabody.yale.edu


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Christine Chandler                  Tele: (203) 432-3760
Vertebrate Paleontology             Fax:  (203) 432-9816=20
Yale Peabody Museum                 E-MAIL: christine.chandler at yale.edu
170 Whitney Ave., P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118

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