Tentative Schedule

 

Thursday, May 9, 2024                                                                 

8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration/Refreshments                                            

9:00 - 9:10 AM Introduction                                                                             

9:10 - 9:40 AM Erica Nelson "TBA"

9:40 - 10:10 AM Volker Springel "Exploring cosmic structure formation with hydrodynamical simulations: Past, present, and future"

10:10 - 10:40 AM Ana Bonaca "The Via Project: Mapping the invisible Galactic halo"

10:40 - 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:40 AM Annalisa Pillepich "Extracting the physics of galaxies (and galaxy clusters) with cosmological simulations and machine learning"

11:40 - 12:10 PM Anastasia Fialkov "Determining first star masses using hydrogen radio signals"

 

12:10 - 12:30 PM Grab Lunch 

 

12:30 - 2:00 PM     ITC Luncheon Talks Begin 

12:30 - 12:45 PM Anna Frebel "Extragalactic Stellar Archaeology with the Large Magellanic Cloud"

12:45 - 1:00 PM Elena D'Onghia "TBA"

1:00 - 1:15 PM Shy Genel "TBA"

1:15 - 1:30 PM Dusan Keres "TBA"

1:30 - 1:45 PM Cora Dvorkin "TBA"

1:45 - 2:00 PM Juliana Cherston "TBA"

 

2:00 - 2:30 PM Stuart Wyithe "Early galaxies and the reionization of intergalactic hydrogen"

2:30 - 3:00 PM Sownak Bose "The Universal Structure of Dark Matter Haloes: From Prompt Cusps to NFW Profiles"

3:00 - 3:30 PM Shude Mao "Galactic Dynamics: A MaNGA view"

3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:30 PM Blakesley Burkhart "The Discovery of the Eos Cloud via H2 Fluorescent Emission"

4:30 - 5:00 PM Mark Vogelsberger "The Thesan Project - Simulating the Epoch of Reionization"

5:00 - 5:30 PM Volker Bromm “Black Holes and Supernovae in the Early Universe”

6:00 PM ITC Banquet Dinner (Sheraton Commander Hotel)

 

Friday May 9, 2024 

8:30 - 9:10 AM Refreshments

9:10 - 9:40 AM Nia Imara "The Structure of Stellar Nurseries"

9:40 - 10:10 AM Carl Rodriguez "TBA"

10:10 - 10:40 AM Raffaella Margutti "Mining the transient sky: Astrophysical transients across the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond"

10:40 - 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:40 AM Smadar Naoz "It's Raining Black Holes...Hallelujah!"

11:40 - 12:10 PM Kareem El-Badry "The Galactic Underworld: The Milky Way’s population of dormant black holes and neutron stars”

12:10 - 1:30 PM Lunch with presentations by Avi Loeb

1:30 - 2:00 PM Asaf Pe'er “Study of accretion and ejection from disks in MAD states using a new, GPU-accelerated GRMHD code”

2:00 - 2:30 PM Mario Juric "T-6 months to First Light: How we'll map the Solar System with Rubin & Understand its History and Evolution"

2:30 - 3:00 PM Diana Powell "TBA"

3:00 - 3:30 PM Coffee Break 

3:30 - 4:00 PM Konstantin Batygin "Planet 9 From Outer Space"

4:00 - 4:30 PM IIse Cleeves "Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation: Toward understanding the role of radiation fields in shaping planetary systems"

4:30 - 5:00 PM Charles Gammie "Status of the Blandford-Znajek Effect"