2018 - 19

"Enhancements and Improved Tests of Relativity with Multi-band GW Observations " Abstract: As LIGO continues its third observing run, the added gravitational wave (GW) events provide the promise of further tests of general relativity (GR). In the future...

Andrew Chael and Lehman H. Garrison (Harvard) Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin) Mike Line (ASU) Thiem Hoang (KASI) Keto Prize Talks The Start of HETDEX: the Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Brown Dwarf Abundances Discovery of a New Destruction...

"Particle Physics & Astrophysics with Wide Field mm-Wave Surveys" Abstract: There have now been several generations of wide-field mm-wave surveys, with several ongoing and upcoming very ambitious projects. We have already learned a great deal about the...

Challenges in Characterizing Extra Solar Atmospheres at High-Resolution The field of exoplanet characterization has matured to the point where we can begin to answer fundamental questions regarding planetary climate, composition, and formation, and also...

Rob Simcoe (MIT) and Cameron Hummels (Caltech) “The Circumgalactic Medium: Observations and Simulations”

Integrated approach to cosmology Recent progress in observational cosmology and the establishment of ΛCDM have relied on the combination of different cosmological probes. These probes are not independent, since they all measure the same physical fields...

Chaotic Dynamical Tides in Eccentric Gas Giants High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov–Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induced by a distant planetary or...

Galaxy formation simulations: "sub-grid" vs. physics Cosmological simulations of structure formation have undergone rapid development over the last decade and evolved from purely gravitational computations of large scale structure to full hydrodynamical...

"Galaxy Kinematics: Observation & Theory" Rachel Bezanson (Pittsburgh) and Elena D'Onghia (UW-Madison

Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard) ”A Radio Source Coincident with a Superluminous Supernova” Debora Sijacki (Cambridge) "AGN jet heating of galaxy clusters" Sofia Ramstedt (Uppsala U.) “DEATHSTAR: A new hope for giant winds” Alex Lazarian "Exploring Galactic...