Program

TUESDAY, September 16th, 2025

Time (in EST) Presenter Title
8:45-9:00am Loreto, Devaky, and Catherine Welcome and logistics
Session 1: (9am-10am) Moderator: Loreto Barcos-Muñoz
9:00-9:20 Clemente Riesco Bravo (remote) Understanding the Merger IIZw096 through IFU/MUSE and ALMA CO SLED Observations
9:20-9:40 María Sánchez-García (remote) Star formation and feedback effects on cloud scales in LIRGs
9:40-10:00 Cristina Lofaro (remote) Probing the resolved ISM in nearby infrared galaxies from the GOALS sample
10-10:30am Coffee Break
Session 2: (10:30am-11:50am) Moderator: Alejandro Saravia
10:30am-10:50am Sean Linden What Can Clumps Do for You? The Role of Clumps in Shaping U/LIRGs
10:50am-11:10am Kirsten Larson Stellar Associations
11:10am-11:30am Caroline Kuczek HST+JWST View of VV114's Cluster Population and More!
11:30am-11:50am Laura Lenkic Spectroscopically Derived Physical Properties of Star Forming Clumps
11:50am - 1:20pm Lunch break + lunch talk (optional)
Session 3: (1:20pm-3:00pm) Moderator: Aaron Evans
1:20pm-1:40pm  Ezequiel Treister Dual AGN in GOALS at High Resolutions with ALMA
1:40pm - 2:00pm Leiany De Oleo Rodriguez Optical Imaging Fourier Transform Spectroscopy with SITELLE of the galaxy merger IIZw96
2:00pm-2:20pm Makoto Johnstone A multi-band VLBA continuum study of AGN and Starburst activity of local U/LIRGs
2:20pm-2:40pm Hayley Roberts (remote) A GBT Survey of OHMs in Northern GOALS LIRGs
2:40pm - 3:00pm David Frayer GBT HI GOALS 
3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee break
3:30pm - 5:00pm John Hibbard (Host: Loreto Barcos-Muñoz) CARTA Hands on session
8-10pm McCormick Tour

WEDNESDAY, September 17th, 2025

Time (in EST) Presenter Title
Session 4: (9am-10am) Moderator: Devaky Kunneriath
9:00-9:20 Mau Otsuki (remote) Dust attenuation measured with HI lines
9:20-9:40 Gustav Olander (remote) Dust don’t settle in LIRG IIZw096 - A JWST look on PAH features in a merger galaxy
9:40-10:00 Thomas Lai Dust and Gas in IR08572
10-10:30am Coffee Break
Session 5: (10:30am-11:50am) Moderator: Ming-yi Lin
10:30am-10:50am Alex Garcia The Next Generation of High-Resolution Simulations of the Multi-Phase ISM with the SMUGGLE Model
10:50am-11:10am Jaya Nagarajan-Swenson Stellar Kinematics of Post-Merger Galaxies
11:10am-11:30am Kara Green The Resolved Star Formation and Stellar Mass Properties of LIRGs
11:30am-11:50am Jen Donovan Meyer WSU
11:50am - 1:20pm Lunch with NAASC staff + cosmicAI lunch talk (optional)
Session 6: (1:20pm-3:00pm) Moderator: Ezequiel Treister
1:20pm-1:40pm  Alejandro Saravia The resolved CO SLED of NGC 7469
1:40pm - 2:00pm Vivian U MAUNA: Multiphase Analyses of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity
2:00pm-2:20pm George Privon The AGN Fraction in ULIRGs Based on Hard X-rays
2:20pm-2:40pm Núria Torres-Albà

The ULX population in ​NGC 3256​
2:40pm - 3:00pm Anne Medling BH accretion in gas-rich galaxies
3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee break
3:30pm - 5:00pm Moderator: Lee Armus
 Discussion on proposals JWST
6-9pm Dinner @ Kardinal Hall

THURSDAY, September 18th, 2025

Time (in EST) Presenter Title
Session 7: (9am-10:20am) Moderator: George Privon
9:00am-9:20am Victorine Buiten (remote) Mid-IR molecular bands as probes of warm, dense material
9:20am-9:40am Marina Bianchin (remote) A holistic census of warm molecular gas in (U)LIRGs
9:40am-10:00am Darshan Kakkad (remote) Multi-phase molecular gas in IRAS 20551-4250
10:00am-10:20am Anna Dignan SFRS + PHANGS
10:20-11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am-12:00pm Dave Sanders NRAO-UVA joint Colloquium:
12:00pm - 1:40pm Lunch break
Session 8: (1:40pm-3:00pm) Moderator: Núria Torres-Albà
1:40pm-2:00pm Nerea Real Nsi (remote) Studying the gas excitation in Interacting local LIRGs with ALMA
2:00pm-2:20pm Lee Armus The highly Ionized outflow in the ULIRG IR05189
2:20pm - 2:40pm Ming-Yi Gas and Star around NGC 1068 and NGC 3079
2:40pm - 3:10pm Coffee break
3:10pm - 5:00pm Moderator: Sean Linden and Kirsten Larson
 Discussion on future directions (incl. examples from the literature, TBD)

FRIDAY, September 19th, 2025 (optional)

Time (EST)
8:00am Departing from Charlottesville to GBO
11:00am-4:00pm Visit Green Bank Observatory
7:00pm Back in Charlottesville

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