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Monday, June 25, 2018
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Registration and Welcome Reception - Grand Ballroom Foyer
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
8:00 AM 9:00 AM Registration - Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:45 AM 9:00 AM Welcome - Grand I
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Plenary: The Formation of Planets in the Terrestrial Zone and Conditions of Habitability Andrea Isella
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Poster Flashes - Exoplanets
10:20 AM 11:00 AM Break and Posters
11:00 AM 12:00 PM Plenary: The Cosmic Harmony of Galaxies and their Black Holes Alex Pope
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Poster Flashes - Galaxy Evolution
12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Star Formation in the Galaxy Yancy Shirley
2:30 PM 2:50 PM Constraints on the Structure of Embedded Disks with ALMA/the VLA: Setting the Stage for the ngVLA Patrick Sheehan
2:50 PM 3:20 PM Molecular Inheritance and Processing in Protoplanetary Disks Fred Ciesla
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
2:00 PM 2:15 PM After The Fall: The Dust and Gas in E+A Post-Starburst Galaxies Adam Smercina
2:15 PM 2:30 PM Peering Deep in the Radio to Discover the Secrets of Quasar Feedback Rachael Alexandroff
2:30 PM 2:45 PM COLDz: The VLA CO Luminosity Density at High Redshift Survey Ricardo Pavesi
2:45 PM 3:15 PM Gastrophysics In Galaxy-Scale Simulations: Peeking Under the Hood Phil Hopkins
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Long GRBs and Core-collapse Supernovae in the ngVLA Era Alessandra Corsi
2:30 PM 2:50 PM The Structure and Dynamics of Relativistic Jet Tanmoy Laskar
2:50 PM 3:20 PM Real-time, Commensal, Fast Transient Surveys with the Very Large Array Casey Law
3:20 PM 4:00 PM Break & Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM 4:30 PM High Resolution Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks Laura Perez
4:30 PM 4:50 PM What Drives Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks? Jake Simon
4:50 PM 5:10 PM The Circumstellar Disk and Asymmetric Outflow of the EX Lup Outburst System Antonio Hales
5:10 PM 5:30 PM The First Kinematical Detection of Embedded Planets in Protoplanetary Disks Richard Teague
5:30 PM 6:00 PM M Dwarfs: the Treasure Trove of Planets Courtney Dressing
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM 4:30 PM AGN Near and Far: Clues to Galaxy Evolution from Small to Large Scales Dominika Wylezalek
4:30 PM 4:45 PM Synergies Between Large Optical IFU and Interferometric Surveys of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe Alberto Bolatto
4:45 PM 5:00 PM Connecting Molecular and Ionized Gas Kinematics to Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas with the EDGE-CALIFA Survey Rebecca Levy
5:00 PM 5:15 PM An Overview and First Look at the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES) Julie Davis
5:15 PM 5:30 PM Galaxy Mergers Moulding the Circumgalactic Medium Maan Hani
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Exploring Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Next Generation of Large Optical/IR Telescopes on the Ground Pat McCarthy
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM 4:20 PM Radio Transients in the Pilot + Epoch 1.1 of the VLA Sky Survey Dillon Dong
4:20 PM 4:50 PM Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary Neutron Star Mergers Brian Metzger
4:50 PM 5:10 PM Frontiers of Physics with Neutron Stars Paul Demorest
5:10 PM 5:30 PM Exploring Nanohertz Multi-messenger Capabilities of the ngVLA Joseph Lazio
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Pulsar Timing Arrays for Gravitational Wave Detection: How, Why, and When? Maura McLaughlin
6:00 PM 7:00 PM Poster Reception
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Plenary: Stellar Mass and Supermassive Black Holes in Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy Sebastian Heinz
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Poster Flashes - Black Holes
10:20 AM 11:00 AM Break and Posters
11:00 AM 12:00 PM Plenary: The Evolution of Astrochemistry from Planet Formation Through to Exoplanets Ilse Cleeves
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Poster Flashes - Galaxy Evolution
12:20 PM 12:30 PM Conference Photo
12:30 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
2:00 PM 2:30 PM The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks and the Timescale for Planet Formation Jonathan Williams
2:30 PM 2:50 PM Rings, Gaps, Cavities: The Connection Between Large and Transitional Disks Nienke van der Marel
2:50 PM 3:20 PM Rapidly Evolving Debris Disks and Their Connection to Giant Impacts and Planet Formation Alan Jackson
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Extreme Star Forming Environments in Nearby Galaxies Jean Turner
2:30 PM 2:45 PM Constraining Metal Mixing and Feedback Using Spatially Resolved Metal Production Histories in M31 Grace Telford
2:45 PM 3:00 PM The IGM and Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Groups Eric Wilcots
3:00 PM 3:15 PM Super Star Cluster Formation and Evolution with ALMA Michelle Consiglio
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Supernovae Shri Kulkarni
2:30 PM 2:50 PM Extreme Supernovae from Cosmic Dawn Ken Chen
2:50 PM 3:20 PM Accretion and Explosions on White Dwarfs Greg Sivakoff
3:20 PM 4:00 PM Break & Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Giant Planets in the Solar System Imke de Pater
4:30 PM 4:50 PM Mapping Circulation and Chemistry in Uranus's Deep Atmosphere with Radio Observations Ned Molter
4:50 PM 5:10 PM Witnessing Planetary Systems in the Making with the Next Generation Very Large Array Luca Ricci
5:10 PM 5:30 PM One Planet, Many Gaps and Rings Robin Dong
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres Jonathan Fortney
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM 4:30 PM Dynamics of High-redshift Gas-rich Galaxies Jackie Hodge
4:30 PM 4:45 PM Understanding Galaxies Formation at the Reionization Epoch Xiangcheng Ma
4:45 PM 5:00 PM Molecular Universe on Large Scales: Revealing the Cold Baryon Cycle That Drives Galaxy Evolution with the Next-Generation Radio Telescopes Bjorn Emonts
5:00 PM 5:15 PM Study of Heavily Obscured Quasars with Young Radio Jets at Redshifts, z ~2 Pallavi Patil
5:15 PM 5:45 PM Far-IR Mysteries Allison Kirkpatrick
5:45 PM 6:00 PM Short Spacing Configurations for Full Flux Recovery with the ngVLA Peter Teuben
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM 4:20 PM Classical Novae: A Test Case for ngVLA Stellar Outflow Imaging Capabilities Justin Linford
4:20 PM 4:50 PM The Black Hole Population in our Milky Way Chris Belczynski
4:50 PM 5:20 PM Optical and Infrared Studies of X-ray Binaries in the Gaia Era Jerry Orosz
5:20 PM 5:40 PM The MAVERIC Survey: Black Holes in Globular Clusters Laura Shishkovsky
5:40 PM 6:00 PM Radio Timing Analysis of the Jet in the Black Hole X-ray Binary Cygnus X-1 Alex Tetarenko
6:30 PM 9:30 PM Conference Dinner at Punch Bowl Social
Thursday, June 28, 2018
9:00 AM 12:20 PM Working Groups/Free Time
12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM 3:00 PM Plenary: Pulsars in the Galactic Center as Fundamental Tests of Gravity Dimitrios Psaltis
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Poster Flashes - Black Holes
3:20 PM 4:00 PM Break and Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM 4:30 PM The Critical Role of the ngVLA in Revealing Complex Molecular Evolution and Its Role in Planet Formation and the Origins of Life Brett McGuire
4:30 PM 4:50 PM Protonated Carbon Dioxide Emission as a Diagnostic of Planet-Forming Regions of Disks Liton Majumdar
4:50 PM 5:10 PM Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks - Evidence for Planet-Disk Interaction? Ryan Loomis
5:10 PM 5:30 PM Final Results from SPOTS: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars Ruben Asensio Torres
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Extrasolar Space Weather and its Impact on Planetary Habitability Gregg Hallinan
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM 4:30 PM The Coevolution of Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes Anne Medling
4:30 PM 4:45 PM Witnessing the Growth of Massive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn and Noon With JVLA and ALMA Wiphu Rujopakarn
4:45 PM 5:00 PM The Early Stage of Cluster Formation Caught in a Massive Protocluster at z=3.78 Kyoung-Soo Lee
5:00 PM 5:15 PM Investigating Dark Matter Substructure in Massive Galaxies w/Strong Gravitational Lensing Chris Fassnacht
5:15 PM 5:30 PM Resolving a Fast Molecular Outflow From a Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z=5.3 Justin Spilker
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Luminous Infrared Galaxy Studies with Next Generation Telescopes Aaron Evans
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM 4:30 PM AGN Jets Tony Readhead
4:30 PM 4:50 PM The Science Case for Simultaneous Wide-Band Coverage in Radio Astronomy Richard Dodson
4:50 PM 5:20 PM Precision Measurements of Black Hole Mass Jonelle Walsh
5:20 PM 5:40 PM The Future of Industrial-Scale Echo Mapping of Black Holes Jonathan Trump
5:40 PM 6:00 PM Imaging and Time Resolving Black Holes: The Event Horizon Telescope and New Directions Shep Doeleman
Friday, June 29, 2018
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Plenary: Connecting Interstellar Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies Karin Sandstrom
10:00 AM 10:40 AM Break and Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
10:40 AM 11:10 AM A Statistical Comparison of Exoplanet and Protoplanetary Disk Properties Gijs Mulders
11:10 AM 11:40 AM Determining the Process of Planet Formation in the Outer Solar System via the Measuring Structure of the Trans-Neptune Belt JJ Kavelaars
11:40 AM 12:00 PM `Scopes on Ropes: Balloon Astronomy as Tool for Studying Star and Planet Formation over Next Decade Laura Fissel
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
10:40 AM 11:10 AM The Early Stage of Cluster Formation Caught in a Massive Protocluster at z=3.78 Steve Finkelstein
11:10 AM 11:25 AM Galaxy Spin Build-Up in the Cosmic Web in the Era of Integral Field Spectroscopy Charlotte Welker
11:25 AM 11:40 AM Flat Rotation Curve of Disk Galaxy, DSFG850.95 at z ~ 1.6 Patrick Drew
11:40 AM 11:55 AM Results from a CO Line Search in the Plateau de Bure High-z Blue Sequence Survey Data Laura Lenkic
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
10:40 AM 11:10 AM Tidal Disruption of Single and Binary Stars by Supermassive Black Holes Elena Rossi
11:10 AM 11:40 AM Growth of Black Hole Seeds Rich Plotkin
11:40 AM 12:00 PM Multimessenger Signatures from Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies Jillian Bellovary
12:00 PM 1:40 PM Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
1:40 PM 2:10 PM The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: Determining the Prevalence of Technologically-Capable Life Andrew Siemion
2:10 PM 2:30 PM Exoplanets Found by Gravitational Microlensing Challenge the Core Accretion Theory David Bennett
2:30 PM 2:50 PM The Direct Imaging Search for Earth 2.0: Blue Dot or Red Herring? Claire Guimond
2:50 PM 3:20 PM Key Questions in Planet Formation for the Coming Decade Fred Adams
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
1:40 PM 2:10 PM Evolution of Gas Content Through Cosmic History Fabian Walter
2:10 PM 2:25 PM Uncovering the Impact of Jet-ISM Feedback on Galaxy Evolution in the ngVLA Era Kristina Nyland
2:25 PM 2:40 PM Extreme Feedback in AGN-Starburst Systems: Insight from Multi-Faceted Molecular Gas Studies Avani Gowardhan
2:40 PM 2:55 PM ALMA Twenty-Six Arcmin2 Survey of GOODS-S at One-millimeter (ASAGAO): Physical Properties of ALMA-selected Galaxies Yuki Yamaguchi
2:55 PM 3:10 PM A New Detection of Extragalactic Anomalous Microwave Emission in a Compact, Optically-Faint Region of NGC 4725 Eric Murphy
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
1:40 PM 2:00 PM Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation over Cosmic Time Colin DeGraf
2:00 PM 2:20 PM Taking a Census of Supermassive Binary Black Holes Karishma Bansal
2:20 PM 2:40 PM A Search for Recoiling Super Massive Black Holes and its Implications to Changing-Look AGN Dongchan Kim
2:40 PM 3:00 PM Finding Unresolved Dual AGNs at High Redshift Using Astrometry Yu-Ching Chen
3:00 PM 3:20 PM LSST Contributions to the Black Hole Census Eric Bellm
3:20 PM 4:00 PM Break & Posters
4:00 PM 5:00 PM Summary and Final Remarks
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 Italicized = ngVLA Community Studies Talk