Theoretical Advances Guided by Radio-Millimeter-Submillimeter Arrays

Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST
American Astronomical Society meeting
Washington State Convention Center: Rooms 605 / 610
Seattle, Washington

Over the last decade, theoretical frontiers have opened on numerous scientific fronts based on high quality radio and millimeter data delivered by the VLA and ALMA. Sensitive images acquired with high angular resolution are enabling new observational insights into star and planet formation that are propagating into improved theoretical understanding. Deep inventories of the molecular gas in galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang, e.g., have added substantial realism to galaxy formation models. At the dawn of multi-messenger astrophysics, radio-wavelength follow-up of gravitational wave sources is providing critical insights into the energetics and evolution of these highly explosive events. Extreme astrophysical settings have been identified where fundamental physics can be readily tested.

This Special Session will highlight recent theoretical breakthroughs enabled by the VLA and ALMA, summarize planned VLA and ALMA improvements, discuss theoretical leaps that are likely to follow, and underscore the relevance of the VLA and ALMA to the science themes motivating the great observatories (e.g., the next-generation VLA) that could be commissioned in the next decade. This Special Session will feature a session of invited oral presentations and an associated poster session with contributed presentations.

We encourage you to consider contributing to the associated AAS meeting poster session. We especially seek posters that will foster a robust dialog between theorists and observers, within the context of data from either current or improved arrays. When submitting a contributed poster abstract to the AAS, you will have the option of requesting that your presentation be included in this Special Session.  We also ask that you please consider using our poster template that can be found clicking here.

We look forward to seeing you at the January 2019 AAS!

This Special Session will involve a session with invited oral presentations, organized by Eric Murphy, and an associated poster session with contributed presentations, organized by Joan Wrobel.

Presentations can be downloaded by clicking on the presentation titles listed below.

Oral Presentations

Poster Presentations