Schedule

Talks are allocated for 20 minute each, with 15 min for the presentation.

All times are listed local to Charlottesville, VA in the Eastern Time Zone (ET). 

Tuesday - April 28, 2026
09:50--09:55

Welcome

Anna Kapinska

Session 1 
Chair: Michael Busch
09:55--10:15

Data Processing in the ngVLA era

 Hendrik Mueller (NRAO/SO)
10:15--10:35

Metamorphic HEMT Low Noise Amplifier for Millimeter-Wave Radio Astronomy

 Priyanka Mondal (NRAO/CDL)
10:35--11:05

Discussion: Session 1
11:30--13:20

LUNCH

Session 2
Chair: Alex Saffer
13:20-13:40

Linking Radio Spectral Properties to Lyman Continuum Escape in Metal-poor Galaxies

 Omkar Bait (NRAO/CV)
13:40-14:00

Star Formation Scaling Relations in the Local Group from the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS)

 Cosima Eibenstiener (NRAO/CV)
14:00--14:20

Radio Probes of Our Galaxy’s Elusive Pevatron Particle Accelerator

 Kathryn Plant (NRAO/SO)
14:20--14:40 Revisiting 18cm OH excitation through far-IR calibration Michael Busch (NRAO/CV)
14:40--14:50 BREAK
14:50--15:10

Complex Aromatic Chemistry Detected at the Dawn of Star and Planet Formation

Samantha Scibelli (NRAO/CV)
15:10--15:30

Chemo-dynamical modeling of high-mass protostellar environments: linking chemistry and molecular emission

 Melisse Bonfand (UVA)
15:30--16:00

Discussion: Session 2

 

 

All times are listed local to Charlottesville, VA in the Eastern Time Zone (ET). 

Wednesday - April 29, 2026

Session 3
Chair: Hendrik Mueller
09:30--09:50

The Spectroscopy of the ODISEA Project: New Constraints on Accretion and Disk Evolution at Young Ages

 Dary Ruiz (NRAO/CV)
09:50--10:10

Laboratory Experiments on Interstellar Ice: Tracing the Evolution of Planetary Volatiles

 Alexia Simon (UVA)
10:10--10:30

Azimuthal Dust Polarization from Aerodynamically Aligned Grains as Evidence for the Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks

 Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin (NRAO/CV)
10:30--10:40

BREAK
10:40--11:00

High resolution spectroscopy of accreting planets analogs: first results of the ENTROPY program

 Demars Dorian (UVA)
11:00--11:20

MHO 1+2, a peculiar protobinary system

 Beatrice Kulterer (UVA)
11:20--11:50

Discussion: Session 3
11:50--14:00

LUNCH

Career Panel
 Chair: Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin
14:00--16:00

Prof Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)

Dr Alyson Ford (Steward Observatory)

Dr Joseph Lazio (Univ. Michigan)

Assist Prof Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (UVA)

Symposium Dinner
18:00--21:00 Kardinal Hall

  

All times are listed local to Charlottesville, VA in the Eastern Time Zone (ET). 

Thursday - April 30, 2026
Session 4
Chair: Samantha Scibelli
09:30--09:50

Isolation of Black-Widow Pulsar J1705−1903

 Alex Saffer (NRAO/CV)
09:50--10:10

Constraining Scattering Medium Geometry with Cyclic Spectroscopy

 Jacob Turner (GBO)
10:10--10:30

ngVLA Atmospheric Calibration

 Kyle Massingill (NRAO/SO)
10:30--10:45 Discussion: Session 4

Keynote/Colloquium
11:00--12:00

Reimagining Black Hole Radio Playlist using Supercomputers

 Prof Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)
12:00--12:30 Meeting with the NRAO Director and AD/SSR (postdocs only).
Farewell		 Tony Beasley, Anthony Remijan
12:30--13:30 LUNCH
CDL Tour
14:00--16:30

CDL Tour

(Meet at 13:50 by CDL building)

 

 

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