UVA, Charlottesville, June 23rd - June 27th 2025.
A conference is hosted in the first week of the Summer Program, and features invited pedagogical lectures, and contributed talks presenting state-of-the-art research on the program topic. Participation to the conference is open to everyone who wishes to attend. All presentations will be published online.
Scientific Program
Unless noted otherwise, the location for this week is the NRAO auditorium, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903
To attend the first week conference virtually via Zoom, please sign up using this form.
Monday June 23rd:
- 8:30: Tea/Coffee and Registration
- 9:30: Welcome and introductions
- 10:00: Ice breaker
- 10:30: Coffee break and LSST announcement
- 11:30: Lecture by Brandon Hensley: Dust of the diffuse interstellar medium
- 13:00: Lunch break
- 14:00: Lecture by Andrew Youdin: Protoplanetary disks: opacities, structure and evolution
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project presentations (mentors and fellows only)
- 18:00: Welcome party at the McCormick Observatory
Tuesday June 24th:
- 8:30: Morning Tea/Coffee
- 9:15: Lecture by Susanne Hoefner: Evolved stars as sites of dust production
- 10:45: Coffee break
- 11:15: Seminar by Brandon Hensley: Dust evolution from diffuse to dense environments
- 12:45: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Invited talks
- Caleb Choban: "Modeling dust evoltuion in galaxy simulations"
- Rob Garrod: Grain-surface and ice-mantle chemistry in star-forming regions
- Arka Sarangi: Modeling dust in Supernovae
- 16:00: Project discussions (mentors and fellows only)
Wednesday June 25th:
- 8:30: Morning Tea/Coffee
- 9:15: Lecture by Andrew Youdin: Condensation and evaporation in planetary atmospheres and disks
- 10:45: Coffee break
- 11:15: Lecture by Susanne Hoefner: Grain formation and properties of circumstellar dust
- 12:45: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Yfan Zhou: "Tracing dusty clouds in substellar atmospheres with JWST"
- Bin Ren: "Visible and near-infrared observations of circumstellar objects"
- Dominic Samra: "Microphysics of aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project discussions (mentors and fellows only)
- 18:00: Conference dinner at the UVA Rotunda Dome Room
Thursday June 26th:
- 8:30: Morning Tea/Coffee
- 9:15: Lecture by Brandon Hensley: Dust in galaxies across cosmic time
- 10:45: Coffee break
- 11:15: Lecture by Susanne Hoefner: Stellar winds and dust yields
- 12:45: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Ori Fox: The dynamic infrared sky
- Mikako Matsuura: "Dust growth in a planetary nebula"
- Shazrene Mohamed: "Mass transfer in dusty symbiotic binaries"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project discussions (mentors and fellows only)
Friday June 27th:
- 8:30: Morning Tea/Coffee
- 9:15: Lecture by Andrew Youdin: Dust dynamics and planet formation
- 10:45: Coffee break
- 11:15: Participant talks
- Ilse Cleeves: "Icy planet formation"
- Anne Verbiscer: "New Horizons Student Dust Counter (SDC) results"
- 12:45: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Shangjia Zhang: "Dynamical effects of shadows in transition disks"
- Nathan Magnan: "What is the streaming instability again? How does it work? and where?"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Final project discussions, choice submission (mentors only)