2025 Week 2-6 Schedule

Week 1

See the Conference program page

 


Week 2 

Unless otherwise noted, talks are in the Astronomy Dept conference room at 11am

Monday:

  • 3:30 - 5:00 : Project outlines (student presentations, 5 min each)

Tuesday: 

  • 3:30 - 4:30: Shazrene MohamedDust from interacting evolved stars

Wednesday: 

  • 10:00 - 11:00: Andrew Youdin: The formation of giant planets

Thursday:

  • 11:00-12:00: Peter Gao:  Transiting exoplanets with JWST

Friday: Holiday!


Week 3 

Monday:

  • 10:00am-11:am: Antranik Sefilian: Beyond massless models: Revisiting planet-debris disk interactions
  • 3:00pm- 4:00pm: Zhi-Yun Li: Dust polarization in protoplanetary disks

Wednesday: 

  • 10:00am-11:00am: Ilse Cleeves: Towards understanding disk chemical diversity with the Disk-Exoplanet C/Onnection Project

Friday

  • 10:30 - 11:00: Journal Club
  • 10:00am: Oliver Herbort: A tale of the diversity of rocky exoplanets and their atmospheres
  • 3:30pm - 4:30: Leonardo Krapp:  A multifluid look at the thermodynamics of giant protoplanets: formation of circumplanetary disks

Week 4 

Monday:

  • 10:00am: Catherine Duke: Surfaces processes on near-Earth asteroid Bennu
  • 14:00 - 15:00: Student check-in

Wednesday: 

  • 10:00-11:00: Mario FlockRim Worlds: computational astrophysics of accretion disks

Thursday: 

  • 11:00am: Ryan Loomis: Impact of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade on Exploring Dust and Ice in the Cosmos (at NRAO)

Friday

  • 10:30 - 11:00: Journal Club
  • 11:00-12:00: Ilsang Yoon: The use of dust to find and study high-redshift galaxies

Week 5 

Monday:

  • 10:00 - 11:00: Brett McGuireDiscoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System

Tuesday: 

 

  • 12:00 - 1:00: Career discussions

Wednesday: 

  • 11:00-12:00: John Tobin: The Cradles of Star and Planet Formation: Disks, Accretion, and Protostellar Masses 

Friday

  • 10:30 - 11:00: Journal Club
  • 11:00 - 12:00: Desika Narayanan: The formation of dusty galaxies in the first billion years (with excursions to PAH physics)

Week 6 

Monday:

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Sarah Healy: Exploding in Context: How the Dust of Massive Stars Shape Supernovae

Thursday:

  • 11:30am: Arturo Cevallos Soto: Dust Evolution during Inside-Out Planet Formation <\li>
  • 11:50am: Sophia Kressy: JWST Imaging of Old, Dusty Supernovae
  • 12:10pm: Sujit Das: How to form dust in planetary nebula NGC 6302?
  • 12:30 pm: Erica Messmer: The shock-induced chemistry of dust formation in the colliding winds of Wolf-Rayet stars
  • 12:50pm : Lunch
  • 2:00pm: Hao-sheng Wang: Testing Stellar Feedback with PHANGS SNe Bubble Statistics
  • 2:20pm : Sarah Healy: Probing the Precursors: Hubble Imaging of Supernova Progenitors and Circumstellar Dust
  • 2:40pm: Grant Donnelly: What is the role of AGN in the mid-IR spectra star-forming galaxies?
  • 3:00 pm: Helena Richie: Nanoparticle Heating and Emission Across Interstellar Environments

Friday:

  • 1:30pm: Simin Tong: Correlations of NIR and Millimeter Features in Herbig Disks <\li>
  • 1:50pm: Andres Zuleta Serrano: Messy Disks and Hungry Stars: Do Disk Asymmetries Shape Protostellar Growth?
  • 2:10pm: Xiaoyi Ma: Thermal Response to Shadows in Protoplanetary Disks: The Role of Competing Timescales
  • 2:30pm : Break
  • 3:00pm: Eonho Chang: Impact of infalling dust on the emergent spectra of young giant exoplanets
  • 3:20pm : Sebastian Paine: Solid-driven gravitational collapse
  • 3:40pm: Nadine Soliman: Dust collisional cooling in vortices
  • 4:00 pm: Closing remarks
  • 5:00 pm: PARTY!

That's it for the program!