Program participants
Participants from UVA and local institutions
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Name: Shazrene Mohamed | Title / Afilliation: Associate Professor of Astronomy, UVA |
Research Interests:Binary star interactions, stellar wind interactions and explosions | Website | |
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Name: Ilse Cleeves | Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Chemistry, UVA |
Research Interests:Astrochemistry, protostellar disks, mm astronomy | Website | |
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Name: Paul Torrey | Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor of Astronomy, UVA |
Research Interests:Extragalactic Astrophysics; Computational Galaxy Formation | Website | |
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Name: Rob Garrod | Title / Afilliation: Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy, UVA |
Research Interests: Astrochemistry, star formation, dust in interstellar medium | Website | |
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Name: Anne Verbiscer | Title / Afilliation: Research Professor of Astronomy, UVA |
Research Interests: Solar System planets | Website | |
Principal Lecturers and other SOC members
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Name: Andrew Youdin | Title / Afilliation: Professor of Astronomy, Steward Observatory |
Research Interests: planet formation, accretion disks, instabillities of dusty disks. | Website | |
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Name: Suzanne Hofner | Title / Afilliation: Professor of Astronomy, University of Uppsala |
Research Interests: Radiation hydrodynamics, dust-driven mass loss in giant stars. | Website | |
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Name: Brandon Hensley | Title / Afilliation: Scientist, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena |
Research Interests: Dust, Interstellar Medium, Cosmic Microwave Background, Galaxies | Website | |
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Name: Diana Powell | Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
Research Interests: Dust, protoplanetary disks, planetary atmospheres | Website | |
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Name: Arkaprabha Sarangi | Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics |
Research Interests: Dust, stellar winds, supernovae, JWST | Website | |
Other program participants
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Name:Ori Fox | Title / Afilliation:Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute |
Research Interests: JWST instrumentation, Massive Star Evolution, Dust Production in Supernovae. | Website | |
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Name:Desika Narayanan | Title / Afilliation:Associate Professor, University of Florida |
Research Interests: Computational astrophysics, star and galaxy formation, ISM | Website | |
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Name:Peter Gao | Title / Afilliation:Carnegie Institution for Science |
Research Interests: Physics and Chemistry and Dust in Stellar and Planetary Atmospheres | Website | |
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Name:Mikako Matsuura | Title / Afilliation:Reader, Cardiff University |
Research Interests: Observations of dust and molecules in evolved stars, supernovae and supernova remnants | Website | |
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Name:Tomasz Kamiński | Title / Afilliation:Assistant Professor, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Toruń |
Research Interests: Stellar mergers, evolved stars, dust formation, submm interferometry | Website | |
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Name:Melissa Shahbandeh | Title / Afilliation:STScI Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University |
Research Interests: Astrophysics, Supernovae, Transients, Time-domain Astronomy, Dust Formation & Modeling | Website | |
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Name:Nathan Magnan | Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral Researcher, Observatoire de Nice |
Research Interests: Planet formation, instabilities of dusty accretion disks | Website | |
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Name:Leonardo Krapp | Title / Afilliation:Assistant Professor at the University of Concepcion, Chile |
Research Interests: Numerical simulations of dusty accretion disks and protoplanets | Website | |
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Name:Bin Ren | Title / Afilliation:Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, Observatoire de Nice |
Research Interests: Observations and modeling of dusty planet-forming systems | Website | |
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Name:Caleb Choban | Title / Afilliation:Sullivan Prize Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Indiana University Bloomington |
Research Interests: Interstellar Dust, Galaxy formation | Website | |
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Name:Sergei Dyda | Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama |
Research Interests: Accretion and outflows in astrophysical disks and compact objects | Website | |
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Name:Shangjia Zhang | Title / Afilliation:Sagan Fellow, Columbia University |
Research Interests: Protoplanetary disk structure and evolution | Website | |