Participants

Program participants

 

Participants from UVA and local institutions

 

Name: ShazreneMohamed Title / Afilliation: Associate Professor of Astronomy, UVA
Research Interests:Binary star interactions, stellar wind interactions and explosions Website
 
Name: Ilse Cleeves Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Chemistry, UVA
Research Interests:Astrochemistry, protostellar disks, mm astronomy Website
 
Name: Paul Torrey Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor of Astronomy, UVA
Research Interests:Extragalactic Astrophysics; Computational Galaxy Formation Website
 
Name: Rob Garrod Title / Afilliation: Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy, UVA
Research Interests: Astrochemistry, star formation, dust in interstellar medium Website
 

 

Principal Lecturers and other SOC members

 

Name: Andrew Youdin Title / Afilliation:  Professor of Astronomy, Steward Observatory
Research Interests: planet formation, accretion disks, instabillities of dusty disks. Website
 
Name: Suzanne Hofner Title / Afilliation: Professor of Astronomy, University of Uppsala
Research Interests: Radiation hydrodynamics, dust-driven mass loss in giant stars. Website
 
Name: Brandon Hensley Title / Afilliation: Scientist, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena
Research Interests: Dust, Interstellar Medium, Cosmic Microwave Background, Galaxies Website
 
Name: Diana Powell Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Dust, protoplanetary disks, planetary atmospheres Website
 
Name: Arkaprabha Sarangi Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Research Interests: Dust, stellar winds, supernovae, JWST Website
 

 

Other program participants

 

Name:Ori Fox Title / Afilliation:Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
Research Interests: JWST instrumentation, Massive Star Evolution, Dust Production in Supernovae. Website
 
Name:Desika Narayanan Title / Afilliation:Associate Professor, University of Florida
Research Interests: Computational astrophysics, star and galaxy formation, ISM Website
 
Name:Peter Gao Title / Afilliation:Carnegie Institution for Science
Research Interests: Physics and Chemistry and Dust in Stellar and Planetary Atmospheres Website