Caltech Astronomy & Astrophysics
November 29 - December 1, 2017
Credit: ALMA (ESO, NAOJ, NRAO); NASA (HST, Chandra); NRAO/AUI /NSF
November 29 - December 1, 2017
All presentations will be in the Hameetman Auditorium in the Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Invited talks are highlighted in bold face.
| Time | Speaker or Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:45 | Riechers and Isella | Welcome and Logistic |
| Session 1 | Gas and dust distribution in galaxies and circumstellar disks | |
| 9:00 | Nick Scoville (15m) | Perspective |
| 9:15 | Sean Andrews (25m+5m) | Small scale structures in protoplanetary disks |
| 9:45 | Laura Perez (15m+5m) | Spiral Arms in Protoplanetary Disks: New Insights from Radio-Wave Observations |
| 10:05 | Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez (15m+5m) | Observing Planet Formation with the VLA in the era of ALMA |
| 10:25 | Coffee Break (35m) | |
| 11:00 | Adam Leroy(25m+5m) | ALMA's View of Local Galaxies |
| 11:30 | Jin Koda (15m+5m) | ALMA CO absorption study: smallest GMC structures |
| 11:50 | Chelsea Sharon (15m+5m) | Excitation Dependence of the Spatially Resolved Schmidt-Kennicutt Relation in a z~2 Normal UV-bright Disk Galaxy |
| 12:10 | 1 slide-1 min Poster Presentation (35m) | |
| 12:45 | Lunch (1h 15m) | |
| Session 2 | Chemical structure of galaxies and circumstellar disksi | |
| 2:00 | Leonardo Testi (15m) | Perspective |
| 2:15 | Nanase Harada (25m+5m) | Chemistry in galaxies |
| 2:45 | Charlie Qi (15m+5m) | Imaging the CO snow line in protoplanetary disks |
| 3:05 | Kamber Schwarz (15m+5m) | Unlocking CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks |
| 3:25 | Liton Majumdar (15m+5m) | The chemical link between comet 67P/C-G and low mass protostar IRAS 16293-2422 |
| 3:45 | Break (15m) | |
| 4:00 | Paola Caselli (45m+15m) | Astronomy Department Colloquium: Astrochemistry at the Dawn of Star and Planet Formation in the ALMA Era |
| 5:00 | Poster Session / Wine and Cheese Reception | |
All presentations will be in the Hameetman Auditorium in the Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
| Time | Speaker or Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 3 | Dynamics of galaxies and circumstellar disks | |
| 8:45 | Andrea Isella (15m) | Perspective |
| 9:00 | John Carpenter (25m+5m) | Evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks |
| 9:30 | Kevin Flaherty (15m+5m) | Weak Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks as Revealed by ALMA |
| 9:50 | Akimasa Kataoka (15m+5m) | Measuring the grain size in protoplanetary disks by ALMA polarization observations |
| 10:10 | Marco Tazzari (15m+5m) | A multi-wavelength view of planet forming regions: unleashing the full power of ALMA |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break (30m) | |
| 11:00 | Jackie Hodge (25m+5m) | High-resolution imaging of distant galaxies in the ALMA era |
| 11:30 | Benjamin Boizelle (15m+5m) | ALMA Observations of Circumnuclear Disks in Early-type Galaxies |
| 11:50 | Yashar Hezaveh (15m+5m) | ALMA observations of lensed galaxies: A dusty window into the nature of the dark matter particle |
| 12:10 | 1 slide - 1 min Poster presentations (35m) | |
| 12:45 | Lunch (1h 15m) | |
| Session 4 | Merging processes in galaxies and circumstellar disks. | |
| 2:00 | Nick Scoville (15m) | Perspective |
| 2:15 | Jean Turner (25m+5m) | Extreme star formation in galaxies |
| 2:45 | Christine Wilson (15m+5m) | Dense gas and star cluster formation in the Antennae merger |
| 3:05 | Ivan Oteo (15m+5m) | An extreme proto-cluster of luminous dusty starbursts in the early Universe |
| 3:25 | Coffee Break (35m) | |
| 4:00 | Adam Ginsburg (25m+5m) | High-mass star formation in massive clusters |
| 4:30 | Bram Ochsendorf (15m+5m) | What drives the formation of massive stars and clusters? Synergies between ALMA and JWST. |
| 4:50 | Philip Appleton (15m+5m) | Evidence of Turbulent Star Formation Suppression in a Plethora of CO Filaments in Aftermath of the Taffy Galaxy Collision |
| 5:10 | Poster session | |
| 6:00 | Reception on the West Patio at Athenaeum | |
| 7:00 | Dinner on West Patio at Athenaeum | |
All presentations will be in the Hameetman Auditorium in the Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
| Time | Speaker or Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 5 | Primeval galaxies and protostellar evolution | |
| 8:45 | Dominik Riechers (15m) | Perspective |
| 9:00 | Jonathan Tan (25m+5m) | High-mass star formation |
| 9:30 | Shou Kong (15m+5m) | The emergence of dense gas in Infrared Dark Cloud |
| 9:50 | Manuel Aravena (25m+5m) | High-z galaxy surveys with ALMA |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break (35m) | |
| 10:55 | Riccardo Pavesi (15m+5m) | A multi-tracer view of the surprising variety in ISM enrichment in the first billion years of cosmic time |
| 11:15 | Tanio Diaz-Santos (15m+5m) | An ALMA [CII] Survey of Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies |
| 11:35 | Caitlin Casey (15m+5m) | How to search for dusty galaxies a z>5 with ALMA: time to revise strategy? |
| 11:55 | Lunch (1h 20m) | |
| Session 6 | ALMA community and synergies with JWST | |
| 1:15 | Andrea Isella (10m) | Perspective |
| 1:25 | Stuartt Corder (25m) | ALMA: Submillimeter to the masses |
| 1:50 | Janice Lee (25m) | JWST-ALMA synergies |
| 2:15 | Questions and discussion (15m) | |
| 2:30 | Coffee Break (30m) | |
| Session 7 | Feedback and winds in galaxies and circumstellar disks | |
| 3:00 | Fabian Walter (15m) | Perspective |
| 3:15 | Hector Arce (25m+5m) | Molecular Clouds and Stellar Feedback |
| 3:45 | Chin-Fei Lee (15m+5m) | Hungry Baby Star Eating A Space Hamburger and Spitting Spinning Bullets |
| 4:05 | Coffee Break (15m) | |
| 4:20 | Kotaro Kohno (25m+5m) | Galactic nuclei and feedback processes |
| 4:50 | Alberto Bolatto (15m+5m) | The Central Engine and Outflows in the Nuclear Starburst NGC 253 |
| 5:10 | Edith Falgarone (15m+5m) | Large turbulent gas reservoirs of cold gas around high-redshift starburst galaxies |
| 5:30 | Justin Spilker (15m+5m) | Discovery of a Fast Molecular Outflow from a Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy at z=5.3 |
| 5:50 | Anneila Sargent | Final Remarks |
| 6:15 | FAREWELL WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION | |
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