Monday, March 19, 2018

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1 Monday, March 19, :15-8:45 Breakfast - Cafe Azafran 8:50-9:00 Welcome Dr. Kenneth Sembach, Director, STScI Session 1 Chair: Kartik Sheth (NASA HQ) 9:00-9:25 Ilse Cleeves (Harvard-Smithsonian Cfa) Time-domain Astrochemistry in Protoplanetary Disks 9:25-9:50 Sarah Sadavoy (SAO) ALMA Observations of Dust Polarization in a Young, Embedded Protostar 9:50-10:15 Ke Zhang (University Of Michigan) Characterizing Physical and Chemical Properties of the Major Planet Forming Region Session 2 Chair: David Soderblom (STScI) 10:45-11:10 Jordan Stone (University of Arizona) Thermal-infrared Spectroscopic Observations of Planets and Protoplanets 11:10-11:35 Sebastiaan Krijt (The University of Chicago) Impact of Pebble Formation and Migration on Observable Gas-phase Volatiles on Both Sides of the Snowline 11:35-12:00 GeorgeZhou (SAO) Planets Around Hot Stars: An Untapped Population 12:00-12:25 Max Millar-Blanchaer (NASA Jet Propulsion) The WIRC+POL Brown Dwarf Survey 12:25-12:40 Discussion 12:40-1:30 Lunch Café Azafran 1

2 Session 3 Chair: Elena Sabbi (STScI) 1:30-1:55 Diana Dragomir (MIT) The Nature and Demographics of Small Exoplanets 1:55-2:20 Erik Petigura (Caltech) A Bird's Eye View of Extrasolar Planets 2:20-2:45 Johanna Teske (Carnegie DTM) Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2:45-3:10 Sean Johnson (Princeton University) A Relationship Between Quasar Activity and Diffuse Cool Halo Gas Observed Both in Absorption and Emission 3:10-3:25 Discussion 3:25-3:40 Afternoon Break Session 4 Chair: Mike Fall (STScI) 3:40-4:05 Susan Clark (Institute for Advanced Study) Magnetism and Morphology in the Interstellar Medium 4:05-4:30 Sarah Loebman (University of California, Davis) Simulating the Evolving Milky Way: From Disk to Halo 4:30-4:55 Edward Schlafly (LBL) Mapping the Milky Way's Dust in Three Dimensions 4:55-5:20 Ivan Cabrera-Ziri (CfA) Current Challenges in Globular Cluster Formation 5:20-5:35 Discussion 5:35 Adjourn *Dinner on Own 2

3 Tuesday, March 20, :30-9:00 Breakfast - Cafe Azafran Session 5 Chair: Nancy Levenson (STScI) 9:00-9:25 Anne Medling (Caltech) A Multiphase Look at Galaxy Nuclei in High Resolution 9:25-9:50 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry (Institute for Advanced Study) Scalar Resonant Relaxation in Galactic Nuclei 9:50-10:15 Evan Schneider (Princeton University) Hot Winds as an Origin for Cool Gas Around Galaxies Session 6 Chair: Camilla Pacifici (STScI) 10:45-11:10 Rongmon Bordoloi (MIT) The Tale of Circumgalactic Gas: Large and Small scales 11:10-11:35 Decker French (Carnegie Observatories) The Post-starburst Evolution of Galaxies 11:35-12:00 Anne Jaskot (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) How to Reionize the Universe - Clues from the Low-redshift Green Pea Galaxies 12:00-12:15 Discussion 12:15-12:30 Group Photo 12:30-1:30 Lunch - Cafe Azafran 3

4 Session 7 Chair: Claus Leitherer (STScI) 1:30-1:55 Yashar Hezaveh (Stanford University) Fast Automated Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lenses with Convolutional Neural Networks 1:55-2:20 Zheng Cai (UCO/Lick Observatory) MApping the Most Massive Overdensity Through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH) 2:20-2:45 Gregory Snyder (Space Telescope Science Institute) High Galaxy Merger Rates at Three Billion Years 2:45-3:10 Paul Torrey (MIT) The Mass-metallicity Relation in IllustrisTNG 3:10-3:25 Discussion 3:25-3:45 Afternoon Break Session 8 Chair: Brice Ménard (JHU) 3:45-4:10 Adrian Liu (University of California, Berkeley) Accessing Cosmic Dawn via the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array 4:10-4:35 Marcel Pawlowski (University of California, Irvine) Testing Cosmology with the Phase-space Distribution of Satellite Galaxy Systems 4:35-5:00 Siyao Xu (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Turbulent Dynamo in Astrophysics 5:00-5:25 Gautham Narayan (Space Telescope Science Institute) Machine Learning-based Brokers for Real-time Classification of the LSST Alert Stream 5:25-5:40 Discussion 5:40 Adjourn 6:15-9:00 Reception and Dinner Gertrude's Restaurant, The Baltimore Museum of Art 4

5 Wednesday, March 21, :30-9:00 Breakfast - Cafe Azafran Session 9 Chair: Andy Fruchter (STScI) 9:00-9:25 Maria Drout (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science) Discovery, Follow-up, and Implications of the Optical/Infrared Counterpart to GW :25-9:50 Wen-fai Fong (Northwestern University) The Environment of a Neutron Star Merger on Sub-parsec to Kiloparsec Scales 9:50-10:15 Alexander Ji (Carnegie Observatories) R-process Nucleosynthesis in Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies Session 10 Chair: Adam Riess (STScI/JHU) 10:45-11:10 JJ Hermes (UNC Chapel Hill) Stellar Autopsies from White Dwarf Pulsations 11:10-11:35 Josiah Schwab (UC Santa Cruz) The Importance of Mixing in White Dwarfs Evolving Towards Explosion 11:35-12:00 Daniel Scolnic (University of Chicago) Using Supernovae and Kilonovae to Measure Dark Energy 12:00-12:15 Discussion 12:15-1:30 Lunch - Cafe Azafran Session 11 Chair: Andy Fruchter (STScI) 1:30-1:45 Jenny Novacescu (STScI) A Hubble Fellows Bibliography 1:45-2:30 Hubble Fellowship Program Discussion 2:30 Adjourn 3:30 STScI Colloquium: Kathrin Altwegg (Universität Bern ) Rosetta at Comet 67P: Deciphering the Origin of the Solar System, the Earth and Life 5