Speakers

Invited Speakers

  • Megan Ansdell, Flatiron Institute - Planet Formation
  • Kirk Barrow, Stanford - First Galaxies and Black Hole Growth
  • Ana Bonaca, Harvard - Dark Matter and Stellar Streams
  • Ian Czekala, UC Berkeley - Protostellar Disks
  • Stephanie Douglas, Harvard - Stellar Companions and Rotation
  • Laura Mayorga, Harvard - The Solar System as an Exoplanetary System
  • Arpita Roy,  Caltech - Instrumentation for Exoplanet Characterization
  • Evan Schneider, Princeton - Galactic Outflows and the CGM
  • Irene Shivaei, University of Arizona - High-Redshift Star Formation and Dust
  • Tejaswi Venumadhav, IAS - Compact Binaries and Gravitational Waves
  • Hannah Wakeford, STScI - Exoplanetary Atmospheres
  • Ashlee Wilkins,  US House of Representatives - Astronomy and Public Policy
     

Speakers in 2017

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  • Nicole Estefania Cabrera Salazar, American Astronomical Society/Georgia State University
    Beyond Outreach: How to Retain People of Color in Astronomy
  • Gregory Mosby, NASA Goddard
    Recent Developments in Near Infrared Instrumentation
  • Samantha Lawler, NRC-Herzberg
    The Structure of the Kuiper Belt from Observations and Simulations: Understanding our Solar System’s Architecture  Zenodo  Video
  • Nienke van der Marel, University of Hawaii
    The ALMA Revolution of Planet Formation: Structures of Gas and Dust in Planet-Forming Disks
  • Andrew Mann, UT Austin/Columbia University
    Tracing Planetary Evolution from Formation to Maturity
  • Johanna Teske, Carnegie Observatories
    Exoplanet Genetics: What Host Star Chemical Abundances Reveal about Exoplanets
  • Sebastian Kamann,  University of Goetiingen
    A Land of Confusion: Spectroscopy in the Heart of Globular Clusters
  • Rachael Beaton, Carnegie Observatories
    Engineering a 1% Measure of the Hubble Constant from the Distance Ladder
  • Coral Wheeler, Caltech
    Sweating the Small Stuff: Solving Small-Scale Challenges to LCDM with Dwarf Galaxy Simulations at the High Resolution Limit
  • Vivian U, University of California, Riverside
    Galactic Collisions: The Growth and Merger of Supermassive Black Holes
  • Myongwon Jeon, University of Arizona
    Formation of the First Galaxies and their Connection to Local Dwarfs
  • Marius Millea,  Institut Lagrange de Paris
    The Planck Results and Cosmic Concordance