GothamFest

Friday Sep 6, 2019, 9:00 AM → 6:00 PM America/New_York

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium (2nd Floor) (160 Fifth Avenue)

2nd annual NYC-wide event for local astronomers to meet. Three separate events at Columbia, NYU and CCA.

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When: Sep 6, 2019 07:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: GDFA - GothamFest - 9-06-2019
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9:00 AM Breakfast

Welcome from the Director!

Session 1: smallest

Moderator: Chiara Mingarelli

1 Dan Forman-Mackey (Flatiron/CCA)

2 Jackie Faherty (AMNH): BDNYC: Brown Dwarfs to Exoplanet characterization

3 Megan Bedell (Flatiron/CCA): Finding Other Earths

4 Rodrigo Luger (Flatiron/CCA): Making maps of stars and exoplanets

5 David W. Hogg (NYU)

6 Adam Jermyn (Flatiron/CCA): Turbulent Stars (or ... Stars!)

7 David Kipping (Columbia): f sub i

Poster Overview

11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

Session 2: bigger than the smallest

Moderator: Stephanie Tonnesen

8 James Cho (Flatiron/CCA): Baroclinic Instability on Cool, Tidally-Synchronized Objects

9 Megan Ansdell (Flatiron/CCA): How quickly do planets form?

10 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (AMNH): Star Forming Clouds Have Magnetized Envelopes and Gravitationally Dominated Cores

11 Maria Okounkova (Flatiron/CCA): Binary black holes beyond general relativity

12 Sabrina Appel (Rutgers University): Investigating the Impact of Stellar Feedback on Models of Star Formation

13 Chiara Mingarelli (Flatiron/CCA): Gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be awesome

14 Eileen Gonzales (CUNY): Atmospheric Retrieval of the d/sdL7+T7.5p binary 2MASS J1416+1348AB

12:30 PM Lunch

Session 3: smaller than the biggest

Moderator: Rodrigo Luger

15 Blakesley Burkhart (Flatiron/CCA/Rutgers): Unifying Analytic Models of Star Formation in Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

16 Miles Cranmer (Princeton): Neural Network Recipes for Astrophysics

17 Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron/CCA): Surprises in the Galactic Graveyard

18 Aaron Yung (Rutgers): Semi-Analytic Forecasts for JWST and Beyond

19 Stephanie Tonnesen (Flatiron/CCA): It's Cloud Illusions I Recall, I Really Don't Know Clouds at All... (But I'm Working on It)

20 John Forbes (Flatiron/CCA): The baryon cycle in radially resolved semi analytic models

21 Saavik Ford (CUNY): GW190706 happened in an AGN disk

22 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (Flatiron/CCA): Cosmology in the machine learning era

23 Glennys Farrar (NYU)

3:00 PM PM Coffee Break

Session 4: biggest

Moderator: Drummond Fielding

24 Daniel Angles-Alcazar (Flatiron/CCA): Cosmological hyper-refinement simulations of AGN fueling and feedback

25 Michael Blanton (NYU): Computational Astronomy in the SDSS

26 Shy Genel (Flatiron/CCA): Following the Angular Momentum of Dark Matter and Stars during Galaxy Assembly

27 Mehmet Alpaslan (NYU): What can we learn from the luminosity of satellite galaxies?

28 Katerina Chatziioannou (Flatiron/CCA)

29 Chen Ding (NYU): On the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray anisotropy

30 Shirley Ho (Flatiron/CCA): Machine Learn the Universe?!

31 Colin Hill (Columbia/CCA): From SO to H0

32 David Spergel (Flatiron/CCA)

4:30 PM Reception