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 → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 10:03 AM Welcome from the Director!

10:03 AM → 10:45 AM Session 1: smallest

Moderator: Chiara Mingarelli

10:03 AM Dan Forman-Mackey (Flatiron/CCA)

10:09 AM Jackie Faherty (AMNH): BDNYC: Brown Dwarfs to Exoplanet characterization

10:15 AM Megan Bedell (Flatiron/CCA): Finding Other Earths

10:21 AM Rodrigo Luger (Flatiron/CCA): Making maps of stars and exoplanets

10:27 AM David W. Hogg (NYU)

10:33 AM Adam Jermyn (Flatiron/CCA): Turbulent Stars (or ... Stars!)

10:39 AM David Kipping (Columbia): f sub i

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Poster Overview

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: bigger than the smallest

Moderator: Stephanie Tonnesen

11:30 AM James Cho (Flatiron/CCA): Baroclinic Instability on Cool, Tidally-Synchronized Objects

11:38 AM Megan Ansdell (Flatiron/CCA): How quickly do planets form?

11:46 AM Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (AMNH): Star Forming Clouds Have Magnetized Envelopes and Gravitationally Dominated Cores

11:54 AM Maria Okounkova (Flatiron/CCA): Binary black holes beyond general relativity

12:02 PM Sabrina Appel (Rutgers University): Investigating the Impact of Stellar Feedback on Models of Star Formation

12:10 PM Chiara Mingarelli (Flatiron/CCA): Gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be awesome

12:18 PM Eileen Gonzales (CUNY): Atmospheric Retrieval of the d/sdL7+T7.5p binary 2MASS J1416+1348AB

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Session 3: smaller than the biggest

Moderator: Rodrigo Luger

2:00 PM Blakesley Burkhart (Flatiron/CCA/Rutgers): Unifying Analytic Models of Star Formation in Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

2:06 PM Miles Cranmer (Princeton): Neural Network Recipes for Astrophysics

2:12 PM Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron/CCA): Surprises in the Galactic Graveyard

2:18 PM Aaron Yung (Rutgers): Semi-Analytic Forecasts for JWST and Beyond

2:24 PM Stephanie Tonnesen (Flatiron/CCA): It's Cloud Illusions I Recall, I Really Don't Know Clouds at All... (But I'm Working on It)

2:30 PM John Forbes (Flatiron/CCA): The baryon cycle in radially resolved semi analytic models

2:36 PM Saavik Ford (CUNY): GW190706 happened in an AGN disk

2:42 PM Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (Flatiron/CCA): Cosmology in the machine learning era

2:48 PM Glennys Farrar (NYU)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Session 4: biggest

Moderator: Drummond Fielding

3:30 PM Daniel Angles-Alcazar (Flatiron/CCA): Cosmological hyper-refinement simulations of AGN fueling and feedback

3:36 PM Michael Blanton (NYU): Computational Astronomy in the SDSS

3:42 PM Shy Genel (Flatiron/CCA): Following the Angular Momentum of Dark Matter and Stars during Galaxy Assembly

3:48 PM Mehmet Alpaslan (NYU): What can we learn from the luminosity of satellite galaxies?

3:54 PM Katerina Chatziioannou (Flatiron/CCA)

4:00 PM Chen Ding (NYU): On the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray anisotropy

4:06 PM Shirley Ho (Flatiron/CCA): Machine Learn the Universe?!

4:12 PM Colin Hill (Columbia/CCA): From SO to H0

4:18 PM David Spergel (Flatiron/CCA)

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Reception