Big Apple Dynamics School Symposium

Aug 11, 2021, 8:30 AM → Aug 13, 2021, 5:30 PM America/New_York

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Wednesday, August 11

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 1:50 PM The dynamical origins of the Psc-Eri stream (How to catch a fish with a hat)

Hanna Parul (Alabama)

1:50 PM → 2:10 PM Rotation Curves in Simulated Galaxies

Francisco Mercado (UC Irvine)

2:10 PM → 2:30 PM Comparisons of Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods

Micah Kong Oeur (UC Merced)

2:30 PM → 2:50 PM Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods

Juan Guerra (Yale)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM Dancing streams in merging halos: The effects of major mergers on stellar streams

Sachithra Weerasooriya (TCU)

3:50 PM → 4:10 PM Snails: the story of disk perturbation and phase-mixing

Uddipan Banik (Yale) and Elise Darragh-Ford (Stanford)

Thursday, August 12

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM An eXploration of Xs in Bars

Rachel McClure (UW Madison)

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM Resonance Sweeping in barred Galaxy Simulations

Binod Bhattarai (UC Merced)

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM Exploring Resonance-Induced Radial Changes in a Billion-Particle N-body Simulation

Carrie Fillion (JHU)

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Interplay of Orbits and Potentials in the Milky Way Bar

Maddie Lucey (UT Austin)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 11:50 AM Streams, Dark Matter: Future Prospects for Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

Christian Aganze (UC San Diego)

11:50 AM → 12:10 PM Velocity Dipoles in Stellar Halos in FIRE Simulations

Alex Riley (Texas A&M)

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Old Man Yells At Cloud: The LMC's impact on the inferred Local Group Mass

Katherine Chamberlain (U Arizona)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:45 PM Dynamics Breakouts

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Reception

Friday, August 13

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 10:15 AM Actions on FIRE: Action-Angle clustering of simulated streams in the FIRE2 simulations

Farnik Nikakhtar (UPenn)

10:15 AM → 10:30 AM The Protruding Fossil: Measuring the Shape and Orientation of Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus

Jesse Han (Harvard)

10:30 AM → 10:45 AM Evidence of Two Massive Radial Mergers in Local Solar Neighborhood Dwarf Stars

Tom Donlon (RPI)

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Machine Learning the 6th Dimension: Stellar Radial Velocities from 5D Phase-space Correlations

Adriana Dropulic (Princeton)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 11:45 AM Splitting Streams around Separatrices...and how to (maybe?) bifurcate Sagittarius

Tomer Yavetz (Columbia)

11:45 AM → 12:00 PM Constraining the dark matter halo's symmetry axes using stellar streams in action-angle space

Nondh Panithanpaisal (UPenn)

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Study of a Star Cluster at a Stable Lagrange Point

Olivia McAuley (Bryn Mawr)

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Radial Migration & Mixing in the Galactic Disc: Close Encounters between Sagittarius and the Milky Way

Chris Carr (Columbia)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lightning Talks

3:00 PM → 5:00 PM Dessert Social