Big Apple Dynamics School Symposium

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

Flatiron

 

Wednesday, August 11

12:30 PM Lunch

1 The dynamical origins of the Psc-Eri stream (How to catch a fish with a hat)

Hanna Parul (Alabama)

2 Rotation Curves in Simulated Galaxies

Francisco Mercado (UC Irvine)

3 Comparisons of Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods

Micah Kong Oeur (UC Merced)

4 Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods

Juan Guerra (Yale)

3:00 PM PM Coffee Break

5 Dancing streams in merging halos: The effects of major mergers on stellar streams

Sachithra Weerasooriya (TCU)

6 Snails: the story of disk perturbation and phase-mixing

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

Thursday, August 12

8:30 AM Breakfast

7 An eXploration of Xs in Bars

Rachel McClure (UW Madison)

8 Resonance Sweeping in barred Galaxy Simulations

Binod Bhattarai (UC Merced)

9 Exploring Resonance-Induced Radial Changes in a Billion-Particle N-body Simulation

Carrie Fillion (JHU)

10 Interplay of Orbits and Potentials in the Milky Way Bar

Maddie Lucey (UT Austin)

11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

11 Streams, Dark Matter: Future Prospects for Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

Christian Aganze (UC San Diego)

12 Velocity Dipoles in Stellar Halos in FIRE Simulations

Alex Riley (Texas A&M)

13 Old Man Yells At Cloud: The LMC's impact on the inferred Local Group Mass

Katherine Chamberlain (U Arizona)

12:30 PM Lunch

14 Dynamics Breakouts

4:00 PM Reception

Friday, August 13

9:00 AM Breakfast

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

Farnik Nikakhtar (UPenn)

16 The Protruding Fossil: Measuring the Shape and Orientation of Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus

Jesse Han (Harvard)

17 Evidence of Two Massive Radial Mergers in Local Solar Neighborhood Dwarf Stars

Tom Donlon (RPI)

18 Machine Learning the 6th Dimension: Stellar Radial Velocities from 5D Phase-space Correlations

Adriana Dropulic (Princeton)

11:00 AM AM Coffee Break

19 Splitting Streams around Separatrices...and how to (maybe?) bifurcate Sagittarius

Tomer Yavetz (Columbia)

20 Constraining the dark matter halo's symmetry axes using stellar streams in action-angle space

Nondh Panithanpaisal (UPenn)

21 Study of a Star Cluster at a Stable Lagrange Point

Olivia McAuley (Bryn Mawr)

22 Radial Migration & Mixing in the Galactic Disc: Close Encounters between Sagittarius and the Milky Way

Chris Carr (Columbia)

12:30 PM Lunch

23 Lightning Talks

3:00 PM Dessert Social