Name: Big Apple Dynamics School Symposium
Start: 2021-08-11T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-08-13T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Flatiron

Big Apple Dynamics School Symposium

from Wednesday, August 11, 2021 (8:30 AM) to Friday, August 13, 2021 (5:30 PM)

Monday, August 9, 2021
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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

1:50 PM Rotation Curves in Simulated Galaxies
Rotation Curves in Simulated Galaxies
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Francisco Mercado (UC Irvine)

2:10 PM Comparisons of Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods
Comparisons of Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Micah Kong Oeur (UC Merced)

2:30 PM Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods
Dynamics Data-Analysis Methods
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Juan Guerra (Yale)

3:00 PM PM Coffee Break
PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Dancing streams in merging halos: The effects of major mergers on stellar streams
Dancing streams in merging halos: The effects of major mergers on stellar streams
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Sachithra Weerasooriya (TCU)

3:50 PM Snails: the story of disk perturbation and phase-mixing
Snails: the story of disk perturbation and phase-mixing
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Uddipan Banik (Yale) and Elise Darragh-Ford (Stanford)
Thursday, August 12, 2021

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM An eXploration of Xs in Bars
An eXploration of Xs in Bars
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Rachel McClure (UW Madison)

9:50 AM Resonance Sweeping in barred Galaxy Simulations
Resonance Sweeping in barred Galaxy Simulations
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Binod Bhattarai (UC Merced)

10:10 AM Exploring Resonance-Induced Radial Changes in a Billion-Particle N-body Simulation
Exploring Resonance-Induced Radial Changes in a Billion-Particle N-body Simulation
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Carrie Fillion (JHU)

10:30 AM Interplay of Orbits and Potentials in the Milky Way Bar
Interplay of Orbits and Potentials in the Milky Way Bar
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Maddie Lucey (UT Austin)

11:00 AM AM Coffee Break
AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM Streams, Dark Matter: Future Prospects for Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way
Streams, Dark Matter: Future Prospects for Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Christian Aganze (UC San Diego)

11:50 AM Velocity Dipoles in Stellar Halos in FIRE Simulations
Velocity Dipoles in Stellar Halos in FIRE Simulations
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Alex Riley (Texas A&M)

12:10 PM Old Man Yells At Cloud: The LMC's impact on the inferred Local Group Mass
Old Man Yells At Cloud: The LMC's impact on the inferred Local Group Mass
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Katherine Chamberlain (U Arizona)

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Dynamics Breakouts
Dynamics Breakouts
1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

4:00 PM Reception
Reception
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Friday, August 13, 2021

9:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

10:00 AM Actions on FIRE: Action-Angle clustering of simulated streams in the FIRE2 simulations
Actions on FIRE: Action-Angle clustering of simulated streams in the FIRE2 simulations
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Farnik Nikakhtar (UPenn)

10:15 AM The Protruding Fossil: Measuring the Shape and Orientation of Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus
The Protruding Fossil: Measuring the Shape and Orientation of Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Jesse Han (Harvard)

10:30 AM Evidence of Two Massive Radial Mergers in Local Solar Neighborhood Dwarf Stars
Evidence of Two Massive Radial Mergers in Local Solar Neighborhood Dwarf Stars
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Tom Donlon (RPI)

10:45 AM Machine Learning the 6th Dimension: Stellar Radial Velocities from 5D Phase-space Correlations
Machine Learning the 6th Dimension: Stellar Radial Velocities from 5D Phase-space Correlations
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Adriana Dropulic (Princeton)

11:00 AM AM Coffee Break
AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM Splitting Streams around Separatrices...and how to (maybe?) bifurcate Sagittarius
Splitting Streams around Separatrices...and how to (maybe?) bifurcate Sagittarius
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Tomer Yavetz (Columbia)

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

12:00 PM Study of a Star Cluster at a Stable Lagrange Point
Study of a Star Cluster at a Stable Lagrange Point
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Olivia McAuley (Bryn Mawr)

12:15 PM Radial Migration & Mixing in the Galactic Disc: Close Encounters between Sagittarius and the Milky Way
Radial Migration & Mixing in the Galactic Disc: Close Encounters between Sagittarius and the Milky Way
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Chris Carr (Columbia)

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Dessert Social
Dessert Social
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM