Computational Astrophysics in the ngVLA Era: Synergistic Simulations, Theory, and Observations

America/New_York
Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA (162 5th Avenue)

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA

162 5th Avenue

200
Description

Registration has been CLOSED for in-person attendees!

To attend virtually, please reach out to ccaadmin@flatironinstitute.org. A Zoom link will be sent upon approval from event organizers.

A recording of this event will be posted to our website for later viewing.


Event Overview

The goal of this meeting is to bring together theoreticians, modelers, and observers to discuss the challenges and identify promising paths forward for the next generation of observatories, focusing on the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The formation of planetary systems, the evolution of galaxies, and the observation of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events will be fertile grounds for discovery in the next decades and are core science goals for the ngVLA. The challenge to simulators is to develop predictive models that can be accurately compared against observations, while observers need to generate measurements that can effectively constrain the models. What are the key observables that will allow us to disentangle evolutionary processes and formation and generation mechanisms? What is needed to improve the current generation of theories and models, in order to produce accurate predictions of observable parameters? What types of observational capabilities and programs will be needed to constrain the theories? What are the computational and data challenges, and how can they be overcome?

This meeting will take place for three days at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute in Manhattan, New York. We particularly encourage the participation of early career scientists. The meeting will be in person, but talks will be recorded and made widely available. It will be structured to stimulate dynamic, real-time interactions concerning model development and identification of future observations.

    • 9:20 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcome and Announcements 10m
    • 9:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Session 1: Matt Orr (Chair)
      • 9:30 AM
        Zhaohuan Zhu: Planet Formation: from Simulations to Observations in the ngVLA Era 30m
      • 10:00 AM
        Adam Leroy: Star Forming Galaxies Resolved into their Fundamental Units 30m
      • 10:30 AM
        Enrique Macias: Dust Content of Protoplanetary Disk Substructures 20m
      • 10:50 AM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Zachary Davis: Modeling Turbulent Heating Inside of Blazars

        Antonio Hales: Millimeter Studies of Eruptive Stars

    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:30 AM 12:40 PM
      Session 2: Matt Orr (Chair)
      • 11:30 AM
        Rachel Cochrane: Insights Into High Redshift Galaxies From High Resolution Synthetic Observations 20m
      • 11:50 AM
        Eva Schinnerer: A Cloud-Scale View of the Star Formation Process 20m
      • 12:10 PM
        Linn Eriksson: Planetesimal Formation at Planetary Gap Edges 20m
      • 12:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Kevin Flaherty: Evidence for Turbulence Around IM Lup as Revealed by ALMA

        Eva Duran Camacho: Constraining the Milky Way structure through numerical models

    • 12:40 PM 2:10 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 2:10 PM 3:40 PM
      Session 3: Aleksandra Kuznetsova (Chair)
      • 2:10 PM
        Roberto Galván-Madrid: Resolved Observations and Modeling of the Formation of Massive Stars 20m
      • 2:30 PM
        Harley Katz: Simulating Molecular Gas in the Early Universe With Coupled Metal Chemistry and Radiative Transfer 20m
      • 2:50 PM
        Sara Gallagher: Testing the Early Stages of Planet Formation with Future Hi-Res Observations of Young Disks 20m
      • 3:10 PM
        Benedikt Diemer: Modeling Cold Gas and the ISM in Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation 20m
      • 3:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Nathan Roth: The Next Generation of the Protoplanetary Disk-Comet Connection: Synergistic Studies of Disk Midplane Chemistry and Cometary Atmospheres with ngVLA

        Guochao Sun: Simulating Multi-Tracer Intensity Mapping of Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Eras with LIMFAST

    • 3:40 PM 4:10 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 4:10 PM 4:50 PM
      Session 4: Aleksandra Kuznetsova (Chair)
      • 4:10 PM
        Cecilia Ceccarelli: Computational Chemistry, a Crucial Tool 20m
      • 4:30 PM
        Marta De Simone: Unveiling the Hot Corino Nature at CM Wavelengths: A New Era With ngVLA 20m
    • 4:50 PM 5:50 PM
      Discussion: Alberto Bolatto, Andrea Isella, Rachel Somerville
    • 5:50 PM 6:50 PM
      Social Hour 1h
    • 9:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Session 1: Rachel Cochrane (Chair)
      • 9:30 AM
        Laura Blecha: Simulating the Dynamics and Multi-messenger Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole & Galaxy Evolution 30m
      • 10:00 AM
        Vikram Ravi: The Dynamic Universe: What Comes Next? 30m
      • 10:30 AM
        Tom Maccarone: Radio Variability of X-ray Binary Jets 20m
      • 10:50 AM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Wenrui Xu: How Massive Are Typicall Protostellar Disks? Insights From a Synergy Between Theory and Observation

        Valentina La Torre: Parameter Estimation with SOM for Large Survey Datasets

        Duncan Brown & Alessandra Corsi: Observing Black Holes and Neutron Stars Throughout Time with Cosmic Explorer

    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:30 AM 12:40 PM
      Session 2: Rachel Cochrane (Chair)
      • 11:30 AM
        Adam Ginsburg: Accretion Disks Around HMYSOs: Brinaries! 20m
      • 11:50 AM
        Chris Nagele: Constraining Mass of Direct Collapse BH in the Early Universe with General Relativistic Supernovae 20m
      • 12:10 PM
        Desmond Jeff: Thermal Properties of the Hot Core Population in Sagittarius B2 Deep South 20m
      • 12:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Cristiano Longarini: Kinematical Imprints of Self Gravity and Gravitational Instability

        Tirso Marin Gilabert: The Effect of Braginskii Viscosity in the Intracluster Medium

    • 12:40 PM 2:10 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 2:10 PM 3:40 PM
      Session 3: Laura Lenkic (Chair)
      • 2:10 PM
        Arvind Balasubramanian: Deep VLA Searches for the Dynamical Ejecta Afterglow of GW170817 20m
      • 2:30 PM
        Nicole Lloyd-Ronning: Radio Loud vs. Radio Quiet Gamma-ray Bursts: the Role of Binary Progenitors 20m
      • 2:50 PM
        Matthias Kadler: Smoking-Gun Signatures of Neutrino Production in Structured Parsec-Scale Jets 20m
      • 3:10 PM
        Hao Wang: Multimessenger Parameter Estimation of GW170817: From Jet Structure to the Hubble Constant 20m
      • 3:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Jan-Willem Steeb: SiRIUS: Simulation of Radio Interferometry from Unique Sources

        Allison Towner: Identifying Previous Generations of Shocks in MYSOs

    • 3:40 PM 4:10 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 4:10 PM 4:50 PM
      Session 4: Laura Lenkic (Chair)
      • 4:10 PM
        Avery Eddins: A Search for Kilonova Radio Flares in a Sample of Swift BAT Short GRBs 20m
      • 4:30 PM
        Dillon Dong: The (ng)VLA as an engine for transient discovery and characterization 20m
    • 4:50 PM 5:50 PM
      Discussion: Thomas Maccarone, Alessandra Corsi, David Wilner
    • 9:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Session 1: Deborah Good (Chair)
      • 9:30 AM
        Evan Schneider: Pushing the Resolution Limits in Computation 30m
      • 10:00 AM
        Myriam Benisty: High Resolution Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures 30m
      • 10:30 AM
        Bryan Butler: Simulation of ngVLA Observations of Venus at High Resolution 20m
      • 10:50 AM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Ashkbiz Danehkar: Hydrodynamic Simulations of Starburst-driven Superwinds and Superbubbles

        Massimo Ricotti: Multiscale Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulation of Star Clusters Formation Across Cosmic Time

        Yuong-Dae Jung: Atomic Data for Shannon Entropy in Astrophysical Compact Objects

    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:30 AM 12:40 PM
      Session 2: Deborah Good (Chair)
      • 11:30 AM
        Eric Faustino Jiménez Andrade: VLA 10GHz Survey of GOODS-N: Paving the Way for High-res Extragalactic Radio Surveys with the ngVLA 20m
      • 11:50 AM
        Daniel Carrera: Planetesimal Formation in Dust Rings 20m
      • 12:10 PM
        Kei Tanaka: The Hot and Dynamic Birth of Massive Stars from the ngVLA Perspective 20m
      • 12:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Jeff Jennings: Super-resolution Imaging with Frankenstein

        Sumit Sarbadhicary: Supernova Progenitors and Feedback From the Most Detailed Radio Images of Local Group Galaxies

    • 12:40 PM 2:10 PM
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 2:10 PM 3:40 PM
      Session 3: Valentina La Torre (Chair)
      • 2:10 PM
        Joseph Lazio: Toward Astrometric Constraints on a Supermassive Black Hole Binary in the Early-Type Galaxy NGC 4472 20m
      • 2:30 PM
        Benjamin Boizelle: Recovering Circumnuclear Disk Properties and the Central Black Hole Mass in the Era of the ngVLA 20m
      • 2:50 PM
        Laura Lenkic: CO Excitation and Turbulence in High-z Main Sequence Analogues 20m
      • 3:10 PM
        Aklant Bhowmick: Impact of Gas Based Seeding on Z > 7 Supermassive Black Hole Populations in Cosmological Simulations 20m
      • 3:30 PM
        Poster Flash Session 10m

        Frederick Groth: Impact of the Hydrodynamical Scheme on High Resolution Simulations of Structure Formation

        Elie Pattie: A Radio Survey in the Galactic Bulge

    • 3:40 PM 4:10 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 4:10 PM 4:50 PM
      Session 4: Valentina La Torre (Chair)
      • 4:10 PM
        Alice Pasetto: Mapping the 3D magnetic field configuration of M87 20m
      • 4:30 PM
        Bjorn Emonts: The Co-evolution of Active Black Holes and Cold Molecular Gas, From Clouds to Halos 20m
    • 4:50 PM 5:50 PM
      Discussion: Joseph Lazio, Chiara Mingarelli, Eric Murphy