Gothamfest 2023

Friday Jan 27, 2023, 8:00 AM → 6:30 PM America/New_York

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA (160 5th Avenue)

COVID Policy: By making entry to our buildings all staff, vendors and guests will implicitly attest to being symptom/COVID free. Vaccination status will no longer be validated as a condition of entry. However, all staff and affiliates are strongly encouraged to remain up to date with their vaccination boosters, according to their individual eligibility.

Age Restriction: All employees, visitors, event attendees and vendors are required to be above the age of eighteen for entry into our building(s). Photo ID with birthdate will be required by security upon arrival to our building. For nursing mothers, please reach out to an admin to arrange an exception.

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome: Julianne Dalcanton

9:10 AM → 10:00 AM Session 1: Galaxies I

Chair: Nico Garavito-Camargo

Speakers: Rachel Somerville, Kathryn Johnston, Amanda Quirk, Viviana Acquaviva, Festa Bucina, Janelle Sy, Nick Luber, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Marc Huertas-Company

Poster Previews I

10:00 AM → 10:10 AM Break

10:10 AM → 11:00 AM Session 2: Stars

Chair: Katie Breivik

Speakers: Valentin Skoutnev, Maryum Sayeed, Keaton Bell, Jared Goldberg, Mark Popinchalk, Isabel Colman

Poster Previews II

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee & Posters

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 3: Cosmology

Chair: Will Coulton

Speakers: Colin Hill, Lucia Perez, Paul Sutter, Ola Kusiak, Yongseok Jo, Kate Storey-Fisher, Sam Goldstein, Natalí Soler Matubaro de Santi, Fiona McCarthy, Giulio Fabbian, Patrick Breysse, Glennys Farrar

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch & Posters

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Session 4: Planets

Chair: Phil Armitage

Speakers: Oren Slone, Michael Blanton, Zihui Wang, Danny Horta Darrington, Ben Cassese, Megan Bedell, Jiayin Dong, Wenrui Xu, Daniel Yahalomi, David Kipping

2:30 PM → 2:40 PM Break

2:40 PM → 3:30 PM Session 5: Compact Objects and GW

Chair: Mathieu Renzo

Speakers: Ruth Daly, Owen Henry, Bridget Ierace, Manuel Pichardo Marcano, Chris Dessert, Barry McKernan, Macarena Lagos, Zsuzsa Marka, Kaze Wong, David Dunsky

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee & Posters

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Session 6: Galaxies II

Chair: Ulrich Steinwandel

Speakers: Henry Best, Sophie Koudmani, Bryan Terrazas, Jennifer Mead, Arjun Suresh, James Chan, Joshua Fagin, Matthew Orr, Nick Faucher

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Reception