UNSOLVED PROBLEMS in Astrophysics and Cosmology 2018
Program
We will have talks and discussions Monday and Tuesday (July 2-3), a one-day break in Budapest for you to see the city and have some informal discussions (July 4), and two more days of talks Thursday and Friday (July 5-6). Following an overview of the unsolved problems in each research theme, led by the plenary speaker, we will have about 5-7 shorter, specialized, talks by other experts in each topic, followed by a longer discussion. Each session (topic) is scheduled for about 3 hours, see details below.
Topics with discussion leaders:
Monday - What has been solved since 2014? Rocky Kolb
Monday - Exoplanets: Catherine Espaillat and Zhaohuan Zhu
Monday - Astrophysical Black Holes: Cole Miller
Tuesday - Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Selma de Mink
Tuesday - Time Domain Astronomy: Maria Drout
Thursday - Dark Energy and Large Scale Structure: Istvan Szapudi
Thursday - Cosmology and Early Universe: Albert Stebbins
Friday - Galaxy Formation: Richard Ellis
Friday - Closing Remarks: Zoltan Haiman
Skeleton timetable:
| Monday | Tuesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Session | Session | Session | Session | |
| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| Session | Session | Session | ||
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WC: Brazil vs. Mexico |
WC: Sweden vs. Switzerland | Our Soccer Game |
Detailed program:
MONDAY July 2 |
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9:00-9:45: What has been solved since 2014? |
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| 9:00-9:45 | Rocky Kolb: The next disruption in cosmology (keynote: 40+5) | |
9:45-12:30: Exoplanets |
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| 9:45-10:30 | Catherine Espaillat: Protoplanetary disks and planets: observation/theory, Zhaohuan Zhu: Protoplanetary disks and planets: theory (review: 40+5) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Short coffee break (15) | |
| 10:45-12:00 | Kaitlin Kratter (12+3): What can we learn from planets in binaries | |
| Andrew Youdin (12+3): Understanding Planetesimal Formation in the ALMA Era | ||
| Diana Dragomir (12+3): Linking the composition of super-Earths to their formation | ||
| Emily Rauscher (12+3): Current mysteries of exoplanet atmospheres | ||
| Laszlo Kiss (12+3): Exoplanet space missions of the next decade: where are we heading to? | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion (30) | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch (60) | |
13:30-15:50: Astrophysical Black Holes |
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| 13:30-14:00 | Cole Miller: Frontier Issues in Astrophysical Black Holes (review: 25+5) | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Dan D’Orazio (12+3): Black hole binary demographics | |
| Ramesh Narayan (12+3): Simulations of super-Eddington Accretion | ||
| 14:30-14:50 | Short coffee break (20) | |
| 14:50-15:20 | Doron Kushnir (12+3): Core collapse supernovae are thermonuclear explosions (and they produce BHs for LIGO) | |
| Nadia Zakamska (12+3): The role of supermassive black holes in evolution of galaxies | ||
| 15:20-15:50 | Discussion (30) | |
TUESDAY July 3 |
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9:00-11:50: Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Selma de Mink: Astrophysics of the progenitors of gravitational waves detection (review: 25+5) |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Chris Belczynski (12+3): Gravitational-wave Astrophysics: BH-BH/NS-NS mergers with LIGO/Virgo | |
| Carl Rodriguez (12+3): Dynamical Formation of Compact Object Mergers | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Short coffee break (30) | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Imre Bartos (12+3): The Road(blocks) Ahead of Multimessenger Astrophysics Following LIGO’s Recent Discoveries | |
| Andrew MacFadyen (12+3): Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Accretion | ||
| Chiara Mingarelli (12+3): Insights into Supermassive Black Hole Mergers, Stalling and Demographics with Pulsar Timing Arrays | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Discussion (30) | |
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch (75) | |
13:00-15:50: Time Domain Astronomy |
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| 13:00-13:30 | Maria Drout: Overview of unsolved problems in time domain astronomy (review: 25+5) | |
| 13:30-14:15 | Iair Arcavi (12+3): New Classes and Peculiar Events from Recent Time Domain Surveys | |
| Peter Meszaros (12+3): Multimessenger signatures from gravitational wave sources | ||
| Rosalba Perna (12+3): EM counterparts to GW mergers | ||
| 14:15-14:35 | Short coffee break (20) | |
| 14:35-15:20 | Nick Stone (12+3): Tidal disruption events | |
| Chelsea MacLeod (12+3): The Highly Variable, "Changing-Look" Quasar Population | ||
| Laura Spitler (12+3): The first decade of fast radio burst discoveries | ||
| 15:20-15:50 | Discussion (30) | |
THURSDAY July 5 |
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9:00-12:05: Dark Energy and Large Scale Structure |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Istvan Szapudi: Cosmology from Large Scale Structure (review: 25+5) | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Alex Szalay (12+3): Fingers of God: Nuisance or dynamic information? | |
| Nick Kaiser (12+3): The effect of structure on cosmological observables | ||
| Krzysztof Bolejko (12+3): Evolution of the universe within the framework of silent universes and the emergence of the spatial curvature | ||
| Jia Liu (12+3): MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos | ||
| 10:30-10:50 | Short coffee break (20) | |
| 10:50-11:35 | Colin Hill (12+3): Foreground Biases in Primordial Non-Gaussianity Measurements from the CMB | |
| Jose Mattilla (12+3): Extracting cosmological information from weak lensing data | ||
| Jose Luis Bernal Mera (12+3): Measuring galaxy clustering at ultra large scales including GR corrections | ||
| 11:35-12:05 | Discussion (30) | |
| 12:05-13:15 | Lunch (70) | |
13:15-16:05: Cosmology and Early Universe |
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| 13:15-13:45 | Albert Stebbins: What We Get To Know From The Early Universe (review: 25+5) | |
| 13:45-14:30 | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (12+3): Astrophysical probes of dark matter: Challenges and solutions | |
| Martin Sloth (12+3): Dark Matter: Occam’s razor vs. theoretical bias | ||
| Alvise Raccanelli (12+3): Multi-messenger cosmology and cross-correlations of LSS-GW | ||
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14:30-14:50 |
Short coffee break (20) | |
| 14:50-15:35 | Filippo Vernizzi (12+3): Dark energy and modified gravity in the era of LSS and gravitational waves observations | |
| Yacine Ali-Haïmoud (12+3): Primordial Black Holes in the era of Planck and LIGO | ||
| Nicola Bellomo (12+3): Non-Gaussianity and Large Scale Structures | ||
| 15:35-16:05 | Discussion (30) | |
| 18:00- | Optional: soccer game and dinner at Vasas Sports Club | |
FRIDAY July 6 |
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9:00-10:50: Galaxy Formation |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Richard Ellis: Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Progress and Challenges (review: 25+5) | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Matt McQuinn (12+3): Studying reionization with Lyman-alpha and 21cm radiation | |
| James Dunlop (12+3): The early growth of stars and dust | ||
| Amy Reines (12+3): Probing the origin of supermassive black hole seeds with nearby dwarf galaxies | ||
| Gurtina Besla (12+3): The Distribution of Dark Matter About the Milky Way | ||
| 10:30-10:50 | Discussion (30) | |
| 10:50-11:15 | Short coffee break (25) | |
11:15-12:30: Closing Remarks |
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| 11:15-12:00 | Zoltan Haiman: Closing Remarks (40+5) | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion / wrap-up (30) | |
| 12:30- | Lunch and over | |