The Future of Astronomy Conference, August 31

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Wednesday, August 31 (Norris Center)
12:00	Registration Open
13:30	Opening Remarks: Vicky Kalogera
Moderator: Daryl Haggard
14:00	Will M. Farr	CIERA	Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics
14:25	Karoline Gilbert	U Washington	Stellar Halo Formation in a Hierarchical Universe: Lessons from Our Sister Galaxy Andromeda
14:50	Nikku Madhusudhan	Princeton	Chemical Characterization of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
15:15	Jonathan Trump	UC Santa Cruz	Not All AGNs are Created Equal: How Galaxies Feed and Obscure Their SMBHs
15:45	Coffee Break
16:15	Laura Chomiuk	NRAO/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	EVLA Constraints on the Progenitors of Supernovae Type Ia
16:40	Eliza Kempton	UC Santa Cruz	The Atmosphere of the Transiting Super-Earth GJ 1214b
17:05	Aleks Diamond-Stanic	UC San Diego	Probing Black Hole Growth and Star Formation in Active Galaxies
17:30	Laura Trouille	CIERA	X-ray/IR Stacking Analysis of BPT-comp: AGN Activity Dominates
18:00	Opening Night Reception & Stargazing (Dearborn Observatory)

Thursday, September 1 (Norris Center)
7:00	Breakfast at Hilton Garden Inn
AM Moderator: Aaron Geller
9:00	Tassos Fragos	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/ITC	Evolution of X-ray Binaries Across Cosmic Time and Energy Feedback at High Redshift
9:25	Daniel Fabrycky	UC Santa Cruz	Planetary Systems from Kepler
9:50	Diana Valencia	MIT	Composition and Interior Dynamics of Super-Earths
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	Dave Spiegel	IAS	How Probable is Life? Climatic Habitability and Abiogenesis
11:10	Anil Seth	University of Utah	The Formation of Galaxy Nuclei
11:35	Ryan O'Leary	UC Berkeley	Finding the First Black Holes
12:00	Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins	OSU/Caltech	An Anisotropy Analysis of the Diffuse Gamma-ray Background Measured by the Fermi-LAT
12:30	Lunch (Catered at Norris): Astronomy's Future Leaders: A Discussion with AAS President-Elect David Helfand
13:45	Conference Photo
PM Moderator: Laura Trouille
14:25	Bret Lehmer	JHU/GSFC	X-ray Number Counts in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South: Characterizing New X-ray Source Populations
14:50	Julia Comerford	UT Austin	A Systematic Approach to Identifying Dual Supermassive Black Holes
15:15	Lisa Winter	CU Boulder	Star Formation and AGN Outflows in a Sample of Local AGNs
15:40	Coffee Break
16:15	Evghenii Gaburov	CIERA	Magnetically-levitating Accretion Disks around SMBH
16:40	Emily Levesque	CU Boulder	Probing the Host Galaxies of Nearby Long-Duration GRBs
17:05	Bryce Croll	MIT	Near-infrared Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters and the Spectral Features of Super-Earths
17:30	Nick Cowan	CIERA	Thermal Phase Variations of WASP-12b with Warm Spitzer
18:00	Dinner (Independent)

Friday, September 2 (Norris Center)
7:00	Breakfast at Hilton Garden Inn
AM Moderator: Evghenii Gaburov
9:00	Hilke Schlichting	UC Los Angeles	The Kuiper Belt: Shedding light on Planet Formation & Collisional Evolution in Debris Disks
9:25	Daryl Haggard	CIERA	Local X-ray Bright Optically Normal Galaxies: Fossil Groups, X-ray Variables, and AGN
9:50	Laura Lopez	MIT	Under Pressure: Assessing the Role of Stellar Feedback in HII Regions
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	Sloane Wiktorowicz	UC Santa Cruz	Direct Detection of Exoplanets with Polarimetry
11:10	Cora Dvorkin	IAS	Complete WMAP Constraints on Inflationary Features
11:35	Jo Bovy	IAS	Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way's Disk
12:00	Ryan Foley	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	Type Ia Supernovae: Standardizable Candles and Crayons
12:30	Announcements
12:45	Lunch (Allen Center)
PM Moderator: Nick Cowan
14:15	Amy Reines	NRAO	Probing the Early Evolution of Massive Black Holes with Dwarf Starburst Galaxies
14:40	Jason Dexter	UC Berkeley	Theory, Simulation and Observation: Piecing Together Black Hole Accretion
15:05	Selma de Mink	STScI	Challenges for understanding the evolution of massive stars: rotation, binarity and mergers
15:30	Alyson Brooks	UW Madison	Toward the Formation of Realistic Dwarf Galaxies
15:55	Coffee Break
16:15	Matt McQuinn	UC Berkeley	21cm Tomography of the High-redshift Universe
16:40	Ben Brown	UW Madison	Global-scale Simulations of Stellar Convection and their Observational Predictions
17:05	Josh Carter	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	Kepler's Multi-Eclipsing Hierarchical Triples: Photo-dynamical Fits and Accurate Masses and Radii
17:30	Elizabeth Hicks	CIERA	Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flames: the Competition between Burning, Gravity and Self-Generated Flow
18:00	Dinner (Independent)

Saturday, September 3 (Hilton Garden)
8:00	Breakfast at Hilton Garden Inn
Moderator: Will Farr
9:00	Jay Strader	Harvard-Smithsonian CfA	Mass-to-Light Ratios of Globular Clusters in the Local Group
9:25	Aaron Geller	CIERA	Companions to the NGC 188 Blue Stragglers
9:50	Matt Povich	Penn State	The Chandra Carina Complex Project: A Spatially Resolved X-ray and Mid-Infrared Study of the Nearest Galactic Starburst Region
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	John Everett	UW Madison	Driving Ionized Galactic-Scale Winds: Gas & Cosmic-Ray Pressure, Magnetic Fields, and Rotation
11:10	Adrian Barker	CIERA	Internal wave breaking and the fate of planets around solar-type stars.
11:35	Emily Rauscher	U Arizona	Untwisting the Atmospheric Twirls of Hot Jupiters
12:00	Closing Remarks: Frederic Rasio