Agenda
The agenda for the conference is below. Additional invited speakers will be added as they are confirmed.
Monday, March 13:
8:30am -- light breakfast
- [chair: Hannah Earnshaw]
- 8:55am: Meeting Logistics
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9am: Welcome & UVEX Overview
- 09:00 -- Fiona Harrison (Caltech)
- 09:20 -- Brian Grefenstette (Caltech)
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9:40am: Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- 09:40 -- Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- 10:05 -- Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
10:30am -- coffee break
- [chair: Kareem El-Badry]
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11am: The UVEX Galactic Plane Survey
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11:00 -- Boris Gaensicke (University of Warwick)
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12:15pm -- lunch
- [chair: Don Dixon]
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2pm: UVEX & Hot Stars
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14:00 -- Ylva Goetberg (Carnegie)
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2:30pm: Massive Star Evolution in the Magellanic Clouds
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14:30 -- Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield)
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3:30pm: Low-Mass, Low-Metallicity Galaxies
- 15:30 -- James Bullock (UC Irvine)
4:00pm -- Reception
Tuesday, March 14:
8:30am -- light breakfast
- [chair: Daniel Stern]
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9am: Low-Mass, Low-Metallicity Galaxies (continued)
- 09:00 -- Marla Geha (Yale University)
- 09:30 -- David Sand (University of Arizona)
- 09:45 -- Danielle Berg (University of Texas at Austin)
- 10:00 -- Matilde Mingozzi (STScI)
10:15am -- coffee break
- [chair: Peter Senchyna]
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11am: Star Formation & UV Emission from Galaxies
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11:00 -- Janice Lee (NOIRLab)
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12:15 -- Phil Hopkins (Caltech)
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12:30pm -- lunch
- [chair: Amruta Jaodand]
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2pm: Dust at Low Metallicities
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14:00 -- Brandon Hensley (Princeton University)
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14:30 -- Karl Gordon (STScI)
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3pm: UV Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres
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15:00 -- Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC)
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3:30pm -- coffee break
- [chair: Kaustav Das]
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4pm: UV Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres (continued)
- 16:00 -- Jessica Spake (Caltech)
- 16:15 -- Richard Archer (Blue Skies Space)
- 16:30 -- David Ardila (JPL)
6:30pm -- Conference Dinner
Wednesday, March 15:
8:30am -- light breakfast
- [chair: Igor Andreoni]
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9am: UVEX: A Time-Domain Astronomy Discovery Machine
- 09:00 -- Maria Drout (University of Toronto)
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09:30 -- Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University)
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10:00 -- Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley)
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10:15 -- Yuhan Yao (Caltech)
10:30am -- coffee break
- [chair: Tony Piro]
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11am: Transients: Understanding Through Spectroscopy
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11:00 -- Luc Dessart (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
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11:30 -- Ryan Chornock (UC Berkeley)
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12:30pm -- lunch
- [chair: Harry Teplitz]
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2pm: UVEX Synergies with Other Facilities I
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14:00 -- SPHEREx: Oliver Doré (JPL/Caltech)
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14:45 -- JWST: Armin Rest (STScI)
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3:30pm -- coffee break
- [chair: Margaret Lazzarini]
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4pm: UVEX Synergies with Other Facilities II
- 16:00 -- Rubin: Will Clarkson (University of Michigan)
- 16:15 -- DESI: Arjun Dey (NOIRLab)
- 16:30 -- Radio facilities: Eric Murphy (NRAO)
- 16:45 -- X-ray facilities: Mara Salvato (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)
- 17:00 -- ULTRASAT: Yossi Shvartzvald (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- 17:15 -- DSA-2000: Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)
5:30pm -- Wrap up and Thank You (Shri Kulkarni)
