The meeting will be held in Room 206 at the Crocker Science Center (CSC 206), University of Utah.
There are several lunch options on campus and near campus. See this map.
DHWFest
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Monday, July 15 Crocker Science Center, Room 206 | |||
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8:50 | 9:00 | Zheng Zheng | Welcome |
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Session #1. Chair: Zhongxu Zhai | |||
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9:00 | 9:30 | Carlos Frenk | David Weinberg: astronomer, rapper, magician |
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9:30 | 9:45 | Paul Martini | Exploring the LyA Forest with DESI |
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9:45 | 10:00 | Andreas Berlind | We helped create a new field! |
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10:00 | 10:15 | Brett Andrews | Photometric Redshifts for Next Generation Imaging Surveys |
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10:15 | 10:45 | Coffee break | |
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Session #2. Chair: Tawny Sit | |||
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10:45 | 11:00 | Jeremy Tinker | Distortions and Deviations (with David) |
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11:00 | 11:15 | James Johnson | The Equilibrium Model of Radial Metallicity Gradients in Disk Galaxies |
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11:15 | 11:30 | Mat Pieri | How we measured the spectrum of the IGM and what it tells us now |
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11:30 | 11:45 | Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann | A new forward model of the galaxy-halo connection |
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11:45 | 12:00 | Eduardo Rozo | But what is a halo anyway? |
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12:00 | 12:15 | Group Photos (CSC lobby) | |
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12:15 | 2:00 | Lunch | |
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Session #3. Chair: Haojie Xu | |||
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2:00 | 2:15 | Andrey Kravtsov | Excluding fuzzy dark matter with dwarf spheroidal and ultra-diffuse galaxies |
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2:15 | 2:30 | Vimal Simha | David And Novel Approaches in Machine Learning |
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2:30 | 2:45 | Miqaela Weller | Modeling the Galactic Chemical Evolution of Helium |
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2:45 | 3:00 | Xiaoju Xu | Galaxy-halo connection in the eye of machine learning |
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3:00 | 3:15 | Xuelei Chen | Hongmeng: a lunar orbit array experiment, and how I turned myself from a theoretical physicist to a radio astronomer |
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3:15 | 3:45 | Coffee break | |
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Session #4. Chair: Pengfei Li | |||
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3:45 | 4:00 | James Bullock | The physics of disk galaxy formation |
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4:00 | 4:15 | Nicole Gountanis | Modeling the Ages and Chemical Abundances of Elliptical Galaxies |
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4:15 | 4:30 | Ben Wibking | Astrophysical simulation beyond Moore's Law |
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4:30 | 4:45 | Mike Owen | What does a career as a Computational Physicist look like at a National Laboratory? |
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4:45 | 5:15 | Josiah McElheny | A portrait of collaboration |
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Tuesday, July 16 Crocker Science Center, Room 206 | |||
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Session #5. Chair: James Johnston | |||
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9:00 | 9:30 | Neal Katz | 40 years with David |
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9:30 | 9:45 | Michael Strauss | Large-scale galaxy spectroscopic surveys: from SDSS to PFS |
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9:45 | 10:00 | Jonathan Bird | David, Disks, and Digital Sky Surveys |
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10:00 | 10:15 | Heidi Wu | David’s idiosyncratic approach to cluster cosmology |
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10:15 | 10:45 | Coffee break | |
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Session #6. Chair: Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann | |||
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10:45 | 11:00 | Juna Kollmeier | How to Win Grants and influence People |
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11:00 | 11:15 | Zheng Zheng | eBOSS Lyman-alpha Intensity Mapping |
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11:15 | 11:30 | Haojie Xu | The Conditional Color-Magnitude Distribution (CCMD) of Present-day Galaxies |
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11:30 | 11:45 | Pengfei Li | Emulating Extended Lyman Alpha Halos Around Star-Forming Galaxies |
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11:45 | 12:00 | Emily Griffith | Sources of Abundance Scatter in Low-Metallicity Stars |
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12:00 | 12:15 | Various | Video presentations |
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12:15 | 2:00 | Lunch | |
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Session #7. Chair: Miqaela Weller | |||
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2:00 | 2:15 | Molly Peeples | Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies |
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2:15 | 2:30 | Ying Zu | Galactic Outflows from the Fundamental Metallicity Relation |
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2:30 | 2:45 | Andres Salcedo | Simulation based forward modeling of optical clusters |
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2:45 | 3:00 | Tawny Sit | Expanded Two-process Parameters and Abundances for APOGEE DR17 |
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3:00 | 3:15 | Chun-Hao To | Multiprobe cluster cosmology |
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3:15 | 3:45 | Coffee break | |
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Session #8. Chair: Xiaoju Xu | |||
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3:45 | 4:00 | Yuan-Sen Ting | Expediting Astronomical Discovery with Large Language Models: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions |
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4:00 | 4:15 | Ralph Schoenrich | Breaking degeneracies in chemical evolution - the case of the nuclear disc. |
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4:15 | 4:30 | Zhongxu Zhai | Modeling of galaxy clustering at non-linear scale and cosmological constraint |
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4:30 | 5:00 | David Weinberg | Good Enough To Be Useful: A History of Some Ideas |
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6:30 | 9:30 | Banquet (Squatters Pub Brewery - 147 W Broadway) | |
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Wednesday, July 17 Crocker Science Center, Room 206 | |||
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9:30 | 11:00 | Discussion: Future directions in Milky Way research. Panelists: Andrey Kravtsov, Emily Griffith, Jon Bird, Juna Kollmeier | |
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11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break | |
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11:30 | 1:00 | Discussion: Future directions in Large scale structure research. Panelists: Carlos Frenk, Eduardo Rozo, Jeremy Tinker, Ying Zu | |
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1:00 | 3:00 | Lunch | |