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(H: Highlight Talk, R: Review Talk, C: Contributed Talk)
Sunday, 21st July
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Registration @Hoyle Building | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Opening Reception | |
Monday, 22nd July
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Registration @Hoyle Building | |
| 09:15 - 09:20 | Opening Remarks | |
Exoplanets 1 - Chair: Cathie J. Clarke
| 09:20 - 09:45 | Anders Johansen (R) | Planet Formation and Primordial Atmospheres |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Jayne Birkby (R) | Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Resolution |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Sasha Hinkley (H) | Characterization of Ice Line Exoplanets Through Direct Imaging |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Farzana Meru (C) | Sandwiched planet formation: restricting the mass of a middle planet |
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Exoplanets 2 - Chair: Douglas Lin
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Mark Wyatt (R) | The debris disk paradigm |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Lisa Kaltenegger (R) | Characterizing potentially Earth-like planets - Exploring the diversity of Rocky Exoplanets |
| 12:05- 12:25 | Andrew Winter (H) | From galactic to planetary scales: the role of external star formation environment for planet formation |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Amy Bonsor (C) | Cosmochemical-style insights for exoplanetary systems |
12:40 - 13:00 Conference Group Photo
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Cosmology and Large-scale Structure 1 - Chair: Jochen Weller
| 14:00 - 14:25 | George Efstathiou (R) | 50 Years of Cosmology |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Andreu Font-Ribera (H) | Recent highlights from cosmological spectroscopic surveys |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Vid Irsic (H) | Lyman-alpha forest: From small to large scales |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Keir K. Rogers (H) | Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter |
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Cosmology and Large-scale Structure 2 - Chair: Ofer Lahav
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Licia Verde (R) | Precision Cosmology: The standard cosmological model and its unreasonable effectiveness |
| 16:25 - 16:38 | Ryan Cooke (C) | Primordial nucleosynthesis and the search for new physics |
| 16:38 - 16:58 | Srinivasan Raghunathan (H) ZOOM | Constraining the Epoch of Reionisation using CMB as the backlight |
| 16:58 - 17:18 | Alexandra Amon (H) | Weak lensing with a billion galaxies: New opportunities, challenges and strategies |
| 17:18 - 17:31 | Frank Qu | Precision cosmology from CMB lensing measurements with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
17:31 - 19:00 Free Time
Public Session @Babbage Hall: Reserve your free spot here.
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Vasily Belokurov, Nikku Madhusudhan & Hiranya Peiris | Life, the Universe, and Everything: The next 50 years of astronomy |
Tuesday, 23rd July
Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Theory & Observation 1 - Chair: Richard Ellis
| 09:15 - 09:40 | Amélie Saintonge (R) | From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution |
| 09:40 - 09:53 | Vivienne Wild (C) | How and why do galaxies stop forming stars? |
| 09:53 - 10:18 | Julien Devriendt (R) | The formation of galaxies with cosmological hydrodynamical simulations |
| 10:18 - 10:38 | Andrew Pontzen (H) | Exposing the interplay between feedback and history |
| 10:38 - 10:58 | Christoph Pfrommer (H) | Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and clusters |
10:58 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Theory & Observation 2 - Chair: Amélie Saintonge
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Eva Schinnerer (H) |
A cloud-scale view of the star formation process |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Steve Finkelstein (H) | Insights into the Early Universe from the First Year of JWST Observations |
| 12:10 - 12:23 | Andrew Bunker (C) | JWST at the edge of the Universe - JADES high redshift galaxy spectra with NIRSpec |
| 12:23 - 12:36 | Manuela Magliocchetti (C) | The clustering properties of high-redshift passive galaxies |
| 12:36 - 12:49 | Emma Ryan-Weber (C) | Probing Reionization with high-z metals |
12.49 - 14:00 Lunch
High energy astrophysics + TD + GWs 1 - Chair: Piero Madau
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Andrew Fabian (R) | 50 years of X-ray astronomy |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Erin Kara (H) | Black hole accretion |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Mitchell Begelman (H) | From Blazars to Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
| 15:05 - 15:18 | Nial Tanvir (C) | Gamma-ray burst science in Cambridge |
| 15:18 - 15:31 | Gary Ferland (C) | Cloudy, a Starship to Discover the Universe through Spectroscopy |
15:31 - 16:00 Coffee Break
High energy astrophysics + TD + GWs 2 - Chair: Mitchell Begelman
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Sera Markoff (R) | New Horizons: Black Hole Imaging in a Multi-Messenger Universe |
| 16:25 - 16:38 | Douglas Lin (C) | Dynamical evolution of young stars around the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center |
| 16:38 - 16:51 | Hannah Uebler (C) | Massive black holes during the first billion years revealed by JWST/NIRSpec-IFU |
| 16:51 - 17:04 | John Regan (C) | Seeding the Massive Black Holes Observed at High-z |
| 17:04 - 17:17 | Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (C) | AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters: A 10 Billion Year Journey |
| 17:17 - 17:30 | Martin Bourne (C) | Simulating SMBHs from the event horizon to the cosmic web |
17:30 - 18:30 Poster Session & Drinks/Nibbles @Hoyle Building
Public Session @ Hoyle Building, Institute of Astronomy: Reserve your free spot here.
| 19:00 - 20:00 |
Gerry Gilmore & Gudrun Tausch-Pebody |
Two and a Half Centuries of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Cambridge |
Wednesday, 24th July
Stellar Evolution and Galactic Archaeology 1 - Chair: Vasily Belokurov
| 09.30 - 09:50 | Alis Deason (H) | The Mass Assembly of the Milky Way |
| 09:50 - 10.10 | Keith Hawkins (H) | Galactic Archeology and Cartography in the Gaia Era |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Anke Ardern-Arentsen (C) | The ancient heart of the Milky Way |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Jason Sanders (C) | Disentangling the history of our Galaxy in the era of Gaia |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Denis Erkal (C) | A global view of the Milky Way's dark halo with stellar streams |
10:55 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Stellar Evolution and Galactic Archaeology 2 - Chair: Christopher Tout
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11.30 - 11.50 |
Chiaki Kobayashi (H) | The Origin of Elements and the Evolution of Galaxies |
| 11.50 - 12.10 | Jim Fuller (H) | Red Supergiant Boil-off |
| 12.10 - 12.25 | Avishai Gilkis (C) | Exploding Wolf-Rayet Stars - Wanted: Dead or Alive |
| 12.25 - 12.40 | Jan Eldridge (C) | Will we ever work out how binary stars evolve? |
| 12.40 - 12.55 | Zhanwen Han (C) | Exploring Common Envelope Phases and Binary Populations through LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey |
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 19:00 Free Time
Public Session @ Babbage Lecture Theatre: Reserve your free spot here.
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | You are made of star stuff |
Thursday, 25th July
Frontiers 1 - Chair: Jim Stone
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Carlos Frenk (R) | Who will survive for longer, CDM or the IoA? |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Risa Wechsler (R) | Connecting Light and Dark across Time and Space |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Ofer Lahav (R) | AI for cosmological experiments: evolution or revolution? |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Leon Koopmans (R) | 21-cm Cosmology from Earth to the Moon |
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Frontiers 1 - Chair: Chris Reynolds
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Stephen Taylor (R) | Hunting Supermassive Black-hole Binaries: The Next Frontier In Multi-messenger Astrophysics |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Chiara Mingarelli (R) | Frontiers of pulsar timing array experiments |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Thorsten Naab (R) | 14 orders of magnitude - from the multi-phase ISM to IMBH formation |
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Frontiers 2 - Chair: Roger Blandford
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jim Stone (R) | Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Chris Reynolds (R) | The Future of High-Energy Astrophysics |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Eloy de Lera Acedo (R) | 21st-century radio astronomy - The next 50 years |
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Frontiers 2 - Chair: Sara Seager
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sandro Tacchella (R) | Star formation and black hole growth in the first galaxies |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Matthew Bate (R) | Predicting the variation of stellar properties using simulations of star cluster formation |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Raymond Pierrehumbert (R) |
What do atmospheric observations tell us about the interiors of subNeptunes? |
19:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner @Trinity College
Friday, 26th July
Questions for the Future 1 - Chair: Risa Wechsler
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Neil Turok (R) | A minimal SM/LCDM cosmology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Volker Springel (R) | Next generation galaxy formation simulations: challenges and opportunities |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Carole Mundell (R) | From near-Earth to the fabric of space-time - cosmic journies to the 2050s with the European Space Agency |
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Questions for the Future 2 - Chair: Carlos Frenk
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Sara Seager (R) | In Pursuit of the Elusive: The Search for Exoplanet Biosignature Gases |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Ann Zabludoff (R) | The Future of AI in Astronomy: Our Tool, Our Partner, Our Replacement? |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Questions for Future Session speakers and Co-Directors | Finale and Closing Remarks |