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Institute of Astronomy

 

(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 - 09:20 Registration @Hoyle Building
09:20 - 09:30 Opening Remarks

Exoplanets 1

09:30 - 09:55       Anders Johansen (R) Planet Formation and Primordial Atmospheres
09:55 - 10:20 Jayne Birkby (R) Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Resolution
10:20 - 10:40 Sasha Hinkley (H) Characterization of Ice Line Exoplanets Through Direct Imaging
10:40 - 10:55 Farzana Meru (C) Sandwiched planet formation: restricting the mass of a middle planet

10:55 - 11:30    Coffee Break

 

Exoplanets 2

11:30 - 11:55      Michaël Gillon (R) Searching for and studying rocky planets in orbit around the nearest ultracool dwarf stars
11:55 - 12:20 Lisa Kaltenegger (R) Characterizing potentially Earth-like planets - Exploring the diversity of Rocky Exoplanets
12:20 - 12:40 TBC TBC
12:40 - 12:55 Amy Bonsor (C) Cosmochemical-style insights for exoplanetary systems

12:55 - 13:30    Conference Group Photo

13:30 - 14:00     Lunch

 

Cosmology and Large-scale Structure 1

14:00 - 14:25      George Efstathiou (R) 50 Years of Cosmology
14:25 - 14:45 Keir K. Rogers (H) Cosmological tests of the nature of dark matter
14:45 - 15:05 Andreu Font-Ribera (H) Recent highlights from cosmological spectroscopic surveys
15:05 - 15:18 Vid Irsic (C) Lyman-alpha forest: From small to large scales
15:18 - 15:31 TBC TBC

15:31 - 16:00    Coffee Break

 

Cosmology and Large-scale Structure 2

16:00 - 16:25        Licia Verde (R) Precision Cosmology: The standard cosmological model and its unreasonable effectiveness
16:25 - 16:45 Emmanuel Schaan (H) Backlighting the large-scale structure with the CMB 
16:45 - 17:05 Alexandra Amon (H) Weak lensing with a billion galaxies: New opportunities, challenges and strategies
17:05 - 17:18 Ryan Cooke (C) Primordial nucleosynthesis and the search for new physics
17:18 - 17:31 Daniel Molnar (C) REACH instrument and calibration

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

09:15 - 09:40         Natascha Foerster Schreiber (R)        Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Bright Future from Observations
09:40 - 09:53 Vivienne Wild (C) How and why do galaxies stop forming stars?
09:53 - 10:18 Yohan Dubois (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

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

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 Mitch 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

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. (TBC)

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

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

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 - 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

09:00 - 09:30 Carlos Frenk (R) Who will survive for longer, CDM or the IoA?
09:30 - 10:00 Risa Wechsler (R) TBC
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

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

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

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 - 21:00  Gala Dinner @Trinity College

Friday, 26th July

Questions for the Future 1

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

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) TBC
12:30 - 12:45 Closing Remarks TBC