Agenda
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Tuesday, 11 February 2020
07:45 Coffee, registration and poster setup
08:30 Mike Werner, Tom Soifer, Thomas Rosenbaum and Sean Carey – Introduction and logistics
08:50 Michaël Gillon – Spitzer and the architecture of compact planetary systems
09:40 Diana Dragomir – Spitzer's pioneering strides in the Exploration of exo-Earths, super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
10:10 Coffee break and poster viewing
10:40 Heather Knutson – An infrared window into giant planet atmospheres
11:10 Drake Deming – Statistical characterization of hot Jupiter atmospheres using Spitzer's secondary eclipses
11:25 Jennifer Yee – Planets beyond the snow line
11:55 Break for lunch (on your own)
14:00 Daniela Calzetti – Dust-obscured star formation in nearby galaxies
14:30 Gregory Sloan – Spitzer spectroscopy of dust formation in Local Group galaxies
14:45 Allison Matthews – The dust-unbiased evolution of star-forming galaxies with Spitzer and radio observations
15:00 Rachel Paterno-Mahler – The high redshift clusters occupied by bent radio AGN (COBRA) survey
15:15 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:00 Mark Brodwin – Spitzer legacy: The discovery of the epoch of star formation in high-redshift galaxy clusters
16:30 Andreas Faisst – Spitzer the time machine: Studying the first galaxies with Spitzer
16:45 Marusa Bradac – The final frontier: Galaxies at the epoch of reionization with Spitzer
17:00 James Schombert – Spitzer reveals the baryon-dark matter coupling
17:15 Adjourn for the day
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
08:00 Coffee and poster viewing
08:45 Ian Crossfield – Exoplanets with Spitzer: Setting the stage for JWST
09:00 Catherine Espaillat – Protoplanetary disks
09:30 Tom Megeath – Spitzer surveys of Orion protostars: A fifteen year odyssey
09:45 Jinyoung Serena Kim – Probing star formation and UV radiation environments: Spitzer’s contributions
10:00 Riwaj Pokhrel – Star-gas surface density correlations in nearby molecular clouds
10:15 Coffee break and poster viewing
10:45 Bernhard Brandl – Dissecting the starburst region W49A
11:00 Christine Chen – Tracing the evolution of planetary systems with Spitzer
11:30 Kate Su – Debris disk variability: A Spitzer legacy
11:45 Siyi Xu – White dwarf debris disks
12:00 Robert Gehrz – Spitzer Space Telescope observations of novae
12:15 Break for lunch (on your own)
14:00 Vassilis Charmandaris – Unveiling the physical properties of luminous infrared galaxies with Spitzer
14:30 Matt Malkan – Spitzer revelations about active galactic nuclei
15:00 George Rieke – Mid-IR variability of AGNs
15:15 Omaira González-Martín – Study of the diversity of AGN dust models using Spitzer
15:30 Coffee break and poster viewing
16:00 Astronomy Colloquium: Richard Ellis – Spitzer and the high redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
18:00 Conference banquet at the Athenaeum – Dinner followed by recognitions and reminiscences during dessert
Thursday, 13 February 2020
07:45 Coffee and poster viewing
08:30 Mark Marley – Spitzer’s brown dwarf legacy
09:00 Davy Kirkpatrick – Spitzer parallaxes and their role in determining the mass function of brown dwarfs
09:15 Megan Tannock – Weather on other worlds: The three most rapidly rotating ultra-cool dwarfs
09:30 Robert Siverd – Improving Spitzer parallaxes of cold Y dwarfs
09:45 Henrique Reggiani – The oldest extremely metal-poor stars
10:00 Coffee break and poster viewing
10:30 Varoujan Gorjian – The Spitzer-Kepler survey (SpiKeS): Precision warm Spitzer photometry of the Kepler field
10:45 Eric Becklin – 200 hours of 4.5 micron monitoring of Sgr A* with Spitzer Space Telescope
11:05 Marcia Rieke, Dave Gallagher, Lisa Storrie-Lombardi – Panel discussion: Selling, building and operating Spitzer
12:05 Break for lunch (on your own)
13:45 Casey Lisse – Spitzer’s rich Solar System science legacy
14:15 David Trilling – Spitzer observations of near Earth objects
14:30 Michael Kelley – Cometary activity at moderate heliocentric distances
14:45 Coffee break and poster viewing
15:15 Mansi Kasliwal – Transient Universe
15:45 Alexandra Pope – Spitzer tells our cosmic star formation history: From submillimeter galaxies to the galaxy main sequence
16:15 Tom Soifer and Mike Werner – Closing comments
16:30 Poster takedown and adjourn
