Agenda
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
TIMES ARE ALL PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (PDT)
Day 1: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1, Cosmology 1. Chair: TBD | ||
| 8:00 | Registration | Baxter Lecture Hall |
| 9:00 | George Helou (IPAC Director) | Welcome/Introductory remarks |
| 9:15 | Julie McEnery (NASA GSFC) | Invited: Roman Status Updates |
| 9:45 | Tommaso Treu (UCLA) | Invited: Dark Matter and Cosmology from Strong Lenses in the age of Roman |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 | Michael Troxel (Duke) | Contributed: Enabling Roman science now: New synthetic Roman+Rubin surveys |
| 11:00 | Rakshitha Thaman (NYU) | Contributed: Line Intensity Mapping Cross-correlations in the Era of Wide-field Galaxy Surveys |
| 11:15 | Joshua E. Schlieder (NASA GSFC) | Contributed: Roman WFI Integration, Test, and Performance Updates |
| 11:30 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 11:45 | Poster presentations 1 | (Boss, Weiss, Dalal, Wynn, Van Dyk) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2, Exoplanets 1. Chair: Eve Lee | ||
| 13:30 | Jennifer C. Yee (Harvard CfA) | Invited: The Microlensing Planet Landscape on the Eve of Roman |
| 14:00 | Eamonn Kerins (U Manchester) | Contributed: RoSETZ: Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone -- a SETI-optimized survey for habitable-zone exoplanets |
| 14:15 | Takahiro Sumi (Osaka U) | Contributed: Status of JAXA contributions to Roman Space Telescope |
| 14:30 | Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (U Tasmania/IAP) | Contributed: Supercharging Roman exoplanet demography through a precursor survey with ESA Euclid |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 3, Core Community Surveys. Chair: Lee Armus | ||
| 15:15 | Daniel Huber | CCS Status Update 1 - Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey Definition Committee |
| 15:30 | Masao Sako | CCS Status Update 2 - High Latitude Time Domain Survey Definition Committee |
| 15:45 | Aaron Yung / Chris Hirata | CCS Status Update 3 - High Latitude Wide Area Survey Definition Committee |
| 16:00 | Discussion Q&A | |
| 16:15 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 16:30 | (End of Day 1) | |
Day 2: Wednesday, July 10, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 4, Exoplanets 2. Chair: Matthew Penny | ||
| 9:00 | Eve Lee (McGill U) | Invited: Testing planet formation with Roman |
| 9:30 | Robert F. Wilson (NASA GSFC) | Contributed: Transits in the Roman galactic EXoplanet Survey (TRExS): Smashing Planet Formation and Evolution Theories with a Demographics Hammer |
| 9:45 | Kansuke Nunota (Osaka U) | Contributed: Toward the host star mass dependence of the planet frequency in Roman era |
| 10:00 | Farzaneh Zohrabi (LSU) | Contributed: Updates on The Expected Yield Estimates of Bound Planets for Roman |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 5, Cosmology 2. Chair: Yun Wang | ||
| 10:45 | Zachary Slepian (U Florida) | Invited: High Energy Physics at the High Number Density Frontier |
| 11:15 | Yun-Ting Cheng (Caltech) | Contributed: Studying cosmology and galaxy evolution with Roman and SPHEREx |
| 11:30 | Bryce Wedig (Wash U St Louis) | Contributed: The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses |
| 11:45 | Poster presentations 2 | (Fadda, Suzuki, Sadhu) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 6, Milky Way 1. Chair: Casey Lam | ||
| 13:30 | Tjitske Starkenburg (Northwestern/CIERA) | Invited: Uncovering the details of galaxy formation and stellar halos with Roman |
| 14:00 | Roberta Paladini (Caltech/IPAC) | Contributed: The Milky Way As The z=0 template To Investigate Star and Planet Formation |
| 14:15 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 | Macy Huston (UC Berkeley) | Contributed: The Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey in Context with Galactic Models |
| 15:15 | Adrien Christian Rene Thob (U Penn) | Contributed: Synthetic survey catalogs for the Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS) using py-ananke |
| 15:30 | Jesse Han (Harvard CfA) | Contributed: NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY |
| 15:45 | Marc Pinsonneault (The Ohio State U) | Contributed: Asteroseismology with the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey |
| 16:00 | Richard David Smith (NSF's NOIRLab) | Contributed: Variable stars in M31 stellar clusters |
| 16:15 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 16:30 | (End of Day 2) | |
Day 3: Thursday, July 11, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 7, Galaxies 1. Chair: TBD | ||
| 9:00 | Yicheng Guo (U Missouri) | Invited: Starburst and Quenching of Low-mass Galaxies: Preparing for Roman's Joint Data Processing |
| 9:30 | Kyle Finner (Caltech/IPAC) | Contributed: Studying the Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with Roman Weak Lensing |
| 9:45 | Seppo Mattila (U Turku) | Contributed: Exploring the obscured transient universe |
| 10:00 | Kota Adachi (Tohoku U) | Contributed: Environmental dependence of chemical evolution probed by near-infrared spectroscopic observations of high-z clusters |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 8, Galaxies 2. Chair: TBD | ||
| 10:45 | L.Y. Aaron Yung (STScI) | Invited: Science cases motivating future deep-wide Roman surveys for galaxy formation and evolution |
| 11:15 | Sahil Hegde (UCLA) | Contributed: A Hidden Population of Active Galactic Nuclei Can Explain the Overabundance of Highly-Luminous, z>10 Objects Observed by JWST |
| 11:30 | Austen Gabrielpillai (CUNY) | Contributed: Semi-analytic bubbles - probing high redshift reionization sources with mock deep Roman surveys |
| 11:45 | Poster presentations 3 | (Yoneta, Chowdhury, Downing, Sachithra, Carleton) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 9, Cosmology 3. Chair: TBD | ||
| 13:30 | Chang Hoon Hahn (Princeton)* | Invited: Extracting the Full Cosmological Information of Roman with SimBIG |
| 14:00 | Lauren Aldoroty (Duke) | Contributed: Initial photometric results from the RomanDESC Time-Domain Survey Simulations |
| 14:15 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 | Alessio Spurio Mancini (U London) | Contributed: Dark Scattering: accelerated constraints from KiDS-1000 with REACT and COSMOPOWER |
| 15:15 | Max Newman (Rutgers) | Contributed: Towards a Robust Tip of the Red Giant Branch Calibration in the Era of Roman |
| 15:30 | Bhavin Joshi (JHU)* | Contributed: Photometric redshifts from the Roman HLTDS -- implications for supernova cosmology and galaxy evolution science |
| 15:45 | Kaili Cao (The Ohio State U) | Contributed: IMCOM: optimized image coaddition pipeline for Roman weak lensing cosmology |
| 16:00 | Keitaro Ishikawa (Nagoya U) | Contributed: Exploring Relationship between Assembly bias and Halo properties toward Dark Emulator II |
| 16:15 | Q&A/discussion/margin | |
| 16:30 | (End of Day 3) | |
Day 4: Friday, July 12, 2024
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 10, Exoplanets 3. Chair: Etienne Bachelet | ||
| 9:00 | John Debes (STScI) | Invited: Roman-CGI: An opportunity to Survey Planetary Systems in Unprecendented Detail |
| 9:30 | Sam Hadden (CITA/Toronto) | Contributed: Production of free-floating planets via dynamical instabilities |
| 9:45 | William DeRocco (UCSC) | Contributed: Reconstructing the Mass Function of Free-floating Planets with Roman |
| 10:00 | Bernard Scott Gaudi (The Ohio State U)* | Contributed: The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team |
| 10:15 | Naoki Koshimoto (Osaka U) | Contributed: Free-floating planet mass function from MOA-II 9-year survey and expectations for Roman |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 11, Milky Way 2. Chair: Roberta Paladini | ||
| 11:00 | Casey Lam (Carnegie Obs) | Contributed: Finding black holes with microlensing: current and future prospects |
| 11:15 | Natasha Abrams (UC Berkeley) | Contributed: Assessing the Impact of Binary Systems on Microlensing Using SPISEA and PopSyCLE Population Simulations |
| 11:30 | Peter McGill (LLNL) | Contributed: Probing the stellar graveyard and dark matter with astrometric microlensing |
| 11:45 | Q&A, Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Final Remarks | |
| 12:15 | (End of Day 4/End of Conference) | |
