Agenda
Preliminary Agenda
Subject to change; all times Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
| Time (PDT) | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1: July 13 (Monday) | ||
| 8:00 AM | Registration (Baxter Hall outside) | |
| 9:00 AM | Lee Armus (Caltech/IPAC, SOC chair) | Welcome |
| 9:10 AM | Tiffany Meshkat (Caltech/IPAC, LOC chair) | Logistics |
| 9:20 AM | Julie McEnery (NASA GSFC) | Roman Update |
| 9:35 AM | Grace Telford (Univ. Utah) | INVITED: Star Formation in Low-Metallicity Environments |
| 10:05 AM | Ward Howard (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) | Surveying stellar flare rates and properties in a new wavelength regime with GBTDS |
| 10:20 AM | Sumit Sarbadhicary (Johns Hopkins Univ.) | Evolved supergiants in the Local Volume: Supernova progenitors, feedback, mass-loss and more! |
| 10:35 AM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:10 AM | Madeleine Louise McKenzie (Carnegie Science) | Roman and the Future of Globular Cluster Asteroseismology |
| 11:25 AM | Trevor Weiss (New Mexico State) | Asteroseismology with the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey |
| 11:40 AM | David Bennett (NASA GSFC) | The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey: Cool Exoplanets Dominate |
| 11:55 AM | Poster Pops #1 (TBD) | |
| 12:15 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:15 PM | Philip Muirhead (Boston Univ.) | INVITED: Transiting Planets around Ultracool Dwarfs with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope |
| 1:45 PM | Robert F. Wilson (NASA GSFC) | Transits in the Roman galactic EXoplanet Survey (TRExS): Updated Exoplanet Yield Estimates and Early Science Opportunities |
| 2:00 PM | Tiffany Meshkat (Caltech/IPAC) | Searching for transiting circumplanetary disks in the Galaxy |
| 2:15 PM | Avi Shporer (MIT) | Hot Jupiter Occurrence Rate and Atmospheric Characterization Beyond the Solar Neighborhood |
| 2:30 PM | Julie Inglis (Caltech) TBC | Sign in the Sine: Prospects for Identifying Non-Transiting Planet Phase Curves with Roman |
| 2:45 PM | Poster Pops #2 (TBD) | |
| 3:05 PM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:40 PM | Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin) | INVITED: Beating Cosmic Variance at Cosmic Dawn with Roman |
| 4:10 PM | Michael Wyatt (UCLA) | Optimal Summary Statistics for Constraining Reionization Morphology with LAEs Using Roman |
| 4:25 PM | Keunho Kim (Caltech/IPAC) | A Roman WFI Grism Census of Ionizing Efficiency and Bursty Star Formation Across Cosmic Noon |
| 4:40 PM | Lun-Jun Liu (Caltech) | Synergizing Roman and Line Intensity Mapping: Forecasting Effects of Bursty Star Formation in The Early Universe |
| 4:55 PM | Guochao Sun (CIERA/Northwestern) | Reionization in the Roman Era: Developing a Flexible Simulation Framework for Multi-tracer Cross-Correlations |
| 5:10 PM | ADJOURN DAY 1 | |
| Day 2: July 14 (Tuesday) | ||
| 9:00 AM | Dale Kocevski (Colby College) | INVITED: Little Red Dots and the Rise of Obscured AGN in the Early Universe |
| 9:30 AM | Junehyoung Jeon (UT Austin) | The Emerging Black Hole Mass Function in the High-Redshift Universe |
| 9:45 AM | Zhaoran Liu (MIT) | Little Red Dots in the Roman Grism Era: Census and Black Hole Mass Constraints from Spectroscopic Variability |
| 10:00 AM | Minghao Yue (Univ. Arizona) | Forecasting the yield of strongly-lensed AGNs in Roman: from quasars to litle red dots |
| 10:15 AM | Poster Pops #3 (TBD) | |
| 10:35 AM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:10 AM | Jeremy Mould (Swinburne Univ.) | Microlensing with Roman to find primordial black holes (PBHs) |
| 11:25 AM | Jinyi Yang (Univ. Michigan) | Probing early supermassive black holes using Roman and LSST |
| 11:40 AM | Feige Wang (Univ. Michigan) | The Environment and Clustering of Distant Quasars and AGNs in the JWST+Roman Era |
| 11:55 AM | Kim-Vy Tran (Harvard/CfA) | Illuminating Dark Energy and Black Holes with Strong Gravitational Lensing in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Observatory Era |
| 12:10 PM | Mainak Singha (NASA GSFC/CUA) | Spectroscopic forecast of z>7 quasar population with Roman |
| 12:25 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:25 PM | Tuan Do (UCLA) | INVITED: New Frontiers in Galactic Center Science with Roman |
| 1:55 PM | Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) | Finding Free-Floating Black Holes in Abundance with Roman |
| 2:10 PM | Natasha Abrams (UC Berkeley) | Illuminating Hidden Binary Parameter Space with Roman Microlensing |
| 2:25 PM | DISCUSSION | |
| 2:55 PM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:30 PM | Poster Pops #4 (TBD) | |
| 3:50 PM | Roberta Paladini (Caltech/IPAC) | Dust extinction variations unveiled by the Roman Galactic Plane Survey |
| 4:05 PM | Julia Sakurako Haynes (UCSD) | From JWST to Roman: Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines for Automated Brown Dwarf Discovery |
| 4:20 PM | Wanggi Lim (Caltech/IPAC) | Synergizing SPHEREx and Roman for Galactic Plane Background and ISM Studies |
| 4:35 PM | Timothy Carleton (Arizona State) | SUPERBACK: A WFI Science Program For Background Modeling and Subtraction |
| 4:50 PM | Shoubaneh Hemmati (Caltech/IPAC) | A Foundation Model for Joint Rubin–Roman Survey Processing |
| 5:05 PM | Jesse Han (Stanford Univ.) | TheFARRM: Forced-photometry for All Roman-Rubin Matches |
| 5:20 PM | ADJOURN DAY 2 | |
| Day 3: July 15 (Wednesday) | ||
| 9:00 AM | Anya Nugent (Harvard/CfA) | INVITED: Utilizing the Power of Host Galaxies to Discover Transients with Roman |
| 9:30 AM | Jacob Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) | Enabling Time-Domain Science for Roman with RAPID |
| 9:45 AM | Lin Yan (Caltech) | Roman hIgh-redshift transient SciencE (RISE): Enabling a Non-Cosmology Time-Domain Program |
| 10:00 AM | Sam Rose (Caltech) | The contribution of supernovae to the cosmic dust budget |
| 10:15 AM | Benjamin Rose (Baylor Univ.) | Investigating Weak Lensing Effects on Supernovae Cosmology |
| 10:30 AM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:05 AM | Cole Meldorf (Univ. Pennsylvania) | Constraining Type Ia SNe Volumetric Rates and Progenitor Systems with the Roman Space Telescope |
| 11:20 AM | Jeff Cooke (Swinburne Univ.) VIRTUAL | Resolving the supernova UV crisis with Roman: Enabling science from z > 4 supernovae |
| 11:35 AM | Axel Guinot (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) | Weak lensing with Roman: from galaxy shapes to shear measurement |
| 11:50 AM | Eric Huff (JPL) | Kinematic Weak Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope |
| 12:05 PM | Yanhui Yang (UC Riverside) | Weak Baryonic Suppression in Astrid: Implications for Roman Weak Lensing Cosmology |
| 12:20 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:20 PM | Phil Hopkins (Caltech) | INVITED: TBD |
| 1:50 PM | Sahil Hegde (UCLA) | Establishing a census of star formation across cosmic time with Roman |
| 2:05 PM | Kalina Nedkova (Caltech/IPAC) | From JWST to Roman: A Unified View of Chemical Enrichment in Galaxies Enabled by Slitless Spectroscopy |
| 2:20 PM | Vihang Mehta (Caltech/IPAC) | Studying galaxy evolution with JWST slitless spectroscopy: forecasting expectations for Roman's HLWAS |
| 2:35 PM | DISCUSSION | |
| 3:05 PM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:40 PM | Jason Wang (Northwestern) | INVITED:The Roman Coronagraph Instrument: Pathway to Imaging Reflected Light Planets and Habitable Worlds |
| 4:10 PM | Bertrand Mennesson (JPL) | A possible Exozodi survey of HWO targets with the Roman Coronagraph |
| 4:25 PM | Susan Benecchi (Planetary Science Inst.) VIRTUAL | A Deep, Wide Search for Solar System Objects |
| 4:40 PM | ADJOURN DAY 3 | |
| 6:00 PM | DINNER: Dabney Gardens (Caltech campus) | |
| Day 4: July 16 (Thursday) | ||
| 9:00 AM | Ana Bonaca (Carnegie Science) | INVITED: From Dozens to Thousands: Stellar Streams with the Roman Space Telescope |
| 9:30 AM | Aritra Kundu (Univ. Pennsylvania) | Peering into the streams of external galaxies using Roman in the context of the near-far technique |
| 9:45 AM | Gagandeep S. Anand (STScI) | Uncovering Starless Dark Matter Halos in the Era of Roman |
| 10:00 AM | Tansu Daylan (Washington U. St. Louis) | The Small Scale Structure of Dark Matter Through Roman’s Lenses |
| 10:15 AM | Hadrien Paugnat (UCLA) | Dark matter constraints from strongly lensed quasars - recent advances and perspectives for Roman |
| 10:30 AM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:05 AM | Ashish Mahabal (Caltech) | Arandu: A Specialized Alert Broker for Roman Time-Domain Science |
| 11:20 AM | Aryana Haghjoo (UC Riverside) | From JWST to Roman: A Physics-Informed AI Super-Resolution Framework for Grism Spectroscopy |
| 11:35 AM | Rakshitha Thaman (NYU) | Modeling non-linear clustering in Roman-Line intensity mapping cross-correlations |
| 11:50 AM | Xueian Shen (MIT) | The Cosmic Rush Hour as a Signature of Early-Universe Physics and Implications for Roman |
| 12:05 PM | TBD () | Final Thoughts |
| 12:25 PM | ADJOURN DAY 4 AND CONFERENCE | |