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