Day 1
Registration 8:30 - 9:00
9:00
[Cheng-Han Hsieh, Stella Offner, Hui Li]
Section 1
The Large-Scale Environment: From Molecular Clouds to Star Formation
Chair: Cheng-Han Hsieh
9:10
Héctor Arce (Yale University)
10:00
Probing Cosmic Ray Ionization Rates in Star-Forming Clouds: A Synthetic Observation with STARFORGE Simulations
Hsin-Pei Chen (UT Austin)
10:20
Magnetically Regulated Molecular Cloud and Star Formation
Shuo Kong (UA)
Coffee Break 10:40 - 11:10
(Check out posters in VizLab)
11:10
How effectively are pre-stellar cores shielded from external cosmic rays?
Kedron Silsbee (UT El Paso)
11:30
Probing Accretion at the Lowest Masses: The Young Brown Dwarf J0844
Toni Panzera (Rice University)
11:50
Low mass binaries are bound from birth
Aleksey Generozov (UT Austin)
12:10
Angular momentum evolution in molecular clouds and its relation with longitudinal flows and protostellar outflows
Griselda Arroyo-Chavez (UA)
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
Session 2
Physics of Protoplanetary Disk
Chair:
1:30
Jaehan Bae (University of Florida)
2:20
LYDION: Simulations with Lyman-alpha Radiation Hydrodynamics and Stellar Feedback
Aaron Smith (UT Dallas)
2:40
Multi-Frequency Radiative Transfer Simulations of Protoplanetary Inner Disks Using Realistic Opacity Tables
Hening Wu (UCfA/UNLV)
Break 3:00 - 3:30
(Check out posters in VizLab)
3:30
3D Dust Dynamics in Protoplanetary Disks with Massive Protoplanets: Implications for Observations
Hui Li (LANL)
3:50
Planetesimal Formation by Turbulent Concentration from Small Particles in Turbulent Environment
Debanjan Sengupta (New Mexico State University)
4:10
From Dust to Planets: Dust-Gas Dynamics and Radiation Transport in Protoplanetary Disks
Stanley A. Baronett (NCfA/UNLV)
4:30
4:50
Artemis: A new GPU code for modeling protoplanetary disks with rad-hydro transport and multi-fluid dynamics
Adam Dempsey (LANL)
5:10 pm First Day ends
Day 2
Session 3
The Planet Formation Ladder: From Dust to Planetesimals
Chair:
9:10
Megan Reiter (Rice University)
10:00
Quantifying Disk Destruction by External Photoevaporation in M17
Samuel Millstone (Rice University)
10:20
Dust Polarization and Substructure in a Planet-Forming Disk
Rachel Harrison (Rice University)
Coffee Break 10:40 - 11:10
(Check out posters in VizLab)
11:10
The Giant Planet Formation Time Window: An Observational Perspective
Cheng Han Hsieh (UT Austin)
11:30
The YEMS Project: Linking Early Eruptive Disks, Disks demographics and substructures, and Giant Planets and their exomoons
Pedro Henrique S.S.P. Nogueira (Texas A&M)
11:50
JWST's sharper view of water in planet-forming regions: from radial gradients to pebble drift
Andrea Banzatti (Texas State University)
12:10
SCExAO/CHARIS High-Contrast Integral Field Spectropolarimetry of Protoplanetary Disks around (Sub)Solar-Mass Stars
Erica Dykes (UT San Antonio)
12:30 - 12:45
Group Picture
Lunch 12:45 - 1:30
1:30 ~ 2:20
(VizLab, right across Avaya Auditorium)
Afternoon talk chair:
2:20
Andrea Isella (Rice University)
2:40
The Curious Case of Eccentric Warm Jupiters
Diego Munoz (Northern Arizona University)
3:00
ALMA Observations and Hydrodynamic Models of LkCa 15: Implications for Planet Formation
Charles Gardner (Rice University)
Break 3:20 - 3:50
(Check out posters in VizLab)
Session 4
Dynamics, Planet-Disk Interactions and the Shaping of Star and Planetary Architectures
3:50
Planet migration in low viscosity disks with high global mass accretion rates
Shengtai Li (LANL)
4:10
A Tale of Dynamical Instabilities and Giant Impacts in the Exoplanet Radius Valley
Sho Shibata (Rice University)
4:30
The Fraction of Polar-aligned Circumbinary Disks
Ted Johnson (UNLV/NCfA)
4:50
The magnetospheric rebound: breaking the resonance chains of super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
Mengrui Pan (Rice University)
5:10
JWST-MIRI Monitoring of DQ Tau: Insights into Inner Disk Dynamics and Variability
Jacob Hyden (Texas State University)
5:30 pm Second Day ends
Day 3
Session 5
Characterizing Young Stars, Planets, and their Atmospheres
Chair:
9:10
10:00
Scientific Goals and Performance of the OASIS Survey for Planets Around Accelerating Stars
Mona El Morsy (UTSA)
10:00
Occultation Observations of Titan as a Transiting Exoplanet
Ryan Oelkers (UT Rio Grande Valley)
10:20
Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
Robert Royer (NCfA/UNLV)
Coffee Break 10:40 - 11:10
(Check out posters in VizLab)
11:10
LANL Atomic & Molecular Opacity Modeling
Mark Zammit (LANL)
11:30
Atmospheric Variability in Brown Dwarfs
Raenessa Walker (Texas A&M)
11:50
SCExAO/CHARIS Astrometric and Atmospheric Characterization of HIP 99770 b
Danielle Bovie (UT San Antonio)
12:10
iSLAT: fast, interactive analysis of molecular spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope
John McCaskill (Texas State University)
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
1:30 ~ 2:20
(VizLab, right across Avaya Auditorium)
Afternoon talk chair:
2:20
Mapping the Active Surfaces of T Tauri Stars: The Search for Emerging Planets and Refining Stellar Evolution Models
Shih-Yun Tang (Rice University)
2:40
Young Planets around Young Accreting Stars
Arturo Cevallos Soto (NCfA/UNLV)
3:00
Self-supervised machine learning for image reconstruction in radio interferometry
Shunyuan Mao (Rice University)
Break 3:20 - 3:50
(Check out posters in VizLab)
3:50
Hydrodynamical simulations of Be Star Boundary layers
Madeline Overton (NCfA/UNLV)
4:10
TBA
Mauro Sebastian Guerrero (UT El Paso)
4:30
TBA
Munan Gong (UT El Paso)
4:50
Understanding Complex Organics In Protoplanetary Disks Through Laboratory Experiments
Xinting Yu (UT at San Antonio)
Conference Summary, Concluding Remarks, and Round Table Discussion
5:10 - 5:30
Adjourn
Posters:
Our poster easels are 48” tall by 36” wide. We recommend printing to that size if possible.
1.
Shuo Kong
(UA)
Magnetically Regulated Molecular Cloud and Star Formation
2.
Toni Panzera
(Rice University)
Probing Accretion at the Lowest Masses: The Young Brown Dwarf J0844
3.
Stanley A. Baronett (NCfA/UNLV)
From Dust to Planets: Dust-Gas Dynamics and Radiation Transport in Protoplanetary Disks
4.
Sudat Khan (NCfA/UNLV)
Understanding Vortex Evolution and Dust Dynamics in Protoplanetary Disks
5.
Cheng Han Hsieh
(UT Austin)
The Giant Planet Formation Time Window: An Observational Perspective
6.
Rachel Harrison
(Rice University)
Dust Polarization and Substructure in a Planet-Forming Disk
7.
Sho Shibata
(Rice University)
A Tale of Dynamical Instabilities and Giant Impacts in the Exoplanet Radius Valley
8.
Mark Zammit
(LANL)
LANL Atomic & Molecular Opacity Modeling
9.
Shih-Yun Tang
(Rice University)
Mapping the Active Surfaces of T Tauri Stars: The Search for Emerging Planets and Refining Stellar Evolution Models
10.
Juan Cano
(Texas State University)
Highly dynamic inner disks and winds from a survey of infrared CO line variability with iSHELL on the IRTF
11.
Baibhav Srivastava
(Rice University)
The late formation of chondrites as a consequence of Jupiter-induced gaps and rings
12.
Anna Sherar
(UT Austin)
Dynamics of Exchanges in STARFORGE Interactions
13.
Olivia Brouillette
(NMSU)
Conditions for Streaming Instability
14.
Eleanor Serviss
(NMSU)
Gravitational Instability in the AB Aurigae system
15.
David Alejandro Lomeli
(UT El Paso)
Eccentricity Structure and Dust Drift in Protoplanetary Disks With an External Binary Companion
16.
Sanskruti Admane
(Rice University)
TBA
17.
Kaelyn Clement
(NCfA/UNLV)
The YORP Effect in REBOUNDx
18.
Isabelle Perron
(NCfA/UNLV)
Origins of Chondrite Families
19.
Lisa Prato
(Lowell Observatory)
Tilting at Tilts: Insights from Young Star Inclinations
20.
Leopold Hutnik
(NMSU)
Pebble Accretion onto Binary KBOs
21.
Christopher M. Johns-Krull
(Rice University)
Resolving Accretion onto the Giant Exoplanet DH Tau b
22.
Xinting Yu
(UT at San Antonio)
Understanding Complex Organics In Protoplanetary Disks Through Laboratory Experiments
23.
Bethany Grimm
(UT at Austin)
TBA