SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
MONDAY, April 20, 2015
08:00 – 08:45
08:45 – 09:00
Chair:
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11:15 – 11:45
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02:15 – 02:45
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Registration (STScI Rear Lobby)
INTRODUCTION
Welcome: Matt Mountain, STScI Director
SESSION 1
Laurent Lamy – Planetary Ultraviolet Aurorae: The
Legacy of Hubble
Melissa McGrath – Solar System Satellites
Lorenz Roth – Probing the Neutral Environment of
Jupiter’s Moons with Hubble: Detection of Water
Vapor at Europa
AM Coffee Break
Cecile Gry – The Diffuse Cloud Surrounding the Sun:
Peculiarities of an Interstellar Cloud Explored from
Within
Amy Simon – Probing Giant Planet Atmospheres with
Hubble
Wesley Fraser – The Binarity, Compositions (and a Few
Sizes) of Kuiper Belt Objects: Revealing the Solar
System’s Formation
Lunch/Poster Session – Glass Pavilion
SESSION 2
Drake Deming – Water in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Heather Knutson – Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets
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in the Super-Earth Era
Jacob Bean – Exoplanets in HD
PM Coffee Break
Boris Gaensicke – Planetary Systems Around White
Dwarfs
John Johnson – Exoplanets Detection
Daniel Apai – Extrasolar Storms: Cloud Physics and
Atmospheric Dynamics in Brown Dwarfs and
Exoplanets
TUESDAY, April 21, 2015
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SESSION 3
Selma De Mink – Hubble and the Most Massive Stars
Nathan Smith – Luminous Blue Variables
Martin Barstow – Testing the White Dwarf
Mass-Radius Relation with HST Observations of
Sirius-Type Binaries
L. Clifton Johnson – Resolving Star Cluster Formation
and Dissolution in M31: Results from HST and PHAT
AM Coffee Break
Jason Kalirai – Ultra-Deep Imaging of the SMC: The
IMF at M < 1 Msun
Rupali Chandar – Stellar Cluster Evolution
Eileen Meyer – The New Proper Motions Frontier:
Recent Discoveries on AGN Jets with HST
Lunch/Poster Session – Glass Pavilion
Saul Perlmutter – SNe
Nitya Kallivayalil – Milky Way Halo Kinematics
SESSION 4
Gisella De Rosa – Reverberation Mapping
Steve Rodney – A New Lens for Hubble: Highly
Magnified and Multiply-Imaged Transients
PM Coffee Break
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Adam Riess – Expansion History As Seen by HST
Ryan Foley – SN Progenitors UV
Avishay Gal-Yam – Superluminous Supernovae
Andrew Levan – GRB Results
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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SESSION 5
Daniela Calzetti – Local Galaxies: What Next?
Sanchayeeta Borthakur – Escape of Ionizing Radiation
from Low-z Starburst Galaxies
Mary Putman – MW Halo Gas
AM Coffee Break
Andrew Fox – A Tail of Two Galaxies: Hubble
Pinpoints the Origin of the Magellanic Stream
Todd Tripp – Twenty-five Years of QSO Absorption
Studies with HST: A Windfall of Missing Baryons,
Gastrophysical Diagnostics, and Puzzles
Jessica Werk – Where Accretion Meets Feedback:
HST/COS Observations Reveal Massive Stores of Gas in
Galaxy Halos
Lunch/Poster Session – Glass Pavilion
SESSION 6:
Rachel Somerville – What We Have Learned about the
Physics of Galaxy Formation from HST
Tommaso Treu – The Grism-Lens Amplified Survey
from Space (GLASS): Dissecting Reionization, z~2
Galaxies, and Dense Environments
PM Coffee Break
Jennifer Lotz – The Frontier Fields and Beyond
Kate Whitaker – Tracing the Cosmic Shutdown of Star
Formation with CANDELS/3D-HST
Marusa Bradac –CLASH and Beyond: Pushing the
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Frontiers of Galaxy Formation with HST, Spitzer, and
Cosmic Telescopes
07:30 – 08:30
Special Talk: Marc Postman – The Future of UVOIR
Space Astronomy: Unveiling the Universe in HighDefinition
THURSDAY, April 23, 2015
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Steve Finkelstein – Our First Look Into Galaxy
Formation with Hubble
David Harvey – Astronomical Particle Colliders
Mireia Montes – The Ghost Light of Abell 2744
AM Coffee Break
Mathilde Jauzac – Hubble Frontier Fields: A New Era
for Gravitational Lensing
Ivelina Momcheva – Results from the 3D-HST Survey
Pascal Oesch – Galaxy Build-up at Cosmic Dawn:
Hubble's Lasting Legacy
Closing Remarks
Lunch – Glass Pavilion
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