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Start	End	Session	Speaker
Monday, June 25, 2018
5:00 PM	7:00 PM	Registration and Welcome Reception - Grand Ballroom Foyer
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
8:00 AM	9:00 AM	Registration - Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:45 AM	9:00 AM	Welcome - Grand I
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Plenary: The Formation of Planets in the Terrestrial Zone and Conditions of Habitability	Andrea Isella
10:00 AM	10:20 AM	Poster Flashes - Exoplanets
10:20 AM	11:00 AM	Break and Posters
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Plenary: The Cosmic Harmony of Galaxies and their Black Holes	Alex Pope
12:00 PM	12:20 PM	Poster Flashes - Galaxy Evolution
12:20 PM	2:00 PM	Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Star Formation in the Galaxy	Yancy Shirley
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	Constraints on the Structure of Embedded Disks with ALMA/the VLA: Setting the Stage for the ngVLA	Patrick Sheehan
2:50 PM	3:20 PM	Molecular Inheritance and Processing in Protoplanetary Disks	Fred Ciesla
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
2:00 PM	2:15 PM	After The Fall: The Dust and Gas in E+A Post-Starburst Galaxies	Adam Smercina
2:15 PM	2:30 PM	Peering Deep in the Radio to Discover the Secrets of Quasar Feedback	Rachael Alexandroff
2:30 PM	2:45 PM	COLDz: The VLA CO Luminosity Density at High Redshift Survey	Ricardo Pavesi
2:45 PM	3:15 PM	Gastrophysics In Galaxy-Scale Simulations: Peeking Under the Hood	Phil Hopkins
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Long GRBs and Core-collapse Supernovae in the ngVLA Era	Alessandra Corsi
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	The Structure and Dynamics of Relativistic Jet	Tanmoy Laskar
2:50 PM	3:20 PM	Real-time, Commensal, Fast Transient Surveys with the Very Large Array	Casey Law
3:20 PM	4:00 PM	Break & Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	High Resolution Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks	Laura Perez
4:30 PM	4:50 PM	What Drives Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks?	Jake Simon
4:50 PM	5:10 PM	The Circumstellar Disk and Asymmetric Outflow of the EX Lup Outburst System	Antonio Hales
5:10 PM	5:30 PM	The First Kinematical Detection of Embedded Planets in Protoplanetary Disks	Richard Teague
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	M Dwarfs: the Treasure Trove of Planets	Courtney Dressing
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	AGN Near and Far: Clues to Galaxy Evolution from Small to Large Scales	Dominika Wylezalek
4:30 PM	4:45 PM	Synergies Between Large Optical IFU and Interferometric Surveys of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe	Alberto Bolatto
4:45 PM	5:00 PM	Connecting Molecular and Ionized Gas Kinematics to Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas with the EDGE-CALIFA Survey	Rebecca Levy
5:00 PM	5:15 PM	An Overview and First Look at the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES)	Julie Davis
5:15 PM	5:30 PM	Galaxy Mergers Moulding the Circumgalactic Medium	Maan Hani
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	Exploring Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Next Generation of Large Optical/IR Telescopes on the Ground	Pat McCarthy
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM	4:20 PM	Radio Transients in the Pilot + Epoch 1.1 of the VLA Sky Survey	Dillon Dong
4:20 PM	4:50 PM	Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary Neutron Star Mergers	Brian Metzger
4:50 PM	5:10 PM	Frontiers of Physics with Neutron Stars	Paul Demorest
5:10 PM	5:30 PM	Exploring Nanohertz Multi-messenger Capabilities of the ngVLA	Joseph Lazio
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	Pulsar Timing Arrays for Gravitational Wave Detection: How, Why, and When?	Maura McLaughlin
6:00 PM	7:00 PM	Poster Reception
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Plenary: Stellar Mass and Supermassive Black Holes in Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy	Sebastian Heinz
10:00 AM	10:20 AM	Poster Flashes - Black Holes
10:20 AM	11:00 AM	Break and Posters
11:00 AM	12:00 PM	Plenary: The Evolution of Astrochemistry from Planet Formation Through to Exoplanets	Ilse Cleeves
12:00 PM	12:20 PM	Poster Flashes - Galaxy Evolution
12:20 PM	12:30 PM	Conference Photo
12:30 PM	2:00 PM	Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks and the Timescale for Planet Formation	Jonathan Williams
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	Rings, Gaps, Cavities: The Connection Between Large and Transitional Disks	Nienke van der Marel
2:50 PM	3:20 PM	Rapidly Evolving Debris Disks and Their Connection to Giant Impacts and Planet Formation	Alan Jackson
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Extreme Star Forming Environments in Nearby Galaxies	Jean Turner
2:30 PM	2:45 PM	Constraining Metal Mixing and Feedback Using Spatially Resolved Metal Production Histories in M31	Grace Telford
2:45 PM	3:00 PM	The IGM and Galaxy Evolution in Galaxy Groups	Eric Wilcots
3:00 PM	3:15 PM	Super Star Cluster Formation and Evolution with ALMA	Michelle Consiglio
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Supernovae	Shri Kulkarni
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	Extreme Supernovae from Cosmic Dawn	Ken Chen
2:50 PM	3:20 PM	Accretion and Explosions on White Dwarfs	Greg Sivakoff
3:20 PM	4:00 PM	Break & Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	Giant Planets in the Solar System	Imke de Pater
4:30 PM	4:50 PM	Mapping Circulation and Chemistry in Uranus's Deep Atmosphere with Radio Observations	Ned Molter
4:50 PM	5:10 PM	Witnessing Planetary Systems in the Making with the Next Generation Very Large Array	Luca Ricci
5:10 PM	5:30 PM	One Planet, Many Gaps and Rings	Robin Dong
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres	Jonathan Fortney
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	Dynamics of High-redshift Gas-rich Galaxies	Jackie Hodge
4:30 PM	4:45 PM	Understanding Galaxies Formation at the Reionization Epoch	Xiangcheng Ma
4:45 PM	5:00 PM	Molecular Universe on Large Scales: Revealing the Cold Baryon Cycle That Drives Galaxy Evolution with the Next-Generation Radio Telescopes	Bjorn Emonts
5:00 PM	5:15 PM	Study of Heavily Obscured Quasars with Young Radio Jets at Redshifts, z ~2	Pallavi Patil
5:15 PM	5:45 PM	Far-IR Mysteries	Allison Kirkpatrick
5:45 PM	6:00 PM	Short Spacing Configurations for Full Flux Recovery with the ngVLA	Peter Teuben
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM	4:20 PM	Classical Novae: A Test Case for ngVLA Stellar Outflow Imaging Capabilities	Justin Linford
4:20 PM	4:50 PM	The Black Hole Population in our Milky Way	Chris Belczynski
4:50 PM	5:20 PM	Optical and Infrared Studies of X-ray Binaries in the Gaia Era	Jerry Orosz
5:20 PM	5:40 PM	The MAVERIC Survey: Black Holes in Globular Clusters	Laura Shishkovsky
5:40 PM	6:00 PM	Radio Timing Analysis of the Jet in the Black Hole X-ray Binary Cygnus X-1	Alex Tetarenko
6:30 PM	9:30 PM	Conference Dinner at Punch Bowl Social
Thursday, June 28, 2018
9:00 AM	12:20 PM	Working Groups/Free Time
12:20 PM	2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	3:00 PM	Plenary: Pulsars in the Galactic Center as Fundamental Tests of Gravity	Dimitrios Psaltis
3:00 PM	3:20 PM	Poster Flashes - Black Holes
3:20 PM	4:00 PM	Break and Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	The Critical Role of the ngVLA in Revealing Complex Molecular Evolution and Its Role in Planet Formation and the Origins of Life	Brett McGuire
4:30 PM	4:50 PM	Protonated Carbon Dioxide Emission as a Diagnostic of Planet-Forming Regions of Disks	Liton Majumdar
4:50 PM	5:10 PM	Misaligned Protoplanetary Disks - Evidence for Planet-Disk Interaction?	Ryan Loomis
5:10 PM	5:30 PM	Final Results from SPOTS: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars	Ruben Asensio Torres
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	Extrasolar Space Weather and its Impact on Planetary Habitability	Gregg Hallinan
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	The Coevolution of Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes	Anne Medling
4:30 PM	4:45 PM	Witnessing the Growth of Massive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn and Noon With JVLA and ALMA	Wiphu Rujopakarn
4:45 PM	5:00 PM	The Early Stage of Cluster Formation Caught in a Massive Protocluster at z=3.78	Kyoung-Soo Lee
5:00 PM	5:15 PM	Investigating Dark Matter Substructure in Massive Galaxies w/Strong Gravitational Lensing	Chris Fassnacht
5:15 PM	5:30 PM	Resolving a Fast Molecular Outflow From a Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z=5.3	Justin Spilker
5:30 PM	6:00 PM	Luminous Infrared Galaxy Studies with Next Generation Telescopes	Aaron Evans
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	AGN Jets	Tony Readhead
4:30 PM	4:50 PM	The Science Case for Simultaneous Wide-Band Coverage in Radio Astronomy	Richard Dodson
4:50 PM	5:20 PM	Precision Measurements of Black Hole Mass	Jonelle Walsh
5:20 PM	5:40 PM	The Future of Industrial-Scale Echo Mapping of Black Holes	Jonathan Trump
5:40 PM	6:00 PM	Imaging and Time Resolving Black Holes: The Event Horizon Telescope and New Directions	Shep Doeleman
Friday, June 29, 2018
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Plenary: Connecting Interstellar Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies	Karin Sandstrom
10:00 AM	10:40 AM	Break and Posters
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
10:40 AM	11:10 AM	A Statistical Comparison of Exoplanet and Protoplanetary Disk Properties	Gijs Mulders
11:10 AM	11:40 AM	Determining the Process of Planet Formation in the Outer Solar System via the Measuring Structure of the Trans-Neptune Belt	JJ Kavelaars
11:40 AM	12:00 PM	`Scopes on Ropes: Balloon Astronomy as Tool for Studying Star and Planet Formation over Next Decade	Laura Fissel
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
10:40 AM	11:10 AM	The Early Stage of Cluster Formation Caught in a Massive Protocluster at z=3.78	Steve Finkelstein
11:10 AM	11:25 AM	Galaxy Spin Build-Up in the Cosmic Web in the Era of Integral Field Spectroscopy	Charlotte Welker
11:25 AM	11:40 AM	Flat Rotation Curve of Disk Galaxy, DSFG850.95 at z ~ 1.6	Patrick Drew
11:40 AM	11:55 AM	Results from a CO Line Search in the Plateau de Bure High-z Blue Sequence Survey Data	Laura Lenkic
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
10:40 AM	11:10 AM	Tidal Disruption of Single and Binary Stars by Supermassive Black Holes	Elena Rossi
11:10 AM	11:40 AM	Growth of Black Hole Seeds	Rich Plotkin
11:40 AM	12:00 PM	Multimessenger Signatures from Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies	Jillian Bellovary
12:00 PM	1:40 PM	Lunch
Exoplanets, the Solar System and the origins of Stars, Planets and Life - Galleria
1:40 PM	2:10 PM	The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: Determining the Prevalence of Technologically-Capable Life	Andrew Siemion
2:10 PM	2:30 PM	Exoplanets Found by Gravitational Microlensing Challenge the Core Accretion Theory	David Bennett
2:30 PM	2:50 PM	The Direct Imaging Search for Earth 2.0: Blue Dot or Red Herring?	Claire Guimond
2:50 PM	3:20 PM	Key Questions in Planet Formation for the Coming Decade	Fred Adams
Galaxy Evolution Mechanisms - Grand I
1:40 PM	2:10 PM	Evolution of Gas Content Through Cosmic History	Fabian Walter
2:10 PM	2:25 PM	Uncovering the Impact of Jet-ISM Feedback on Galaxy Evolution in the ngVLA Era	Kristina Nyland
2:25 PM	2:40 PM	Extreme Feedback in AGN-Starburst Systems: Insight from Multi-Faceted Molecular Gas Studies	Avani Gowardhan
2:40 PM	2:55 PM	ALMA Twenty-Six Arcmin2 Survey of GOODS-S at One-millimeter (ASAGAO): Physical Properties of ALMA-selected Galaxies	Yuki Yamaguchi
2:55 PM	3:10 PM	A New Detection of Extragalactic Anomalous Microwave Emission in a Compact, Optically-Faint Region of NGC 4725	Eric Murphy
Black Holes & Transient Phenomena - Grand II
1:40 PM	2:00 PM	Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation over Cosmic Time	Colin DeGraf
2:00 PM	2:20 PM	Taking a Census of Supermassive Binary Black Holes	Karishma Bansal
2:20 PM	2:40 PM	A Search for Recoiling Super Massive Black Holes and its Implications to Changing-Look AGN	Dongchan Kim
2:40 PM	3:00 PM	Finding Unresolved Dual AGNs at High Redshift Using Astrometry	Yu-Ching Chen
3:00 PM	3:20 PM	LSST Contributions to the Black Hole Census	Eric Bellm
3:20 PM	4:00 PM	Break & Posters
4:00 PM	5:00 PM	Summary and Final Remarks
Bold = Invited Talk
Italicized = ngVLA Community Studies Talk