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Tuesday, September 12

Time /Event TitleDescriptionVideo Link
8:45-9:00Opening remarks (Risa Wechsler, KIPAC Director)Video
Mapping the Sky(Chair: Emmanuel Schaan)none
9:00-9:303D dust mapping in the Milky WayGreg Green (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)Video
9:30-10:30The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, status and plansChihway Chang (U. Chicago/KICP) and Phil Marshall (SLAC)Video
10:30-10:35Poster highlightsVideo
11:00-11:30Spectroscopic galaxy surveysJuna Kollmeier (CITA)Video
11:30-12:00Line intensity mappingSimon Foreman (Arizona State University)Video
12:00-12:30The cosmic microwave backgroundKimmy Wu (SLAC)Video
Transformative Technologies (Chair: Zeeshan Ahmed)None
14:00-14:30The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST CameraAaron Roodman (SLAC)Video
14:30-15:00Extremely Large Telescope programsRob Simcoe (MIT Kavli Institute)Video
15:00-15:30Future space missions and detector technologiesSven Hermann (KIPAC)Video
15:30-15:35Poster highlightsVideo
16:00-16:30Advances in astronomical adaptive opticsJessica Lu (UC Berkeley)Video
16:30-17:00Superconducting Sensors across the EM SpectrumCyndia Yu (University of Chicago, KICP)Video
17:00-17:30Quantum sensing for dark matterSaptarshi Chaudhuri (Princeton)Video

Wednesday, September 13

Time /Event TitleDescriptionVideo Link
The Extreme and Variable Universe (Chair: Dan Wilkins)None
9:00-9:30High resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM and beyondAnna Ogorzalek (NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)Video
9:30-10:00Building observatories to access the high-energy UniverseStefan Funk (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)Video
10:00-10:30Multi-messengers from the high energy frontierKe Fang (U. Wisconsin)Video
10:30-10:35Poster highlightsVideo
11:00-11:30Millihertz gravitational wave sources and short-timescale variables with the Vera C. Rubin ObservatoryKevin Burdge (MIT)Video
11:30-12:00Transient Science with DSA 2000Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)Video
12:00-12:30Transient astronomy and high energy astrophysics in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (discussion)Kevin Burdge (MIT), Gregg Hallinan (Caltech), Krista Lynne Smith (Texas A&M)Video
Public EventPublic EventNone
19:00-20:00The Next Decade of Discovery with the Vera C. Rubin ObservatoryRisa Wechsler (Stanford), Dan Wilkins (Stanford), Aaron Roodman (SLAC), Yao-Yuan Mao (University of Utah), Krista Lynne Smith (Texas A&M), Kevin Burdge (MIT)Video

Thursday, September 14

Time /Event TitleDescriptionVideo Link
9:00-9:30Special update from the Vera C. Rubin ObservatoryPhil MarshallVideo
Data-driven Discovery(Chair: Susan Clark)None
9:30-10:00Climate solutionsKyle Story (Muon Space)Video
10:00-10:30Strong gravitational lensing in the era of data-driven algorithmsYashar Hezaveh (Universite de Montreal)Video
10:30-11:00Experimental science x supercomputingDebbie Bard (NERSC)Video
11:30-12:30Synergies between overlapping cosmological surveysElisabeth Krause (University of Arizona)Video
12:00-12:20The emergence of the star-forming cosmic webDongwoo Chung (CITA/U. Toronto)Video
12:20-12:40Polarimetric profiles of pulsar wind nebulaeJosephine Wong (KIPAC)Video
12:40-13:00The PHANGS Survey: Resolving nearby galaxies into individual star-forming unitsJaeyeon Kim (KIPAC)Video
KIPAC in the World(Chair: Pat Burchat)None
14:00-14:30NVIDIA'S HPC Developer Technology GroupPeng Wang (NVIDIA)Video
14:30-15:00Carbon dioxide removal through bio-oil sequestrationEdward Young (Charm Industrial)Video
15:00-15:30Human–Machine Collaboration for Improving Semiconductor Process DevelopmentYu Lu (Lam Research)Video
16:00-17:30Developing as compassionate scientists for the good of the world (a few KIPAC highlights, followed by discussion)Bruce Macintosh (chair), Risa Wechsler, Xinnan Du, Susan Clark, Yao-Yuan MaoNone

Friday, September 15

Time /Event TitleDescriptionVideo Link
Snapshots of KIPAC Research(Chair: Pat Burchat)None
9:00-9:10Measuring Magnetic Flux on the Far-side of the SunShea Hess-WebberVideo
9:10-9:20Detecting Gaps in Stellar Streams as a Probe for Dark Matter with the Nancy Grace Roman TelescopeChristian AganzeVideo
9:20-9:30Studying Galactic Inscriptions: what we can learn about the history of the Milky Way from dynamical perturbationsElise Darragh-FordVideo
9:30-9:40Learning real physics with fake universesSandy YuanVideo
9:40-9:50Gaseous halos of spiral galaxies: feeding and feedbackSanskriti DasVideo
9:50-10:00Cosmic Chemistry: Exploring The History of Cluster Enrichment with Current and Next-gen X-ray TelescopesAnthony FloresVideo
10:00-10:10Mapping the Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes through the Time DomainZhefu YuVideo
10:10-10:20A rare case of strong lensing by a quasarMartin MillonVideo
10:20-10:30What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays?Iryna ButskyVideo
11:00-11:45Thinking ahead to next-generation surveys (discussion) Emmanuel Schaan, Elisabeth Krause, Steve Allen, Risa WechslerNone

KIPAC Directors' perspective and closing remarks

NameVideo Link
Stephen StreifferNone
Roger BlandfordVideo
Tom AbelVideo
Risa WechslerVideo