MODEST-23 organizers and confirmed participants are listed below along with their research institution(s) and host countries (if not the USA). Conference organizers and participants represent 71 research institutions across 21 nations. Excepting committee chairs, listings are alphabetical by last name.
Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
- Elena González Prieto – CIERA, Northwestern University (co-chair)
- Newlin Weatherford – CIERA, Northwestern University (co-chair)
- Giacomo Fragione – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Kyle Kremer – California Institute of Technology/Carnegie Observatories
- William Vercellone – CIERA, Northwestern University (staff)
- Madeline Wilson – CIERA, Northwestern University (staff)
Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)
- Giacomo Fragione – CIERA, Northwestern University (chair)
- Fabio Antonini – Cardiff University – United Kingdom
- Holger Baumgardt – University of Queensland – Australia
- Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta – Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
- Francesco Ferraro – University of Bologna – Italy
- Mark Gieles – University of Barcelona – Spain
- Mirek Giersz – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
- Natasha Ivanova – University of Alberta – Canada
- Pavel Kroupa – Charles University in Prague/University of Bonn – Czechia/Germany
- Michela Mapelli – University of Padova – Italy
- Smadar Naoz – University of California, Los Angeles
- Simon Portegies Zwart – Leiden University – Netherlands
- Frederic Rasio – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Alison Sills – McMaster University – Canada
- Rainer Spurzem – University of Heidelberg/Peking University – Germany/China
- Enrico Vesperini – Indiana University Bloomington
Confirmed Participants
- Poojan Agrawal – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Tatsuya Akiba – University of Colorado, Boulder
- Michael Albrow – University of Canterbury – New Zealand
- Yael Alush – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Israel
- Oliver Anagnostou – The University of Melbourne – Australia
- Fabio Antonini – Cardiff University – United Kingdom
- Francisco Aros – Indiana University Bloomington
- Abbas Askar – Lund University/Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Sweden/Poland
- Dany Atallah – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Vishal Baibhav – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Sambaran Banerjee – Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics (HISKP) and Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA), University of Bonn – Germany
- Andrea Bellini – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
- Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar – Georgia Institute of Technology
- Paolo Bianchini – National Center for Scientific Research-Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CNRS-ObAS) – France
- Breanna Binder – California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona
- Alexey Bobrick – Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Israel
- Samuel Bonsor – University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
- Tomás Cabrera – Carnegie Mellon University
- Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta – Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
- Debatri Chattopadhyay – Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University – United Kingdom
- Gina Chen – Carnegie Mellon University
- Yingtian “Bill” Chen – University of Michigan
- Claude Courmoyer-Cloutier – McMaster University – Canada
- Emanuele Dalessandro – National Institute for Astrophysics-Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory of Bologna (INAF-OSA) – Italy
- Alessandro Della Croce – University of Bologna – Italy
- Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo – International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) – Italy
- Pierfrancesco Di Cintio – National Research Council-Institute for Complex Systems (CNR-ISC)/National Institute for Astrophysics-Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (INAF-OAA) – Italy
- Nolan Dickson – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
- Zoheyr Doctor – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Emma Dodd – Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen – Netherlands
- Veronika Dornan – McMaster University – Canada
- Andrés Escala – University of Chile – Chile
- Katja Fahrion – European Space Agency (ESA) – Netherlands
- Juan Farias – University of Texas at Austin
- Joseph Fichera – University of Florida
- Maya Fishbach – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto – Canada
- Giacomo Fragione – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Monica Gallegos-Garcia – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Doug Geisler – University of Concepción/University of La Serena – Chile
- Aaron Geller – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Aleksey Generozov – Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Israel
- Elena González Prieto – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Seth Gossage – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Steffani Grondin – University of Toronto – Canada
- Mike Grudić – Carnegie Observatories
- Christian Hannah – University of Utah
- Kate Hartman – McMaster University – Canada
- Craig Heinke – University of Alberta – Canada
- Lucas Hellström – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
- Vincent Henault-Brunet – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
- Kelly Holley-Bockelmann – Vanderbilt University
- Arkadiusz Hypki – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
- Yongseok Jo – Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Flatiron Institute
- Cliff Johnson – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Dooseok Jung – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Vicky Kalogera – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Jeremy Karam – McMaster University – Canada
- Charles Kimball – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Fulya Kıroğlu – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Kyle Kremer – California Institute of Technology/Carnegie Observatories
- Konstantinos Kritos – Johns Hopkins University
- Pavel Kroupa – Charles University in Prague/University of Bonn – Czechia/Germany
- Esha Kundu – Michigan State University
- William Lake – University of California, Los Angeles
- Barbara Lanzoni – University of Bologna – Italy
- Denis Leahy – University of Calgary – Canada
- Seungjae Lee – Seoul National University – South Korea
- Ting Li – University of Toronto – Canada
- Evan Linck – University of Wisconsin-Madison
- James Lombardi – Allegheny College
- Daniel Marín Pina – Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), University of Barcelona – Spain
- Miguel Angel Martinez – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Luis Martinez-Medina – Institute of Astronomy, National Autonomous University of Mexico (IA-UNAM) – Mexico
- Robert Mathieu – University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Denyz Melchor – University of California, Los Angeles
- Brenna Mockler – Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
- Elizabeth Moreno Hilario – Institute of Astronomy, National Autonomous University of Mexico (IA-UNAM) – Mexico
- Erin Motherway – University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Smadar Naoz – University of California, Los Angeles
- Prasanta Kumar Nayak – Pontifical Catholic University of Chile – Chile
- Andrew Nine – University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Anju Panthi – Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – India
- Jan Pflamm-Altenburg – Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics (HISKP), University of Bonn – Germany
- Miriam Ramos Arevalo – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Sharmila Rani – Indian Institute of Astrophysics – India
- Scott Ransom – National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)/University of Virginia
- Frederic Rasio – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Kyle Rocha – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Carl Rodriguez – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon – University of California, Santa Cruz
- Simon Rozier – University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
- Krystal Ruiz-Rocha – Vanderbilt University
- Taeho Ryu – Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) – Germany
- Johan Samsing – Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – Denmark
- Alison Sills – McMaster University – Canada
- Peter Smith – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
- Rainer Spurzem – University of Heidelberg/Peking University – Germany/China
- Tjitske Starkenburg – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Jay Strader – Michigan State University
- Vladimir Strokov – Johns Hopkins University
- Annapurni Subramaniam – Indian Institute of Astrophysics – India
- Meng Sun – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Darsan Swaroop Bellie – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Hiromichi Tagawa – National Observatory of Japan – Japan
- Tabassum Tanvir – The Australian National University – Australia
- Stefano Torniamenti – University of Padova – Italy
- Alessandro Trani – Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – Denmark
- Ryan Urquhart – Michigan State University
- Enrico Vesperini – Indiana University Bloomington
- Eduardo Vitral – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
- Pavan Vynatheya – Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) – Germany
- Laura Watkins – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
- Newlin Weatherford – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Grzegorz Wiktorowicz – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
- Henriette Wirth – Charles University of Prague – Czechia
- Claire Ye – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto – Canada
- Rachel Zhang – CIERA, Northwestern University
- Claire Zwicker – Illinois Institute of Technology