Participants

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

  1. Poojan Agrawal – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  2. Tatsuya Akiba – University of Colorado, Boulder
  3. Michael Albrow – University of Canterbury – New Zealand
  4. Yael Alush – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Israel
  5. Oliver Anagnostou – The University of Melbourne – Australia
  6. Fabio Antonini – Cardiff University – United Kingdom
  7. Francisco Aros – Indiana University Bloomington
  8. Abbas Askar – Lund University/Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Sweden/Poland
  9. Dany Atallah – CIERA, Northwestern University
  10. Vishal Baibhav – CIERA, Northwestern University
  11. Sambaran Banerjee – Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics (HISKP) and Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA), University of Bonn – Germany
  12. Andrea Bellini – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
  13. Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar – Georgia Institute of Technology
  14. Paolo Bianchini – National Center for Scientific Research-Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory (CNRS-ObAS) – France
  15. Breanna Binder – California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona
  16. Alexey Bobrick – Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Israel
  17. Samuel Bonsor – University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
  18. Tomás Cabrera – Carnegie Mellon University
  19. Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta – Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
  20. Debatri Chattopadhyay – Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University – United Kingdom
  21. Gina Chen – Carnegie Mellon University
  22. Yingtian “Bill” Chen – University of Michigan
  23. Claude Courmoyer-Cloutier – McMaster University – Canada
  24. Emanuele Dalessandro – National Institute for Astrophysics-Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory of Bologna (INAF-OSA) – Italy
  25. Alessandro Della Croce – University of Bologna – Italy
  26. Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo – International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) – Italy
  27. Pierfrancesco Di Cintio – National Research Council-Institute for Complex Systems (CNR-ISC)/National Institute for Astrophysics-Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (INAF-OAA) – Italy
  28. Nolan Dickson – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
  29. Zoheyr Doctor – CIERA, Northwestern University
  30. Emma Dodd – Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen – Netherlands
  31. Veronika Dornan – McMaster University – Canada
  32. Andrés Escala – University of Chile – Chile
  33. Katja Fahrion – European Space Agency (ESA) – Netherlands
  34. Juan Farias – University of Texas at Austin
  35. Joseph Fichera – University of Florida
  36. Maya Fishbach – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto – Canada
  37. Giacomo Fragione – CIERA, Northwestern University
  38. Monica Gallegos-Garcia – CIERA, Northwestern University
  39. Doug Geisler – University of Concepción/University of La Serena – Chile
  40. Aaron Geller – CIERA, Northwestern University
  41. Aleksey Generozov – Technion Israel Institute of Technology – Israel
  42. Elena González Prieto – CIERA, Northwestern University
  43. Seth Gossage – CIERA, Northwestern University
  44. Steffani Grondin – University of Toronto – Canada
  45. Mike Grudić – Carnegie Observatories
  46. Christian Hannah – University of Utah
  47. Kate Hartman – McMaster University – Canada
  48. Craig Heinke – University of Alberta – Canada
  49. Lucas Hellström – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
  50. Vincent Henault-Brunet – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
  51. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann – Vanderbilt University
  52. Arkadiusz Hypki – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
  53. Yongseok Jo – Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Flatiron Institute
  54. Cliff Johnson – CIERA, Northwestern University
  55. Dooseok Jung – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  56. Vicky Kalogera – CIERA, Northwestern University
  57. Jeremy Karam – McMaster University – Canada
  58. Charles Kimball – CIERA, Northwestern University
  59. Fulya Kıroğlu – CIERA, Northwestern University
  60. Kyle Kremer – California Institute of Technology/Carnegie Observatories
  61. Konstantinos Kritos – Johns Hopkins University
  62. Pavel Kroupa – Charles University in Prague/University of Bonn – Czechia/Germany
  63. Esha Kundu – Michigan State University
  64. William Lake – University of California, Los Angeles
  65. Barbara Lanzoni – University of Bologna – Italy
  66. Denis Leahy – University of Calgary – Canada
  67. Seungjae Lee – Seoul National University – South Korea
  68. Ting Li – University of Toronto – Canada
  69. Evan Linck – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  70. James Lombardi – Allegheny College
  71. Daniel Marín Pina – Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), University of Barcelona – Spain
  72. Miguel Angel Martinez – CIERA, Northwestern University
  73. Luis Martinez-Medina – Institute of Astronomy, National Autonomous University of Mexico (IA-UNAM) – Mexico
  74. Robert Mathieu – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  75. Denyz Melchor – University of California, Los Angeles
  76. Brenna Mockler – Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
  77. Elizabeth Moreno Hilario – Institute of Astronomy, National Autonomous University of Mexico (IA-UNAM) – Mexico
  78. Erin Motherway – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  79. Smadar Naoz – University of California, Los Angeles
  80. Prasanta Kumar Nayak – Pontifical Catholic University of Chile – Chile
  81. Andrew Nine – University of Wisconsin-Madison
  82. Anju Panthi – Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – India
  83. Jan Pflamm-Altenburg – Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics (HISKP), University of Bonn – Germany
  84. Miriam Ramos Arevalo – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  85. Sharmila Rani – Indian Institute of Astrophysics – India
  86. Scott Ransom – National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)/University of Virginia
  87. Frederic Rasio – CIERA, Northwestern University
  88. Kyle Rocha – CIERA, Northwestern University
  89. Carl Rodriguez – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  90. Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon – University of California, Santa Cruz
  91. Simon Rozier – University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
  92. Krystal Ruiz-Rocha – Vanderbilt University
  93. Taeho Ryu – Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) – Germany
  94. Johan Samsing – Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – Denmark
  95. Alison Sills – McMaster University – Canada
  96. Peter Smith – Saint Mary’s University – Canada
  97. Rainer Spurzem – University of Heidelberg/Peking University – Germany/China
  98. Tjitske Starkenburg – CIERA, Northwestern University
  99. Jay Strader – Michigan State University
  100. Vladimir Strokov – Johns Hopkins University
  101. Annapurni Subramaniam – Indian Institute of Astrophysics – India
  102. Meng Sun – CIERA, Northwestern University
  103. Darsan Swaroop Bellie – CIERA, Northwestern University
  104. Hiromichi Tagawa – National Observatory of Japan – Japan
  105. Tabassum Tanvir – The Australian National University – Australia
  106. Stefano Torniamenti – University of Padova – Italy
  107. Alessandro Trani – Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – Denmark
  108. Ryan Urquhart – Michigan State University
  109. Enrico Vesperini – Indiana University Bloomington
  110. Eduardo Vitral – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
  111. Pavan Vynatheya – Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) – Germany
  112. Laura Watkins – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
  113. Newlin Weatherford – CIERA, Northwestern University
  114. Grzegorz Wiktorowicz – Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) – Poland
  115. Henriette Wirth – Charles University of Prague – Czechia
  116. Claire Ye – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto – Canada
  117. Rachel Zhang – CIERA, Northwestern University
  118. Claire Zwicker – Illinois Institute of Technology

 

 

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