Monday, Aug. 28

Check-in and Badge Pickup (8:00 – 8:45 am)

Opening Remarks (8:45 – 9:00 am)

• Giacomo Fragione (Welcome) and Newlin Weatherford + Elena González Prieto (Logistics)

I. Star Cluster Modeling (9:00 – 10:30 am) – Session Chair: Giacomo Fragione

• 9:00 am: Sambaran Banerjee – Direct N-body Simulation of Star Clusters in the Post-Pandemic Era
• 9:22 am: Rainer Spurzem – Nuclear and Globular Star Clusters, Black Holes and Tidal Disruption Events
• 9:44 am: Arkadiusz Hypki – Properties of Tidally Filling and Underfilling Star Clusters with Multiple Stellar Populations
• 10:06 am: Newlin Weatherford – CMC and Escape From Globular Clusters

Morning Coffee and Snacks (10:30 – 11:15 am)

II. Galactic Archeology I (11:15 – 12:30 am) – Session Chair: Laura Watkins

• 11:15 am: Tomás Cabrera – Runaway and Hypervelocity Stars From Compact Object Encounters in Globular Clusters
• 11:33 am: Steffani Grondin – Rebels Without a Cluster: A New Catalogue of Simulated Extra-tidal Stars and Binaries of Milky Way Globular Clusters
• 11:51 am: Jan Pflamm-Altenburg – Evolution of Open Star Clusters in Direct N-body Milgrom-Law-Dynamics
• 12:09 pm: Tjitske Starkenburg – Globular Cluster Stellar Streams Beyond the Milky Way

Lunch Break (12:30 – 2:15 pm)

III. Star Cluster Formation I – Session Chair: Alison Sills

• 2:18 pm: Katja Fahrion – The Formation of Nuclear Star Clusters in the Context of Galaxy Evolution and Star Cluster Systems
• 2:36 pm: Juan Farias – STARFORGE Clusters: Origin and Evolution of Star Clusters and Associations
• 2:54 pm: Alessandro Della Croce – On the Early Kinematics of Star Clusters
• 3:12 pm: Prasanta Kumar Nayak – Probing the Formation Histories of NSCs in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster Using UVIT

Afternoon Coffee and Snacks (3:30 – 4:15 pm)

IV. Panel Discussion: Cluster Formation and Galactic Archeology (4:15 – 5:30 pm)

• Panelists: Andrea Bellini, Emanuele Dalessandro, Pavel Kroupa, Tjitske Starkenburg

Tuesday, Aug. 29

I. X-ray Binaries (9:00 – 10:30 am) – Session Chair: Jay Strader

• 9:00 am: Craig Heinke – MAVERIC Deep Radio Imaging of Globular Clusters
• 9:18 am: Esha Kundu – The MAVERIC Survey: Nature of Compact Objects in Globular Clusters M22 and M4
• 9:36 am: Grzegorz Wiktorowicz – Unraveling the Mysteries of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources: Insights from Globular Cluster Dynamics
• 9:54 am: Ugo Nicololò Di Carlo – The Dynamical Formation of Gaia Black Holes
• 10:12 am: Kyle Rocha – Modeling Galactic Be X-ray Binaries With POSYDON

Morning Coffee and Snacks (10:30 – 11:15 am)

II. Transients (11:15 – 12:30 am) – Session Chair: Smadar Naoz

• 11:15 am: Kyle Kremer – Fast Radio Bursts in Globular Clusters: Formation Scenarios, Prospects for Future Detections, and a Connection With Young Pulsars in the Milky Way
• 11:33 am: Scott Ransom – The Third (and Biggest Yet) Wave of Globular Cluster Pulsars
• 11:51 am: Claire Ye – Where Are Their Companions? Isolated Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
• 12:09 pm: Ryan Urquhart – New Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsars in Terzan 5

Lunch Break (12:30 – 2 pm)

III. Gravitational Wave Sources (2:00 – 3:30 pm) – Session Chair: Zoheyr Doctor

• 2:00 pm: Maya Fishbach – Inferring Globular Cluster Properties With Gravitational Waves
• 2:18 pm: Stefano Torniamenti – Star Clusters and the Nursery of Binary Black Holes
• 2:36 pm: Alessandro Trani – Three-Body Encounters in Black Hole Disks
• 2:54 pm: Chase Kimball – Hierarchical Mergers in the 3rd LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Catalog
• 3:12 pm: Zoheyr Doctor – The Population of Remnant Black Holes From Stellar-mass Black Hole Mergers

Afternoon Coffee and Snacks (3:30 – 4:15 pm)

IV. Poster Flash (4:15 – 5:30 pm) – Session Chairs: Elena González Prieto + Newlin Weatherford

Posters and Pizza (5:30 – 7 pm)

Wednesday, Aug. 30

I. Galactic Archeology II (9:00 – 10:30 am) – Session Chair: Sambaran Banerjee

• 9:00 am: Laura Watkins – Energy Equipartition in Galactic Globular Clusters
• 9:18 am: Yingtian “Bill” Chen – Modeling the Kinematics of Globular Cluster Systems
• 9:36 am: Doug Geisler – Galactic Archeology With Bulge Globular Clusters
• 9:54 am: Ting Li – Milky Way’s Least-massive Satellites: Ultra-faint Globular Clusters or Extremely Compact Dwarf Galaxies?
• 10:12 am: Emma Dodd – ED-2: A New Progenitor-less Stream in the Local Halo

Morning Coffee and Snacks (10:30 – 11:15 am)

II. Massive Black Holes I (11:15 – 12:30 am) – Session Chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

• 11:15 am: Francisco Aros – The Radial Variation of the Degree of Energy Equipartition in Globular Clusters With and Without Massive Central Objects
• 11:33 am: Elena González Prieto – Formation of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters: The Role of the Initial Mass Function and High-mass Binary Fraction
• 11:51 am: Samuel Bonsor – Black Holes in Dense Stellar Systems
• 12:09 pm: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann – IMBH Pair Dynamics in Nuclear Star Clusters with a Dark Stellar Mass Black Hole Component

Lunch Break and Informal Activities (12:30 – 5 pm)

Lakefront Banquet and Bonfire (5 – 8 pm)

Thursday, Aug. 31

I. Stellar and Black Hole Populations (9:00 – 10:30 am) – Session Chair: Fabio Antonini

• 9:00 am: Barbara Lanzoni – News from the Blue Straggler World
• 9:18 am: Eduardo Vitral – When Hénon Meets Jeans: Combining Different Techniques to Unveil the Dark Core of Globular Clusters
• 9:36 am: Nolan Dickson – Multimass Modelling of Milky Way Globular Clusters: Inferences on Present-day Black Hole Populations
• 9:54 am: Daniel Marín Pina – Dynamical Binary Black Hole Formation and Disruption: Implications for Gravitational Waves
• 10:12 am: Oliver Anagnostou – Dynamically Formed Black Hole Binaries in Star Clusters: New Stellar Evolution and Post-merger Remnant Prescriptions

Morning Coffee and Snacks (10:30 – 11:15 am)

II. Tidal Disruption Events (11:15 – 12:30 am) – Session Chair: Frederic Rasio

• 11:15 am: James Lombardi – Hydrodynamics of Encounters Between Black Holes and Main-sequence Stars in Dense Star Clusters
• 11:33 am: Fulya Kıroğlu – Black Hole Accretion and Spin-up Through Collisions in Young Massive Star Clusters
• 11:51 am: Taeho Ryu – Importance of Hydrodynamics in Three-body Interactions Between Stars and Black Holes
• 12:09 pm: Pavan Vynatheya – What Happens After a Cluster Star is Partially Disrupted by a Stellar-mass Black Hole?

Lunch Break (12:30 – 2 pm)

III. Massive Black Holes II (2:00 – 3:30 pm) – Session Chair: Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta

• 2:00 pm: Smadar Naoz – It’s Raining Black Holes… Hallelujah!
• 2:18 pm: Abbas Askar – Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Intermediate-mass Black Holes Delivered via Infalling Stellar Clusters
• 2:36 pm: Debatri Chattopadhyay – Double Black Hole Hierarchical Mergers and Intermediate-mass Black Holes
• 2:54 pm: Andrés Escala – A Scenario for Direct MBH Formation Driven by Runaway Stellar Collisions in NSCs
• 3:12 pm: Vladimir Strokov – LISA Constraints on an Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Galactic Center

Afternoon Coffee and Snacks (3:30 – 4:15 pm)

IV. Panel Discussion: Compact Objects and Gravitational Wave Sources (4:15 – 5:30 pm)

• Panelists: Fabio Antonini, Maya Fishbach, Monica Gallegos-Garcia, Carl Rodriguez

Tour Dearborn Observatory (8 – 9:30 pm)

Friday, Sept. 1

I. Star Cluster Formation II (9:00 – 10:30 am) – Session Chair: Enrico Vesperini

• 9:00 am: Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier – The Evolution of Binary Populations and Cluster Structure During Star Cluster Formation
• 9:18 am: Jeremy Karam – Modeling Young Massive Cluster Formation: Mergers and Gas Accretion
• 9:36 am: Alison Sills – Implications and Impact of Binary Star Formation During Star Cluster Formation
• 9:54 am: Aleksey Generozov – Binary Formation and Evolution via Gas-assisted Capture
• 10:12 am: Alexey Bobrick – Imprints of Gas on Compact Binary Populations in Globular Clusters

Morning Coffee and Snacks (10:30 – 11:15 am)

II. Binaries (11:15 – 12:30 am) – Session Chair: Vicky Kalogera

• 11:15 am: Meng Sun – The Effects and Application of Wind Roche-lobe Overflow in Detailed Modeling of Binary Stellar Evolution
• 11:33 am: Miriam Ramos Arevalo – Searching for Ultracompact White Dwarf Binaries in Globular Clusters
• 11:51 am: Poojan Agrawal – Looking at Single and Binary Populations Through the Lens of Massive Stellar Evolution

Lunch Break (12:15 – 2 pm)

III. Stellar Initial Mass Function and Globular Cluster Dynamics (2:00 – 3:30 pm) – Session Chair: Pavel Kroupa

• 2:00 pm: Enrico Vesperini – Dynamical Evolution of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters
• 2:18 pm: Vincent Hénault-Brunet – New Constraints on the Stellar Initial Mass Function of Globular Clusters
• 2:36 pm: Henriette Wirth – Quantifying the Number of Supernovae From Iron Abundance Spreads in Globular Clusters
• 2:54 pm: Mike Grudić – Reverse-engineering the IMF by Forging Stars in Simulations
• 3:12 pm: Tabassum Tanvir – Environmental Dependence of the Low-mass IMF

Afternoon Coffee and Snacks (3:30 – 4:15 pm)

IV. Numerical Methods (4:15 – 5:30 pm) – Session Chair: Rainer Spurzem

• 4:15 pm: Paolo Bianchini – Measuring the Dynamical Mass of Globular Clusters With a Deep-learning Framework
• 4:33 pm: Simon Rozier – The Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters With Anisotropic Kinematics
• 4:51 pm: Yongseok Jo – Evolution of Star Clusters Using Self-consistent Hydro and N-body Dynamics
• 5:09 pm: Pierfrancesco Di Cintio – Multiparticle-Collision Simulations of Dense Stellar Systems

Closing Remarks (5:30 – 5:45 pm)

Talk Abstracts

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Venue Floorplans

1st Floor: Talks

2nd Floor: Posters, breakout space, lactation room, storage