Friday, April 25, 2025
Start: 9:00 a.m.
End: 5:30 p.m.
9:00–10:00 a.m. – Poster Session 1 – Coffee – NCSA Atrium/Lobby
- Poster Interactions
- VR Demos
- Advanced Visualization Demos
10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – Session 1: Plenary — Prof. Joaquin Vieira, CAPS Director – NCSA Auditorium
- 10:00 a.m. – Opening Remarks — Prof. Joaquin Vieira, Astronomy/NCSA and Physics
- 10:10 a.m. – Science Talk — “A Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star,” Prof. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Physics
- 10:35 a.m. – Science Talk — “Simulating a galaxy,” Prof. Kirk Barrow, Astronomy
- 11:00 a.m. – Science Talk — “Changing Galaxies,” Prof. Decker French, Astronomy
- 11:25 a.m. – Science Talk — “Visualizing the Universe,” Prof. Matthew Turk, School of Information Sciences and Astronomy
- 11:50 a.m. – Alum Talk — “From the Morrow Plots to the Atacama Desert,” Dr. Phil Jewell, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
- 12:30 p.m. – Closing Remarks
12:35–1:30 p.m. – Lunch – NCSA Atrium/Lobby
1:30–3:00 p.m. – Session 2: Lightning Talks – NCSA Auditorium
3:00–3:05 p.m. – Group Photo – NCSA Atrium/Auditorium
3:05–4:00 p.m. – Poster Session 2 – Coffee – NCSA Atrium/Lobby
- Poster Interactions
- VR Demos
- Advanced Visualization Demos
4:00–5:30 p.m. – Session 3: Parallels
- How to Get Into Grad Schools, Maggie Verrico, U. Illinois – NCSA 1040 (Slides)
- Dr. Veronica Dike, U. Illinois
- Prof. Decker French, U. Illinois
- Thinh Nguyen, U. Illinois
- Padma Venkatraman, U. Illinois
- Life After Grad School, Dr. Kedar Phadke, U. Illinois – NCSA Auditorium
- Dr. Phil Jewell, NRAO
- Dr. Jennifer Li, NCSA
- Dr. Andrew Manning, NCSA
- AI+Astro, Prof. Gautham Narayan, Astronomy/NCSA – NCSA 1030
- Prof. Matias Carrasco Kind, U. Illinois
- Prof. William Moses, U. Illinois
- Prof. Noelle Samia, Northwestern University
- Dr. Laura Trouille, Adler Planetarium (remote)