Invited Talks and Presentations
Monday, February 28, Session 1: Solar System Science
Margaret Meixner (USRA/SOFIA)
Welcome
Dariusz Lis (JPL)
Solar System Science: Recent Highlights from SOFIA and ALMA
Zoie Telkamp (University of Virginia)
The SOMA Survey — Probing Massive Star Formation Across Galactic Environments
Ramsey Karim (UMD)
The Pillars of Creation in CII
Michael Grudic (Carnegie Observatories)
The Dynamics and Outcome of Star Formation with Jets, Winds, Radiation, and Supernovae in Concert
Tuesday, March 1, Session 2: Massive Star Formation and Feedback
Nicola Schneider (University of Bordeaux)
The ISM of Galaxies
Maitraiyee Tiwari (UMD)
Understanding the Effects of Stellar FEEDBACK in RCW 49 using Observations and Models
Lars Bonne (SOFIA/USRA
The Impact of Stellar Feedback in the Vela C Molecular Cloud
Cornelia Pabst (Leiden)
To Bubble or not to Bubble: Stellar Feedback in Orion and 30 Doradus
Jonathan Tan (Chalmers Univ. & Univ. of Virginia)
Open Questions in Massive Star Formation
Jaeyeon Kim (Heidelberg University)
From Cloud Assembly to Embedded Stars and HII Regions
Tuesday, March 1, Session 3: The Diffuse and Translucent ISM
Mathew Orr (Rutgers)
Bursting Bubbles: Feedback from Clustered SNe and the Trade-off Between Turbulence and Outflows
Daniela Calzetti (UMASS)
Linking Dust Attenuation to Dust Emission
David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins University)
Probing Diffuse and Translucent Clouds with Interstellar Hydrides
Paul Goldsmith (JPL)
FIR Fine Structure Line Observations
Arshia Jacob (JHU)
HyGAL: Characterizing the Galactic ISM with Observations of Hydrides and other Small Molecules — First Results
Susan Clark (Stanford)
The Diffuse and Translucent Interstellar Medium
Yuguang Chen (UCD)
Accurate Chemical Abundance Measurements from SOFIA and KCWI
Eric Becklin
The Early Years of Developing SOFIA—1996 to 2011 & The Science Future
Wednesday, March 2, Session 4: Disks
Ted Bergin (Michigan)
The Evolving ALMA Perspective on the Chemistry and Physics of Planet-Forming Disks
Jialu Li (UMD)
High-Resolution Mid-IR Spectroscopy towards the Massive Young Stellar Binary W3 IRS 5
Adwin Boogert (IRTF/IFA)
A High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopic Survey of the Inner Regions of Massive Young Stellar Objects
Valentin Le Gouellec (SOFIA/USRA)
Constraining the Dust Grain Alignment Mechanism(s) Responsible for the (Sub-)millimeter Dust Polarization Observed in Class 0 Protostellar Cores
Nienke van der Marel (Leiden University)
The impact and origin of dust gaps in planet-forming disks
Nick Indriolo (STSci)
A Multi-Wavelength Perspective of the Massive Protostar AFGL 2136 IRS 1
Wednesday, March 2, Session 5: Role of B-field in Star Forrmation
Thushara Pillai (Boston University)
The Role of B-Fields in Star Formation
Shuo Kong (U Arizona)
Dense Gas Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection
Alejandro Borlaff (NASA Ames)
The Multiphase Spiral Magnetic Field of M51
Enrique Lopez Rodriguez (KIPAC/Stanford)
Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA: First Results of the Legacy Program
Dariusz Lis (JPL)
Magnetic Field Geometry and Gas Kinematics in NGC2024
Dennis Lee (NWU)
SOFIA/HAWC+ Polarimetry in L1688: Relative Orientation of Magnetic Field and Elongated Cloud Structure
Dylan Paré (U Iowa)
Exploring the Galactic Center Magnetic Field at High Spatial Resolutions at Both Radio and Infrared Wavelengths
Thursday, March 3, Session 6: Return of Materials to ISM (Evolved Stars)
Raghvendra Sahai (JPL)
The Extraordinary Deaths of Ordinary Stars: Binarity and the AGB-to-PN Transformation
Jeremy Chastenet (Gent University)
Dust Properties in the Crab Nebula: Constraints from Infrared Emission Polarisation
Mark Siebert (UVA)
Searching for Diatomic Hydrides in the Winds of Evolved Stars
B-G Andersson (SOFIA/USRA)
Polarization in the Envelopes of IRC+10216 and IK Tau — From Optical to Sub-mm
Thursday, March 3, Session 7: The Nearby Ecosystems
Jessica Sutter (USRA/SOFIA)
Environmental Dependence of [CII] Emission in Ringed Galaxy NGC 7331
Vicente Villanueva (UMD)
The Effect of the Virgo Environment on the Molecular Gas and Star Formation Efficiency in VERTICO Galaxies
Laura Lenkic (USRA/SOFIA)
CO Excitation and Turbulence in High-z Main Sequence Analogues
Fiorella Polles (USRA/SOFIA)
The Electron Density Distribution in the Low-Metallicity Environment of IC10
Molly Finn (UVA)
Physical Conditions in the LMC’s Quiescent Molecular Ridge
Adam Leroy (OSU)
Infrared opportunities in the era of cloud-scale CO, IFU-based metallicity maps, and hyper-detailed HI surveys
Elizabeth Tarantino (UMD)
Modeling Ionized Gas at Low Metallicities: The Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula N76
Jens Kauffmann (MIT)
LEGO: Galaxy Ecosystems from Wide-Field Line Mapping at Millimeter Waves
Friday, March 4, Session 8: Future Opportunities
Margaret Meixner (SOFIA/USRA)
SOFIA Roadmap
Anthony Remijan (NRAO)
ALMA 2030 Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU)
Bernhard Schulz (DSI, Univ. Stuttgart)
German/European Instrument Effort
Flash Talks (Poster)
Steven Goldman (SOFIA/USRA)
SOFIA and HST Multi-wavelength study
of the Symbiotic Mira HM Sge
Ümit Kavak (SOFIA/USRA)
Breaking Orion's Veil with fossil outflows
Marc Pound (UMD)
The PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox
Skarleth M. Motiño Flores (SOFIA/USRA)
Definition and Characterization of Local Analogs to High-z Galaxies
Tatiana M. Rodríguez (NMT)
Searching for Jet Tracers in High-Mass Star-Forming Regions
Blake Drechsler (UV)
Massive Star Clusters from Colliding Giant Molecular Clouds
Ronald H. Freeman
Cubesat-based Infrared Lunar Astronomy: Water-ice Signatures