BashFest 2017 Speakers

Nicole Estefania Cabrera Salazar, AAS/Georgia State University
Beyond Outreach: How to Retain People of Color in Astronomy

Gregory Mosby, NASA Goddard
Recent Developments in Near Infrared Instrumentation

Samantha Lawler, NRC-Herzberg
The Structure of the Kuiper Belt from Observations and Simulations: Understanding our Solar System’s Architecture

Nienke van der Marel, University of Hawaii
The ALMA Revolution of Planet Formation: Structures of Gas and Dust in Planet-Forming Disks

Andrew Mann, UT Austin/Columbia University
Tracing Planetary Evolution from Formation to Maturity

Johanna Teske, Carnegie Observatories
Exoplanet Genetics: What Host Star Chemical Abundances Reveal about Exoplanets

Sebastian Kamann,  University of Goetiingen
A Land of Confusion: Spectroscopy in the Heart of Globular Clusters

Rachael Beaton, Carnegie Observatories
Engineering a 1% Measure of the Hubble Constant from the Distance Ladder

Coral Wheeler, Caltech
Sweating the Small Stuff: Solving Small-Scale Challenges to LCDM with Dwarf Galaxy Simulations at the High Resolution Limit

Vivian U, University of California, Riverside
Galactic Collisions: The Growth and Merger of Supermassive Black Holes

Myongwon Jeon, University of Arizona
Formation of the First Galaxies and their Connection to Local Dwarfs

Marius Millea,  Institut Lagrange de Paris
The Planck Results and Cosmic Concordance