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Join Us at the AAS Winter Meeting!

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Date
January 14th - 15th, 2025
Time
2:00 PM
Location
National Harbor, Maryland, USA
Category
Conference

Join Us at the AAS Winter Meeting!

The NRAO and the ngVLA project are pleased to invite all AAS 245 attendees to the splinter sessions below. The AAS 245 venue is the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, USA. To broaden information sharing, each talk title will eventually be linked to its presentation material.

The Next-Generation VLA: Update and Community Forum, AAS Session 183, Tuesday, January 14, 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET, Maryland Ballroom B 

  • Alberto Bolatto (University of Maryland), Key Science Goals for the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA): Update from the ngVLA Science Advisory Council (2024)
  • Eric Murphy (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), Update on the ngVLA Project
  • Alessandra Corsi (Johns Hopkins University) & Joe Lazio (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Update on the VLA/VLBA to ngVLA Transition
  • These talks will be followed by ample time for audience input.

Exploring the Radio Sky with the DSA-2000 and the ngVLA, AAS Session 216, Wednesday, January 15, 9:30 - 11:00 AM ET, Maryland 1-2

  • Gregg Hallinan & Vikram Ravi (Caltech), DSA-2000 Project Overview
  • Tony Beasely & Eric Murphy (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), ngVLA Project Overview
  • Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington), Lessons from Rubin-LSST Preparations
  • Rachel Akeson (Caltech), The Future of Archiving
  • Alessandra Corsi (Johns Hopkins University), Multi-Messenger Interfacing
  • Thankful Cromartie (Cornell University), Science Synergies between the DSA-2000 and the ngVLA: Pulsars
  • Liam Connor (Harvard University), Science Synergies between the DSA-2000 and the ngVLA: Strong Lensing + FRBs (TBC)
  • These talks will be followed by ample time for audience input.

Fundamental Physics and New Messengers, AAS Session 194 , Wednesday, January 15, 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET, Maryland Ballroom B

  • Paul Demorest (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), Sgr A* and Its Neighbors: Fundamental Physics with Galactic Center Pulsars
  • Thankful Cromartie (Cornell University), Probing the Extremes of Physical Laws with Pulsars
  • Joe Lazio (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ground- and Space-Based Long Baseline Interferometry
  • Jessie Runnoe (Vanderbilt University), Nanohertz Gravitational Waves and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts

The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) is a development project of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). NRAO is a facility of the National Science Foundation (NSF) operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This material is based upon work supported by the NSF under Grant No. AST-1519126. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.