NRAO and the ngVLA project invite AAS 245 attendees to two splinter sessions, one on Fundamental Physics and New Messengers and another on The next-generation VLA: Update and Community Forum. Dates, times and locations are pending. Check back for news.

Fundamental Physics and New Messengers

• Paul Demorest (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), Sgr A* and Its Neighbors: Fundamental Physics with Galactic Center Pulsars
• Thankful Cromartie (U. S. Naval Research Laboratory), Probing the Extremes of Physical Laws with Pulsars
• Joe Lazio (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ground- and Space-Based Long Baseline Interferometry
• Jeremy Darling (University of Colorado, Boulder), Gravitational Waves and Cosmology with Extragalactic Astrometry
• Megan de Cesar (George Mason University), Nanohertz Gravitational Waves and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts

The next-generation VLA: Update and Community Forum

• Brenda Matthews (National Research Council Canada), 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) and Joe Lazio (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Update on the VLA/VLBA to ngVLA Transition
• Ample opportunity for audience Q&A