2021 APO Science Symposium - held virtually on July 26-28, 2021

The APO Science Symposium highlights scientific and/or educational results from the ARC 3.5m and/or ARCSAT telescopes.

Schedule

Overview

Daily synchronous sessions via Zoom. These sessions will be 3 - 4 hours long (with breaks), and will be held from ~10:00 to 14:00/15:00 MDT. The talks will be recorded and uploaded to the 2021 APO Science Symposium Youtube channel after the symposium is over.

UTC EDT MDT Monday Tuesday Wednesday
26 July 2021 27 July 2021 28 July 2021
Stars Minor Bodies & Moons Quasars
16:00-16:15 12:00-12:15 10:00-10:15 Morris McKay Choi
16:15-16:30 12:15-12:30 10:15-10:30 Bally DeColibus Pasquini
16:30-16:45 12:30-12:45 10:30-10:45 Reggiani Sharov Larson
16:45-17:00 12:45-13:00 10:45-11:00 Jackiewicz Chanover Werk
17:00-17:15 13:00-13:15 11:00-11:15 BREAK BREAK BREAK
Active Galactic Nuclei Suns & Planets Active Stars
17:15-17:30 13:15-13:30 11:15-11:30 Terndrup Buzasi Miller
17:30-17:45 13:30-13:45 11:30-11:45 Robinson Kovac Schutte
17:45-18:00 13:45-14:00 11:45-12:00 Meena Dahl Notsu
18:00-18:15 14:00-14:15 12:00-12:15 Prescott BREAK Kowalski
18:15-18:30 14:15-14:30 12:15-12:30 BREAK BREAK BREAK
18:30-19:00 14:30-15:00 12:30-13:00 POSTERS POSTERS POSTERS
Instrumentation Time Domain Astronomy Galaxies
19:00-19:15 15:00-15:15 13:00-13:15 Tuttle Bell Hughes
19:15-19:30 15:15-15:30 13:15-13:30 Tran DerKacy Croom
19:30-19:45 15:30-15:45 13:30-13:45 Kadlec Graham Bizyaev
19:45-20:00 15:45-16:00 13:45-14:00 Buzasi Bellm Sanderson
20:00-21:00 16:00-17:00 14:00-15:00 Topical Interests/Social Topical Interests/Social Wrap-Up (10 min.)
Chanover

Small changes in scheduling could still happen. Check back here.

Social meeting / poster session

We will host three 30-minute virtual Poster Sessions (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 12:30-13:00 MDT) in addition to two social/topical gatherings (Monday and Tuesday from 14:00-15:00 MDT). These events will be hosted using Gather.Town, a virtual environment that runs in your web browser with a 90’s video game feel. The link to join this virtual meeting space will be circulated to registered attendees. Gather.Town allows attendees to walk around a virtual meeting space, play games, and video chat with those nearby. Numerous virtual conferences have used it and we think it provides a fun way of capturing that “bumping into colleagues” aspect of conferences that is lacking in Zoom sessions. See the poster page for more details on the poster session.

Talks on Monday

Contributed talks are 15 minutes long, including short Q&A's using the chair to moderate questions from the chat. See above for the timing of talks and breaks.

Talks on Tuesday

Contributed talks are 15 minutes long, including short Q&A's using the chair to moderate questions from the chat. See above for the timing of talks and breaks.

Talks on Wednesday

Contributed talks are 15 minutes long, including short Q&A's using the chair to moderate questions from the chat. See above for the timing of talks and breaks.