The Universe From Smallest To Largest

Friday, October 4, 2013: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
208 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Chair:
Jesús Pando, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, DePaul University

Description: New observations of the universe have caused a revolution in modern astrophysics. That revolution has merged previously separate fields of physics in order to fully understand new results. This session will present examples of this merging as we present new findings from the smallest scales to the largest.

Sponsored by: by the National Society of Hispanic Physicists



10:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:20 AM
Studying Star and Planet Formation With the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Héctor G. Arce, PhD , Associate Professor , Yale University
10:40 AM
The Light Side of Dark Matter:Luminous Convolution Model
Sophia Inzunza-Cisneros, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , MIT
11:00 AM
Origins: The Dark Universe
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , MIT
11:20 AM