Meredith Hughes

UC Berkeley

Protoplanetary disks and planet formation

Simon Albrecht

MIT

Extrasolar Planets

Michel Nuevo

NASA Ames Research Center

Astrobiology and solar system chemistry

Patrick Lenz

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Stellar Pulsations

Elizabeth Jeffery

James Madison University

Late-type compact objects

Matt Povich

Penn State

ISM/HII Regions

Stephanie Tonnesen

Princeton

Environmentally-Driven Galaxy Evolution

Eilat Glikman

Yale

Quasars

Kevin Schawinski

Yale

Black Hole Galaxy Coevolution

Kristian Finlator

UC Santa Barbara

Reionization

John Wise

Georgia Tech

First Light

Annika Peter

UC Irvine

Dark Matter

Mustafa Amin

MIT

Inflation and the Early Universe

Mike Kesden

New York University

Black hole mergers

Sarah Tuttle

University of Texas at Austin

HETDEX/GMT

Fritz Benedict

University of Texas at Austin

Banquet Speaker