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Presentation Time Breakdown:
24 minutes = 21 minutes for presentation + 3 minutes for questions
16 minutes = 14 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for questions
Tuesday, April 7
Start (MST)
Time
Speaker
Title
9:00
8m
Grant Williams
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:08
24m
Nelson Caldwell
24 years of Hectospec and Hectochelle data
9:32
16m
Philip Massey
How the MMT Has Helped Us Learn About Massive Stars
9:48
16m
Warren Brown
ELM White Dwarf Survey
10:04
16m
Sanchayeeta Borthakur
MMT Observations of Gas Distribution and Flows in Galaxies
10:20
30m
Coffee Break
10:50
24m
Matt Walker (remote)
Dark Matter in the Smallest Galaxies
11:14
24m
Andy Szentgyorgyi (remote)
Hectochelle (2003-2026)
11:38
16m
Brad Koplitz
Hectochelle Finds Cold Gas in a Unique CGM System
11:54
16m
Rebecca Woody
The Rapid Formation of the Metal-poor Milky Way
12:10
1h20m
Lunch (Provided)
13:30
24m
Ana Bonaca
The H3 Survey
13:54
16m
Chang Liu
Unveiling the progenitor demographics of Type Ia supernovae using their first to last photons
14:10
16m
Wasundara Athukoralalage
A Rare Population of Double-Peaked Long-Duration Type IIn Supernovae
14:26
16m
Jason Young
Supernova ATLAS25msz in Rubin's Galaxy
14:42
16m
Raphael Baer-Way
Binospec insights into core-collapse supernovae
14:58
32m
Coffee Break
15:30
24m
Jeniveve Pearson
Capturing the Transient Sky with MMT
15:54
16m
Timothy Pickering
Current Status of PypeIt Support for MMTO Spectrographs
16:10
16m
Benjamin Weiner
Queue operations at the MMT: how it works and best practices to get targets observed
16:26
4m
Break
16:30
1h
Sean Moran, Igor Chilingarian
WORKSHOP: observation preparation and data products for Binospec and MMIRS
17:30
End
Day 1 Session 1 Moderator: Ben Weiner
Day 1 Session 2 Moderator: Nelson Caldwell
Day 1 Session 3 Moderator: Dave Sand
Day 1 Session 4 Moderator: Warren Brown
Wednesday, April 8
Start (MST)
Time
Speaker
Title
9:00
24m
Grant Williams
Recent and Upcoming Engineering Activities at the MMT Observatory
9:24
16m
Alexa Gordon
Insights on the Progenitor(s) of Fast Radio Bursts from their Host Galaxy Environments
9:40
16m
Benjamin Weiner
The SAGA survey for satellite galaxies around Milky Way-like hosts
9:56
24m
Brian McLeod
The April 8 2025 Occultation of Uranus
10:20
30m
Coffee Break
10:50
16m
Igor Chilingarian
Binospec IFU: an efficient tool to explore nearby galaxies
11:06
16m
Christopher Willmer
JWST/NIRCam and Binospec/IFU observations of an association of dwarf galaxies in GOODS-N
11:22
16m
Yucheng Guo
Jet-CGM interaction at cosmic noon: an ongoing MMT/Binospec IFU survey of z≈2 radio galaxies
11:38
16m
Benjamin Dodge
Kinetic Tomography with Sodium Absorption in the Plane
11:54
1h36m
Lunch (Provided)
13:30
16m
Alejandro Olvera
Using Metal-Poor Regions as a Tracer of Gas Inflows in Local Star-forming Galaxies
13:46
16m
Jiyun Di
Kinematic Lensing of Galaxy Clusters with MMT
14:02
16m
Warren Brown
Time Allocation and Scheduling
14:18
24m
Don McCarthy
Observatory Design: Breakthroughs from the 6.9m MMT and its Unique Leadership Team
14:42
18m
Open
15:00
3h
JT Williams Celebration
18:00
End
Day 2 Session 1 Moderator: Grant Williams
Day 2 Session 2 Moderator: Dan Fabricant
Day 2 Session 3 Moderator: Tim Pickering
Thursday, April 9
Start (MST)
Time
Speaker
Title
9:00
24m
Charlie Conroy
The Via Project: Survey & Science
9:24
24m
Daniel Fabricant
Jack Piotrowski
The Via Spectrograph and Fiber Positioner: Part I
The Via Spectrograph and Fiber Positioner: Part II
9:48
16m
Abigail White
Fiber Optics for the Viaspec Instrument: Throughput & RV Stability
10:04
16m
Catherine Miller
Assembly, Integration, and Test of the Viaspec Fiber Positioning System
10:20
30m
Coffee Break
10:50
16m
Vedant Chandra
What do stellar streams teach us about dark matter?
11:06
16m
Anya Phillips
Imprints of Cluster Dynamics on Stellar Stream Velocities in Via
11:22
16m
Matthew Werneken
Modeling future observations of the cold gas halo with ViaSpec NaD absorption
11:38
24m
Danielle Frostig
Boombox on the MMT: Creatively Expanding Spectroscopic Capacity
12:02
1h28m
Lunch (Provided)
13:30
12m
Manny Montoya
Next generation exoplanet atmospheric characterization using MAPS: Past and Present
13:42
12m
Krishna Kanumalla
Next generation exoplanet atmospheric characterization using MAPS: Future
13:54
24m
Craig Kulesa
The ARIES infrared spectrometer upgrade for f/15
14:18
16m
Jarron Leisenring
MIRAC-5: A Pathway to Mid-IR AO Imaging and Spectroscopy at the MMT
14:34
26m
Grant Williams
Closing Remarks
15:00
End
Mirror Lab Tours
Day 3 Session 1 Moderator: Grant Williams
Day 3 Session 2 Moderator: Charlie Conroy
Day 3 Session 3 Moderator: Brian McLeod