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

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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

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Thursday, April 9
Start (MST)	Time	Speaker	Title
9:00	24m	Charlie Conroy	The Via Project: Survey & Science
9:24	24m	Daniel Fabricant	The Via Spectrograph and Fiber Positioner
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		Open
15:00	End	Mirror Lab Tours