Conferences & Workshops

Bringing together researchers from around the world, CIERA hosts and supports a variety of conferences, workshops, and meetings. These events foster the exchange of ideas and promote innovation across all areas of astrophysics.

Topics include:

Dense stellar systems
Extreme solar systems
Binaries
Black holes
General relativity
Telescope science & big data
Supernovae
Circumgalactic medium

	2023 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Conference Organizers: Giacomo Fragione, Others December 2 – 5, 2023 San Pedro, Belize
	NASA International Space Apps Challenge – Chicago 2023 Organizers: Shane Larson, Madeline Wilson, Others October 7 – October 8, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	MODEST-23: Star Clusters in the Post-Pandemic Era Organizers: Elena Gonzalez Prieto, Newlin Weatherford, Giacomo Fragione, Others August 28 – September 1, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	Zooniverse Organizers: Laura Trouille, Others August 14, 15 and 17, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	Astro Imaging Workshop Organizers: Jason Wang, Emma Alexander, Others July 31, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	Code/Astro Organizers: Jason Wang, Sarah Blunt, Others July 10 – 14, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting Organizers: Zoheyr Doctor, Vicky Kalogera, Others March 13 – 16, 2023 Evanston, IL, USA
	2023 Aspen Winter Conference Organizers: CIERA & Aspen Center for Physics March 5 – 10, 2023 Aspen, Colorado
	ALMA Data Reduction Workshop Organizer: Tarraneh Eftekhari October 28, 2022 Evanston, IL, USA
	2022 SEDMV2 & ZTF Collaboration Meetings Organizer: Adam Miller October 18 – 21, 2022 Evanston, IL, USA
	LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program Organizers: Adam Miller & Lucianne Walkowicz September 20 – 23, 2022 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	2022 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Conference Organizers: Giacomo Fragione & Fred Rasio April 30 – May 3, 2022 San Juan, Puerto Rico
	ALMA Community Day Organizer: Tarraneh Eftekhari April 1, 2022 Evanston, IL, USA
	Dynamical Formation of Gravitational Wave Sources Organizers: CIERA & Aspen Center for Physics January 2 – 7, 2022 Aspen, CO
	TRiple EvolutioN and DYnamics 3 Organizers: Giacomo Fragione & Fred Rasio March 22 – 25, 2021 Virtual Workshop
	NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting Organizers: Vicky Kalogera & Michelle Paulsen September 25 – 27, 2019 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe Organizer: Raffaella Margutti August 19 – 22, 2019 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Extreme Solar Systems IV Organizers: Doug Lin & Fred Rasio August 19 – 23, 2019 Reykjavik, Iceland
	American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics Organizers: Wen-fai Fong & Zosia Krusberg January 18 – 20, 2019 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program Organizers: Adam Miller & Lucianne Walkowicz November 4 – 11, 2018 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Circumgalactic Medium Workshop Organizers: Jonathan Stern & Claude-André Faucher-Giguère July 30 – August 3, 2018 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	12th International LISA Symposium Organizers: Shane Larson & Fred Rasio July 8 – 13, 2018 Chicago, Illinois, USA
	MODEST-18: Dense Stellar Systems in the Era of GAIA, LIGO & LISA Organizers: Andrea Ghez & Fred Rasio June 25 – 29, 2018 Santorini, Greece
	ALMA Community Day Organizer: Deanne Coppejans March 29, 2018 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Supernovae: The LSST Revolution Organizers: Vicky Kalogera, Raffaella Margutti, and Michael Schmitt May 31 – June 2, 2017 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanets Organizers: Katherine Deck, Eric Ford, Fred Rasio, and Hilke Schlichting March 26 – April 1, 2017 Aspen, Colorado, USA
	Fellows at the Frontiers Organizer: Fred Rasio August 31 – September 2, 2016 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program Organizers: Adam Miller & Lucianne Walkowicz August 1 – 5, 2016 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Extreme Solar Systems III Organizers: Michel Mayor & Fred Rasio November 29 – December 4, 2015 Big Island, Hawaii, USA
	Midwest Relativity Meeting – General Relativity Centennial Session Organizers: David Garfinkle, Vicky Kalogera, Shane Larson, and Robert M. Wald October 1 – 3, 2015 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters Organizers: Laura Chomiuk, Andrea Ghez, Vicky Kalogera, Fred Rasio, and Steinn Sigurdsson January 17 – 22, 2015 Aspen, Colorado, USA
	The Physics of Astronomical Transients 2012 Aspen, Colorado, USA
	Exoclimes 2012 Aspen, Colorado, USA
	Extreme Solar Systems II Organizer: Fred Rasio September 11 – 17, 2011 Moran, Wyoming, USA
	CIERA’s Inaugural Conference: The Future of Astronomy Organizers: Nick Cowan, Will Farr, Evghenii Gaburov, Aaron Geller, Daryl Haggard, Smadar Naoz, Laura Trouille August 31 – September 3, 2011 Evanston, Illinois, USA
	International Conference on Binaries Organizers: Vicky Kalogera, Nick Kylafis, and Andreas Zezas June 22 – 25, 2010 Mykonos, Greece
	Extreme Solar Systems Organizers: Fred Rasio, John Seiradakis, and Alex Wolszczan June 25 – 29, 2007 Santorini, Greece
	MODEST-6 (MOdeling DEnse STellar systems) Organizers: Craig Heinke, Natasha Ivanova, and Fred Rasio August 29 – 31, 2005 Evanston, Illinois, USA