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Bringing Astronomers Together at National and International Meetings

Conferences & Workshops

Bringing Astronomers Together at National and International Meetings

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 Logo

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

When Worlds Collide

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

 

Recent Visitors

Andrey Kravtsov

University of Chicago

06/05/2024 - 06/05/2024

Host: Joint NU-UChicago galaxy formation meeting

Programs: Conferences & Workshops

Nick Gnedin

University of Chicago

06/05/2024 - 06/05/2024

Host: Joint NU-UChicago galaxy formation meeting

Programs: Conferences & Workshops

Harley Katz

University of Chicago

06/05/2024 - 06/05/2024

Host: Joint NU-UChicago galaxy formation meeting

Programs: Conferences & Workshops