50 years of Binaries and Discs: Lubow@75



Stephen Lubow will be turning 75 in May 2024. To honor his contribution to the field, we are putting on this conference "50 years of Binaries and Disks: Lubow@75". The conference will be held at UNLV, from May 6th to May 9th, 2024. It is a 4 day conference including half a day of free time. The topics of the conference will focus on those in which Steve has made important contributions, including disks in binaries, MHD disk winds, warped disks, planet-disk interactions, disk outbursts, etc.

Organizing Committee

The Scientific Organizing Committee is Zhaohuan Zhu, Rebecca Martin, Phil Armitage, Kaitlin Kratter, Douglas N.C. Lin and Gordon Ogilvie.

The Local Organizing Committee is Zhaohuan Zhu, Rebecca Martin, Stephen Lepp, Avery Bailey, David Vallet and Yihan Wang.

When and Where

The conference will be at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from May 6th to May 9th, 2024. The closest airport is the Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) which is just 5 minutes away.

The conference will be held in the Barrick Art Museum which is located in the middle of UNLV campus. It is most easily accessed from the west side of campus entering on East Harmon Ave heading east. The road ends in a parking lot adjacent to the museum.

Registration Instructions

Please register for the conference before March 10. There are two steps to registration:
1) The conference fee ($250 including conference dinner or $150 without dinner) can be paid here.
2) Please fill out the following form to submit your title and abstract and sign up for the conference dinner.

Accommodations

If you would like a hotel within easy walking distance of the conference, then the Hyatt Place Las Vegas and the Alexis Park Resort are both conveniently located on East Harmon just west of the University. Otherwise, Las Vegas has large variety of hotels within easy driving distance to the University.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be on the 6th of May, provisionally at the Stratosphere. The cost is included in the registration fee.

Activities

Wednesday afternoon will be free to do whatever you like. There are many activites in the Las Vegas area, some of which are listed here.

Participants

Confirmed participants include:

Daniel Godines
Phil Armitage
Matthew Bate
Konstantin Batygin
Xue-Ning Bai
Avery Bailey
Stanley A. Baronett
Thomas Baycroft
Adolfo Carvalho
Cheng Chen
Zhuo Chen
Anna Childs
Jiayin Dong
Ruobing Dong
Daniel Fabrycky
Callum Fairbairn
Alessia Franchini
Jeffrey Fung
Lee Hartmann
Shunquan Huang
Xiao Hu
Eric Jensen
Yan-Fei Jiang
Ted Johnson
Kaitlin Kratter
Eve J Lee
Geoffroy Lesur
Doug Lin
Wladimir Lyra
Robert Mathieu
Diego Munoz
Rebecca Nealon
Chris Nixon
Gordon Ogilvie
Madeline Overton
Cory Padgett
Daniel Price
Daniel Proga
Ian Rabago
Roman Rafikov
Danilo Rodriguez
Jake Simon
Jeremy Smallwood
Arturo Soto
Hai-Yang Wang
Yihan Wang
Bill Welsh
Chao-Chin Yang
Andrew Youdin
JJ Zanazzi
Shangjia Zhang


Conference Program


Here is the conference program..