Program
Astrodynamics: From the classroom to the Cosmos
May 19th-23rd, 2025. Ensenada, Mexico
General Schedule:
- Morning 1: 10:00 – 11:00
- Coffee break: 11:30 – 12:00
- Morning 2: 12:00 – 13:00
- Lunch break: 13:00 – 14:30
- Afternoon 1: 14:30 – 15:40
- Coffee break: 15:40 – 16:10
- Afternoon 2: 16:10 – 17:00
KT: Keynote Talk (25+5 min); CT: Contributed Talk (15+5 min)
Monday – May 19
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 | Welcome: Carlos Roman-Zuñiga SOC co-chair |
| 10:10 | Ángeles Pérez-Villegas, SOC co-chair – Scientific contributions of Luis Aguilar |
| 10:40 | CT: Luis Carrasco – "Luis Aguilar: An exceptional Mexican scientist!" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break + posters |
| 11:30 | KT: Marco Moreno – Los inicios |
| 12:00 | CT: Benjamin Hernández-Valencia – Moving Toward Consolidating the IAE Computing Center: A Brief Overview |
| 12:20 | CT: Ramón Carrillo – The Legacy of Dr. Luis Aguilar in Physics Education at UABC |
| 12:40 | CT: Carlos Roman-Zuñiga – Creation and Development of a Graduate Program in Astrophysics |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | KT: Eugenio R. Méndez – El Taller de Ciencia para Jóvenes en Ensenada (TCJ): part of Luis' legacy |
| 15:00 | CT: Aida Wofford – The Summer School at Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, San Pedro Mártir |
| 15:20 | INAOE recognition to Luis Aguilar |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break + posters |
| 16:10 | KT: Jean Turner – What the Gastrodynamicist owes Luis, the Astrodynamicist |
| 16:40 | CT: Rafale Costero (by Zoom) – Kinematics of the Orion Trapezium: Comparing Gaia with VLBA measures |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception - Centro Cultural Riviera |
Tuesday – May 20
| 10:00 | KT: Anthony Brown – "Gaia: ten years of surveying the skies" |
| 10:30 | KT: Simon White – "The Local Group in a LCDM universe" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break + posters |
| 11:30 | KT: Octavio Valenzuela – "New Techniques to Simulate the Cosmic Structure and Dynamics" |
| 12:00 | CT: Óscar Jiménez-Arranz (by Zoom) – "Tidal interaction can stop galactic bars: on the LMC non-rotating bar" |
| 12:20 | CT: Jaume Amoros – "Capturing the features of a barred galaxy from a single snapshot" |
| 12:40 | CT: Ivanio Puerari – "Ferrers bar response models: A grid calculation for galactic models" |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | CT: Gilberto Gómez – "Gas dynamics in the Central Molecular Zone and its connection with the Galactic Bar" |
| 14:50 | KT: Javier Ballesteros-Paredes – "Gravity or turbulence? Stellar kinematics as evidence of molecular cloud dynamics" |
| 15:20 | CT: Rafael Bertolotto – "Inferring the initial mass function of young stellar moving groups in the solar neighborhood" |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break + posters |
| 16:10 | CT: Sergio Sánchez-Sanjuán – "Kinematics and dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters in the Orion star-forming complex" |
| 16:30 | CT: Sergio Gonzalez Barron – "Identification and Classification of Young Nearby Moving Groups with a Hierarchical Cone Method Sampling" |
Wednesday – May 21
| 10:00 | KT: Mercè Romero-Gómez – "Geometry, warps and how Gaia has contributed to the knowledge of the 3D structure of the Milky Way" |
| 10:30 | KT: Patricia Sánchez-Martín – "Influence of warped discs in precessing galactic bar models" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break + posters |
| 11:30 | KT: Cecilia Mateu – "RR Lyrae stars: recent results and new aspects of an old tracer" |
| 12:00 | CT: Mauro Cabrera (by Zoom) – "The warp of the Milky Way disk traced by Cepheids and RR Lyrae" |
| 12:20 | CT: Kathryn Daniel – "Patterns in Chaos: Collective dynamics from resonances in disk galaxies" |
| 12:40 | CT: Fabrícia Barbosa – "Characterizing the velocity (an)isotropy of the Milky Way’s stellar halo main progenitor" |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:30 | Social activities: Wine Museum |
| 19:00–22:00 | Conference dinner, Vinícola Solar Fortun |
Thursday – May 22
| 10:00 | KT: Justin Read (by Zoom) – The emergence of dwarf galaxies, globular clusters and something in between |
| 10:30 | KT: Joshua Barnes – Mixing in Smooth and N-body Potentials |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break + posters |
| 11:30 | KT: Rosa Amelia Gonzalez – The rotating GC system of NGC 4258, and the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes |
| 12:00 | CT: Luis Felipe Rodriguez – The proper motions of the protostellar binary system L1551 IRS5 |
| 12:20 | CT: José María Torrelles – Gas infall via accretion disk feeding Cepheus A HW2 |
| 12:40 | CT: Sergey Zharikov – Dynamics of Close Binary Systems with a Third Body |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 | KT: Vladimir Avila-Reese – The diffuse stellar component in galaxy clusters: where does the brightest central galaxy end and where does the intracluster light begin? |
| 15:00 | CT: Isaura Fuentes-Carrera – Tracing the gravitational effect of external perturbations on the kinematics of disk galaxies through extended Fabry-Perot observations and multi-wavelength imagery of interacting galaxy pairs |
| 15:20 | CT: Omar López-Cruz – Galaxy Collisions in Galaxy Clusters |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee break + posters |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Discussion session |
Friday – May 23
| 10:00 | KT: Luis A. Martínez-Medina – A 3D view of the Milky Way spiral arms with Gaia DR3 |
| 10:30 | KT: Laurent Loinard – Complementing Gaia with VLBI astrometry |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break + posters |
| 11:30 | CT: Miguel Chavez Dagostino – GALEX NUV and optical observations of stellar flares within the KEPLER field |
| 11:50 | CT: Luisa Jaime – Geometric cosmology |
| 12:10 | CT: Jesus González – Sharing the Universe |
| 12:30 | KT: Luis Aguilar – The pleasure of finding things out |
| 13:00 | Closing – last announcements |
| 13:10 – 14:30 | Fish taco celebration |