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2026 57th Annual DDA Meeting Schedule

2026 57th Annual Meeting of the DDA

Chicago Illinois, USA

Oral Presentations
All times are local time (CDT, UTC-5)
 

Venue: Eckhardt Research Center (ERC 161)

 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

 

Full abstracts can be found ADD LINK.

Contributed talks are 12m+3 (for questions). Invited talks are 15m+3m or 17m+3m.

* 2026 Duncombe award 

** Invited talk

For talks and posters tips, please see here [1], including on how to upload posters.

Sunday, June 21st

Opening Reception
Venue: Eckhardt Research Center (ERC501).

5:00 – 7:00

DDA Committee Meeting
Venue: Eckhardt Research Center: Chandrasekhar room (ERC545).

6:00 – 7:00

Monday, June 22nd

Introduction and Announcements
Gongjie Li, Matt Clement, Dan Fabrycky
SOC, LOC, and DDA Chairs
9:00 – 9:10

Exoplanets I: Spin Orbit (Mis)alignment
Chair: Malena Rice
Slack Chair: Mengrui Pan
9:10 – 1010

9:10 Luke Handley     The Dynamical Origin of Planet-Mass-Dependent Spin-Orbit Misalignment
9:25 Evgeni Grishin     Hot Jupiters in Old Wide Binary Systems
9:40 Diego Munoz     Explaining the Curious Orbits of Eccentric Warm Jupiters
9:55 Sabina Sagynbayeva*     Transit Photometry as a Surface Scanner: Mapping Starspots and Obliquities

Galaxies I: Theory
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: TBA
10:10 – 10:40

10:10 Chris Hamilton     Galactokinetics
10:25 Uddipan Banik     Collisionless relaxation to equilibrium distributions in cold dark matter halos: origin of the Navarro-Frenk-White profile

Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:05

Brouwer Prize Lecture: Robin Canup
Talk Title TBD

Chair: Matt Clement
Slack Chair: TBA
11:05 – 12:05
Lunch
12:05 – 1:30
Satellites I: Giant planet satellites and rings
Chair: Raluca Rufu
Slack Chair: TBA
1:30 – 2:45
1:30 Ian Brunton     The assembly of the Laplace resonance at the inner edge of the circumjovian disk
1:45 Keith Dabroski     Comparing Eccentricity Excitation at Various Titan Resonances
2:00 Guangyi Zhang     Tidal Response of Gravito-Inertial Modes in Rotating Giant Planets:Resonance Locking and the Migration of Jupiter's Moons
2:15 Wen-Han Zhou     The Eclipse-Yarkovsky Effect on the Planetary Ring: Are Saturn's Rings Decreting?
2:30 Sudat Khan     Circumplanetary Disk Formation in the Adiabatic Limit
Coffee Break
2:45 – 3:10
 
Special Session in honor of the contributions of Joseph Burns (part 1)
Chair: Matija Cuk
Slack Chair: Christopher O'Connor
3:10 – 4:25
3:10 Phil Nicholson**     In Memory of Joe Burns
3:30 Jeff Cuzzi**     Joe Burns and Early Planetary Ring Dynamics
3:40 Brett Gladman** (zoom)     Irregular moon systems of the Giant Planets
3:50 Doug Hamilton** (zoom)     Sculpting Jupiter’s Ring System
4:00 Matthew Tiscareno** (zoom)     Rings, disks, and wobbly moons: A story of analogues
Panel Q&A #1 (Nicholson, Cuzzi, Gladman, Hamilton, Tiscareno)
4:10-4:25

Coffee Break
4:25 – 4:40

Special Session in honor of the contributions of Joseph Burns (part 2)
Chair: Matt Clement
Slack Chair: Ian Brunton
4:40– 5:45
4:40 William Bottke**     The Yarkovsky Effect and the Seeds of Discovery: Reflections on my Cornell Years with Joe Burns
4:50 Matija Cuk**     Joe Burns and the Moons of Mars
5:00 Matthew Hedman**     Planetary Rings as Perturbed Things
5:10 Maryame El Moutamid**     Small Bodies, Big Questions: How Joe Burns Shaped our View of Planetary Systems
5:20 Daniel Tamayo**     Explaining the puzzle of Saturn's moon Iapetus
Panel Q&A #2 (Bottke, Cuk, Hedman, El Moutamid, Tamayo)
5:30 – 5:45

DDA Mentoring Event
led by Juliette Becker and Santiago Torres

5:30 – 6:45

Tuesday, June 23rd

Exoplanets II: Formation of extreme and ultra-compact systems
Chair: Sarah Millholland
Slack Chair: Caleb Lammers
9:00 – 10:30

9:00

Youro Liu*

    Hot-Jupiter-Hosting Binary Systems are Preferentially Eccentric
9:15 Grant Weldon*     Saving Doomed Planets: Mass Loss and Angular Momentum Return Boost Hot Jupiter Survival Rates
9:30 Sacha Gavino     Isolated Three-Body Resonances Stabilize Extremely Compact Three-Planet Systems
9:45 Julia Esposito     Unified Formation Channel of Hot and Warm Jupiters via Planet-Planet Scattering
10:00 Konstantin Batygin     Resonances as Tracers of Planet Formation and Migration
10:15 Gabriel Teixeira Guimaraes     Dynamical instabilities in apsidally aligned systems
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00

Satellites II: Earth's Moon and Beyond
Chair: Maryame El Moutamid
Slack Chair: TBA
11:00 – 12:00

11:00 Kaustub Anand     Evolution of Martian Ring Particles under the Yarkovsky-Schach Effect
11:15 Thea Faridani     The Last Giant Impact: Constraining the Dynamics of the Multiple-Impact model of Lunar Formation
11:30 Raluca Rufu     Earth's rapid rotation and magma ocean solidification drastically limit angular momentum removal by the evection resonance after a high-angular momentum Moon-forming giant impact
11:45 Helena Buschermohle     Exomoons of Circumbinary Planets
Lunch
12:00 – 1:30
2025 Rubin Prize Lecture: Sam Hadden
Talk Title TBD

Chair: Juliette Becker
Slack Chair: TBA
1:30-2:30
Coffee Break
2:30-3:00
Small Bodies I: Debris, Rubble and Bombardment
Chair: Seth Jacobson
Slack Chair: Tommy Chi Ho Lau
3:00-4:00
3:00 Yang Shen     A machine learning model to predict proper orbital elements for main-belt asteroid family classification
3:15 David Minton     From Orbits to Craters: Investigating the role of collisional fragmentation of planetesimals in shaping the cratering records of terrestrial planets
3:30 Ben Cassese     Jointly inferring dynamical and latent parameters from 500 million asteroid observations
3:45 Paul Wiegert     The challenges of observing interstellar meteors
Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:15
Galaxies II: Resonances at the galactic scale
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: Tucker Capps
4:15 – 5:00
4:15 Zachary Langford     Self-consistent dynamical modeling of the Milky Way bar with orbital frequency analysis
4:30 Elliot Davies     The erasure of Galactic bar resonances by dark matter subhaloes
4:45 Jordan Moncrieff     Consequences of mean motion resonances in AGN disks on merging black hole properties
Poster Session + Pizza
5:00 – 6:30

 

Wednesday, June 24th

Special Session in honor of the contributions of Stanley Dermott
Chair: David Minton
Slack Chair: Raluca Rufu
9:00 – 10:55

9:00 Renu Malhotra**     In Memory of Stan Dermott
9:20 Carl Murray**         The Origin and Evolution of "Solar System Dynamics"
9:40 Apostolos Christou**     Asteroid migration in the Main Belt: Larger asteroids stay sober but smaller asteroids get drunk
9:55 Daniel Durda**     The Collisional Evolution of the Asteroid Belt and its Contribution to the Zodiacal Cloud
10:10 Mark Wyatt**     Dynamical structure in extrasolar debris disks
10:25 Jer-Chyi Liou** (zoom)     From Solar System Dynamics to Orbital Debris
10:40 Ashley Espy Kehoe** (zoom)     The search for hidden dust bands
Coffee Break
10:55 – 11:25

Hierachical Triples
Chair: TBA

Slack Chair: TBA
11:25 – 12:10

11:25 Mark Dodici*     Constraining tidal dissipation rates with tightly bound stellar triples
11:40 Ygal Klein     Short Range Forces effect on hierarchical triple systems - revisited
11:55 Seth Jacobson     Triple Vision: Formation of Triple Planetesimal Systems from the Gravitational Collapse of Pebble Clouds
Lunch
12:10 – 1:30

2024 Rubin Prize Lecture: Sarah Millholland
Talk Title TBD

Chair: Juliette Becker
Slack Chair: TBA
1:30-2:30

Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:00
Exoplanets III: From Disks to Deserts and Valleys
Chair: Christopher O'Connor
Slack Chair: TBA
3:00 – 4:45
3:00 Ritika Sethi     Age-dependent occurrence rates of close-in sub-Neptunes
3:15 John Zanazzi     Forming scorched sub-Saturns through tidal shocks during high-eccentricity migration
3:30 Sho Shibata     Elevated Eccentricities in the Radius Valley Hint at Water-Rich Mini-Neptunes
3:45 Jiaru Li     Steady Warps in Protoplanetary Disks: Nonlinear Effects and Breaking
4:00 Antranik Sefilian     When debris disks fight back: Self-gravity suppresses planet-induced secular excitation
4:15 Tim Hallatt (zoom)     Revealing the Origins of Desert Dwellers via Stellar Obliquities
Coffee Break
4:30 – 4:45
IDEA Discussion
4:45 – 5:45

DDA Banquet
Venue: 
Quartino [2]

8626 N State St, Chicago, IL 60620 (312)-612-5000

7:00 - 9:00

Thursday, June 25th

Special Session: New probes of dark matter from innovations in stellar and galactic dynamics
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: TBA
9:00 - 10:33  

9:00 Lina Necib**    

Predicting the Weather of the Milky Way

9:18 Newlin Weatherford**     How Dynamics in Globular Clusters Shape Stellar Streams as Dark Matter Probes
9:36 Robyn Sanderson**     Globular clusters and their stellar streams in cosmologically evolving galaxies
9:54 Adrian Price-Whelan     Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Stellar Invariants to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way
10:12 Sukanya Chakrabarti**     Nonlinear phase space dynamics and the Gaia Snail(s)
10:27 Brigette Vazquez Segovia     Can pre-accretion tidal heating produce gaps, spurs and cocoons in a GD-1-like stream?
10:42 Ting Li     Morphological and Kinematic Signatures in Stellar Streams as Probes of Dark Matter: Views from S5 and DESI

Coffee Break
10:57 – 11:25

Planetary Dynamical Tools and Metrics
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: TBA
11:25 - 12:10

11:25 Renu Malhotra     A metric for measuring and comparing the architectures of simulated Solar systems
11:40 Tjarda Boekholt     Punctuated chaos in gravitational N-body systems
11:55 Janosz Dewberry     GPU spin me right round: accelerated calculations of internal waves in rapid rotators
Lunch
12:10– 1:40

Small Bodies II: TNO formation and dynamics
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: TBA
1:40 - 2:40

1:40 Nathan Kaib     Observed Long-Period Comet Orbits May Show a Signature of a Recent Close Stellar Encounter
1:55 Rosemary Pike     The Orbital Distribution of the Hot Classical Kuiper Belt
2:10 Ruth Murray-Clay     An Exploration of Eyehole Libration
2:25 Dallin Spencer     The Impact of Secular Resonance on the Observed Structure of the Classical Belt TNOs

Coffee Break
2:40 – 3:10

Dynamics in dense clusters and nuclei
Chair: Robyn Sanderson
Slack Chair: Hangci Du
3:10 – 3:55

3:10 Jordan Bruce     Dynamics of Binary Stars in Multiple-Population Globular Clusters
3:25 Constanza Echiburu Trujillo     Probing the Dynamics of Recoiling Black Holes with Andromeda's Nucleus
3:40 Miguel Angel Martinez     Walking without Direction: (Partial) Spin-Orbit Tilt Isotropization of Binary Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
3:55 Brian Cook     Kinematic Heating of Globular Cluster Stellar Streams due to Internal Spin and Tidal Shocks
Coffee Break
4:10 – 4:30

Exoplanets IV: Real or not?
Chair: Diego Munoz
Slack Chair: Gabriel Teixeira Guimaraes
4:30 – 5:30

4:30 Daniel Yahalomi     When One Planet Looks Like Two: Degeneracies and Demographics of Cool Gas Giants with Gaia DR4
4:45 Juliette Becker     Warm Jupiter Tidal Migration Can Spare Inner Planets; Hot Jupiter Tidal Migration May Not
5:00 Samuel Yee     Not so Lonely: Hot Jupiters with Near-Resonant Companions
5:15 Caleb Lammers     TTV-Not-So-Fast: Uniqueness and Degeneracy in Perturbing Planet Parameters
DDA Business Meeting
All DDA Meeting attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Only DDA members will be able to vote. DDA officers will give reports, and future meetings and activities of the AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) will be discussed.
5:30 –6:15

Public talk
Sukanya Chakrabarti

The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurments

7:00 – 8:00

Friday, June 26th

Small Bodies III: Planetesimal Formation
Chair: TBA
Slack Chair: Daniel Tamayo
9:00 – 10:00

9:00 Mark Pais     Effects of Increasing Particle Resolution to Explore Debris Evolution during Terrestrial Planet Formation
9:15 Daniel Scheeres     Formation of Contact Binaries through the Creation of Asteroid Pairs
9:30 Tommy Chi Ho Lau     Formation of Multiple Dynamical Classes in the Kuiper Belt via Disk Dissipation
9:45 Vaibhav Chhajed     Polydispersity in gravitationally collapsing pebble clouds and its effect on final planetesimal shapes, densities, and rotation states

Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:20

Galaxies III: Evolution
Chair: TBA

Slack Chair: TBA
10:20 – 11:50

10:20 Hiroka Warren     Effect of the Galactic Disk on a Population of Stellar Streams
10:35 Tucker Capps     Satellite-driven acceleration of radial migration in a Milky Way–like disk
10:50 Carlos Jurado     Dynamical Origins of Azimuthal Metallicity Variations in the Galactic Disk
11:05 Hannah Woodward     Kinematic Imprints of Spiral Arm-Driven Star Formation in the FIRE Simulations
11:20 Kashika Mahajan     A Dynamical Clock for Triggered Star Formation: Reconstructing the Sco–Cen Superbubble
11:35 Lekshmi Thulasidharan     The Age--Thickness Relation as a Tracer of Merger History of Disk Galaxies
Coffee Break
11:50- 12:05

Exoplanets V: Breaking Chains: New constraints and developments
Chair: J.J. Zanazzi

Slack Chair: TBA
12:05– 13:20

12:05 Mengrui Pan     Breaking resonant chains of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes driven by magnetospheric rebound effect
12:20 Christopher O'Connor     Intruder Alert: Breaking resonant chains with planetesimal flybys
12:35 Fei Dai     Resonant Chains as Possible Initial Condition for Kepler-like Planetary Systems
12:50 Ryan LaRusso     Breaking the resonance chains of cold Neptunes by planetesimal scattering
1:10 Agustin Heron     Probing the formation and disruption of resonance chains with size ordering

 

Poster Presentations

Available Monday - Thursday

 

Mike Alexandersen     Dynamical curiosities from the Large Inclination Distant Objects (LIDO) survey
Neil Ash     Halo tumbling and realignment induced by LMC-like encounters
Sricharan Balaji     Modeling planetary orbital evolution with stellar mass loss and equilibrium tides
Matthew Belyakov     A Perturbation Theory Approach to Stability in Neptune's Scattered Disk
Callum Bloor     Deprojection and Stellar Dynamical Modeling of Barred Galaxies
Lucas Brefka     Effects of Pebble Accretion Isolation Mass on Observable Exoplanet Properties
Lucas Brefka     Using MEGNO to preserve computational resources in N-body simulations
Stefano Casotto     The Planetary Equations and Poisson's Extended Method
Matt Clement     Assembling the secular architecture of the inner solar system
Matija Cuk     Dione-Rhea 5:3 Resonance as the source of Tethys' Inclination
Wolf Cukier     Dynamical stability of double planets in compact multiplanetary systems
Kavi Dey     Computational Methods to find Action Angle Variables in the Solar System
David Dickson     TIME to Study Binary Mass Transfer: New Horizons in 3D Hydrodynamics
Jupiter Ding     Planet-Induced Warps in Protoplanetary Disks
Mark Dodici     Hypervelocity stars produced by the disk of an active galactic nucleus
Hangci Du     A Unified Local Pattern Speed Framework for Bars and Spirals: Revealing Bar-like Structures in TNG50 Early-Type Galaxies
Maryame El Moutamid     S/2025 U 1: a new member within Uranus' densely-packed inner satellite system
Leah English     Dancing Stellar Streams in Merging Dark Matter Halos
Jamie Erak     Sometimes You Just Can't Put a Ring on It: Setting Constraints on Rings around Moons from Magnetic Fields
Jiapeng Gao     Constraining the Interior and Origin of GJ 436b Through Coupled Structural and Dynamical Evolution
David Gonzalez     BFEs for Merging Halos: Best Practices for modeling stellar streams in merger events using Basis Function Expansions
Qunfeng Jiang (virtual)     A Stability-Filter Hypothesis for Circumbinary Planets
Daniel Jontof-Hutter     Kepler-50: A pair of super Earths in close resonance perturbed by a third planet.
Katrina Kianpoor     Stability Sculpting Across Resonances: A Promising Probe of Neptune's Migration
Zachary Langford     Photodynamics.jl: differentiable multi-body transit light curves
Yurou Liu     High-Eccentricity Tidal Migration Driven by Secular Chaos in Wide-Binary Systems
Joseph Livesey     The Dearth of Nearby Outer Companions to Hot Jupiters
Nicholas Marston     Do Super-Puffs Defy Core Accretion? Population-Wide Interior Structure Constraints
Aarushi Mehrotra     Effects of Nonuniform Spacing on Stability of Compact Many-Planet Systems
Evelyn Meyersieck     Dynamical Instabilities and Planetary Engulfment in Extrasolar Systems
Kaustav Mitra     Satellite galaxy kinematics: A bold new tool for cosmological parameter inference
Allen Murray     Actively Accreting Circumbinary Disk System Evolution
Hung Nguyen     Lunar core and mantle abundances can be reproduced from a bulk-silicate Earth composition when starting from a surviving Theia core
Phil Nicholson     Enigmatic vertical structure in the Cassini Division
Tristan Parmerlee     Using Machine Learning to Model Collisional Dynamics in the Galactic Center
Rosemary Pike     The Minor Planet Center
Jonathan Pond     An Overcrowded Resonance: The 5:2 Population and Distribution.
Luis Eduardo Ramriez-Montoya     NEOs.jl: an open-source software library to study near-Earth objects
Luis Eduardo Ramriez-Montoya     Jet transport applications to the preliminary orbit determination problem
Aaron Rosengren     The Dynamical Architecture of Translunar Space
Aysu Ece Saricaoglu     Primordial Black Hole-Star Binaries as Probes of Dark Matter
Jaden Sidhu     The Interplay of Stellar Evolution and Collisions in Galactic Nuclei
Amir Siraj     Measuring the Dynamical Structure of the Distant Kuiper Belt
Joseph Spitale     Another Ambiguous B-ring Object
Alexander Stephan     Contribution of White Dwarf Formation Kicks to the Free-Floating Planet Population
Glen Stewart     Bouncing Scale Heights in Saturn's Rings Caused by Nonlinear Bending Waves
Aster Taylor    

The Kinematic Age of 3I/ATLAS and Its Implications for Early Planet Formation

Mutian Wang     Early Emergence of Intra-System Mass Uniformity via Type-I Migration
Mutian Wang     An adolescent and near-resonant planetary system near the end of photoevaporation
Erick White     Simulation of Ejection Frequencies in the Sphere-Restricted Finite-Density Three-Body Problem
Nicholas Yurchak     Tracing a Possible Black Hole Merger Through Stellar Orbits at the Galactic Center
Yiqiu Zhou     Formation of Binary IMBHs through Dynamical Interactions in Globular Clusters

Source URL: https://dda.aas.org/node/184

Links
[1] https://dda.aas.org/meetings/2025/presentation-guidelines-and-tips
[2] https://quartinoristorante.com/