2023 Packard Fellows Reunion
September 5-8, 2023 | Colorado Springs, Colorado
AGENDA
Tuesday, September 5
 
7:00 PM
Welcome Reception for All Attendees
Fellows, Advisory Panel and Packard Foundation Staff
West Lawn, Broadmoor Hotel
9:00 PM
2019/2020 Fellows Activity
2019/2020 Fellows and Advisory Panel
The Fountain Room - Broadmoor Hotel Main Tower
Wednesday, September 6
The following events will be held in the Broadmoor Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
7:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
All Attendees
8:30 AM
Opening Remarks
Richard Alley, Advisory Panel Chair
8:40 AM
Illuminating the Origins of the Universe's Fastest Explosions
Wen-Fai Fong, Northwestern University, 2021 Fellow
9:00 AM
Uncovering the Origins of LIGO’s Gravitational Waves
Carl Rodriguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2022 Fellow
9:20 AM
Galaxy Simulations in the Era of Exascale
Evan Schneider, University of Pittsburgh, 2022 Fellow
9:40 AM
The constant chatter of the Earth: tracking tiny earthquakes with artificial intelligence
Zachary Ross, California Institute of Technology, 2022 Fellow
10:00 AM
Fluctuations in Random Interface Models
Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University, 2022 Fellow
10:20 - 10:50 AM
Break
10:50 AM
Reimagining Porous Materials for a Sustainable Future
Dianne Xiao, University of Washington, 2022 Fellow
11:10 AM
Nature-Inspired Design of 3d Metal Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight
Rose Kennedy, University of Rochester, 2022 Fellow
11:50 AM
Dynamic control of active matter
Sho Takatori, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022 Fellow
12:10 PM
Minding our Microbial Symbionts
Elaine Hsiao, University of California - Los Angeles, 2017 Fellow
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
All Attendees
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Poster Session
All Attendees
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Advisory Panel Meeting
Gaylord Ballroom, Broadmoor Hotel, West Tower
6:15 PM
Group Photo
West Lawn, Broadmoor Hotel
6:30 PM
Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony
Cocktail reception followed by seated dinner with remarks
All Attendees
West Lawn, Broadmoor Hotel
Speaker: Richard Alley, Advisory Panel Chair
Thursday, September 7
The following events will be held in the Broadmoor Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
7:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
All Attendees
8:30 AM
The activation of alkanes at electrochemical interfaces: Novel avenues for energy storage and sustainable chemical manufacturing
Marcel Schreier, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2022 Fellow
8:50 AM
Spatially resolved in situ profiling of RNA life cycle
Xiao Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022 Fellow
9:10 AM
Assessing N6-deoxyadenosine methylation in the mammalian genome
Weixin Tang, University of Chicago, 2022 Fellow
9:30 AM
A novel cellular contributor to early life immunity: the nucleated red
blood cell
Kellie Jurado, University of Pennsylvania, 2022 Fellow
9:50 AM
Regeneration in the uterus
Kara McKinley, Harvard University, 2022 Fellow
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Break
10:40 AM
Magnetically Assembled Microrobots for Dexterous Reconfiguration
Wyatt Shields, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022 Fellow
11:00 AM
Redesign Natural materials for Energy, Water, Environment and Devices (ReNEWED)
Tian Li, Purdue University, 2022 Fellow
11:20 AM
How did the brain evolve? Using comparative connectomics to
elucidate brain function and evolution.
Justus Kebschull, Johns Hopkins University, 2022 Fellow
11:40 AM
Dopamine Specifies the Statistics of Spontaneous Behavior
Jeff Markowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022 Fellow
12:00 PM
Predicting human impacts on the biosphere using birds
Brian Weeks, Regents of the University of Michigan, 2022 Fellow
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
All Attendees
2:00 PM
Our Dynamic Infrared Sky
Mansi Kasliwal, California Institute of Technology, 2018 Fellow
2:20 PM
The Dark Universe
Alexie Leauthaud-Harnett, University of California - Santa Cruz, 2017 Fellow
2:40 PM
Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes
Ann-Marie Madigan, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2018 Fellow
3:00 PM
Time Crystals: Then and Now
Norman Yao, Harvard University, 2018 Fellow
3:20 PM - 4:10 PM
Break
4:10 PM
Identifying single molecules
David Patterson, University of California - Santa Barbara, 2018 Fellow
4:30 PM
Stress management: cell packings and tissue flows in developing
embryos
Karen Kasza, Columbia University, 2018 Fellow
4:50 PM
Towards Atomically-Precise Materials Synthesis
Matthew Jones, Rice University, 2018 Fellow
5:30 PM
Social Hour
Drinks and light bites
All Attendees
Lakeside Terrace
6:30 PM
Dinner for 2022 Fellows
2022 Fellows and Advisory Panel
Mountain Clubhouse
Shuttles begin at 6:15pm in the West Lobby.
7:00 PM
Movie Night: The Lorax
All Attendees and guests
The LittleTheater
Rated PG. Pre-Registration not required. First come, first serve.
Friday, September 8
 
The following events will be held in the Broadmoor Convention Center unless otherwise noted.
7:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
All Attendees
8:50 AM
Other selective pressures in antibiotic resistance
Michael Baym, Harvard Medical School, 2018 Fellow
9:10 AM
Emergent Metabolic Dynamics in Microbial Communities
Arthur Prindle, Northwestern University, 2018 Fellow
9:30 AM
Understanding the Social Brain
Weizhe Hong, University of California - Los Angeles, 2018 Fellow
9:50 AM
From foundations for feature learning to(wards) portable MRI at the
bedside?
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, University of Southern California, 2018 Fellow
10:10 AM
Walk on X: Simulating Nature without Simplifying the Geometry
Keenan Crane, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018 Fellow
10:30 AM
Illuminating the future of Earth's forests in the 21st century under
climate change
William Anderegg, University of Utah, 2018 Fellow
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
Break
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Special Musical Guest
A Capella Science
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Closing Plenary
12:30 PM
Farewell Lunch
All Attendees
 
There are a multitude of amazing activities offered by the Broadmoor that are made available to guests. You can access our recommendations here: Broadmoor Activities
 
If you have any questions about the agenda or reunion itself, please contact the Foundation at (650) 917-7275 or fellows@packard.org. We look forward to seeing you in Colorado Springs this September.