Come join us for some totally random trivia! No team? No problem. We’ll match you up with new friends to form a team of 8 or less on the spot. It's a great way to meet people, share laughs, and maybe even win a cheesy prize (or at least a few bragging rights).
Glass Oaks (not upstairs- by parking lot) Must be 21 Cash bar available
This is your first chance to visit our Exhibitor Hall before returning in the afternoon for the Exhibitor Fair from 3:00 - 5:00pm. Don't forget to get your Bingo Card (provided in the SWAG bag) stamped as you stop at each booth. An Exhibitor Door Prize DRAWING will take place in the Exhibitor Hall by the WTCS Booth at 4:45pm, Monday, June 9.
Monday June 9, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT Exhibit Hall
This is the dedicated time for all of our participants to visit with our wonderful exhibitors while enjoying a drink and appetizers! Be sure to have your Bingo card stamped at each booth so you can be part of a drawing for some cool Exhibitor Prizes at 4:45pm in Rio Grande A.
Ready to sing (badly), laugh loudly, and maybe even win a prize? Join us for Sing-Along Bingo — where the numbers don’t matter as much as the volume! No singing skills required. Just show up, belt it out, and match the songs on your bingo card. You may win a priceless prize! Come solo or with friends — silliness guaranteed, embarrassment optional.
Glass Oaks (not upstairs-by parking lot) Must be 21 Cash bar available
Stars are the atoms of the Universe: they power the evolution of galaxies like our Milky Way, shape the formation of planetary systems, and produce the elements necessary for life. As stars form they influence their birth environment through heating, winds, and supernova explosions. Since we can’t watch stars form in ‘real time’, the world’s largest supercomputers provide a crucial laboratory to study the complex process that creates stars like our Sun. In this talk, I will discuss how we use computers to model forming stars and aim to answer open questions: What sets the mass of stars? Why do some solar systems have more than one star? Why is star formation so inefficient in our galaxy, which forms only a few stars per year?
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI), The University of Texas at Austin
Stella Offner is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin who holds appointments in the Astronomy Department and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. After completing her PhD at UC Berkeley, she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian... Read More →
