Title: The Milky Way’s Stellar Chemistry-Dynamics Connection

Abstract: We have long known that the Milky Way’s stars do not occupy random positions in chemical or kinematical space, nor do they completely fill these spaces. However, recent spectroscopic and astrometric surveys have revealed ever more complex relationships between the chemical and kinematical properties of our stellar populations. I will give a brief overview of recent developments in our understanding of what a Galactic star’s dynamics can (and can’t!) predict about its chemistry, and vice versa, and of what these chemo-dynamical patterns can (and can’t!) tell us about the Milky Way’s own history.

Bio: I received my PhD in 2012 from the University of Virginia, and was then a National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellow at The Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University. After a year as a Lasker Data Science Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute, I joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 2017. I also serve as the Spokesperson for the SDSS-V project.