Main Areas of Research Structure growth: cosmic structure, galaxy groups, dark matter, key mass scales in galaxy evolution Gastrophysics: multi-phase gas fueling of star formation and black hole growth, star formation histories and stellar populations Spheroid/bulge/nugget formation and disk regrowth: morphological transformation via galaxy mergers/interactions and gas accretion Compact stellar systems: globular clusters, ultra compact dwarfs, and compact elliptical galaxies Data science: computational methods and astrostatistics including Bayesian modeling and machine learning Optical and infrared instrumentation: e.g., image slicers and ADC for SOAR's Goodman spectrograph in support of the RESOLVE survey