AAS Kentucky Area Meeting 2021

PROGRAM



kaas_schedule_2021.pdf

April 16th


Time

13:00 - 14:30

13:00 - 13:05

13:05 - 13:45

13:45 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:15

14:15 - 14:30

Name


Benne Holwerda

Jennifer Sokoloski

Suzanne Smith

Ethan Colbert

Jordan Dowdy

Title

LSST/ Vera Rubin Telescope (Host: Dirk)

Welcome

Helping You Do Science with Rubin LSST

LSST & KY Space Grant Consortium

Very-Large Scale Photon Simulations using for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Object-Brightness Analyzer for Rubin Observatory (OBARO)

14:30 - 15:00 Break

Time

15:00 - 16:00

15:00 - 15:15

15:15 - 15:30

15:30 - 15:45

15:45 - 16:45

15:45 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 16:30

16:30 - 16:45

Name


Wade Roemer

David Lazarz

Maria Babiuc

Renbin Yan

Allyn Smith

David Doge

Jessica Henderson

Title

Stars (Host: Benne)

EMD Analysis of QPPs in GALEX M dwarfs

The MaStar empirical Library of high-quality stellar spectra

Binary Neutron Stars Simulations with Hybrid Equation of States

Instrumentation (Host: Gerry)

Cost-effective Instrument to Enable Spectroscopic Mapping of the Sky

The APSU campus observatory: a tool for teaching and basic projects.

Astronomical Image Processing of Transiting Exoplanets with the NKU 14-inch

Tardigrade Survivability under Simulated Martian Conditions

April 17th


Time

09:00 - 09:45

09:00 - 09:30

09:30 - 09:45

09:45 - 10:15

09:45 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:15

Name


Yuanyuan Su

Valeria Olivares


Shawn Knabel

Tim Hamilton

Title

Galaxy Clusters (Host: Tom)

Studying galaxy clusters in a machine-learning era

Conversing with black holes in central cluster and group galaxies

Gravitational Lenses (Host: Tom)

KiDS/GAMA Strong Lenses as Probes of Elliptical Galaxies' Mass Content

An unusual "folded" gravitational lens, caused by a galaxy cluster

10:15 - 10:30 Break

Time

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:15

11:15 - 11:30

11:30 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:00

Name


Tithi Patel

Becca Mikula

Dirk Grupe

Maryam Dehghanian

Parker Poulos

Eileen Herwig

Title

Active Galactic Nuclei (Host: Nathan)

Decade-long monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei with Swift

Analysis of the Changing Look AGN NGC 1566- Project Updates

WPVS 007 - The AGN the Should not Exist

How to trace a wind?

A variability study on the quasar PKS 2135-147

Optical Analysis of the changing-look AGN IRAS 23226-3843

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

Time

13:00 - 14:45

13:00 - 13:15

13:15 - 13:30

13:30 - 13:45

13:45 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:15

14:15 - 14:30

14:30 - 14:45

14:45 - 15:00

Name


Lori Porter

Dominic Smith

Xihan Ji

Chenyu Zhao

Gerry Williger

Benne Holwerda

Alanna Cavins

Tom Pannuti

Title

Galaxies (Host: Tim)

The Loneliest Galaxies in the Universe: A GAMA and GalaxyZoo Study on Void Galaxies

Transformations of Galaxies in the Green Valley According to Galaxy Zoo Voting

Extragalactic ionized regions through multidimensional emission-line diagnostics

Radial Quenching Proles of Nearby Galaxies

Lyman Limit Systems from the GALEX Archive: First Results

Galaxy Morphometrics in the Hydra Cluster

Time Based Variations on Select X-Ray Sources Present in NGC6744

Something new and interesting about SNRs

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:00 KAAS Business Meeting


- Election of Ocers (Vice President, Secretary, Education Ocer)

- Next meeting: Online vs In-person?

- KAAS Online Summer Lectures

20210416 KAM NASA KY Presentation.pdf

NASA-KY Space Grant Consortium

Suzanne Smith