PROGRAM

All times in this schedule are in EDT (UT-4). Please adjust to your time zone. If you are on CDT (UT-5) this means your time will be 1 hour earlier, so e.g. 13:00 EDT = 12:00 CDT.

April 14

Oral Presentations

13:00 - 14:45 Host: Dirk Grupe

Time

Name

Title

13:00 - 13:15

Welcome address by Dirk Grupe (KAAS President) and Maryam Dehghanian (KAAS Education officer and UK host)

13:15 - 13:30

Deborah Gulledge

Updates on Jupiter's Zonal Winds and Global Modes from PMODE

13:30 - 13:45

Matthew Bayliss

Strong Lensing In the Era of Survey Science: Characterizing Large Samples of Lensing Systems

13:45 - 14:00

Riley Owens

Connecting Lyɑ and LyC escape with a gravitationally lensed, super star cluster at cosmic noon

14:00 - 14:30

Poster Advertising

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break / Posters

15:00 - 16:30 Host: Tim Hamilton

15:00 - 15:15

Sebastian Miracle 

Galactic Archeology of Planetary Nebulae

15:15 - 15:30

Galilea Ochoa

Distance to RR Lyrae AO Tuc

15:30 - 15:45

Ryan Sanders

Chemical abundances and ISM ionization properties of galaxies from Cosmic Noon to the Epoch of Reionization

15:45 - 16:00

Gerry Williger

A High Precision Survey of the D/H Ratio in the Nearby ISM

16:00 - 16:15

Kyle Cook

Star Formation and Gas Supply Since Cosmic Noon

16:15 - 16:30

Isaiah Beauchamp

New Analysis of Cold Clouds in Perseus Spiral Arm using Blackbody Fitting 

16:30 - 17:30

KAAS Member Meeting

April 15

10:00 - 12:00 Host: Maryam Dehghanian

Time

Name

Title

10:00 - 10:30

Gary Ferland

Cloudy, and Life, the Universe, and Everything

10:30 - 10:45

Alaina Spencer

Observations of the Changing-Look AGN RX J0128.1-1848

10:45 - 11:00

Salem Wolsing

Nope! It did not do it again. The Story of IC 3599

11:00 - 11:15

Dirk Grupe

OJ 287 - The binary black hole system that appears to be small

11:15 - 11:30

Nathan De Lee

A New Metric for Assessing the Accuracy of Orbital Period Determinations

11:30 - 11:45

Cody Markins

Cosmic Ray Variation with Weather

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:45 Host: Nathan De Lee

13:00 - 13:15

Michael Carini

Update on the 0.7 meter Bell Observatory Telescope

13:15 - 13:30

Benne Holwerda

explOration of Astronomy by Kentucky Students (OAKS)

13:30 - 13:45

Tim Hamilton

3-D Imaging: Designing an Integral Field Unit as a Primary Camera

13:45 - 14:00

Chamani Gunasekera

Preparing for High Resolution X-ray data in the Microcalorimeter Era

14:00 - 14:15

Valeria Olivares

The Many Phases of the Filaments in Cooling Flow Clusters

14:15 - 14:30

Yuanyuan Su

The Enrichment Process of the Intracluster Medium

Posters

Presenters

Title

Jon Blatnik & Faith Mathew

Detecting AGN in Extremem X-ray Flux States with Swift

Ash Coleman

HD 51082: an observation and analysis of an eclipsing binary star system

Lindsay Dawson

Exoplanet Observations at The Thomas More Observatory

Katherine Durbin & Corrine Woods

The Survival of Tardigrades in Near Space-Like Conditions

Xingchen Li

Buckling instability in stellar bars using high-resolution N-body simulations

Gavin Rose

The Analysis of Black Hole Masses Through Spectroscopy

Brady Smith

PMODE Doppler Measurements