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 MiracleÂ
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 FittingÂ
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