PROGRAM

Friday, March 15

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UT-4).          

Zoom link: https://nku.zoom.us/j/96878848754?pwd=MUdRS3ZUY2pzeDBHRlk0SklUYmhMZz09

Oral Presentations

Massie Hall room 020 (Massie Lecture Hall) 

13:00 - 14:30 Host: J. Allyn Smith

Time

Name

Title

13:00 - 13:15

 J. Allyn Smith and Tim Hamilton

Welcome addresses

13:15 - 13:30

Thomas Pannuti

Multi-Epoch Observations of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory

13:30 - 13:45

Brannon Jones

An Updated Survey of Candidate Radio Supernova Remnants and Their Properties in Nearby Galaxies

13:45 - 14:00

Clayton Robertson

Ground- and Space-Based Dust Observations of VV 191 Overlapping Galaxy Pair

14:00 - 14:30

Benne Holwerda

Morphometrics and Machine Learning; identifying perturbed galaxies in the WALLABY survey

14:30 - 15:00

Coffee Break / Posters

15:00 - 16:30 Host: Dirk Grupe

15:00 - 15:15

Eileen Herwig

Extended Lya emission around z∼3 quasar pairs

15:15 - 15:30

Maryam Dehghanian

Using Absorption Lines to Understand the Properties of the Outflow Systems

15:30 - 15:45

Alaina Spencer

The extreme low-state of the Changing Look AGN RX J0128-1848 in 2022/23

15:45 - 16:00

Salem Wolsing

The calm before the (next) storm: no third outburst in 2019-2020

16:00 - 16:15

Dirk Grupe

The re-emerging of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy WPVS 007 in X-rays in June 2023

16:15 - 16:30

Samia Mahmood

Properties of the Weak Interaction From Cosmic Ray Muons

16:45 - 17:30

Planetarium Show

16:45 - 17:30

KAAS Member Meeting

Saturday, March 16

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UT-4).          

Zoom link: https://nku.zoom.us/j/96878848754?pwd=MUdRS3ZUY2pzeDBHRlk0SklUYmhMZz09

Oral Presentations

Advanced Technology Center (ATC) room 104 (Burke Lecture Hall) 

10:00 - 12:00 Host: Kyle Cook

Time

Name

Title

10:00 - 10:30

Tim Hamilton

Turning projector technology into a multi-mirror spectrograph

10:30 - 10:45

J. Allyn Smith

Calibration of Large Sky Surveys

10:45 - 11:00

Maria Hamilton & Joseph Power

Nuclear Isomeric Transitions in Gamma-Ray Bursts from Neutron Star Mergers

11:00 - 11:15

Swarali Shivraj Patil

Scintillation Arcs in NANOGrav Pulsars

11:15 - 11:30

Kyle Cook

Detections of UV-Bright Galaxies in the Initial LADUMA L-Band Data

11:30 - 11:45

Harshun Kathiresan

Long-term X-ray and UV/Optical Monitoring of the Narrow Line Sefert 1 Galaxy RX J0134-4258 with Swift

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch Break

Bear’s Den Cafeteria (marked with a fork on the campus map) in the Morris University Center.  Lunch tickets will be provided. 

13:00 - 14:15 Host: Tim Hamilton

13:00 - 13:15

Katherine Durbin, Corrine Woods, & Macy Wright

Astrobiology With High-Altitude Balloons

13:15 - 13:30

Nathan De Lee

RRLFE: A New Method for Determining RR Lyrae Star Metallicities

13:30 - 13:45

Lindsay Dawson

Variable Star Studies at the Thomas More Observatory

13:45 - 14:00

Ash Coleman

DR Vul, LS III +62 12, and HD 51082: An Observation and Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Systems

14:00 - 14:15

Wes Ryle

The Cincinnati Observatory: Birthplace of American Astronomy

Posters

Presenters

Title

Tristan Stanek, Reagan E. Coursey & Mario Mata

Detecting AGN in Extreme X-ray Flux States with Swift