9:00-9:30

Breakfast

9:30-9:45

Welcome
from Julie Comerford (Organizer) and Dan Jaffe (Astronomy Department Chair)

9:45-10:00

Caroline Caldwell, UT Austin
Detecting Jupiter Analogues
[abstract] [pdf]

10:00-10:15

Tyler Behm, Texas A&M
Sigmoid: A Twisted Tale of Flux and Fields
[abstract] [pdf]

10:15-10:30

Michelle Rascati, UT Austin
Bolometric Temperature and Luminosity of Embedded Young Stellar Objects
[abstract] [pdf]

10:30-10:45

Michael Eastwood, Rice University
Understanding Stellar Birth through the Photometric and Spectroscopic Variability of T Tauri Stars
[abstract] [pdf]

10:45-11:00

Hans Amende & Caleb Bahr, Texas Lutheran University
Observations of Suspected RR Lyrae Variable Stars
[abstract] [pdf]

11:00-11:30

Coffee

11:30-11:45

Arina Rostopchina, UT Austin
Exploration of Mass-Radius Relation for Low-mass White Dwarfs
[abstract] [pdf]

11:45-12:00

George Miller, UT Austin
Using the MONET Telescope to Study White Dwarf Pulsations
[abstract] [pdf]

12:00-12:15

Jesús Aguilar-Landaverde, UT Austin
The Predicted Range of Observable Pulsation Periods in Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Stars
[abstract] [pdf]

12:15-12:30

Andy Liao, UT Austin
AGB Dust and Evolution of the ISM in the Early Universe
[abstract] [pdf]

12:30-12:45

Jeremy Ritter, UT Austin
The Fate of Metals Synthesized in Population III Stars
[abstract] [pdf]

12:45-1:30

Lunch

1:30-1:45

Kathryn Powell, Rice University
Composition of the Orion Nebula from Hubble Space Telescope Spectra
[abstract] [pdf]

1:45-2:00

Marilyn Moore, UT San Antonio
Observations of the 2010 January Outburst of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpius Using NASA's Swift
[abstract] [pdf]

2:00-2:15

Deepak Bastola, Texas A&M
How Useful Is U-band Photometry of Type Ia Supernova?
[abstract] [pdf]

2:15-2:30

Emily Martin, Texas A&M
Production and Alignment of the Visible Integral-Field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS)
[abstract] [pdf]

2:30-2:45

Steven Villanueva, Texas A&M
Optimal Resolutions for Optical and IR Spectroscopy through Atmospheric Emission Lines
[abstract] [pdf]

2:45-3:00

Jason Wise, Texas A&M
Automation of Calibration System for Dark Energy Survey
[abstract] [pdf]

3:00-3:30

Coffee

3:30-3:45

Kelly Jackson, Texas Christian University
Is This Really a Cluster?: SDSS-III/APOGEE Cluster Target Selection
[abstract] [pdf]

3:45-4:00

Wesley Irons, UT Austin
Ionized Gas in the Inner 2 pc of the Milky Way
[abstract] [pdf]

4:00-4:15

Connor McKeel, Texas Christian University
Stellar Kinematics in the Bar of the Milky Way
[abstract] [pdf]

4:15-4:30

James Diekmann, UT Austin
The Morphology of Dual Active Galactic Nuclei
[abstract] [pdf]

4:30-4:45

David Durke, UT San Antonio
The Temperature Gradient of Diffuse X-Ray Emissions of Edge-on Galaxies
[abstract] [pdf]

4:45-5:00

Patrick Williams, Texas A&M
MOSAIC Reductions for z~2.1 Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies
[abstract] [pdf]