Schedule
9:30-10:00am: Breakfast [RLM 15.216A]
10:00-11:00am: Talk Session [RLM 15.216B]
- Introduction and Logistics
Prof. Steven Finkelstein - Welcome
Prof. Shardha Jogee, Associate Chair of Dept. of Astronomy - The Life Cycle of a VIRUS: a Production in Three Parts
- Ingrid Johnson, UT Austin
- Andrew Peterson, UT Austin
- Eric Dreasher, UT Austin
- Optical Astronomy: A New Object Detection Algorithm
- David Chavera, University of Rochester
11:00-11:30am: Coffee Break [RLM 15.202A]
11:30-1:00pm: Talk Session [RLM 15.216B]
- Luminosity-density Fluctuations of the Cosmic Near-Infrared Background
- Sae Saito, UT Austin
- Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Galaxies in a Super-Group at z~0.37
- Jonathan Monroe, Texas A&M University
- Using bulge-disc decomposition to discover abnormal star formation patterns
- Kayla Leonard, UT Austin
- Characterizing Galaxies out to Redshift z~4 in the DECam Survey of the SHELA/HETDEX Field
- Nicholas Watson, UT Austin
- A First Look at Infrared-Luminous Galaxies using the Herschel HerS survey of the SHELA/HETDEX Field
- Rebecca Larson, UT Austin
- Searching for High Redshift Galaxies using the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Survey
- James Diekmann, UT Austin
- Core and Competitive Accretion in Recent Numerical Simulations of Star Formation in the First Galaxies
- Ross Meyer, UT Austin
- The Strange Case of GSC 05206: 01013
- Mahfuz Krueng, Texas Tech University
1:00-2:00pm: Lunch [RLM 15.202A]
2:00-3:00pm: Talk Session [RLM 15.216B]
- Investigating Emission Line Profiles of Accreting T Tauri Stars
- Joshua Jones, Rice University
- Evidence of Decay of Turbulent Shocks in the ISM
- Rebecca Larson, UT Austin
- A Multi-band Extension of the Analysis of Variance Period Finding Algorithm
- Nicholas Mondrik, Texas A&M University
- The Exoplanet Transit of HAT-P-20b
- Anthony Rifaat, Baylor University
- The Betelgeuse Project
- Sarafina Nance, UT Austin
- Diffuse X-ray Emission in Nearby Face-on Spiral Galaxies
- Marilyn Moore, UT San Antonio
3:00-3:30pm: Coffee Break [RLM 15.202A]
3:30-4:15pm: Talk Session [RLM 15.216B]
- Chemical Abundances of RR Lyrae Stars
- Jose Govea, UT Austin
- White Dwarfs in Ultra-Compact Binaries
- Heather Johnson, UT Austin
- Investigation of the Photophoretic Force
- Jeremy Smallwood, Baylor University
- TANAMI Source Optical Data Analysis
- Miquela Stein, UT Austin