ASNY Fall 2009 Meeting

Schenectady, NY

Friday, October 23
Science & Engineering N112 (Directions)

Time

Event

 

7:00 pm ASNY Telescope Discussion with Pizza  
9:00 pm ASNY Board Meetings  

Saturday, October 24
Olin 115, Olin Building (Directions)

Time

Speaker/Event

Title

9:00am Refreshments: Bagels, Pastries, Coffee  
9:30 - 10:15 am Arlin Crotts
Columbia U.
Invited Talk
Water on the Moon
10:15 - 10:30am Ted von Hippel
Siena College
A Bayesian Analysis of Stellar Evolution
10:30 - 10:35 am Jon Marr (Union) Poster Introduction
10:35 - 11:00 am Coffee Break
Poster Viewing
 
11:00 - 11:15 am Andrew Battisti & Frederick Walter
Stony Brook
Modeling the Accretion Disk around the Recurrent Nova YY Dor
11:15 - 11:30 am Anand Sivaramakrishnan
AMNH & Stony Brook
Planetary system and star formation science with non-redundant masking on JWST
11:30 - 11:45 am Wayne Roberge, R. Menzel, G.E. Ciolek
RPI
Magnetic Heating of Primitive Solar System Bodies  
11:45 - 1:15pm Lunch Break: Hale House
Poster Viewing
 
1:15 - 2:00 pm Peter Wehinger
U. Arizona
Invited Talk
A Large Aperture Telescope for New York State
2:00 - 2:30 pm Young Sam Yu
RIT
Graduate Student Prize Lecture
The Study of the Planetary Nebula BD+30°3639: Origin and Nature of X-ray Emitting Gas and PN Morphology
2:30 - 2:50 pm Coffee Break
Poster Viewing
 
2:50 - 3:05 pm Rose Finn
Siena College
Dust-Obscured Star-Formation in Intermediate Redshift Galaxy Clusters  
3:05 - 3:20 pm Frederick M. Walter, Sarah Towers, & Andrew Battisti
Stony Brook
The Stony Brook/SMARTS Spectral Atlas of Southern Novae
3:20 - 3:35 pm Glenn Ciolek & W. Roberge
Hydromagnetic Waves and Signal Speeds in Interstellar Molecular Clouds with a Distribution of Grain Sizes

Posters

Presenter

Title

Daniel Barringer & Rebecca Surman
Union College
Neutron Capture Rates and the r-Process Abundance Pattern in Shocked Neutrino-Driven Winds
Jonathan Chew and Jon Marr (Union College) A. E. E. Rogers, M. M. Needles, and V. L. Fish (MIT Haystack Observatory), M. B. Arndt (Bridgewater State College), and P. Pratap (Raytheon) In-Class Labs Using the Haystack VSRT Interferometer: Hands-On Education in Aperture Synthesis
SreyNoch Chin, Katelyn O'Brien, Schulyer Smith, Rebecca Koopmann, ALFALFA Team
Union College
ALFALFA HI Observations of the NGC 5846 Group of Galaxies
Mcolisi Dlamini & Francis Wilkin
Union College
Detection of Extrasolar Planets and Applying an Extinction Correction to Magnitudes of Stars 
Matthew Newby
RPI
Mapping the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream: Galactic Astronomy Through Volunteer Computing
Erin O'Malley, Rose Finn, ALFALFA Team
Siena College
HI Content of the MKW 10 Group Galaxies
Benjamin Willet, Heidi Jo Newberg, & Brian Yanny
RPI
Simultaneous Orbit Fitting of Multiple Stellar Streams in the Galactic Halo

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