astrophilly'15

The 2015 meeting of the Philadelphia Area Astronomers

Monday, July 27th, 2015
10:00 - 4:00

The Musser Demonstration Theater at the Franklin Institute

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The schedule:

When

What

Who

10:00

People arrive, get set up, drink coffee…

Everyone

10:10

Welcome everyone and a few words about astrophilly

The LOC/SOC

10:20

Institutional - CAS

Daniel Acker

10:30

Institutional - Drexel

Gordon Richards

10:40

Institutional - Kutztown

Phill Reed

10:50

Institutional - Lehigh

Ginny McSwain

11:00

Institutional - Penn

Gary Bernstein

11:10

Institutional - PSU

Tim Lawlor

11:20

Institutional - Rowan

David Klassen

11:30

Institutional - Swarthmore

Eric Jensen

11:40

Institutional - Villanova

Scott Engle

11:50

Institutional - WCU

Marc Gagne

12:00

Shotgun Talks (1-2 minutes) each

Poster Presenters - See Program

12:30

Lunch & Poster Session

Everyone

2:00

The diffuse interstellar medium of the Milky Way

Alex Hill - Haverford

2:10

Ice Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals from CRISM Multispectral Images

David Klassen - Rowan

2:20

MINERVA Red, a dedicated radial velcocity search for earth like planets around M-dwarfs

David Sliski - Penn

2:30

Decoding the Pericenter Outburst of the Central Cluster Star S2

Edward Devinney - Villanova

2:40

Young binary systems as laboratories for star formation and planetary system evolution - results from ALMA

Eric Jensen - Swarthmore

2:50

Millimag photometry in the Dark Energy Survey

Gary Bernstein - Penn

3:00

A Catalog of New Spectroscopically-Confirmed Massive Stars in the Carina Nebula

Ginny McSwain - Lehigh

3:10

KELT: The Little Telescope Performing BIG Science

Joey Rodriguez - Lehigh / Vanderbilt

3:20

Photometric variability of Be stars with the KELT survey

Jonathan Bartz - Lehigh

3:30

Large-scale environmental dependence of gas-phase metallicity in dwarf galaxies

Kelly Douglass - Drexel

3:40

Dwarf Galaxies in Voids: Luminosity, Gas, and Star Formation Properties

Michael Vogeley - Drexel

3:50

Star and Planet Formation: A Multiscale Simulation Problem

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low - Drexel / AMNH

4:00

Goodbye

The LOC/SOC


The Local Organizing Committee / Scientific Organizing Committee (alphabetical by first name):

Derrick Pitts (Franklin Institute), Gordon Richards (Drexel University) & Scott Engle (Villanova University)


The List of Participants
(alphabetical by first name, since that's much easier to sort in a spreadsheet when you don't have different cells for first and last names...):

Alex Hill

Haverford College

Amanda Findlay

Villanova University

Christian Morrow

Swarthmore College

Christina Krawiec

University of Pennsylvania

Christina Peters

Drexel University

Dave Goldberg

Drexel University

David Klassen

Rowan University

David Sliski

University of Pennsylvania

David Sliski

University of Pennsylvania

Derrick Pitts

The Franklin Institute

Dillon Brout

University of Pennsylvania

Edward Devinney

Villanova University

Emma Lewis

Swarthmore College

Eric Jensen

Swarthmore College

Gary Bernstein

University of Pennsylvania

Ginny McSwain

Lehigh University

Gordon Richards

Drexel University

Griffin Werner

Villanova University

James Marcus Hughes

REU at Swarthmore College/Student at Williams College

Jessie Taylor

University of Pennsylvania

Jessie Taylor

University of Pennsylvania

Joey Rodriguez

Vanderbilt University

John Gizis

University of Delaware

Jonathan Bartz

Lehigh University

Joseph Glaser

Drexel University

Joshua Pepper

Lehigh University

K S Virbhadra

Drexel University

Kelly Douglass

Drexel University

Lorena Mezini

Lehigh REU/Stony Brook University

Marcus Keil

Lehigh University

Michael Koehn

University of Pennsylvania

Michael Toce

Villanova University

Michael Vogeley

Drexel University

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

AMNH (NYC) & Drexel

Nancy King

Kutztown University

Nathan Lourie

University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Galitzki

University of Pennsylvania

Nicole Banales

Swarthmore College

Noah Rosenberg

Swarthmore College

Phill Reed

Kutztown University

Rebecca L. Bowers

Lehigh University

Richard Hanes

Lehigh University

Robyn Smith

Drexel University

Sarah Kessler

Rowan University

Saul Aryeh Kohn

University of Pennsylvania

Scott G Engle

Villanova University

Simon Dicker

University of Pennsylvania

Steven Waskie

Lehigh University

Tashalee Billings

University of Pennsylvania

Tim Lawlor

Penn State University, Brandywine Campus

Valerie Bernstein

Lehigh University