NAC III Program
2015 NAC IV Workshop Goals
- To bring NAC students, mentors, and representatives from HBCUs and majority Universities together to provide opportunities for networking
- To introduce NAC students to representatives of observatories, government agencies, and professional organizations
- To give NAC students an opportunity to share their summer research experiences with their peers, and with influential members of the larger Astronomy community
NAC III Program
Are you presenting?
In order to help the program go smoothly, and to minimize delays, we’d like to ask all presenters to do two things:
- Please upload your presentation to this site: https://osf.io/view/naciii/ - using the ‘talk’ email address naciii-talk@osf.io
- Bring your presentation on a thumb drive, preferably having it ready first thing Saturday morning, in case there are changes to the program, or unexpected technical difficulties
| Saturday | Presentations and Links |
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| 8:40 AM | Breakfast/Logistics (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | Lyndele/Tania |
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| 8:45 AM | Welcome | NAC and Howard University |
Marcus Alfred, Howard |
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| 9:00 AM | Welcome/Remarks | Tony Beasley, NRAO Director & Phil Jewell, NA ALMA Director | ||
| 9:10 AM | AUI | AUI NAC 2015 Presentation | John Mester, AUI/Tim Spuck | |
| 9:20 AM | NSF | STEM Opportunities at NSF |
Pat Knezek, NSF, Deputy Division Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences | |
| 9:40 AM | Overview of NAC | Overview of the National Astronomy Consortium | Kartik Sheth, NASA | |
| 10:00 AM |
Cville Mentor Overview | NAC 2015 NRAO - Charlottesville |
Drew Brisbin, NRAO | |
| 10:10 AM | Cville 2015 cohort reports | 5 x 10 mins | ||
| Jonathan Barnes, Norfolk State | Metallicity Structure of the Milky Way Disk | |||
| Bridget Kayetisi, Hamilton College | Star Formation Rate in the Solar Neighborhood and Beyond | |||
| Beverly Thackeray-Lacko, CSU-San Bernadino | The Circumnuclear Starburst Ring in NGC 1097 | |||
| Michelle Nowling, University of Houston | [NII] Line Emission in High Red-shift Galaxies | |||
| Linnea Saby, Piedmont Valley Community College | The Value of Methodical Management: Optimizing Science Results | |||
| 11:00 AM | Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| 11:15 AM | Socorro Mentor Overview | Socorro NAC Overview | Laura Perez |
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| 11:25 AM | Socorro 2015 cohort reports | 5 x 10 mins | ||
| Tierra Candelaria, College of Idaho |
Temperatures of Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center | |||
| Kevin Gima, UMd College Park |
Circumnuclear Disk, Sagittarius A* & the NAC experience | |||
| Elizabeth Gutierrez, Villanova University |
The Spatial Distribution of Large and Small Dust Grains in Transitional Disks |
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| Antonio Porras, UNC-Chapel Hill |
In Search of Binary Supermassive Black Holes | |||
| 12:25 PM | Lunch Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| 1:30 PM | Alumni Voices | 2 x 10 mins | ||
| Moiya McTier | Flying Astronomy Airlines |
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| Brianna Thomas | NAC Alumni presentation | |||
| 2:05 PM | NANOGrav | NAC Partnerships with NANOGrav and Green Bank | Ryan Lynch, NRAO | |
| 2:15 PM | GSFC Mentor Overview | NASA Goddard Astrophysics Overview | Padi Boyd, GSFC |
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| 2:25 PM | GSFC 2015 cohort reports | 4 x 10 mins | ||
| Caroline "Cee" Gould, UC Berkeley | ||||
| Junellie Gonzales Quiles, UMd College Park | Tracing the Galactic Center using Bremsstrahlung, Synchrotron, and Thermal Emission | |||
| Ameer Blake, Howard University | Cubsat Exploration: A Plan for Finding New Exoplanets in the Beta Pictoris System | |||
| Qiana Hunt, University of Alabama - Huntsville | Analysis of Fermi Source 3FGL 2015.6+3709 | |||
| 3:05 PM | Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| 3:50 PM | APS Diversity/Bridge Program |
APS Bridge Program and National Mentoring Community | Arlene Knowles, American Physical Society |
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| 4:00 PM | AAS |
The American Astronomical Society: A brief for Young Astronomers | Kevin Marvel, AAS |
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| 4:10 PM | Center for the Advancement of Hispanic in Science and Engineering Education (CAHSEE) | Charles Vela STEM paradigm | Charles Vela, Executive Director, CAHSEE |
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| 4:20 PM | NASA | Students and PostDocs at NASA |
Aki Roberge (NASA) | |
| 4:40 PM | Wisconsin Mentor overview | Wisconsin Mentor Overview | Aleks Diamond-Stanic | |
| 5:10 PM | Dinner Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| Sunday | ||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| 8:45AM |
Wisc Cohort |
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| 8:45 AM | Peter Doze | Discovery and Characterization of Galactic Ionized Nebulae with WHAM | ||
| 8:55 AM | Ryan Hubbard | Extraplanar DIffuse Ionized Gas in a Sample of MaNGA galaxies | ||
| 9:05 AM | STScI Mentor Overview | Lou Strolger |
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| 9:15 AM | STScI Students |
3 x 10 mins | ||
| 9:15 AM |
Chima McGruder, University of Tennessee - Knoxville | Resolving Volcanism on Io with AMI | ||
| 9:25 AM |
Myles McKay, South Carolina State University | Studying the Magnetic Activity of Ultracool Dwarfs | ||
| 9:35 AM |
Miona Short, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| 9:45 AM | Vanderbilt/Fisk |
Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's-to-PhD Bridge Program | Rudy Montez | |
| 10:05AM | Break | |||
| 10:15 AM | PING | PING Overview |
Ashley Gordon | |
| 10:25 AM | GRAD-MAP | Ashlee Wilkins/Katie Jameson, UMD | ||
| 10:35 AM | NC A&T State University |
Progress and Development of a Template Space Science curriculum | Abebe Kebede |
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| 10:45 AM | Adria Peterkin, Howard University | A Summer in the Midst of the Skies | ||
| 10:55 AM |
NRAO Program Management |
Optimizing Science Results | Lory Wingate |
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| 11:05 AM |
NRAO Central Development Lab | Engineering Opportunities at the NRAO’s Central Development Lab | John Effland, Morgan McLeod |
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| 11:15 AM | National Society of Black Physicists | NSBP Overview | Paul Gueye, President, NSBP | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break (Role Model filming/signing TEVs) | |||
| --END OF PROGRAM-- | ||||
| 1:15 PM | Executive session (NAC Advisory) / Planning next steps | Faye Giles, Facilitator |
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| 3:15 PM | Adjourn. |
