NAC IV Program
NAC IV Workshop Program
2016 NAC IV Workshop Goals
- To bring together NAC students, mentors, and representatives from HBCUs, majority universities, professional societies, funding agencies, and observatories, to provide opportunities for networking
- To give NAC students an opportunity to share their summer research experiences
Presentations Site
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/NACIV/ - using the ‘talk’ email address nacIV-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
Please note that the program is subject to change.
Friday, September 9th
| Begin Time | End Time | Room (all Blackburn Center) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:30pm | Hilltop Lounge |
NAC Advisory Board meeting (board members) |
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Gallery | Registration |
| 6:00pm | 8:00pm | Hilltop Lounge | Reception |
| 6:30pm | 7:00pm | Hilltop Lounge | Keynote Speaker: Ted Hodapp - Changing Graduate Education Demographics: The APS Bridge Program |
| 7:00pm | 8:00pm | Hilltop Lounge | Reception continues |
Saturday, September 10th
All presentations will take place in the Gallery
| Begin Time | End Time | Room | Event/Speaker | Talk Title |
| 8:00 AM | 8:55 AM | Hilltop Lounge |
Registration/Coffee | |
| 8:55 AM | 9:00 AM | Gallery |
Marcus Alfred | Welcome from Howard |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Tony Beasley | Welcome from NRAO | |
| 9:05 AM | 9:10 AM | Tim Spuck/John Mester |
Welcome from AUI |
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| 9:10 AM | 9:15 AM | Paul Gueye |
NSBP Welcome | |
| 9:25 AM | 9:35 AM | Lyndele von Schill/Joyce Ivory |
Overview of weekend |
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| 9:35 AM | 9:45 AM | Lou Strolger/Jessica Kenney |
Overview of STSci NAC Cohort | |
| 10 + 5 | Elizabeth Johnson | Discovering Cepheid and RR Lyrae Stars: Pan-STARRS Catalog & Robotically Controlled Telescopes | ||
| 10 + 5 | Bridget Kayetesi | Single Star HII Regions In Nearby Galaxies | ||
| 10 + 5 | Jacqueline Antwi-Danso | Feeding the Milky Way: Properties of the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream | ||
| 10 + 5 | Stefenie Minto | Extra Solar Planet Science with a Non Redundant Mask | ||
| 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | Emmanuel Rowe |
Fisk Vanderbilt Bridge Program | |
| 11:00 AM | 11:15 AM | Hilltop | AM Break |
AM Break |
| 11:15 AM | 11:25 AM | Jessica Kenney, STSci |
Careers at STScI | |
| 11:25 AM | 11:35 AM | Sinclaire Manning (UT - Austin) | How I Got to Now: The Importance of Mentorship | |
| 11:35 AM | 11:45 AM | Padi Boyd/Joel Coley |
Careers at NASA | |
| 11:45 AM | 11:55 AM | Morgan McLeod | Engineering Opportunities at the NRAO’s Central Development Lab | |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Hilltop | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 PM | 1:15 PM | Rachel Ivie (AIP) | Employment and Career Paths in Physics and STEM | |
| 1:15 PM | 1:25 PM | Paul Gueye | National Society of Black Physicists | |
| 1:25 PM | 1:30 PM | Brian Kirk | Overview of NRAO-CV NAC Cohort | |
| 1:30 PM | 2:35 PM | NAC students | NRAO NAC-CV Students | |
| Jeanine Shea | Southern H+ Region Discovery Survey | |||
| Kendal Sandridge |
Rewriting the ALMA Band 6 Cartridge Test System and Implementing a Phase Stability Test Procedure | |||
| Alia Wofford (LSAMP) | How Dense Molecular Gases Contribute to Star Formation in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 2146? |
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| Antonio Porras | High Resolution 33 GHz Observations of Embedded Star Formation in NGC 6240 | |||
| 2:35 PM | 2:45 PM | Jim Ulvestad (AST/NSF) | NSF Astronomy and the NSF Commitment to Diversity | |
| 2:45 PM | 2:55 PM | Keisha John (UVA) | Funding Graduate School and Beyond |
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| 2:55 PM | 3:15 PM | Hilltop |
PM Break |
PM Break |
| 3:15 PM | 3:25 PM | Linnea Saby | Socorro Cohort overview | |
| 10 + 5 | Jaquelin Erazo | Calculating the Flux Density of Cas A with LWA | ||
| 10 + 5 | Anya Raj | Utilizing Project Management Methods to Build and Restore Radio Telescopes | ||
| 10 + 5 | Kelsey Lund | Probing Magnetized Turbulence in the Fermi Bubbles | ||
| 10 + 5 | Sergio Smith | Long-Term Timing of Globular Cluster Pulsars | ||
| 4:30 PM | 4:45 PM | Jeremy Goodman (Princeton) |
Astrophysical Opportunities at Princeton | |
| 4:45 PM | 5:00 PM | Max Mutchler (AURA/StSci) | A hiring manager’s view of astronomy careers and inclusion | |
| 5:00 PM | 5:30 PM | Closing remarks |
Sunday, September 11th
| Begin Time | End Time | Room | Event/Speaker | Talk Title |
| 8:00 AM | 8:45 AM | Hilltop | Check in Breakfast | |
| 8:45 AM |
9:00 AM |
Gallery | Welcome and Overview |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Eric Hooper | The NAC at UW-Madison | |
| 10 + 5 |
Travis Stadler |
Galaxies Up Close | ||
| 10 + 5 | Natalie Delworth | Algorithms for Finding Substructure in Galaxy Groups | ||
| 9:45 AM | 10:00 AM | |||
| 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM | Hilltop | AM Break |
AM Break |
| 10:15 AM | 10:20 AM | Joyce Johnson | Overview of Breakout Session | |
| 10:20 AM | 11:45 AM | 148, 150, Forum | Facilitators: Eric Hooper, Jessica Kenney, Brian Kirk, Linnea Saby |
NAC Breakout Session/Discussion |
| 11:45 AM | 12:00 PM | Gallery | Ashlee Wilkins (UMD) | Updates on GRAD-MAP: Step 1 in the NAC Pipeline |
| 12:00 PM |
12:05 PM |
Closing |
