NAC V Program
NAC V Workshop Program
2017 NAC V 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
- To provide NAC students with workshops on networking and communicating their science to various audiences
Presentations Site
Friday, September 15th
| Begin Time | End Time | Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:30pm | Boardroom |
NAC Advisory Board meeting (board members) |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Duke Grand |
Registration & NAC "Headshots" |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Duke Grand | Networking Workshop (Jessica Harris) |
| 6:00pm | 8:00pm | Patio |
Reception |
Saturday, September 16th
Meeting Space: Duke Ellington Grand
| Begin Time | End Time | Event/Speaker | Talk Title |
| 7:00 AM | 8:00 AM | Networking Breakfast |
Breakfast Bar |
| 8:00 AM | 8:05 AM | Tony Beasley |
Welcome from NRAO |
| 8:05 AM | 8:20 AM | Lyndele von Schill |
Overview of NAC Program |
| 8:20 AM |  |
Moiya McTier NAC Alum Undergrad, Harvard Grad School, Columbia University |
Introducing Exotopography |
| 8:40 AM | 8:45 AM | Anya Raj | Overview of Socorro NAC Cohort |
| 10 + 5 |  |
Tiffany Christian Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York (Dec. 2017) |
Cross Matching as a Strategy to Find Radio Stars |
| 10 + 5 |  |
Hampton University (2019) |
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| 9:15 AM | 9:30 AM | Lory Wingate | Overview of NAC/NINE Synergy |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM |
Paul Gueye, Al-Amin Kabir & AstroKids | RAMP-UP Program & Radio Astronomy 101 |
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Dae'Niya Bradley, Hampton High School Kaitlin Copeland, Hampton High School Yannick Gueye, Hampton High School Cedric Short, Kecoughtan H.S. |
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| 10:00 AM |
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NAC Alum Grad School, Fisk-Vanderbilt |
Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program |
| 10:15 AM |
10:30 AM | Emmanuel Rowe |
Fisk Vanderbilt Bridge Program |
| 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | AM Break |
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| 10:45 AM | 10:50 AM | Michael Strauss |
Overview of Princeton NAC |
| 10 + 5 |  |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2020) |
Characterizing Sky Spectra Using SDSS BOSS Data |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Rachel Ivie (LinkedIn) | Career Paths in Physics and STEM |
| 11:30 AM | 11:45 AM | Bert Hawkins |
Engineering Opportunities at the NRAO’s Central Development Lab |
| 11:45 AM | 12:00 PM | Dusty Madison |
NANOGrav - Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | LUNCH | Networking |
| 1:30 PM | 1:35 PM | Aaron Evans |
Overview of NRAO-CV NAC Cohort |
| 10 + 5 |
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Alia Wofford Elizabeth City State University (Dec. 2017) |
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| 10 + 5 |
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South Carolina State University (2018) |
Probing the Galactic Structure with H II Regions |
| 10 + 5 |  |
(May 2017) Grad School |
Star Formation Rates in Luminous Starbursts |
| 2:30 PM | 2:45 PM | Jim Ulvestad, Acting Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences | The National Science Foundation's Commitment to Diversity |
| 2:45 PM | 3:00 PM | Robyn Smith |
GRAD-MAP |
| 3:00 PM | 3:15 PM | PM Break |
PM Break |
| 3:15 PM | 3:45 PM | Ron Maddalena | A Discussion on Breakthrough Listen’s Role in the Quest for Extraterrestrials |
| 3:45 PM | 3:50 PM | Lou Strolger |
Overview of STScI NAC Cohort |
|
10 + 5 3:50-4:05pm |
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Betsy Hernandez (May, 2017) American Museum of Natural History |
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10 + 5 4:05-4:20pm |
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Columbia University (2018) |
Data Reduction and Satellite Dwarf Galaxy Characterizations in the SAGA Survey |
| 4:20 PM | 4:25pm PM | Audra Hernandez | NAC V UW-Madison |
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10 + 5 4:25-4:40pm |
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Charris Gabaldon California State University; Chico (May, 2017) |
Searching for Molecular Filaments in the CHaMP Survey |
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10 + 5 4:40pm-4:45pm |
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Kelly Sanderson Old Dominion University (2018) |
The Evolution of Neutral Hydrogen in Galaxy Groups |
| 5:00 PM |
5:25 | NAC "Headshots" | |
| 5:25 PM | 5:35 PM | Closing remarks |
Sunday, September 17th
| Begin Time | End Time | Event/Speaker | Workshop/Presentation | |
| 7:30 AM | 8:30 AM | Student Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 AM | 10:30 AM |
Suzy Gurton, Jessica Harris |
Communicating Your Science Workshop | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Moiya McTier | Talking About My Science | |
| 11:00 AM |
12:00 PM | Ted Hodapp |
The APS Bridge Program |
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| 12:00 PM |
12:05 PM |
Closing |
