Astronomy Research Symposium
On Friday, October 14, 2011 the Astronomy Department held an internal research symposium. The symposium featured presentations by the professors and posters presented by the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. On this page we will post the talks and posters that we have available.
The ‘shotgun science’ presentation featured each poster presenter describing their poster in 30 seconds – a highly entertaining segment. All posters and presentations are in PDF format. Some talks contain proprietary information and are protected – you must be a member of the CSP, IAR, or Astronomy Department to view them. (If asked to log in it is requesting your BU Kerberos information.)
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Session 1 – Chair: Brainerd
Alan Marscher:
The Relativistic Jets of Blazars
John Clarke:
Research in the Planetary Atmospheres and Space Science (PASS) group
James Jackson:
The MALT 90 Survey: Molecular Cores and High-Mass Star Formation
Jeff Hughes:
Modeling Space Weather
Session 2 – Chair: West
Tom Bania:
The Green Bank Telescope H II Region Discovery Survey
Meers Oppenheim:
Echoes from the Sky: Radar Observations and Plasma Physics of Meteors
Tereasa Brainerd:
Cosmic Magnification in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (protected)
Session 3 – Chair: Blanton
Ken Brecher:
Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum: A Bridge Between Art and Astronomy?
Ted Fritz:
The Cusps as Sources of Magnetospheric Particles
Ken Janes:
Star Clusters in the Kepler Field: Stellar Rotation Periods vs Ages
Carlos Martinis (for Mendillo group):
Imaging Science: Observations, Analysis and Models of Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres
Dan Clemens:
The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (now) and DCT Survey Plans (the future)
Supriya Chakrabarti:
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Imaging Spectroscopy of Extended Objects
Session 4 – Chair: Jackson
Elizabeth Blanton:
Radio AGN in Clusters of Galaxies: Feedback and Tracers of High-z Systems
Andrew West:
The ABCs (or MLTYs) of Low-Mass Stars
Paul Withers:
Planetary atmospheres and ionospheres
Merav Opher:
Journey to the Edge of Our Solar System: What are we learning from Astrospheres?
Poster Session
Chris Claysmith:
Utilizing the Herschel Hi-GAL Survey to probe Infra-Red Dark Cloud Temperatures
Meredith Danowski:
Ultraviolet Photometry of Dust Extinction in M101: Expected Results from the IMAGER Sounding Rocket
Saurav Dhital:
Ultra-wide, Low-mass Binaries: Constraints on Binary Formation Theory and Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Parameters
Kathryn Fallows:
Numerical simulations of the ionosphere of Mars during a solar flare
Raymond Fermo:
A non-tearing mechanism for generating secondary magnetic islands during reconnection
Susanna Finn:
Molecular Mapping of Filamentary Infrared Dark Clouds
Zachary Girazian:
How Chapman-like is the ionosphere of Mars?
Sadia Hoq:
Classifying Star Forming Cores through Chemical Anomalies
Paul Howell:
How multiple deflections influence findings of anisotropic weak lensing
Manasvita Joshi:
Multiwavelength Spectral Studies Of Fermi-LAT Blazar
Christina Kay:
3D MHD Simulation of a CME
Kamen Kozarev:
EUV Imaging, Radio, and In-Situ Observations of Solar Coronal Shock Waves
Nick MacDonald:
Bridging the Gap: Numerical Simulations of Blazar Variability
Michael Malmrose:
Discovery of Emission From Hot Dust in the Infrared Spectra of Gamma-Ray Bright Blazars
Majd Mayyasi:
Modeling Mars’ Ionosphere Using Same-Day Observations from Both Hemispheres
Sarah McGregor:
Modeling the Sun-to-Earth System for the WHI using WSA-Enlil with Alfvenic Fluctuations to Drive LFM
Modeling the Sun-to-Earth System for the WHI using WSA-Enlil with Alfvenic Fluctuations to Drive LFM
Chris Mendillo:
Space-based nulling for direct exoplanet imaging, first results from the PICTURE sounding rocket.
Dylan Morgan:
The Effects of Close Companions on the Magnetic Activity of M Dwarfs
Danielle Pahud:
LFM-helio Inner Boundary Parameter Study and Comparisons to Ulysses Fast Latitude Scan
Mike Pavel:
Constraining the Large-Scale Structure of the Galactic Magnetic Field
Christina Prested:
Plasma at the edge of the solar system
Elena Provornikova:
3D MHD modeling of non-stationary solar wind flow at the heliospheric boundaries
Patricio Sanhueza:
Chemistry in Infrared Dark Cloud Clumps: a Molecular Line Survey at 3 mm
Laura Sturch:
TYPHOON Observations of the Lindsay-Shapley Ring
Josh Wing:
Galaxy Cluster Environments of Radio Sources