Junior Concentrator's Presentations

Date: 

Monday, December 8, 2014, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Phillips Auditorium

Monday, Dec 8th 1:00 – 4:00pm, Philips Auditorium

1:00 – 1:05pm Welcome

1:05 Tom Leith The Origins of Planetary-Mass Companions: Simulating Dynamical
Observations of FW Tau C/b
1:20 Chris Merchantz Finding the Building Blocks of Life: Searching for the Rotational
Spectrum of the Hydroxymethyl Radical
1:35 Sophie Welsh Exoplanet Follow-up Techniques
1:50 Henri Garrison-Desany Beyond the Binaries: Cataloging and Analyzing Variance of Field
Stars in the MEarth Transit Survey
2:05 Cecilia Sanders When Planets Breathe: Searching for Biomarkers in Exoplanet
Atmospheres

2:20 – 2:40pm Coffee Break

2:40 Brooke Carter The Do's and Don’ts of Teaching: The Influence of High School
Pedagogy on College Introductory Physics
2:55 Nina Hooper Looking into the Black Heart of the Milky Way:Probing the
Dynamical Activity of Sagittarius A*
3:10 Moiya McTier Where the X-Rays Are: The Use of a High-Redshift Quasar in the
Search for a Galaxy Cluster
3:25 Missy McIntosh Calibrating the REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)
3:40 Dennis Lee The Small and Faint: Determining Orbital Characteristics of Near-
Earth Asteroids