Date:
Friday, March 30th in Phillips Auditorium
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dcharbon/astronomy99_poster_2012.pdf
Session I: The Dynamics of Exoplanets and Galaxies
1:00-1:20
Constraining Local Group Dark Matter Using M33's Past Orbit
Marion Dierickx (advised by Avi Loeb)
1:20-1:40
A Systematic Search for New Kepler Circumbinary Planets
Ethan Kruse (advised by Darin Ragozzine)
1:40-2:00
Mapping the System Architecture of Qatar-2: A K dwarf Orbited by a
Transiting Hot Jupiter and a Massive Outer Companion
Marta Bryan (advised by David Latham and Joshua Carter)
2:00-2:15
Break
Session II: Star Birth and Star Death
2:15-2:35
The Hierarchical Guide to the Galaxy
Tom Rice (advised by Alyssa Goodman)
2:35-2:55
Massive Star Formation in the DR21 Filament of Cygnus-X
William Hawley (advised by Qizhou Zhang and Joseph Hora)
2:55-3:15
Crafting a Pearl Necklace: The Circumstellar Interaction of SN 1987A
Dom Pesce (advised by Robert Kirshner)
3:15-3:30
Break
Session III: Dark Matter and the CMB
3:30-3:50
X-ray Follow-up for Planck Cluster Mass Proxies
Kevin Fogarty (advised by Christine Jones)
3:50-4:10
An Investigation of Gamma Rays in the Galactic Center
Duncan Watts (advised by Douglas Finkbeiner)
4:10-4:30
A Rotating Polarized Source: Instrument Development for Precision
Calibration of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeters at the South Pole
Kristi Bradford (advised by John Kovac and Abigail Vieregg)