#  Astrophysics Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 30, 2012** 

 01:00PM - 04:30PM EDT 

 



 

Astrophysics Undergraduate Senior Thesis PresentationsFriday, March 30th in Phillips Auditorium  
[https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dcharbon/astronomy99\_poster\_2012.pdf](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)



 

 



 

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