Saturday, April 21
, 2012
Dickinson College (Tome Hall)
343 West Louther Street
Carlisle, PA
This meeting is free with lunch included; advance registation is necessary by April 13.
Questions? Call 717-245-1413 or email physics@dickinson.edu
The full conference schedule can be found below.
Schedule
8:15 – 9:00 a.m. – Registration/Breakfast
9:00 – 9:05 a.m. – Welcoming Remarks by Catrina Hamilton-Drager
9:05 – 9:25 – Christine Welling, Dickinson College: “Photometry of Under-Observed
RR Lyrae Variable Stars”
9:25 – 9:45 a.m. – Bernie Yuhas, Kutztown University: “New BVI Photometry of the
Interacting Binary Star Y Piscium”
9:45 – 10:05 a.m. – Fronefield Crawford, Franklin & Marshall College: “On the Hunt
for Extragalactic Millisecond Pulsars and Radio Transients”
10:05 – 10:25 a.m. – Catrina Hamilton-Drager, Dickinson College: “The T Tauri
Binary System KH 15D: The Gift That Keeps On Giving”
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Poster Session
- Tom Coleman, Kutztown University: “The First Complete Light Curves of BO Mon; A Neglected Algol”
- Katelyn Ciccozzi, Kutztown University: “New BVI Photometry of RW Gem”
- Jeff O’Connor, Kutztown University: “New BVRI Light Curves of the Active Contact Binary Star VW Boo”
- Jack Madden, Franklin & Marshall College: “The Search for Pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud”
- Peter Chen, Catholic University of America/NASA GFSC: “Providing Perpetual Power for a Telescope on the Moon”
- Larry Marschall, Taylor Jacovich, and Alicia Palmisano, Gettysburg College: “Photometry of Rotating Asteroids at NURO, March 2012”
- John Timlin, Millersville University: “X-ray Analysis of LMC SNR DEM L71”
11:30 a.m. – 12:55 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Invited Talk – Debra Fischer, Yale University: “The Search for
Earths”
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. – Coffee Break
2:15 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. – Adria Updike, Dickinson College: “The Origin of Dust in the
Solar Neighborhood”
2:35 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. – Robert Boyle, Dickinson College: “Saturn’s Perfect Storm”
2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. – Phill Reed, Kutztown University: “Binary Star Research at the
Kutztown University Observatory”
3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. – Stuart Flury, Dickinson College: “X-ray and Optical Spectral
Studies of Compton-thin Syferts Detected by the Swift/BAT”
3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. – Niel Brandt, Penn State University: “A Large-Scale
Investigation of Quasar Wind Variability”