Celebrating 100-Years of Discovery!
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1:00 pm |
Welcome and Rededication of the Dome and 36” Telescope |
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1:30 pm |
Refreshments |
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2:00 pm |
A series of brief talks sharing the exciting research taking place today and what we expect to discover in our next 100 years. Attendees will have an opportunity to sample the diverse astronomy and astrophysics research being done by our students, staff, and faculty. |
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5:00 pm |
Conclusion |
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Steward Observatory 100-Year Celebration Science Talk Schedule |
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1 |
2:00 - 2:15 |
SPACEWATCH® at 40 Years: Asteroids, Planetary Defense, and the Steward Observatory 36” Telescope |
Melissa Brucker, Spacewatch |
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2 |
2:15 - 2:25 |
Star formation in nearby galaxies - peering through dust with the James Webb Space Telescope |
Daniel Maschmann |
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3 |
2:25 - 2:35 |
The mystery of the brightest gamma-ray burst of all time! |
Manisha Shrestha |
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4 |
2:35 - 2:45 |
Taking Pictures of Exoplanets with Steward Observatory Telescopes |
Jared Males |
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5 |
2:45 - 2:55 |
Finding Hidden Monsters with Steward Observatory |
Raphael Hviding |
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6 |
2:55 - 3:05 |
Machine learning reveals how supermassive black holes grow with galaxies |
Haowen Zhang |
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Break 15 minutes |
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7 |
3:20 - 3:30 |
The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey: Discovery of an Extreme Galaxy Overdensity at z = 5.4 with JWST/NIRCam in GOODS-S |
Jakob Helton |
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8 |
3:30 - 3:40 |
Resolving Nearby Black Holes With The Event Horizon Telescope |
Jasmin Washington |
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9 |
3:40 - 3:50 |
CatSat - UA's most advanced cubesat |
Hilliard Wegner Paige III |
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10 |
3:50 - 4:00 |
Fundamental physics with large cosmological datasets - weighing neutrinos with galaxy observables |
Paul Rogozenski |
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11 |
4:00 - 4:10 |
The Pandora SmallSat Mission: Characterizing Exoplanets and their Host Stars |
Megan Mansfield |
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12 |
4:10 - 4:20 |
Steward, Stars, and (Exo) Solar Systems |
Kevin Hardegree Ullman |
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13 |
4:20 - 4:30 |
GUSTO: Mapping the ISM in the Galaxy |
Del Spangler |
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14 |
4:30 - 4:40 |
From lab to outer space- Developing new technologies and space telescopes to study the Circumgalactic Medium and its role in galaxy formation and evolution |
Aafaque Khan |
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15 |
4:40 - 4:50 |
Probing galaxies in the early Universe with JWST |
Lily Whitler |
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16 |
4:50 - 5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
Buell Jannuzi |
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