Steward Internal Symposium and Group Grad Student Photo
The semi-annual Steward Internal Symposium was held on Sept 15, 2017, from 9:30am to 5:30pm, with a reception that followed.
We heard 44 talks with topics including "Eclipse Photos," "What a Newspaper Writer Looks For," "Exoplanets," "DESI Spectrograph," "Massive Star Evolution," "High Redshift Galaxies," "The Reionization Era," and many more. Our guest speakers included undergrads, technical staff, NOAO staff, ASU students and faculty, an NAU student, and the recently retired science writer at the Arizona Daily Star.
We took advantage of the Symposium to celebrate two birthdays: Emeritus Professor Nick Woolf's 85th birthday and Emeritus Professor John Cocke's 80th. Both Nick and John gave double-length talks, reviewing "Telescopes and Early Leaders in Arizona Astronomy," and "the 1969 Crab Nebula [Optical Pulsations] Discovery: Doubt and Disobedience," respectively. HERE is a photo of the birthday cake at the reception. The main-page photo above and a larger version HERE show the grad students available at 11:30am on Sept 15. They are, from left to right, Melissa Halford, Eckhart Spalding, Junhan Kim, Carolyn Raithel, Raga Pucha, Noah Salazar Rivera, Samantha Scibelli, Ya-Lin Wu, Ryan Keenan, Ryan Boyden, Jeremy Dietrich, Adam Sutherland, Yifan Zhou, Harry Krantz, Rixin Li, Christopher Bilinkski, Christine O’Donnell, Katrina Litke, Andrew Sevrinsky, Jianwei Lyu, Mengtao Tang, Minghao yue, Allison Hughes, Erin Maier, Michael Hammer, David Ball, Ramesh Mainali, Sixiang Yang, Joseph Long.
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