AAS 215th Meeting

Washington, DC: 2010 January 3-7

The AAS winter meeting is the largest gathering of U.S. astronomers every year, and this year's meeting is anticipated to be the largest AAS meeting to date.

Berkeley attendees presenting work

Undergraduates are italicized, graduated students have their current affiliation in parentheses.

Monday, January 4

Posters:

  • Peter Williams - 403.03 - The ATA Galactic Center Survey: Slow Radio Transients
  • Charles Hull - 403.05 - Primary Beam Shape Calibration from Mosaicked Observations
  • Allison Merritt - 404.09 - Historical Light Curves of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events: AGN or Not?
  • Daniel Perley - 405.09 - Host Galaxies of the Darkest Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Dust Obscuration
  • Joshua Peek (Columbia) - 413.04 - Galaxies as Standard Crayons: Measuring Galactic Reddening with Background Passive Galaxies
  • Ingrid Beerer - 414.02 - A Spitzer View of Star Formation in Cygnus-X North
  • Stella Offner (CfA) - 414.33 - The Protostellar Mass Function: Implications for Star Formation Models and the Protostellar Luminosity Problem
  • Anna Rosen - 415.21 - Molecular Line Studies of Ballistic Stellar Interlopers Burrowing through Dense Interstellar Clouds

Galaxy Simulations and Models (10:00 - 11:30 AM):

  • Andrew Wetzel - 302.06D - Satellite Galaxies in LCDM: Orbits, Merging and Disruption

Gamma Ray Bursts I (10:00 - 11:30 AM):

  • Brian Metzger (Princeton) - 303.07 - The Central Engines of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Milky Way, The Galactic Center I (10:00 - 11:30 AM)

  • Katie Peek (NYU Journalism) - 310.02D - The r-Process in the Galaxy: Europium Abundances in 1070 Field Stars and 9 Open Clusters

Evolution of Galaxies I (2:00 - 3:30 PM):

  • Kristen Shapiro - 314.05D - Galaxy Assembly at z~2: Insights from Integral-Field Spectroscopy

Tuesday, January 5

Posters:

  • Kimberly Aller - 423.09 - The Stellar Mass-Exoplanet Correlation
  • Christopher Griffith - 430.07 - Principle Component Analysis Decomposition of Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Waveforms
  • Michelle Kislak - 430.32 - The Nearby Plateau Supernova Infrared (NeaPSI) Survey: Preliminary Results

AGN Surveys II (10:00 - 11:30 AM):

  • Renbin Yan (University of Toronto) - 323.06 - AEGIS: Disentangle AGN and Star Formation at High Redshift

Cosmology II (10:00 - 11:30 AM):

  • Roland de Putter - 325.04D - Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB: Bringing Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses into Focus

Supernovae (10:00 - 11:30 AM):

  • Adam Miller - 333.04 - Tales of the Lazy SN: SN 2008iy and the Connection to Very Luminous SNe

Wednesday, January 6

Posters:

  • Julia Kregenow (Penn State University) - 466.02 - Is There a “Back” of the Room When the Teacher is in the Middle?

Circumstellar Disks II (2:00 - 3:30 PM):

  • Holly Maness - 361.04 - Debris Disk Erosion by the ISM: The Case of HD 61005

Planetary Formation and Migration (2:00 - 3:30 PM)

  • John Johnson (Caltech) - 367.01 - The Metal-Richness of M Dwarfs With Planets
  • Jason Wright (Penn State University) - 367.02 - Observational Constraints on Theories of Planet Migration and Dynamical Evolution

Thursday, January 7

Posters:

  • Joseph Converse - 478.03 - The Past and Future of the Pleiades: Binaries in Action
  • Eric Huff - 603.02 - Cosmic Shear in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • Etsuko Mieda - 606.11 - Optical to Near-Infrared Imaging Observations and Modeling of the AU Mic Debris Disk
  • Karin Sandstrom (Max Planck IfA) - 606.35 - The Abundance and Physical State of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Small Magellanic Cloud