AAS Beth Brown Award winner presentations and CSMA Meet and Greet

Several current and former Beth Brown Memorial Award winners will be presenting their research at the AAS in Kissimmee, FL in Jan.  The Beth Brown Memorial Award is sponsored by the AAS and presented by the ASTRO committee of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) to two student posters and one student speaker at the NSBP meeting. The prize is named for Dr. Beth Brown an astronomer and active member of both societies, who died suddenly in 2008 at the age of 39.

2015 Oral presentation winner:

Christopher S. Moore (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

Abstract ID: 125.01

Title: The Effects of Magnetic Field Morphology on the Determination of Oxygen and Iron Abundances in the Solar Photosphere

Session Title: The Sun and Solar System

Session Date: January 5, 2016

2015 Undergrad poster winner:

Carl E. Fields, Jr. (Arizona State Univ.)

Poster Number: 144.01

Title: On The Origin of The Elements: The Spectacular Role of White Dwarfs

Session Title: Variable Stars & White Dwarfs Poster Session

Session Date: January 5, 2016

Former winners:

Keith Hawkins (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge UK)

Abstract ID: 425.02D

Title: At the interface of the Galactic disk and halo: A lesson from APOGEE and other large spectroscopic surveys 

Session Title: The Milky Way, Stellar Populations

Session Date: January 8, 2016

  

Gregory Mosby (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Abstract ID: 318.06D 

Title: Using diffusion k-means for simple stellar population modeling of low S/N quasar host galaxy spectra 

Session Title: AGN, QSO, Blazars: Physics and Models 

Session Date: January 7, 2016 

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CSMA Meet and Greet Scheduled for 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM; St. George 104 (Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center)