Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of students/postdocs of color (URM) who will be presenting at the AAS meeting. Many of the undergrads were students in the Harvard Banneker Institute, NAC and various bridge programs.
Rising seniors who are applying to grad school are marked with a "*"
Please be sure to stop by these scientists' posters and talks and hear about their exceptional research. If you plan on recruiting them to your institution, know that competition will be fierce!
105.02. A Light Curve probe of Stellar Surface Convection and Measure of Stellar Surface Gravity
Fabienne A. Bastien (Hubble Fellow)
110.04. On the Discovery of Massive ZZ Ceti Variables and the Peculiar Light Curve of SDSS J1529
Brandon Curd *
125.01. The Effects of Magnetic Field Morphology on the Determination of Oxygen and Iron Abundances in the Solar Photosphere.
Christopher S. Moore (grad student)
121.01. Measuring the Ultraviolet Variability of M Dwarfs with GALEX
Brittany Miles *
135.14 Star formation rates of spiral galaxies in the Cosmic Web, Tuesday posters
Mehmet Alpaslan (NASA Postdoc)
137.10. A CubeSat to Search for Transiting Planets Around the Young Star Beta Pictoris
Ameer Blake
137.15. Calibrating Images from the MINERVA Cameras
Ana M. Colón
137.16. High Precision Photometry of Bright Transiting Exoplanet Hosts
Maurice Wilson *
125.06. Resolving Volcanism on Io with Aperture Mask Interferometry
Chima McGruder
138.08. Lithium Abundance in Planet Search Stars
Justin Myles
138.17. A Habitability Test of the Exoplanetary System K2-3
Ryan Diaz-Perez *
138.18. Home Sweet Home?: Determining Habitability From the Eccentricities of Kepler-186
Moiya McTier *
138.19. Investigating the Orbital Period Valley of Giant Planets in Kepler Data
Brianna P. Thomas
138.20. Are there exoplanets near their Roche limits?
Timothy Sanders *
138.21. Introducing an unknown companion in the Kepler-56 system
Oderah "Justin" Otor *
142.09. Stellar & Planetary Parameters for K2's M dwarf Systems
Arturo O. Martinez *
142.19. TRENDS: Compendium of Benchmark Objects
Erica J. Eileen Gonzales (grad)
143.04. Discovering Massive Runaway Stars with Infrared Bow Shock Nebulae: First Results
Julian E. Andrews *
144.01. On The Origin of The Elements: The Spectacular Role of White Dwarfs
Carl Fields *
145.15. Magnetic Activity of Ultracool Dwarfs
Myles McKay *
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219.03. Three LINERs Under the Hubble Spectral Microscope
Mallory Molina
234.03. The Conditions Underpinning Extreme Star Formation in ULIRGs and LIRGs as Revealed by Herschel Far-Infrared Spectroscopy.
Gabriel Vasquez
236.03 Component Properties of T Tauri Star Binaries (Wednesday)
Ryan Muzzio
236.05 The DF Tau T Tauri Binary
Nuria M. Wright-Garba *
236.13. Probabilistic HR Diagrams: A New Infrared and X-ray Chronometer for Very Young, Massive Stellar Clusters and Associations
Jessica Maldonado *
238.09. The Dual Associations of Fermi Source 3FGL J2015.6+3709
Qiana Hunt *
241.08. High-Cadence Timing Observations of an Exoplanet-Pulsar System, PSR B1257+12 -
Rudy Rivera
241.18. A Particular Appetie: Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations of Preferential Accretion in the Supermassive Black Holes of Milky Way Size Galaxies
Natalie Sanchez
249.07. Applying the Principles of Systems Engineering and Project Management to Optimize Scientific Research
Adria J. Peterkin
318.06D: Using diffusion k-means for simple stellar population modeling of low S/N quasar host galaxy spectra
Gregory Mosby (applying for postdocs)
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318.02. A Continuum Framework of the Long-Term Optical/Near-Infrared Color Variability of Blazars
Jedidah Isler (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow)
323.04. Highest redshift neutral hydrogen image in emission: A CHILES detection of a star bursting spiral
Ximena Fernández
334.03. Identifying Extraplanar Diffuse Ionized Gas in a Sample of MaNGA Galaxies
Ryan J. Hubbard
339.03. Time-Resolved Spectral Analysis of Blazar 0716+714
Rosamaria Diaz
340.04. Radio and X-ray observations of the Ultra-long GRB 150518A
Louis Johnson *
342.06. Constraining the Satellite Quenching Timescale at z < 1.5
M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly *
341.06. Widespread Hot Ammonia in the Central Kiloparsec of the Milky Way
Tierra Candelaria
341.11. The Milky Way, The Galactic Center Poster Session
Junellie Gonzalez Quiles
341.14. Probing Metallicity across the Milky Way Disk with the VLA
Jonathan Barnes
342.11. Interaction Induced Size Evolution in Galaxies
Francisco Javier Mercado
342.19 H-alpha observations of MKW 10
Harold Johnson
342.26. CSS Object Found in Galaxy Merger 1015+364 at 2.3 and 8.5 Hz
Antonio J. Porras *
343.11 Millimeter Resolved Observations of the HD 181327 Debris Disk (Thursday)
Amy Steele (Graduate Student,UMD)
343.12. Analyzing the Distribution and Chemical Evolution of Major Nitrogen Carriers within Protoplanetary Disks
Jamila Pegues *
345.04. WTF- and A- Stars: Spectroscopic Analysis of Kepler Light Curves
Miona G. Short
346.09. Star Formation Rate in The Solar Neighborhood and Beyond
Bridget Kayitesi
346.15. The Spatial Distribution of Large and Small Dust Grains in Transitional Disks
Elizabeth Gutierrez
347.20. Discovery and Characterization of Large-Angular Size Ionized Nebulae with WHAM
Peter Doze *
348.20. Supernova Photometric Lightcurve Classification
Tayeb Zaidi
349.19. The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: Observations towards the NGC 7817/7798 Galaxy Pair
Amanda Harrison
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406.04. The Effect of Orbital Configuration on the Possible Climates and Habitability of Kepler-62f
Aomawa Shields (NSF Postdoc)
424.01. The Dense Gas Fraction in Molecular Clouds
Nia Imara (Harvard FFL Postdoctoral Fellow)
425.02D. At the interface of the disk and halo: A lesson from APOGEE and other large spectroscopic surveys
Keith Hawkins (applying for postdocs)
430.05. Kepler AutoRegressive Planet Search
Gabriel A. Caceres
446.04. AstroPAL: A Mentoring Program for Grad Students
Nicole Estefania Cabrera Salazar (finishing PhD)
