CSMA is proud to highlight presenters at the January 2019 AAS meeting who identify as People of Color. Please direct any additions, corrections, and feedback to astronomyincolor [at] gmail.com
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Monday, January 7
Talks** Bryan Terrazas (University of Michigan)
Graduate student
106.04D: The Role of Black Hole Feedback in Suppressing Star Formation in Central Galaxies
** Ekta Patel (University of Arizona)
Graduate student
106.06D: Revisiting the Dynamical History of the Local Group in the Era of High Precision Astrometry
Aomawa Shields (UC Irvine)
Faculty
103.07: Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M-dwarf Planets
Ka'iu Kimura (Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii)
Institute Director
101 Plenary Lecture: A Color Out of Space: ‘Oumuamua’s Brief and Mysterious Visit to the Solar System
** Yashashree Jadhav (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Graduate student
116.02: Monsters on the move: A search for supermassive black holes undergoing gravitational wave recoil
Know Your Power (Lauren Chambers, Nicole Cabrera Salazar, Lía Corrales, Dara Norman)
Special session
Posters
Qiana Hunt (University of Michigan)
Graduate Student
144.31: Find the Quenching Mechanism of a z ~ 0.7 Post-Starburst Galaxy
Erin Flowers (Princeton University)
Graduate Student
140.29: Getting to Know Your Star: A comparison of analytic techniques for deriving stellar parameters and abundances
** Elizabeth Teng (Haverford College)
Undergraduate
153.12: Pipe it up: How NICER Data Filtration Methods Affect Time-of-Arrival Accuracy
** Osase Omoruyi (Yale University)
Undegraduate
154.03: A WISE GLIMPSE of Star Formation in the Outer Milky Way
Lauren Chambers (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Postbac Analyst
157.12: Preparing for JWST Commissioning Calibration and Science with the Multi-Instrument Ramp Generator (MIRaGe)
** David Zegeye (Haverford College | University of Minnesota)
undergraduate
151.02: Probing Additional Gravitational Lensing Effects of Supernova iPTF16geu
** Diego Garcia (Middlebury College)
Undergraduate
163.02: Determining the Evolutionary Status of HD 166191
** Marcell Howard (Case Western Reserve University)
Undergraduate
145.08: : Probing the Evolution of Galaxies by Stacking Stellar Mass
** Aylin Garcia Soto (MIT/Wesleyan University)
Postbac/Research Assistant
154.12: Different Observational Properties of the Leading and Trailing Edges of the KH 15D Circumbinary Ring
** Prasiddha Arunachalam (Rutgers University)
Graduate Student
150.12: A HST study of the proper motion of the forward shock of 0509-67.5: a supernova remnant in the LMC
Gaby Sanchez (UH Manoa)
Undergraduate
144.13: Testing a Dust-Immune Metallicity Diagnostic in Nearby Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectroscopy
** Karen Perez (Cornell University)
Undergraduate
149.11: A Method for Mitigating Jitter Noise in Pulsar Timing
** Sophia Singh (University of Southern California)
Graduate student
157.01: Thermal Blocking Filters for Infrared Applications
Nicole Arulanantham (University of Colorado Boulder)
Graduate Student
163.11: Tracing Inner Disk H2 and CO in Protoplanetary Systems with HST-COS
Tuesday, January 8
TalksAntonio J. Porras (Vanderbilt University)
Graduate student
230.05: Dissecting the Anatomy of Bulge and Disk Dominated Galaxies through DARK SAGE
** KeShawn Ivory (AAS Site Visit Oversight Committee + Rice University (alma mater)), Post-bacc
Nicole Cabrera Salazar (Movement Consulting)
Town Hall: Climate Site Visit Town Hall
J. Sebastian Pineda (CU Boulder)
Postdoc
204.03: FUMES: Simultaneous Optical and UV Spectroscopy of an M-dwarf Flare
Eileen Gonzales (CUNY Graduate Center | AMNH | Hunter College)
Graduate Student
218.07 (Beth Brown Talk): A Reanalysis of the Age of TRAPPIST-1
Gibor Basri (UC Berkeley)
Faculty (semi-retired)
219: Report of the 2018 AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education
** Joey Rodriguez (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Postdoc
218.01: A Compact Multi-Planet System With A Significantly Misaligned Ultra Short Period Planet
** John F. Wu (Rutgers University)
Graduate student
230.03: Gas and galaxy evolution in extreme z ~ 1 clusters and extreme z ~ 0.2 starbursts
Posters
** Ashley L. Walker (Chicago State University | Johns Hopkins University)
Undergraduate
255.02: Infrared Transmission and Reflection of Titan Aerosol Analogues Under Vacuum
** Russell Van Linge (UC San Diego)
Undergraduate
259.3: Tuning Into Brown Dwarfs: Long-Term Radio Monitoring of Two Ultra-cool Low-Mass Binaries
Romy Rodriguez (The Ohio State University)
Graduate student
259.45: Finding Flares on M dwarfs with ASAS-SN
** Pa Chia Thao (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Post baccalaureate
247.23: The Young Exoplanet K2-25b: Flat Spectrum and High Eccentricity
Eileen Gonzales (CUNY Graduate Center | AMNH | Hunter College)
Graduate Student
259.01: Is TRAPPIST-1 a Unique M-dwarf Host Star?
** Jennifer Strafford (The Ohio State University)
Undergraduate
258.14: The Age Evolution of Radio Morphology of Supernova Remnants
Yssavo Camacho-Neves (Rutgers University)
Graduate student
258.06: Spectral divergence of the Type Iax Supernova SN 2014dt
** Junellie González Quiles (University of Maryland - College Park)
Undergraduate Student
247.2: Prioritizing Exoplanet Targets for Atmospheric Study using NASA’s TESS Mission
Dhanesh (DK) Krishnarao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Graduate Student
257.02: Online Astronomy Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
** Leonardo Ruales (Stony Brook University )
Undergraduate
261.03: Quantifying the Lensing Power of Cosmic Telescopes
** Nicel Mohamed-Hinds (Stanford University)
Undergraduate
261.12: Using Machine Learning to Predict the Masses of Galaxy Clusters
iPosters
Dhanesh (DK) Krishnarao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Graduate Student
267.03: Ionized Gas Near Galactic Center: Physical Parameters and Mass Estimates
Wednesday, January 9
TalksLaura Mayorga (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Postdoc
326.06: Cassini Phase Curves of the Galilean Satellites and Implications for Direct-Imaging of Icy Exoplanets
Ferah Munshi (University of Oklahoma )
Faculty
351.21: Into darkness: what the MARVEL-ous Dwarf simulation can tell us about star formation
Erin Cox (Northwestern University )
Postdoc
320.07: Using ALMA to push the limits of mapping magnetic fields in protostars
Carlos Eduardo Munoz Romero (Grinnell College)
Undergraduate
301.05: Characterizing Exoplanets with SKYWALKER: An Open Source Multi-Model Spitzer Self-Calibration Pipeline
Malena Rice (Yale University)
Graduate student
302.02: An Occultation Network as a Detector of Distant Solar System Objects
Hwihyun Kim (Gemini Observatory)
Assistant Scientist
342.03: Selection and Identification of LEGUS cluster candidates
Posters
Mia de los Reyes (Caltech)
Graduate student
366.03: Revisiting the Integrated Star Formation Law
** Danielle Rowland (Columbia University / STScI)
Undergraduate
351.01: Satellite Galaxy Characteristics in the SAGA Survey
** Evan Haze Nunez (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Undergraduate
364.16: Using Distant Galaxies to Constraing the Ionizing Photon Budget of Massive Stars
Rodolfo Montez Jr. (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Scientist
364.13: XMM-Newton observations of the AGB star chi Cyg and post-AGB star U Mon
Sinclaire Manning (The University of Texas at Austin)
Graduate Student
368.08: Radio Morphologies of Dust Obscured Starbursts in the SuperCLASS Field
Betsy Hernandez (Princeton University )
Post baccalaureate
369.18: Migration of Embedded Black Holes in Active Galactic Nucleus Disk Simulations
** Sierra Garza (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona)
Undergraduate
359.06: First Steps Investigating the Relationship between Solar Surface Magnetic Field and Coronal Soft X-Ray Spectra
Lina Florez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Undergraduate
363.22: Characterizing OH Sky Spectra Using SDSS BOSS Data
Tharindu Jayasinghe (The Ohio State University )
Graduate Student
360.06: Constructing an all-sky catalog of bright variable stars with ASAS-SN
** Tenley Hutchinson-Smith (Spelman College)
Undergraduate
348.2: Variability of Hundreds of X-ray Binaries
** Oscar Cantua (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Undergraduate student
368.07: The old the red and the dusty
Aleezah Ali (University of Washington )
Undergraduate student
348.12: Optical and Infrared Observations of the T Tauri Binary KH 15D
** Bayu Wilson (University of Washington)
Undergraduate
355.1: The Lyman-beta Power Spectrum from the XQ-100 Legacy Survey
** Marcus Dupont (Florida State University)
Undergraduate
359.04: Comparative Study of the Solar Wind: Modeling Charge State Distributions in the Heliosphere
Thursday, January 10
Talks** Natalia Guerrero (MIT)
Research associate
423.03: TESS Objects of Interest Catalog for Sectors 1-4 of the TESS Mission
** Amber V. Britt (Fisk University)
Master’s Student
402.06: Coronagraph Simulations with LUVOIR and HabEx: A New Era of Exoplanet Characterization
Ray Sharma (Rutgers University)
Graduate
435.04: Hungry Heart: Black Holes in Simulated Dwarf Galaxies
Catherine Espaillat (Boston University)
Assistant professor
421 Plenary Lecture: From Disks to Planets: Observing Planet Formation in Disks Around Young Stars
Posters
Theron Carmichael (Harvard University)
Graduate student
465.01: Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert: Short-period substellar companions from the Kepler and K2 missions
** Gabriel Casabona (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Graduate student
456.07: Detonation Initiation in Type Ia Supernovae