SMURF 2020
Monday, August 24 2023
9:00am - 12.15pm
via zoom
Welcome and Introduction -- Dheeraj Pasham and Scott Hughes
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9-10 AM: 8 mins presentation + 2 mins for Q&A
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Estimating the Lifetime of the Quasar Population at z~6
Karna Morey (Supervisors: Christina Eilers and Robert Simcoe)
Direct Imaging of Substellar Companions
Keith Gerard Mokry (Supervisor: Elisabeth Matthews)
What makes quadruply lensed quasars quadruple?
Richard Luhtaru (Supervisor: Paul L. Schechter)
Developing Next Generation X-ray Detectors for Astrophysics
Jared Scott (Supervisor: Eric Miller)
AI Feynman 2.0: Pareto-optimal symbolic regression exploiting graph modularity
Jiahai Feng (Supervisor: Max Tegmark)
Identifying Cosmic Explosions With TESS Data
Dan Schafer (Supervisor: Dheeraj Pasham)
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10-10:20 AM: 2 mins presentation + 1 min for Q&A
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NeuralNets to identify transients in TESS data
Michael Cantow (Supervisor: Dheeraj Pasham)
Creating a Web Interface for TESS Detected Transients
Marissa Klein (Supervisor: Dheeraj Pasham)
Building a Variable Star Classifier
Ally Hong (Supervisor: Michael Fausnaugh)
Constructing Classifiers for Tidal Disruption Events
Jason Yang (Supervisor: Michael Fausnaugh)
Identifying Ultra-Faint Dwarfs from Caterpillar Simulation Suite
Joseph Merkel (supervisor: Anna Frebel)
Environmental differences in the formation of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies
Hillary Diane Andales (supervisor: Anna Frebel)
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10:45-11:05 AM: 2 mins presentation + 1 min for Q&A
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Investigating accretion disks in young stars with high resolution spectra from Chandra Satellite
Rihn H (Supervisors: Pragati Pradhan and Moritz Guenther)
TESS Stellar activity
Mohit Digambar (Supervisor: Anika Kamath)
Telescope Designing and Teaching
Alexandra Weinsten and Stephany Pang (Supervisor: Robert Simcoe)
Robotic Telescope Control Software for WINTER
Allan Garcia-Zych (Supervisor: Nathan Lourie)
Using Geant4 Simulations and AMS observations to Reduce the Particle Background on the Athena X-ray Observatory Wide Field Imager
Brian Avendano (Supervisor: Eric Miller)
Testing improvements to CHIME beamforming for the FRB search
Lulu Russell (Supervisor: Kiyoshi Masui)
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11:05 AM-12:05 PM: 8 mins presentation + 2 mins for Q&A
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Numerical Calculation of Higgsino Sommerfeld Enhancement and Bound State Formation Rates
Lucas Arthur (Supervisor: Tracy Slatyer)
Using Pymultinest to Study Gravitational-Wave Sources
Kaylee de Soto (Supervisor: Sylvia Biscoveanu and Salvatore Vitale)
On Black Holes: Spectral Analysis of TDEs
Keaten Clarno (Supervisor: Erin Kara)
Spectral Analysis of Ark 564
Rachel Zhang (Supervisor: Erin Kara)
Using custom generated features for TESS light curve classification
Lindsey Gordon (Supervisor: Tansu Dylan)
Using a convolutional autoencoder for anomaly detection in TESS data
Emma Chickles (Supervisor: Tansu Dylan)