The 34th Annual New Mexico Symposium
  09 November 2018 - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Instructions for presenters: please, see bottom of this page.


>>> Abstract booklet (available here)



Symposium Schedule


Time Title Speaker
08:40-08:45 Welcome Mark McKinnon (NRAO)
Session 1: Planets, stars & star and galaxy formation [chair: Simone Scaringi]
08:45-09:00 Evidence for Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy `Formation' Through Galaxy Interactions Paul Bennet (TTU)
09:00-09:15 Confused Sources in the ALFAZOA survey Monica Sanchez (UNM/NRAO)
09:15-09:30 The BAaDE survey, possible biases, and SiO masers as tracers of circumstellar shell conditions Michael Stroh (UNM)
09:30-09:45 Distinguishing evolutionary and chemical populations in the BAaDE survey Megan Lewis (UNM)
09:45-10:00 Pulsating Variable Stars in the NASA Kepler 2 Mission Joyce Ann Guzik (LANL)

10:00-10:45


Coffee & Posters


Common Room

Session 2: Stars & instruments [chair: Claire Chandler]
10:45-10:55 MRO Interferometer Status Update: First Telescope on the Array and Science Planning Michelle Creech-Eakman (NMT/MROI)
10:55-11:10 A resolved protostellar disk around a high-mass star, Orion Source I Adam Ginsburg (NRAO)
11:10-12:00 Colloquium: 'The First Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes' Volker Bromm (UT, Austin)

12:00-13:30


Lunch




Session 3: Transients & surveys [chair: Greg Taylor]
13:30-13:40 The VLA Sky Survey Josh Marvil (NRAO)
13:40-13:55 Early Cataloging of VLASS: Results and Planned Follow-up Seth M Bruzewski (UNM)
13:55-14:10 Ultraviolet variable stars in the Swift Galactic Bulge Survey (SGBS) Liliana Rivera (TTU)
14:10-14:20 STROBE-X: X-ray Timing & Spectroscopy on Dynamical Timescales from Microseconds to Years Thomas Maccarone (TTU)
14:20-14:35 Detection of a Low Frequency Cosmic Radio Transient using Two LWA Stations Savin Shynu Varghese (UNM)
14:35-14:50 Searching for Black Widow Pulsar Analogues with the Long Wavelength Array Chistopher DiLullo (UNM)
14:50-15:05 Optimized Radio Follow-up of Binary Neutron-Star Mergers Dario Carbone (TTU)
15:05-15:20 Predicting the Performance of Future PTAs: An analysis of the millisecond-pulsar population Tyler Cohen (NMT)

15:20-15:55


Coffee & Posters


Common Room

Session 4: Extragalactic [chair: Joan Wrobel]
15:55-16:10 Constraints on Gamma-ray Burst Engines in a Blandford-Znajek Framework Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (LANL)
16:10-16:25 Evidence of Complex B-field Structures in the ICM surrounding Cygnus A Lerato Sekobolodi (NRAO/SKA)
16:25-16:40 Direct Imaging of the Nuclear Torus in Cygnus A Rick Perley (NRAO)
16:40-16:50 The Curious Radio Streak in Abell 2256 Jean Eilek (NMT/NRAO)
16:50-17:05 Identifying Reionization Sources from 21cm Maps using Convolutional Neural Networks Sultan Hassan (NMSU)
17:05-17:20 Nonthermal production of dark matter from primordial black holes Jacek Osinski (UNM)

17:30-19:30


Cocktails & Dinner


Location: Macey Centre

19:30-21:00

Jansky Lecture: Dr. Roger Blandford (Stanford U.) -- 'The Radio Harvest'

Location: NMT, Workman 101



Instructions for presenters:

-- The talks will be 15 minutes (12+3) or 10 minutes (8+2), including questions.

-- You will not be able to use your own laptop for presentations.

-- We will have two laptops available for oral presentations: one Windows and one MacOSX. We will be able to handle the following formats: Power Point (Windows or Mac), PDF (Windows or Mac), and Keynote (Mac).

-- We request the speakers to ftp their talks to us ahead of time. (This is especially important if you have movies or other complications that might not work on a foreign machine, or if your talk is in the first session.)

-- Please upload your talk by 1pm, Thursday, 8th November if you want us to test it. After you have uploaded the talk please send Anna Kapinska an e-mail. This will give us time to get back to you if there are any problems. FTPing instructions can be found below.

-- The absolute latest you can put your talk on the laptops (and we ask this to be only in exceptional cases) is the break before your session. If your talk is in the first session, you must arrive by 8:20am to load the talk to our laptops.

-- To ensure a welcoming environment during the Symposium, we ask all presenters to abide by the NRAO Code of Conduct.



FTP instructions:

1. Name your talk file with your NAME

2. In a terminal type: ftp ftp.aoc.nrao.edu

3. Login as anonymous

4. Type: cd incoming/nmsymposium/

5. Upload your talk

6. E-mail Anna Kapinska that you uploaded your talk!

7. Please, upload your talk by 1pm, Thursday, 8th November, especially if you want us to test it.




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Last updated on 20 Nov 2018 by Anna D. Kapinska.