{"id":420,"date":"2015-10-24T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/?p=420"},"modified":"2016-03-11T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:13:26","slug":"williams-hosts-astronomy-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/news\/williams-hosts-astronomy-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Hosts Astronomy Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Image: Williams College students who attended the 2015 KNAC symposium. L to R: Allison Carter &#8217;16, Michael May &#8217;17, Sarah Stevenson &#8217;17, Emily Stump &#8217;18, Anneliese Rilinger &#8217;17, Ross Yu &#8217;19, Becky Durst &#8217;16. Gillian, and Prof. Karen Kwitter. Not Pictured: Tina Seeger &#8217;16, MeiLu McDermott &#8217;16, Hallee Wong &#8217;18, Marcus Hughes &#8217;18, Tim Nagle-McNaughton &#8217;18<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why didn\u2019t the Dog Star laugh at the joke? If you were in science quad last weekend (October 17th) and asked one of the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium (KNAC) presenters, you would likely have gotten a chuckle and a response that \u201cit was too Sirius.\u201d KNAC, a collaboration of eight liberal arts colleges in New England (Colgate University, Middlebury College, Vassar College, Wesleyan University, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Wellesley College, and Williams College) funds summer research opportunities for astronomy students. The annual symposium, which rotates between the eight institutions, was hosted at Williams this year with\u00a032 student speakers and 9 poster presentations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams students presented on the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Tim Nagle-McNaughton <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><b> MeiLu McDermott<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cPhotoionization Models of Planetary Nebula in Outer Regions of M31\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Marcus Hughes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cSearching for Circumbinary Planets in K2 Data\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Tina Seeger<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cDeveloping a Methodology to Classify Io\u2019s Mountains by Morphology\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Hallee Wong<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cShort Term Variability in the Open Cluster NGC 1960\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Allison Carter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cPrecise Measurement of the Stark Shift in the Indium 6P_(\u00bd) State Using Two-Step Laser Spectroscopy\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Becky Durst<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cObservation of the 2015 Occultation of Pluto\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Anneliese Rilinger<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cIt\u2019s \u00a0Tight Squeeze: Reducing Noise Levels of Quantum Correlated Squeezed Light\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Sarah Stevenson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> : \u201cSecond Harmonic Generation and Magnetic Contrast versus Laser Intensity for Materials of interest in Spin Hall Effect Spin Current Generation\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Emily Stump<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cInfrared SED Decomposition of Active Galactic Nuclei\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Williams College students who attended the 2015 KNAC symposium. L to R: Allison Carter &#8217;16, Michael May &#8217;17, Sarah Stevenson &#8217;17, Emily Stump &#8217;18, Anneliese Rilinger &#8217;17, Ross Yu &#8217;19, Becky Durst &#8217;16. Gillian, and Prof. Karen Kwitter. Not Pictured: Tina Seeger &#8217;16, MeiLu McDermott &#8217;16, Hallee Wong &#8217;18, Marcus Hughes &#8217;18, Tim Nagle-McNaughton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/news\/williams-hosts-astronomy-symposium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Williams Hosts Astronomy Symposium<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39900,21878,65457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news","category-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/scientephic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}