ALFALFA

The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey



Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Summer 2008
Union College Mini-Conference

July 16, 2008


Team members from Colgate, Siena, Skidmore and Union met at Union.


Group photo.

Others from Cornell, George Mason, Georgia Southern and Lafayette joined by telecon.

Schedule

Time

Speaker/Activity

Title/Description

  9:15 am Coffee and Pastries  
  9:30 am All Welcome and Introductions
  9:40 am Becky (Union) Galaxies in the Universe: Properties and Distribution
10:00 am Rose (Siena) Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution
10:30 am John (Union) Searching for Optical Counterparts for ALFALFA HI Detections
10:45 am Break  
11:00 am Jake (Skidmore) The Loss of Heavy Elements in Galaxies: Clues from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey
11:15 am Bobby, Kristie, Kevin (Siena) Adventures with Our Group
11:45 am Michael/Caroline (Colgate) Optical Variability of the Quasar 1749+09
12:00 pm Lunch  
1:00 pm Mary (Skidmore) Stellar Clustering
1:20 pm Erin (Colgate) The Universe in HI: The Rich Galaxy Group Zwicky 1400+09 as Seen from ALFALFA
1:35 pm Trevor (Colgate/Siena) Using the ALFALFA Survey to Analyze the poor Group WBL 251 (NRGs076)
1:50 pm Break  
2:00 pm UAT Groups Telecon  
3:15 pm UAT Groups Science Discussion Faculty Telecon
Students Tour Union
5:00 pm Dinner  


Last modified: Wed Aug 6 09:55:05 EST 2008 by becky