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Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium - 2025

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July 14, 2025
10:30 am - 2:00 pm
Hybrid: McPherson Lab 4054 & Zoom

Our annual SURP Symposium is coming up next Monday (July 14, 10:30-13:30, MP 4054)! We’ll be showcasing research presentations from this year’s SURP students. All are welcome to come support them! A pizza lunch will be served at 11:55 for SURP students and their advisors, and we’ve been told that Jake Kamen will be providing entertainment over lunch. 😊

For those wanting to join via Zoom, we will be using the Astro Coffee Zoom link.

Speaker: Summer Undergraduate Research Program Participants

Schedule/Details:

Time    Name    Topic
10:30    Lindsay Westraadt    Welcome
10:35    Sabrina Fortunak    Asteroseismic Target List for the Roman Mission
10:42    Lap Nguyen    Influence of Metallicity on Rotation of Solar Stars
10:49    Adam Ballas    Using C/N ratios as a proxy for Red Giant Mass
10:56    Greg Costa    Integrating Astrometric Precision to Microlensing 
11:03    Jackson Datkuliak    Updating the iLocater Control Interface
11:10    COMFORT BREAK     
11:20    Deeti Patel    Predicting the True Continuum for Broad Absorption Line Quasars
11:27    Lily Yu    Where is the Super-Virial Gas?
11:34    Brandon Lam    Constraining Helium Reionization with DESI-like Data
11:41    Dan Zurawski    Spin-orbit misalignment of TOI-5082
11:48    Jake Kamen    Atmospheric Chemistry & Dynamics of Two Ultra-Hot Jupiters
11:55    LUNCH    Jake - SURP Summer Polls
12:55    Mingyi Xu    JWST High Redshift Galaxies: Chemical Evolution of the Universe
1:02    Joe Ghammashi    Late-Time Photometry of SN2021aefx
1:09    Erin Bernthold    MISHAPS: Calibrating Photometric Data of the Galactic Bulge
1:16    Sophie Olsen    Detecting Faint Companions to Bright Stars
1:23    Suhas Reddy    TBA      
1:30    Lindsay Westraadt    SURP Closing

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