9:20 – 10:00 am check in & light refreshment.
10:00 – 11:50 am morning session. Chair: Mike Kesden (UTD)
10:00 am Yuan Li (UNT) and Ohad Shemmer (UNT): Welcome
10:10 am Sharon Felix (Austin College): Modelling a high
redshift cluster system using numerical simulations: the case of JKCS041
10:25 am Suraj Poudel (TCU): Gaseous Eruption of the 30 Doradus Starburst Region
10:40 am Johanna Vazquez (TCU): Dust in the Smith Cloud? A
UV Investigation into the Smith Cloud's Gas-Phase Abundance Patterns
10:55 am April Horton (TCU): Measuring the Physical
Properties of the Magellanic Stream
11:10 am Mohammed Mourabit (UT
Arlington): Nonlinear Three-Mode Coupling in Delta Scut
11:30 am lightning talks (2 min each): David Whelan (Austin
College), Nilakshi (Nila) Veerabathina (UT Arlington), Nevin Weinberg (UT Arlington),
Manfred Cuntz (UT Arlington), Ishaan Varshney (UT Arlington), Christina McNally (UT Dallas), Sarah Branham (UT Dallas),
Lindsay King (UT Dallas), Michael Kesden (UT Dallas).
12:00 – 1:30 pm lunch + poster session
1:30 – 3:00 pm afternoon session A. Chair: Lindsay
King (UTD)
1:30 pm Antareep Gogoi (UT Dallas): Exploring the Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium over Cosmic Ages
1:45 pm Tamanjyot Singh (UT
Dallas): Tidal disruption events: Inclination distributions for spinning
supermassive black holes
2:00 pm Tien Nguyen (UT Dallas): Distinguishing regularly precessing and lensed gravitational waveforms
2:15 pm Jake Reinheimer (UNT): Black
Hole Scaling Relations in Cosmological Simulations using Machine Learning
2:30 pm lightning talks: Aaron Smith (UT Dallas), Shrimoy Satpathy (UT Dallas), Kevin
Lorinc (UT Dallas), Carlos Davila (A&M
Commerce), Bibhudutta Rout (UNT),
Ohad Shemmer
(UNT), George Blaney (UNT), Yuan Li (UNT).
3:00 – 3:30 pm coffee break + poster session
3:30 – 5:00 pm afternoon session B. Chair: Ohad Shemmer (UNT)
3:30 pm James Lasker (SMU): The effect of pairwise inverse
probability weighting from alternate merged target ledgers on DESI clustering measurements
3:45 pm Rajeev Vaisakh (SMU): Modeling
the Clustering and Halo Occupation of Quasars with Uchuu
Simulation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey
4:00 pm Govinda Dhungana (SMU): Cosmological Distance Measurement of Twelve
Nearby Supernovae IIP with ROTSE-IIIb
4:15 pm Nathan Moore (A&M Commerce): Evolution of star
binding energy in accreting, spinning-up neutron stars
4:30 pm Joshua Belieu (A&M
Commerce): Refining a Model for the Inner Crust of Neutron Stars Using
Calculations of Semi-Infinite Nuclear Matter