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GRAM 2024
The 2024 meeting will be hosted at Georgia State University – Perimeter College. For questions and information, contact Jay Dunn at jdunn1@gsu.edu.
When– The meeting will start on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 4:30PM. We will have a keynote talk around 5PM and telescopes for solar viewing on hand (weather permitting). We also hope to have other fun astronomical items to share (attend to discover).
***Note – weather does not look promising for viewing. My plan is to still head over to HLCO for a tour. In addition, it has been tradition to have an informal dinner either before or after. We invite you to eat at Dos Amigos – Mexican Grill in Madison, GA either before or after visiting HLCO. We will discuss further at the meeting tonight.***
We will continue to run the meeting (talks and posters) through the afternoon of Saturday, November 2, 2024 (see schedule below)
Where– The meeting will occur on the Newton campus of Perimeter College. We will be located in the 2N building (lobby for registration and posters; talks in the auditorium – 2N 1000). The address for the campus is:
239 Cedar Ln
Covington, GA 30014
and a link for parking can be found here: Newton Parking.
Note that the plan after the keynote on Friday night is to tour Hard Labor Creek Observatory (about a 15-20 minute drive). Map and directions can be found on the HLCO website.
Accommodations– For local hotels near the Newton campus, we recommend:
- Holiday Inn Express, 14450 Paras Drive, Covington, GA 30014
- Residence Inn ATL Covington, 12120 Town Center Blvd, Covington, GA 30014
- LaQuinta Inn & Suites by Wyndam Covington, 9159 Access Road NW, Covington, Georgia 30014
- Hampton Inn Covington 14460 Paras Dr, Covington, GA 30014
- Home2 Suites by Hilton, 14470 Paras Drive, Covington, GA 30014
Registration-Talks and Posters are full. Late registration will be accepted through 10/29/2024.
Please use the Google Form link (please register regardless of whether you intend to present – we need a head count for lunches):
Schedule
9:00 AM – R. Scott Harris
The Roosevelt Impact Structure: Confirmation of a Large Extraterrestrial Collision in West-Central Georgia and Implications for an Asteroid/Comet Shower on the Moon Approximately 800 Million Years Ago
9:20 AM – Richard Willis Schmude, Jr.
Behavior of Jupiter’s Oval BA storm since 2000
9:40 AM – Erik Benner
What is Deerlick Astronomy Village
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM – Break & Posters
11:00 AM – Chen Wang
Decyphering Energetic Motion in Gas
11:20 AM – Madison Markham
Cepheid-Based Distances to Three Canonical AGN
11:40 AM – Nick Sterling
JWST NIRSpec Observations of the Enigmatic Large Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebula SMP 58
12:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Emily Burns-Kaurin
Space Weather in a Weekend: Multi-Instrument Analysis of the May 2024 Solar Particle Storms
1:20 PM – Nabanita Das
Stellar Dynamical Modeling of The Nearby Active Galaxy MCG–06-30-15
1:40 PM – Jeremy Jones
The Age of the Hyades
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Break & Posters
3:00 PM – Eric Goetz
Collisions between High Velocity Clouds and the Galactic Disk
3:20 PM – Alexandra Yep
Restoring a Large Telescope on a Small Budget
3:40 PM – Jay Dunn
Determinations of Physical Properties of Outflows Observed in PG1425+267
4:00 PM – End of Meeting
Posters
1) Ken Poshedly
The Assn of Lunar & Planetary Observers
2) Sam Kimball
The Search for SNRs in High Resolution DeMCELS
3) Isaac Asante
Comparison of ring diagrams based on the Doppler shift synthetic data obtained with bisector method and SDO/HMI pipeline
4) Erik Benner
What is Deerlick Astronomy Village
5) Tamima Saba
Relation between Two-Ribbon Topology and Flare Erupitivity
6) Mateo Vasquez
Tool and Asset Development for Occultation Full Dome Visualizations
7) David von Meyer
The Origin of the Elements: Understanding Krypton Abundances in NGC 6572 and NGC 7027
8) Jack Vogel
Radial Velocity Follow up of T.E.S.S. Hot Jupiters
9) Megan Gorman
Multiwavelength Spectroscopy of the Metal-Poor Planetary Nebula NGC 6790
10) Chase Ibanez
IRTF/SpeX Reveals the Heavy Element Composition of the Planetary Nebula SwSt 1
11) Rebecca Shoemake
High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the s-Process Enriched Large Magellanic Cloud Planetary Nebula SMP 58
12) Gregory Feiden
Convective Mass Growth as the Driver of Rotational Spin-down Stalling
13) Robin Shelton
The Universe has Even More Mass in Intergalactic Clouds and Even Heavier High Velocity Clouds than was Previously Thought