Students and faculty attended the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in New Orleans in January 2024. With over 3000 astronomers in attendance, AAS meetings are one of the largest gatherings of astronomers in the world. Valeria Lopez ’26, Hector Mendoza ’24, Berit Olsson ’24, Tasan Smith-Gandy ’24, and Dr. Kevin Flaherty all gave poster presentations about their research.
- Valeria Lopez: Conquest and the Cosmos: Traces of Colonialism in Ground-Based Astronomy
- Hector Mendoza: Comparing High-Redshift Galaxies and Local Analogs with CEERS Spectroscopy
- Berit Olsson: Using ALMA to Constrain Radially Dependent Turbulence in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk
- Tasan Smith-Gandy: Viewing Highly Ionized, Low-Metallicity Galaxies in the Mid-Infrared
