Below is the program for our 2019 ZTF Summer Undergraduate Astronomy Institute, which runs August 13th and 14th at Caltech. There may be an observing trip scheduled for a later date in August.
Day 1 – Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 Caltech
Meet at the Hameetman Auditorium lobby in the Cahill Astronomy building (1216 E California Blvd) on Caltech’s campus at 09:30.
09:30-10:00 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
10:00-10:30 Prof. Bryan Penprase (Soka): Opening Remarks and Institute Overview
10:30-11:00 Prof. Shri Kulkarni (Caltech): Zwicky Transient Factory
11:00-11:30 Roger Smith (Caltech): Instrumentation
11:30-12:00 Prof. Matthew Graham (Caltech): ZTF Machine Learning
12:00-13:30 Box Lunches
13:30-14:00 Prof. Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech): GROWTH
14:00-14:30 Yuhan Yao (Caltech): ZTF Type 1a Supernovae
14:30-15:00 Prof. Bob Abel (WWU): ZTF/LSST Community Brokers
15:00-15:30 Prof. Carol Hood (CSUSB): Cal-Bridge
15:30-14:15 Cahill Lab Tour: Roger Smith (Caltech)
18:00-20:00 Dinner at 345 S Lake Ave, CAVA
Day 2 – Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Caltech
Meet at the Hameetman Auditorium lobby in the Cahill Astronomy building (1216 E California Blvd) on Caltech’s campus at 09:00.
09:00-09:30 Coffee and Pastries
09:30-11:00 Communication and Presentation Skills Workshop
11:00-12:00 Free Time
12:00-13:30 Box Lunches
13:30-15:30 Student Presentations
15:30-18:00 Free Time
Banquet at the Athenaeum with guest speaker Mike Brown “Planet Nine from Outer Space”
The recent suggestion of evidence for a massive ninth planet in the outer solar system has set off a worldwide search to find this latest member of our planetary family. I will discuss the evidence for the planet and show how we are working to constrain the mass and orbital parameters of the body. The first phase of the search — using ZTF! — is now complete. I will provide an update of the results.
Meet at the Athenaeum on the Caltech campus. The hosts at the front will direct you if you let them know you’re with the ZTF Summer Undergraduate Astronomy Institute. Please dress appropriately.
18:00-20:00 Dinner at the Athenaeum with guest speaker Mike Brown (Caltech)
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