We'd like there to be ample time for discussion after each presentation. The times listed after the talks indicate the talk time + discussion time (in units of minutes). Speakers should make sure that their talks are no longer than the talk time.

All oral presentations will be in Adams Auditorium.

Morning Oral Session

8:15 - 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast in Hackman Lobby

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.: Welcome to Franklin and Marshall College

9:15 - 9:35 a.m.: Mark Stuckley (Elizabethtown College), "End of a Dark Age?" (15+5)

9:35 - 9:55 a.m.: Tyler Richey-Yowell (Dickinson College), "Characterizing Short-Period Eclipsing Binaries in the Field of NGC 2362" (15+5)

9:55 - 10:15 a.m.: Weimin Yi (Penn State University), "TBD" (15+5)

10:15 - 10:35 a.m.: Md Faisal Alam (Franklin and Marshall College), "A Rotation Slicing Module for AstroPy" (15+5)

10:35 - 10:55 a.m.: Elizabeth Praton (Franklin and Marshall College), "Tilted Infall Regions" (15+5)

10:55 - 11:25 a.m.: Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:25 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.: Keynote Address, Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins University), "The Cosmological Context of the Milky Way Galaxy"

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a typical large disk galaxy and can be used as a template for understanding how galaxies form. We can obtain much more detailed information about the stars that make up our Galaxy than we can for more distant galaxies. Stars retain memory of the conditions in which they formed and stars of mass like the Sun live for essentially the age of the Universe. We can thus use old stars nearby to probe the early epochs of galaxy evolution, in a very complementary way to direct observations of galaxies at high redshift. I will discuss how observations of stars in the Milky Way and in its satellite galaxies shed light on fundamental questions such as the nature of the dark matter that dominates how galaxies form and evolve.

12:25 - 1:25 p.m.: Lunch

1:25 - 1:45 p.m.: Ningxiao Zhang (Penn State University), "X-ray Insights in the Nature of Quasars with Redshifted Broad Absorption Lines" (15+5)

1:45 - 2:05 p.m.: Craig Cissel (Gettysburg College), "TBD" (15+5)

2:05 - 2:25 p.m.: Guang Yang (Penn State University), "Where Do Monsters Grow?" (15+5)

2:25 - 2:45 p.m.: Niel Brandt (Penn State University), "Selected First Results from the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South Survey" (15+5)

2:45 - 3:05 p.m.: Coffee Break and Poster Session

3:05 - 3:25 p.m.: Catrina Hamilton-Drager (Dickinson College), "The Photometric Evolution of Classical Nova V723 Cassiopeia (Nova Cas 1995) Between 2006 and 2016" (15+5)

3:25 - 3:45 p.m.: Kim Herrmann (Penn State Mont Alto), "The Great American Solar Eclipse" (15+5)

3:45 - 4:00 p.m.: Concluding Remarks

F&M ARCC Students (Franklin and Marshall College), "The Arecibo Remote Command Center at F&M"

Dylan Mosquera (Gettysburg College), "TBD"

Harry Swanson (Dickinson College), "Simulating the Orbital Dynamics of Accretion"

David Doerr (Millersville University), "X-ray Analysis of SNR 0103-72.6 in the SMC"

Elizabeth Praton (Franklin and Marshall College), "TBD"

F&M Students (Franklin and Marshall College), "The Grundy Observatory"