The 2017 TAURUS Scholars' Symposium was held on Friday August 11, the last day of this summer's nine week program. The room was packed with members of the astronomy department and McDonald Observatory staff, eager to hear about the scholars' work over the past several weeks. The symposium is a great time for the UT astronomy community to celebrate the accomplishments of TAURUS scholars with their mentors and share the great science which has consumed their summers.
The program of talks was:
Star Formation in Merging Galaxies using FIRE
Adrianna Perez, California State University Dominguez Hills
Mentor: Chao-Ling Hung
Kepler Meets Bayes: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet Host Star HR8799
Aldo Sepulveda, University of Texas San Antonio
Mentor: Brendan Bowler
Investigating Lensed Galaxy Structure
Alexander Fortenberry, University of the Virgin Islands
Mentor: Rachael Livermore
How well can we really measure the substellar boundary?
Andrew Cancino, Missouri State University
Mentor: Trent Dupuy
Probing Into the Atmosphere of the Young Exoplanet K2-25b
Pa Chia Thao, Mt Holyoke College
Mentor: Andrew Mann
Categorizing Candidate Galaxy Protoclusters with Planck
Jonathon Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Caitlin Casey
After the talks we celebrated with refreshments as we wished our TAURUS scholars well on their journeys back to their home universities! But this isn't goodbye, because we will all see the TAURUS scholars again soon at the 2018 winter meeting of the AAS in National Harbor, Maryland this coming January!
Here are some great shots of the 2017 TAURUS send-off:
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| The reception after the talks! |
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| TAURUS Scholars with Director Caitlin Casey. |
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| The silly group shot. :) |
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| TAURUS Scholars with their Grad Mentors! |
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