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 Stahr Auditorum in Stager Hall.

Morning Oral Session

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

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.: Welcome, Fronefield Crawford (Franklin & Marshall College)

9:15 - 9:35 a.m.: Kristin Recine (Dickinson College), "A Light Curve Analysis of the Star V723 Cassiopeia" (15+5)

9:35 - 9:55 a.m.: Veronica Dexheimer (Gettysburg College), "Quark Core Impact on Hybrid Star Cooling" (15+5)

9:55 - 10:15 a.m.: Fronefield Crawford (Franklin & Marshall College), "The Strange Case of the Binary Pulsar PSR J1723-28" (15+5)

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.: Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Keynote Address, Duncan Lorimer (Department of Physics, West Virginia University), "Probing Fundamental Physics with Radio Pulsars"

Since their discovery over 40 years ago, radio pulsars (rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars) continue to surprise and delight astronomers and physicists. Their clock-like rotational stability permits measurements of various neutron star and any orbiting companion star parameters to extraordinary precision. In this talk, following a basic review of pulsar astronomy, I explore some of the current applications of pulsar timing measurements: (a) neutron star mass measurements; (b) tests of general relativity; (c) pulsars as gravitational wave detectors. I will also look ahead to some of the many upcoming facilities that are likely to further improve our knowledge in these and other areas in the coming decade.

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch in the Roschel Theatre Lobby

1:15 - 1:35 p.m.: Niel Brandt (Penn State University), "Supermassive Black Hole Ecology in the Chandra Deep Fields" (15+5)

1:35 - 1:55 p.m.: Phill Reed (Kutztown University), "Photometry of Interacting Binary Stars and the Effects of Asymmetric Accretion Structures" (15+5)

1:55 - 2:15 p.m.: Elizabeth Praton (Franklin & Marshall College), "A Group Activity for Teaching the Mayan Venus Table" (15+5)

2:15 - 2:45 p.m.: Coffee Break and Poster Session

2:45 - 3:05 p.m.: Peter Allen (Franklin & Marshall College), "Gemini Adaptive Optics Search for Very Low Mass Companions to Spectroscopic Binaries" (15+5)

3:05 - 3:25 p.m.: Stephanie Douglas (Franklin & Marshall College), "Searching for Wide Low-Mass Tertiary Companions to Degenerate Binary Systems" (15+5)

3:25 - 3:45 p.m.: Dominic Ludovici (West Virginia University), "Continuing the Survey for Neutral Hydrogen in LGG140" (15+5)

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

Jackie Milingo (Gettysburg College), "Rotational Modulation and Cyclic Activity in HII 1883"

Caitlin Ahrens (West Virginia University), "X-Ray Observations of a Black Widow Pulsar Binary System"