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 Bonchek Auditorum in the LSP Building.

Morning Oral Session

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

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.: Welcome, Fronefield Crawford (Franklin and Marshall College)

9:10 - 9:30 a.m.: Joshua Pepper (Lehigh University), "Discovery in the Bright Time Domain: Planets, Disks, and More" (15+5)

9:30 - 9:50 a.m.: Ryan Lane (Dickinson College), ""Modeling the Evolution of the Cataclysmic Variable V723 Cassiopeia" (15+5)

9:50 - 10:10 a.m.: Harold Williams (Montgomery College) (15+5)

10:10 - 10:30 a.m.: Arpita Roy (Penn State University), "The Quest for Habitable Worlds Using Doppler Spectroscopy" (15+5)

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.: Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Keynote Address, Niel Brandt (Penn State University), "A Good Hard Look at Growing Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe"

Sensitive cosmic X-ray surveys with the Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR observatories have revolutionized our ability to find and study distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the main sites of supermassive black hole growth in the Universe. I will describe some of the resulting discoveries about the demography, physics, and ecology of AGNs. Topics covered will include the utility of deep X-ray plus multiwavelength surveys for investigating distant AGNs; evolution constraints for the typical AGNs of the distant Universe; the cosmic balance of power between supermassive black holes and stars; interactions between AGNs and their hosting galaxies; and the AGN content of newly forming galaxies. I will end by discussing some key outstanding questions and new observations and missions that aim to answer them.

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch in Druker Family Commons (LSP Building)

1:15 - 1:35 p.m.: Andrea Lommen (Franklin and Marshall College), "Einstein's Last Legacy: Measuring Wrinkles in Space-time" (15+5)

1:35 - 1:55 p.m.: Emma Handzo (Franklin and Marshall College), "Characterizing the Timing Noise of NANOGrav Pulsars" (15+5)

1:55 - 2:15 p.m.: Howard Bond (Penn State University), "The Curious Case of Hevelius's Nova of 1670, CK Vulpeculae" (15+5)

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

2:45 - 3:05 p.m.: John Stein (Geneva College), "Building an Affordable Observatory at Geneva College" (15+5)

3:05 - 3:25 p.m.: Jack Madden (Franklin and Marshall College), "Automating the Visual Task of Pulsar Identification" (15+5)

3:25 - 3:45 p.m.: Jonathan Hargis (Haverford College), "Too Many, Too Few, or Just Right? The Predicted Number and Distribution of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies and the Implications for Lambda+CDM" (15+5)

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

Caitlin Hay (Gettysburg College), poster

Brian Flood (Gettysburg College), poster

Jenae Shoup (Kutztown University), "Photometric Analysis of the Recently Discovered W UMa Star NR Camelopardalis: Period change and Spot Migration"

Scott Rogers (Kutztown University), "Spots on the Move for the Magnetically Active Binary System DV Piscium"

Billy Cimorelli (Kutztown University), "Multicolor Light Curve of the Recent Supernova SN2014J"

Stephanie Klein (Kutztown University), "High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of R Arae: An Active Interacting Binary Star with a Blended Spectrum"

Michael Ashton (Bloomsburg University), poster

Beth Praton (Franklin and Marshall College), poster

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