SLU Physics Attends National Astronomy Conference

Henry Priest Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue and Tyler Karasinski '24 attended the 243^rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tyler gave a poster presentation of his senior research project, Adapting ‘A Generalist, Automated ALFALFA Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation’ for use with Green Bank Telescope Observational Data, along with his fellow student collaborator on the project, Arya Desai '24 of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

At the meeting, Dr. O'Donoghue met with former St. Lawrence Physics students who are now advancing in their own careers as professional astronomers: Dr. Steven Goldman '13 (Science Software Engineer, Space Telescope Science Institute), Dr. Evan Smith '16 (Scientific Data Analyst, Green Bank Observatory), and Hailee Perkins '22 (graduate student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).