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General
Renovations are now complete
at the ETSU Planetarium.
Dr. Henson
oversaw the installation of the new digital
Digitarium Planetarium in addition to new
seating, air conditioning, and flooring.
Dr. Luttermoser
installed a new 5.1 audio system using a Sony-ES
surround audio/video receiver, a Sony DVD player,
and Paradigm Monitor-series speakers.
Funding for the
renovations was provided by the ETSU Technology
Access program and the
ETSU
`Friends of Astronomy' Foundation account.
For more details, see
http://www.etsu.edu/physics/plntrm/planetarium.html
Students
Physics major Erin Middlemas
is participating in a Research Experience for
Undergraduates program at Baylor University this
summer. Her summer research involves
studying the effects of dust particles on argon
plasma.
Physics major Olivia Miller
is participating in a Research Experience for
Undergraduate program at Bucknell University this
summer. She is working with Dr. James
Higbie
designing and building an
imaging system that will be used to obtain images
of Bose-Einstein Condensates and their
interactions.
Physics major Jessica Webb is
working this summer in the ETSU Dept of Physics
and Astronomy with Dr. Beverly Smith on research
involving infrared observations of variable stars
from the COBE/DIRBE satellite
Physics major Nic Willis is
working this summer in the ETSU Dept of Physics
and Astronomy with Dr. Beverly Smith doing
research involving multi-wavelength observations
on interacting galaxies
Physics major Chance Brown is
working this summer in the ETSU Dept of Physics
and Astronomy with Dr. Richard Ignace on models
of polarization in stars.
Physics major Jessica Webb
presented her Honors thesis August 22,
2011. Her thesis is titled `Phase
Lags and Shapes of Light Curves of Asymptotic
Giant Branch Stars'.
Faculty
Drs. Mark Giroux, Beverly
Smith, and Richard Ignace attended the
May 2011
meeting of the American Astronomical Society
in Boston Massachusetts. Dr. Giroux presented a
poster entitled `Mid-Infrared Observations of
Possible Intergalactic Star Forming Regions in
the Leo Ring'. Dr. Smith presented a
poster entitled `The Local Environments of
Ultra-Luminous X-Ray sources (ULXs) in
Interacting Galaxies'. The latter
poster was co-authored by Physics major Olivia
Miller. Dr. Ignace gave a talk
entitled `Linear Polarization of Oblique Magnetic
Rotators'.
Drs. Richard Ignace, Gary Henson, and Tabetha
Hole attended the
`Stellar
Polarimetry: Birth to Death' conference held
in Madison in June 2011. Dr. Ignace
presented a poster entitled `Considerations of
the Hanle and Zeeman Effects in Oblique Magnetic
Rotators'. Dr. Henson had a poster
entitled `Optical Polarization Observations of
Epsilon Aurigae During the 2009-2011 Eclipse',
while Dr. Hole had a poster entitled `Can We
Detect Clumpiness in Supernova
Ejecta?' Dr. Ignace was a member of
the Scientific Organizing Committee for this
meeting.
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