The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

May NJAG Meeting

By Kevin at Fri, 03/22/2024 - 11:42am
Event Date: 
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

galaxyDuring the May monthly meeting we have our annual Student Showcase wherein students from Montclair State and other local colleges give presentations about the physcis and astronomy research that they have been doing this year.

 

Our NJAG speakers for Tuesday May 14, 2024 at 8 PM in CELS 110 will be undergraduate students reporting on their astronomy and physics research projects.

 

 

Program:

 

  • Stephanie Montoya, Characterization of 2um Faraday Isolators (Advisor: Rodica Martin)
  • Renzo Herrera, Interferometric Investigations of the Thermo-Optic Properties of Materials for High-Laser-Power Applications (Advisor: Rodica Martin)
  • Sarah Estupinan Jimenez, Testing Thin Scintillating Polarized Targets (Advisor: Kent Leung)
  • Eric Swanson, Quantitative Analysis of Proton Content in Deuterated Poly(methyl methatcrylate) for Thin Neutron Window Material Selection in Ultra-cold Neutron Experiments, (Advisor: Kent Leung)
  • Kevin Vargas, Innovating Wind Energy: Analyzing the Efficiency and Performance of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (Advisor: Ashwin Vaidya)
  • Diego Sanchez (NJIT), Possible Drivers of Large Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances by Analysis of Aggregated Ham Radio Contacts (Advisor: Mary Lou West)

 

 

Here is the Zoom link to register for the meeting if you cannot attend in person.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuf-mvqz8tGNdYcQ7E2XGUGRLEABmbpjb-

 

 

Monthly meetings of NJAG free & open to the public. The meetings will be held at Montclair State University, in the Center for Environmental and Life Sciences or CELS Building, Room 110. This is located off the large lounge area at the back of the building. Room 110 is on your left. For direction to campus see: https://njastro.org/agx/content/montclair-state-university