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• NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt spoke at the University of Texas, in Austin, on March 4, 2008.

• NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt gave a colloquium talk at the University of Maryland, on February 6, 2008.

• 211^th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  NMSU was strongly represented at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Austin in January, 2008.
  
  
  • Jillian Bornak, Tom Harrison, F. Cordova, S. B. Howell, & P. Szkody
    The Initial Masses and Evolutionary History of the Secondary Stars in Long Period X-ray Binaries with Black Hole Primaries
  • Bernie McNamara, Jillian Bornak, Tom Harrison, & M. Rupen
    The Infrared Variability of GX17+2 and Low-Mass X-ray Binary Jets
  • Jeffrey Coughlin, H. Dale, & R. Williamon
    Long-term Photometric Analysis of the Active W UMa-type System TU Bootis
  • Tom Harrison, Jon Holtzman, T. Farley, R. Morgan, R. Ramachandran, B. Valverde, J. L. Castellano, & R. A. Pena
    The New Mexico State Universty High Speed Photometer
  • Rene Walterbos, Jiehae Choi, Sophia Cisneros, Maria Patterson, & Cat Wu
    Multi-long-slit Spectroscopy For Kinematic Studies. I. Implementation And Demonstration
  • Jiehae Choi, Sophia Cisneros, Cat Wu Maria Patterson, & Rene Walterbos
    Multi-long-slit Spectroscopy For Kinematic Studies. II. Initial Results For The Edge-on Galaxies NGC891 And NGC4244
  • Ryan Campbell & Tom Harrison
    Phase-resolved Cyclotron Spectroscopy of Polars
  • Catharine J. Wu & B. M. Lewis
    Mass-Loss Rates in High-Latitude OH/IR Stars
  • Joni Johnson, Tom Harrison, Joe Wellhouse, Jillian Bornak, Ryan Campbell, J. E. Lyke, S. B. Howell, P. Szkody, & F. Cordova
    Are There Any Other Old Novae Like V1500 Cyg?
  • Chris Churchill, Anatoly Klypin, Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, & Glenn Kacprzak,
    Comparative Analysis of Gas Halos in High Redshift Galaxies: Observations vs L-CDM Simluations with Feedback
  • Douglas Hoffman, Tom Harrison, Bernie McNamara, & T. Vestrand
    New Algol Candidates from the ROTSE-I Database
  • Glenn Kacprzak, Chris Churchill, Chuck Steidel, Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, Anatoly Klypin, & M. T. Murphy
    The Morphological and Kinematic Gas-Galaxy Relations in Early-Epoch Galaxies
  • Allison Widhalm, Chris Churchill, Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, & Anatoly Klypin
    The Evolution of the Gaseous Halo of the Milky Way Galaxy as a Probe for Galaxy Evolution: Comparing Simulations with Observations
  • Stephanie Snedden, D. Oravetz, A. Simmons, J. Baerny, C. MacLeod, B. Balick, D. Bizyaev, H. Brewington, O. Malanushenko, V. Malanushenko, K. Pan, S. Watters, Kurt Anderson, J. Lutz, A. Kniazev, K. Kwitter, & the SDSS Collaboration
    A Search for Galactic Halo and Thick Disk Planetary Nebulae in the SDSS Footprint: First Results
  • Ashley Ruiter, G. Nelemans, & K. Belczynski
    Evolutionary Pathways Leading to Double Degenerate Mergers and SN Ia Progenitors
  • Matthew Benacquista, K. Belczynski, Ashley Ruiter, & K. Holley-Bockelmann
    The Contribution Of Halo White Dwarf Binaries To The LISA Gravitational Wave Signal
  • Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez & Anatoly Klypin
    The Role of Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Formation in a LCDM Universe
  • C. Martin Gaskell, Elizabeth Klimek, & L. S. Nazarova
    The Structure of the Torus and Broad-line Region Of AGNs
  • Steven R. Majewski, M. F. Skrutskie, R. P. Schiavon, J. C. Wilson, R. W. O'Connell, V. V. Smith, M. Shetrone, K. Cunha, P. M. Frinchaboy, I. N. Reid, C. Allende-Prieto, D. Eisenstein, R. Indebetouw, M. J. Nelson, R. J. Patterson, R. T. Rood, T. Beers, J. Bullock, J. D. Crane, D. Geisler, S. L. Hawley, Jon Holtzman K. V. Johnston, A. McWilliam, J. A. Munn, D. N. Spergel, D. Weinberg, & M. Weinberg
    The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
  • Brandon Lawton, Chris Churchill, B. A. York, S. L. Ellison, T. P. Snow, D. S. Rupke, S. Veilleux, R. A. Johnson, & S. G. Ryan
    Observational Constraints on Reddening and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Early Epoch Galaxies

• 39^th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
  NMSU planetary scientists presented their work at the meeting held in Orlando in October 2007.
  
  
  • Gordon Bjoraker, Nancy Chanover, T. Hewagama, A. Simon-Miller, D. Glenar, & K. H. Baines
    The Deep Cloud Structure of Jovian Storms from 5-micron Spectra
  • Mark A. Bullock, E. F. Young, & Tanya Tavenner
    Constraints On Cloud Particle Size Distributions From Venus Nightside Infrared Measurements
  • Stephen Bussard
    The Correlation Between Vertical Dust Distribution Atmospheric Thermodynamics on Mars
  • Bryan J. Butler, M. A. Slade, D. O. Muhleman, K. Mogren, & Malynda R. Chizek
    Mars Radar Reflectivity - Focus on South Polar Regions
  • Nancy J. Chanover, G. L. Bjoraker, T. Hewagama, D. Glenar, & K. H. Baines
    A North-South Comparison of Saturn's Infrared Spectrum
  • Charles Miller, Nancy J. Chanover, Jon A. Holtzman, & A. J. Verbiscer
    Observations of Time Variable Magnitude Events of Phoebe, Ariel, and Titania
  • James Norwood & Nancy J. Chanover
    Latitudinal Variations in Uranus' Near-Infrared Methane Absorption Bands
  • Matthew Smith, K. Block, S. Byram, B. M. Karpowicz, N. Lanza, J. Masiero, Charles Miller, S. Singer, B. Smith, A. Winfield, L. Wye, & T. Balint
    The Wirtanen Analysis and Surface Probe: Concept for a New Frontiers Comet Surface Sample Return Mission
  • Michael Sussman, T. E. Dowling, & Nancy J. Chanover
    EPIC Modeling of Seasonal Thermal Forcing on Uranus
  • Tanya Tavenner, E. Young, M. Bullock, & Jim Murphy
    Ground-based Wind Speed Measurements of Venus' Lower Cloud Deck
  • Leslie Young, J. Bally, J. M. Bauer, M. W. Buie, Nancy J. Chanover, R. G. French, R. E. Hill, D. Hiriart, Jon A. Holtzman, R. R. Howell, D. E. Jennings, P. Massey, K. Y. Matthews, L. R. Miko, R. L. Millis, P. D. Nicholson, C. B. Olkin, W. B. Owen, C. Plymate, J. Regester, H. G. Roe, C. R. Ruhland, P. V. Sada, L. Salas, S. A. Severson, K. Shoemaker, T. von Hippel, E. F. Young, J. W. Young, & A. Zangari
    Visible and Near-IR Observations of the 2007 March 18 Occultation by Pluto

• NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt was invited to speak at an international meeting on the formation and evolution of galaxy disks, sponsored by the Vatican Observatory in Rome, October 1-5, 2007.

• NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt visited the University of Washington on April 19, 2007, to talk about the evolution of spiral galaxies over the last ten billion years for the weekly colloquium talk.

• NMSU astronomy professor Jon Holtzman gave a colloquium to the NMSU Mathematics Department on The Accelerating Universe And The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Supernova Survey, on March 29, 2007.

• NMSU astronomy professor Rene Walterbos spoke at the NRAO Array Operations Center Colloquium Series in Socorro, on March 30, 2007, on The Central Region of M33: Bars Seem Popular in the Local Group.

• NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt was invited to give an astrophysical colloquium at the University of California, San Diego, on February 21, 2007. She discussed new results on Disk Galaxy Evolution as a Function of Redshift: Disentangling Evolution and Selection Biases.

• 209^th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  NMSU had good representation at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Seattle in January, 2007.
  • Roberto Avila,
    Stellar Populations of the Disk of M33
  • Ryan Campbell,
    Phase-Resolved Infrared Cyclotron Spectroscopy of Polars
  • Chris Churchill, Glenn Kacprzak, Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, Jessica Evans, & Allison Widhalm,
    Spatial Probing of MgII Absorption in "Halo" Gas through Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Galaxies
  • Jessica Evans, Chris Churchill, & Michael Murphy
    Evidence for Evolution in Weak MgII Absorbers at z < 1.5
  • Douglas Hoffman,
    Light Curves of Newly Discovered Variable Stars from ROTSE-I Observations
  • Jon Holtzman,
    Photometry and Light Curves for the SDSS-II SN Survey
  • Brandon Lawton, Chris Churchill, ...
    Study of Diffuse Interstellar Bands in 7 Intermediate Redshift Galaxies
  • Joseph Wellhouse,
    Near Infrared Quantitative Abundance Analysis of The Secondary Stars in a Sample of CVs

• 38^th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
  NMSU planetary scientists presented their work at the meeting held in Pasadena in October 2006.
  • Jennie Giron & Anita Sohus
    NASA Planetary Science Summer School: Longitudinal Study
  • Jim Norwood, Nancy Chanover, & Heidi Hammel
    Constraints On The Distribution Of Methane In Uranus' Atmosphere
  • Amy Simon-Miller, Nancy Chanover, & Glenn Orton
    Jupiter's White Oval Turns Red
  • Paul Strycker, Nancy Chanover, Michael Sussman, & Amy Simon-Miller
    A Spectroscopic Search for Jupiter's Chromophores
  • Michael Sussman, Nancy Chanover, Amy Simon-Miller, & Raul Morales-Juberias
    Dynamical Analysis of the Reddening of Jovian Oval BA
  • Tanya Tavenner, Elliot Young, Jim Murphy, Sky Coyote, Mark Bullock, & Scot Rafkin
    A Sharper View of Venus: Strategies For Precise Cloud Tracking of Venus' Lower Cloud Deck
  • Michael Theriot, ... , Jim Murphy, ...
    Interannual Comparison of Temporal and Spatial Structure in the Martian Thermosphere from Atmospheric Accelerometer Measurements of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) during Aerobraking and Stellar Occultation Measurements from the SPICAM Ultraviolet Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer of Mars Express (MEX)
  • Anne Verbiscer, ... , Nancy Chanover, Jon Holtzman, ...
    Phoebe at True Opposition: Multiwavelength Phase Curves
  • Paul Withers, Jim Murphy, ...
    Mars Odyssey Accelerometer Results

• 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomy Union
  NMSU professor Nicole P. Vogt was invited to give a review talk at the IAU Symposium #235, Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time, August 14-17, 2006 in Prague, the Czech Republic.
  • Nicole P. Vogt,
    The Tully-Fisher Relation as a Function of Redshift:
    Disentangling Galaxy Evolution and Selection Biases

• Galaxies in the Cosmic Web
  The NMSU astronomy department hosted a conference on the growth of galaxies and their halos in filaments, groups, and voids, galaxy formation, lensing, satellites, and dark matter distributions, May 15-19, 2006.
  • Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, Feedback
  • Chris Churchill, Dynamical Connections between Galaxies and their Gas at large z's
  • Anatoly Klypin, Satellite Dynamics and Mass Distribution in Outer Parts of Galaxies
  • Nicole P. Vogt, The Evolution of Spiral Galaxy Scaling Relations with Redshift
  • Rene Walterbos, Rotation Curve and Mass Modeling of M33

• 207^th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  NMSU was strongly represented at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Washington, D.C. in January, 2006.
  • Tom Harrison, Steve Howell & Joni Johnson,
    Modeling the Carbon Abundances in the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables
  • Doug Hoffman, Tom Harrison, Bernie McNamara & Tom Vestrand,
    New O-C Observations for 150 Algols: Insight to the Origins of Period Shifts
  • Joni Johnson, Ryan Campbell, Tom Harrison & Steve Howell,
    Low Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Polars
  • Neal Miller & Kurt Anderson,
    J170902+641728: The Little Engine that Could
  • Stephanie Snedden et al.,
    An SDSS Survey of Galactic Planetary Nebulae: Target Selection and Preliminary Results
  • Joe Wellhouse, Tom Harrison, Steve Howell, & Paula Szkody,
    The Origin of the Molecular Emission in WZ Sagittae

• Nearly Normal Galaxies in a LCDM Universe
  NMSU astronomers celebrated their close connection with Sandy Faber, Joel Primack, and George Blumenthal in a triple 60th birthday celebration at UC Santa Cruz on July 8-12, 2005.
  • Jon Holtzman, Bulge Stellar Populations
  • Anatoly Klypin, Halo Substructure in Simulations
  • Nicole P. Vogt, Disk Galaxy Evolution to Redshifts z ~ 1

• Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies
  NMSU astronomers attended a meeting held on the island of Terschelling in the north of the Netherlands on July 3-8, 2005
  • Bhasker Moorthy, Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure and Kinematics
  • Nicole P. Vogt, Evolutionary History of Disk Galaxies

• The Formation of Disk Galaxies
  NMSU was well represented at an idyllic meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, June 15 - July 1, 2005.
  • Bhasker Moorthy, Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure and Kinematics
  • Nicole P. Vogt, The Role of Selection Effects in Mimicking Galaxy Evolution

• IAU Colloquium 199 Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines
  Three NMSU astronomers of the NMSU Quasar Absorption Line Group attended an international conference in Shanghai, China in March, 2005. For more information, see the NMSU Press Release.
  • Chris Churchill, MgII Absorption through Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift
  • Glenn Kacprzak, Galaxy Halo-Gas Kinematics Connections
  • Brandon Lawton, A Search for Organic Molecules in Intermediate Redshift DLAs

• NMSU hosted the Spring Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, March 21 - 25, 2005.