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             Agenda for SIP 2011 Final Presentations
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         Location:  College 9/10 Multi-purpose Room, UCSC
         Date:      Saturday August 27, 2011
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 8:30AM -  8:45AM   Raja GuhaThakurta (UCSC)
                    - Opening remarks
                      (15 min)

 8:45AM -  9:05AM   Anirudh Suvarna (Monta Vista HS)
                    - Tidal streams in Via Lactea II, a numerical
                      simulation of the formation of a large galaxy
                      (15 + 5 min)

 9:05AM -  9:35AM   Aurora Alvarez-Buylla (Balboa HS)
                    and
                    Victoria Dean (Castilleja HS)
                    - Understanding the properties of distant galaxies
                      (25 + 5 min)

 9:35AM -  9:55AM   Lucy Cheng (Harker HS)
                    - Detailed chemical abundance patterns in
                      Andromeda dwarf galaxies from coadded spectra
                      (15 + 5 min)

 9:55AM - 10:15AM   Abrar Choudhury (Bellarmine College Prep)
                    - Using Andromeda's dwarf spheroidal galaxies as
                      probes of galaxy properties
                      (15 + 5 min)


10:15AM - 10:30AM   --- Break for tea/coffee/snacks ---


10:30AM - 10:50AM   Govinda Dasu (Harker HS)
                    - Isolation of brown dwarf candidates through
                      blackbody and Monte Carlo query spams
                      (15 + 5 min)

10:50AM - 11:10AM   Sumedh Guha (Archbishop Mitty HS)
                    - Carbon stars in the Andromeda dwarf elliptical
                      satellites NGC 147 and NGC 185
                      (15 + 5 min)

11:10AM - 11:30AM   Alex Hsu (Harker HS)
                    - Studying the host galaxies of quasars
                      (15 + 5 min)

11:30AM - 11:50AM   Christina Jansen (Castilleja HS)
                    - Using the Ca triplet to estimate [Fe/H] in red
                      giants stars in the Andromeda galaxy
                      (15 + 5 min)

11:50AM - 12:10PM   Chaitanya Malladi (Harker HS)
                    - The effect of scattered moonlight on spectroscopic
                      observations
                      (15 + 5 min)

12:10PM - 12:25PM   Sankalp Raju (Harker HS)
                    - Statistical determination of a general
                      mass-period-radius relationship for exoplanets
                      (10 + 5 min)


12:25PM -  1:30PM   --- Break for lunch ---
[1:00PM -  1:10PM]  Gordon Ringold (Dir, UCSC Silicon Valley Initative)
                    - A few brief remarks (during lunchtime)


 1:30PM -  1:45PM   Priyanka Sharma (Harker HS)
                    - Zooplankton ecology: krill population dynamics
                      and community interactions
                      (10 + 5 min)

 1:45PM -  2:05PM   Ananth Subramaniam (Harker HS)
                    - Neural visual processing
                      (15 + 5 min)

 2:05PM -  2:25PM   Rishi Bhandia (Harker HS)
                    - Angle resolved photo emission
                      (15 + 5 min)

 2:25PM -  2:45PM   Teresa Krause (Castilleja HS)  ***via phone***
                    - Matching up Hubble Space Telescope imaging and
                      Keck/DEIMOS spectra of Andromeda stars
                      (15 + 5 min)


 2:45PM -  3:00PM   --- Break for tea/coffee/snacks ---


 3:00PM -  3:20PM   Marion Lepert (Castilleja HS)
                    - Hydrogen treatment and CdS quantum dots
                      sensitization of TiO2 nanowires for
                      photoelectrochemical water splitting
                      (15 + 5 min)

 3:20PM -  3:40PM   Jay Reddy (Harker HS)
                    - Synthesis and characterization of semiconductor
                      metal oxide nanowires for photoelectrochemical
                      hydrogen generation
                      (15 + 5 min)

 3:40PM -  3:55PM   Kylie Jue (Castilleja HS)
                    - K.R.i.L.L.: Keeping records in length and location
                      (10 + 5 min)
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