[phas-dept] GREAT OPPORTUNITY-TODAY starting at 1:30

[Cheri Davis]

Good Morning,

A reminder that we are going to have a famous alumna on campus today, Sarah Cantu, who will be the physics colloquium speaker.  She will also be in the physics student lounge from 1:30-3.  Students are encouraged to make time to come by and meet Sarah or stay a while and visit as she will only be on campus this afternoon.


You might recognize her from her TV commercials

From Grit to Greatness
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DrXbI5dx90-2DY&d=DwIFAg&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=SYj1ICUYDJhQ3s7gQ1c5-aqf5SGsymPL2V1n6N8hvdY&s=yXb1xsfZmhpGS3fhvuO7WWI_9w-OhzB839miafIjrf4&e=


Today-informal visit 1:30-3-STC 111
Snacks available


Today at 4, STC 127-Colloquium


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Deep Imaging of Two Stellar Overdensities (a non-traditional academic experience)
Bio:
Sarah Cantu graduated from Texas A&M University-Commerce in December 2015 with a Bachelor's of Science in Physics and Mathematics.  She is a third year Diversity Fellow pursing her PhD in Astronomy at Texas A&M University-College Station.  She studies near-field cosmology with Milky Way satellite observations.  A Dallas native, she could live on tacos alone.
Abstract:
This talk will be an opportunity to present my own case study on a non-traditional path to graduate school in Physics and Astronomy.  As such, I will be outlining both my academic career (which touches a little on my personal life) and presenting any particular problems/coping mechanisms as they pertained to my experiences in academia and the sciences.  I will end with my current experiences including culminating research (see below for science abstract).
In the past decade, the number of low-luminosity Milky Way satellites has exploded.  This is due to the advent of numerous large-area, ground-based surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES).  I present deep follow-up Magellan/Megacam photometry of two ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the DES footprint. We use Peter Stetson's DAOPHOT/ALLFRAME package to derive point-spread function photometry and the DES Ultra-faint Galaxy Likelihood (UGaLi) toolkit to derive improved morphological parameters and isochrone fits.  One of these galaxies proves to be one of the first false-positives.  Our improved structural parameters show the second to be larger than previously thought.


If you have not met Sarah, you can find more information here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DrXbI5dx90-2DY&d=DwIFAg&c=oqyuZuih6ykib6aKiBq22_bich4AVfYGoLertJN0bEc&r=hjwEO_XYlnwAQWUGeaCrW47w4mK-Al28-BKyRvaivBs&m=SYj1ICUYDJhQ3s7gQ1c5-aqf5SGsymPL2V1n6N8hvdY&s=yXb1xsfZmhpGS3fhvuO7WWI_9w-OhzB839miafIjrf4&e=




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