Fall Meeting: Presentation Files

Below are presentation files that are available for download (as ppt or pdf files) from the 99th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO.  Click on the title to view or download the presentation file.

Friday, October 29th

• Sara Beck  VStar Demonstration  (Spanish version here!)
  
• Invited Talk: Doug Welch  "Picking Topics for Scientific Investigation"
• Paper Session 1:
  • Elizabeth Waagen  “The AAVSO Centennial Calendar”
  • John Pazmino  “The Water Tank Observatory”
  • Tom Williams  “Leon Campbell and his fifty years at Harvard College Observatory”
• Special Session: Roadmapping the Future of the AAVSO
  • Arne Henden "AAVSO Futures: 1996-2005"

Saturday, October 30th

• AAVSO Membership Meeting:
  • Arne Henden  AAVSO Director’s Report
• Paper Session 2:
  • Rodney Howe  “Solar Astronomy: Plasma Motion Detection at Radio Frequencies”
  • David Turner  “Visual Observations of Delta Cephei: Time to Update the Finder Chart”
  • Jerry Horne  “RS Sge Observations & Preliminary Analyses”
• Invited Talk: Tim Slater “What’s a Light Curve?  Unexpected Reasoning Difficulties When Interpreting Graphs”
• Paper Session 3:
  • Ashley Pagnotta  “The 2010 Eruption of U Scorpii”
  • John Percy & Emil Terziev  “Irregularly Pulsating Red Giants: Which to Observe, How, and Why”
  • Qian Wang & Lee Anne Willson  “Multiple spiral branches on late AGB stars”
  • Edward J. Los  “A Web Interface for the DASCH Photometry Database”
• Posters
  • Helmar G. Adler  “Simple Pulse-Width-Modulation (PWM) LED Source for Linearity Testing of DSLR Camera Sensor”
  • Kristine Larsen  “Revisiting the Un-named Fleming Variables”
• Paper Session 4:
  • John N. Rachlin and Mark G. McGettrick  “A variable star database for the iPhone / iPod Touch”
  • Edward F. Guinan  “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approaches for Analyzing automatically Zillions of Eclipsing Binary Light Curves.”
  • Paula Szkody  “The Latest Results on Accreting Pulsating White Dwarfs”
  • Doug Welch & Grant Foster  “Analyses of "Peculiar" W Virginis Stars in the Milky Way”
• Invited After Banquet Talk: Stephanie Slater  “Amateurs Matter: Women’s Pathways to Professional Astronomy”