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The Third
Tri-State Astronomy Conference at CUNY
October 28, 2011, 9:00am to 5:00pm

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY


Purpose of the Conference The Tri-State area is home to one of the densest concentrations of astronomers covering all areas of research. This one-day conference aims to bring together this community to build relationships between neighboring institutions and make faculty and students aware of the expertise that can be found in our community.

The conference will consist of six review talks on various areas of astronomy and a quick-fire session of one-slide/one-minute poster summaries.

Local Organizing Committee: M. Geha (Yale), J. Greene (Princeton), K. Johnston (Columbia), C. Keeton (Rutgers), A. Maller (CUNY), S. Metchev (Stony Brook), M. Modjaz (NYU)


Participation in this one-day conference is open to students, postdocs and faculty working in the Tri-State area (NY, CT and NJ).

Registration is free, but required, and includes breakfast and afternoon coffee.

The program consists of invited review talks and contributed posters.

List of Speakers
Maryam Modjaz (NYU)
Daisuke Nagai (Yale)
Matthew O'Dowd (CUNY)
Rachel Somerville (Rutgers)
Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton)

Questions and comments should be directed to tristateastro at gmail.com.

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