LunGradCon: Conference Organizers

The Organizing Committee is comprised of grad students from a variety of institutions and areas of research.

Email the conference organizers.

• Jamey Szalay, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Jamey is a fifth-year graduate student at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, working with Prof. Mihály Horányi. His research focuses on dusty space plasma physics throughout the solar system.

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• Marcus Piquette, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Marcus is a first-year graduate student in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences department working with Mihály Horányi on simulations of the photoelectron sheath above airless bodies and spacecraft as well as dust dynamics on the lunar surface.

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• Evan Thomas, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Evan is a graduate student at the University of Colorado where he studies meteor ablation. He runs laboratory experiments using a dust accelerator to measure the plasma and light production of dust ablating in atmospheric gases. He enjoys the mountains and the Colorado sunshine.

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• Melinda Rucks, SUNY Stony Brook

  

  Melinda is a second year graduate student in the Geosciences Department at SUNY Stony Brook working with Dr. Timothy Glotch. Her current research focuses on the derivation of optical constants (or refractive indices) of common rock-forming minerals including pyroxenes and plagioclase feldspars.

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• Katherine Shirley, SUNY Stony Brook

  

  Katherine is a second year graduate student within the Geosciences Department at Stony Brook University working with Dr. Tim Glotch. Her research focuses on spectroscopy of airless bodies primarily on the Moon, but with applications to other bodies within the solar system.

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