The CUNY Masters Graduation will take place on June 2nd and showcase the work of 2026 CUNY Masters Graduates.
Agenda
| 10:00am to 10:30am | COFFEE AVAILABLE |
| SESSION 1 | Moderator: Jillian Bellovary |
| 10:30am to 10:35am | Allyson Sheffield | Introduction |
| 10:35am to 10:50am | Kennedy Jeter | 1D Crust-Magnetosphere Coupling Model for Magnetars |
| 10:50am to 11:05am | Andrea Bracamonte | Searching for M dwarf Coronal Mass Ejections with TESS and SDSS-V |
| 11:05am to 11:20am | Emily McPike | Electromagnetic Counterparts to Binary Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 11:20am to 11:35am | Carly Brown | Is There Anybody Out There? Information-Theoretic Methods for Detecting Exoplanet Technosignatures |
| 11:35am to 11:50am | Shawn Ray | Spinning and Kicking New Remnants: Considering Surrogate Models for McFACTS Merger Dynamics |
| 11:50am to 12:15pm | COFFEE/ SNACK BREAK |
| SESSION 2 | Moderator: Jillian Bellovary |
| 12:15pm to 12:30pm | Julia Stewart | Identifying Helium Emission-Line Stars with the Condor Array Telescope |
| 12:30pm to 12:45pm | James Baldwin | Can Galaxy Motions Reveal the Universe’s Matter Fraction? |
| 12:45pm to 1:00pm | Amethyst Barnes | The Fate of the Stars Lies in the Hands of the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Understand Star Formation Rates in Cosmological Simulations |
| 1:00pm to 1:15pm | Thyra Eysselinck | Characterizing Galaxy Cluster Gamma-Ray Emissions |
| 1:15pm to 1:30pm | Emma Kleiner | Discovery of Newly Resolved Filament and Extraplanar Gas in M33 with the Local Group L-Band Survey |
| 1:30pm to 1:40pm | Allyson Sheffield | Closing Remarks and Group Photo |
| 1:40pm to 3:00pm | RECEPTION |