Thursday, September 20

5:00 Social Hour - Broyhill Inn

6:00 Meeting / Speaker

Professor Susan Trammell

Recent Findings in the Study of Planetary Nebulae

Professor Susan Trammell - UNC - Charlotte, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Research: Observational Astronomy

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Polarimetry

Planetary Nebula Formation and Evolution

Professional Experience

Asst. Professor, Physics Department, UNC Charlotte (1998- present)

Visiting Asst. Professor, Physics Department, UNC Charlotte (1996-1998)

Grainger Research Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago (1994-1996)

Selected Publications

Trammell, S.R. and Goodrich, R.W. 1996, Astrophysical Journal, 468, L107, "Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Imaging of the Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebula M1-92: Evidence for a Collimated Outflow."

Trammell, S.R., Dinerstein, H.L., and Goodrich, R.W. 1994, Astronomical Journal, 108, 984, "Evidence for the Early Onset of Aspherical Structure During the Planetary Nebula Formation Process: Spectropolarimetry of Post-AGB Stars."

Trammell, S.R., Dinerstein, H.L., and Goodrich, R.W. 1993, Astrophysical Journal, 402, 249, "Spectropolarimetry of the Post-Main-Sequence Bipolar Nebulae: GL 618, M1-92, and M2-56."

Education

Ph.D., 1994, Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

M.A., 1991, Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

B.S., 1989, Physics with Highest Honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Honors, Awards, and Accomplishments

Grainger Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago 1994-1996

University of Texas Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1994

University of Texas Astronomy Department Fellowship, 1989-1990

Chancellor's Award in Physics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989

Vatican Observatory Summer School in Astrophysics, 1988

For more information check her website at http://www.physics.uncc.edu/PhysStaff/Susan/Susan.html