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April Monthly Meeting
April 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
In-person at RIT Carlson Building Room 1125 (simulcast on zoom)
Come as early as 7 pm to socialize.
Speaker: Jitrapon Lertprasertpong, RIT Ph.D. Student
Topic: “Galaxy Formation and Evolution” – several topics related to galaxy evolution and the death of galaxies.
Jitrapon Lertprasertpong is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Astrophysical Sciences and Technology Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is currently working with Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe to investigate how the local environment influences galaxy properties, including star formation rates and AGN activities. Throughout his academic journey, from undergraduate to graduate studies, he has been involved in various astronomy research, including The Coincidence Analysis of Neutrino Events from KamLAND and IceCube (2020-2021), The Study of the Galactic Bulge Models for Determining JASMINE’s Precision (2020-2021), and The Study of Environmental Quenching of Galaxies in CANDELS Fields (2021-Present). He also has hands-on experience in observational astronomy, having collected data using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, and is proficient in using various data analysis tools for his research.