📌 The 2025 student research symposium will be held on September 19-20 at Vassar College.

2025 Student Research Symposium

September 19–20 at Vassar College

The 2025 symposium is being hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar University, in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Additional details are forthcoming.

✉️ Questions should be addressed to your advisor, or to the Symposium organizers, Ed Buie II and Colette Salyk, at symp@knac.org .

2024 Student Research Symposium

September 27–28 at Colgate University

The 2024 symposium is being hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. The symposium will begin with a check-in (beginning 6:00pm) on Friday evening at The Coop at O'Connor Campus Center and dinner (beginning 6:30pm) also at The Coop. Evening activities will follow (beginning 8:30pm) at Foggy Bottom Observatory, Ho Tung Visualization Lab at Ho Science Center, and the Atrium at Ho Science Center.

Students and faculty will be checking in to and staying at the Red Roof Inn Norwich, 75 N Broad St, Norwich NY 13815, on Friday night.

The symposium will be held on Saturday in Golden Auditorium at Little Hall. The symposium will begin at 8:25 AM.

Lunch will be provided in Little Hall, after which lunchtime breakout sessions will take place.

Golden Auditorium at Little Hall is located south of College St and east of Lally Lane on the Colgate Campus Map.

For students writing papers, refer to these guidelines.

Also available are the symposium schedule and program (talks and posters), the Friday night event schedule, and an annotated campus map.

The slides from the lunchtime breakout sessions are available for Kevin Flaherty's Careers and Grad School session and Wesleyan students' Dark Skies Advocacy session.

2023 Student Research Symposium

October 6–7 at Wesleyan University

The 2023 symposium is being hosted by the Department of Astronomy at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. The symposium will begin with a check-in (beginning 5:00) on Friday evening at the Courtyard Hartford Cromwell, 4 Sebethe Dr., Cromwell, CT 06416, and dinner (beginning 6:30) at Cafe Fiore - Cromwell, 134 Berlin Rd, Cromwell, CT 06416. Evening activities will follow (beginning 8:30) at the Van Vleck Observatory, 96 Foss Hill, Middletown, CT 06459.

Students and faculty will also be staying at the Courtyard on Friday night.

The symposium will be held on Saturday in the Center for Film Studies Auditorium (301 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT). Breakfast will be served in the lobby of the Film Studies building Saturday morning (beginning 8:00). The symposium will begin at 8:50 AM.

Lunch will be provided in the lobby of the Film Studies building, after which lunchtime breakout sessions will take place.

The Center for Film Studies and Boger Hall are buildings 22 and 4 (located in map segment T-3 and Q-6), respectively, on the Wesleyan Campus Map.

For students writing papers, refer to these guidelines.

Also available are the symposium schedule and program (talks and posters).

The slides from the lunchtime breakout sessions are available for Ed Buie's Grad School session and Jeff Bary's and Jonathan Kemp's Dark Skies Advocacy session.

Recent Past Student Research Symposia

2020 Student Research Symposium

Virtual Breakout Sessions