Astro On Tap – Seattle: Asteroids & Citizen Science!

Get excited for Astronomy on Tap at Bickerson’s Brewhouse in Ballard at 7pm! Each FREE Astronomy on Tap event features an accessible, engaging science presentations on topics ranging from planets to black holes to the beginning of the Universe. Most events have games and prizes to test and reward your new-found knowledge! There is always lots of time to ask questions and interact with the presenters and other scientists who inevitably stick around for the beer. Be sure to follow us on Twitter (@AoTSeattle), Instagram (@aotseattle), TikTok (@astroontapseattle) and here on Facebook to get updates on future events! Can’t make it to our event in person? Have no fear because you can always catch the live stream on our YouTube account or rewatch past favorites (https://www.youtube.com/@astronomyontapseattle2986/streams)! ————– Speaker Bios: Tobin Wainer is a 3rd year PhD. Candidate at the university of Washington, studying the processes of star formation. One long lasting remnant of star formation is stellar clusters. In his talk, Tobin will describe a citizen science project designed to find stellar clusters in our largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, how the stellar clusters will be used for science, and how you can get involved! Kathleen (Kat) Kiker is part of the ADAM software engineering team. Her prior research focused on black hole formation using Cloudy simulation software. She is skilled in a range of programming, modelling, and graphing tools to solve physics problems. Previously at Lockheed Martin, she led the development for the latest releases of a large-scale Fortran and C++ physics modelling code to run on high performance computers (HPC). Her work on ADAM will initially focus on building the data pipeline to perform orbit determination. Kat earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in physics from the New College of Florida, and a master’s degree in physics from George Mason University.