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Raynor L Duncombe Prize for Student Research Winners

   
Meeting Year     Student and presentation
   26.  1995     Julia Espresate-Eibenschutz (SUNY Stony Brook),
                  "Transient Torque on a Dissipation-less Annulus at the
                   2:1 Orbital Resonance"
                 Jane Morrison (University of Florida),
                  "Re-reduction of the Southern Polar Zone of the Yale
                   Photographic Catalog"
   27.  1996     Jose Luis Alvarellos (San Jose State University),
                  "Orbital Stability of Hypothetical Distant Satellites of the
                   Jovian Planets"
                 Kevin Grazier (UCLA, JPL),
                  "Integrators for Long-Term Solar System Dynamical Simulations"
   28.  1997     Dana Dinescu (Yale),
                  "Tangential Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters:
		   New Results"
                 Francis Wilkins (UC Berkeley),
                  "Analytic Solutions for Non-Axisytnmetric Stellar Wind Bow
                   Shocks and Binary Wind Collisions"
   29.  1998     Elena Grocheva (Pulkovo Observatory),
                  "Applications of Probability Theory to the Identification
                   and Analysis of Binary Star Systems"
                 Jounghun Lee (U. Kansas),
                  "The Cosmological Mass Distribution Function in the
                   Zel'dovich Approximation."
   30.  1999     Jacob Bak (Ohio University),
                  "Properties of Cores Formed by Retrograde Minor Mergers"
                 Steven Deines (Iowa State University),
                  "Apparent Deceleration of the Lunar Mean Motion and the
                   Uncompensated Time Dilation in Timescales"
   31.  2000     Joseph Adams (University of Massachusetts)
                  "Results on the Structure and Mass of the Pleiades from a
                   2MASS-USNO Proper Motion Search"
                 Robert Salow (Ohio University)
                  "Self-Consistent Models of Eccentric Nuclear Disks"
   32.  2001     Eric Barnes (Louisiana State University)
                  "Characterizing 3D Stellar Orbits with Correlation Integrals"
                 Britt Scharringhausen (Cornell University, Advisor: Phil Nicholson)
                  "Adaptive Optics Observations of Saturn's Inner Moons"
   33.  2002     Matija Cuk (Cornell University, Advisor: Joe Burns)
                  "New Secular Resonances Involving the Irregular Satellites of Saturn"
                 Milos Milosavljevic (Rutgers University)
                  "Dynamics of Galactic Nuclei"
   34.  2003     Rory Barnes (University of Washington)
                  "Planet scattering and exoplanet orbits"
                 Edwin Sirko (Princeton)
                  "Galactic Halo"
   35.  2004     Sean Raymond (University of Washington, Advisor: Tom Quinn)
                  "Making other Earths: Dynamical Simulations of Terrestrial
                   Planet Formation and Water Delivery"
                 Dimitri Veras (Univ. of Colorado, Advisor: Phil Armitage)
                  "The Dynamics of Two Planets on Inclined Orbits"
   36.  2005     Ruth Murray-Clay (UC-Berkeley, Advisor: Eugene Chiang)
                  "A Signature of Planetary Migration: The Origin of Asymmetric
                   Capture in the 2:1 Resonance"
                 Ke Zhang (University of Maryland, Advisor: Douglas Hamilton)
                  "Dynamics of Neptune's Small Satellites"
   37.  2006     Ivan Minchev (University of Rochester, Advisor: Alice Quillen)
                  "Radial Heating of a Galactic Disk by Multiple Spiral Density Waves"
                 Kevin Walsh (University of Maryland, Advisor: Derek Richardson)
                  "A Steady-State Model of NEA Binaries Formed via Tidal Disruption"
   38.  2007     Chris Stark (NASA Goddard, Advisor: Marc Kuchner)
                  "Debris Disk Structures Induced by Terrestrial-Mass Planets"
                 Genya Takeda (Northwestern, Advisor: Fred Rasio)
                  "Secular Evolution of Planets in Binary Systems"
   39.  2008     Clement Baruteau (CEA, Advisor: Frederic Masset)
                  "Planetary migration in a self-gravitating gaseous disk"
                 Althea Moorhead (U. Michigan, Advisor: Fred Adams)
                  "Evolution of giant planet orbits in a turbulent circumstellar disk"
   40.  2009     Julia Comerford (UC Berkeley, Advisor: Marc Davis)
                  "The Dynamics of Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers:
                   A New Observational Technique for Identifying Mergers"
                 Ashley Espy (U. Florida, Advisor: Stanley Dermott)
                  "A Dynamical Model of a Still-Forming Zodiacal Dust Band
                   as Constrained by IRAS"
   41.  2010     Adrian Barker (University of Cambridge, Advisor: Gordon Ogilvie)
                  "Internal wave breaking and the fate of planets around
                   solar-type stars"
                 Justin Comparetta (University of Rochester, Advisor: Alice Quillen) 
                  "Instabilities in tidal tails"
                 Tyler Mitchell (University of Colorado, Advisor: Glen Stewart) 
                  "Evolution of the solar nebula under the influence of photoevaporation"
                 Daniel Tamayo (Cornell University, Advisor: Joe Burns) 
                  "The exogenous origin of Iapetus' dark material"
   42.  2011     Rebekah Dawson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
                  Advisor: Ruth Murray-Clay)
                  "Secular Constraints on the Dynamical History of the Solar System"
                 Daniel Jontof-Hutter (University of Maryland College Park,
                  Advisor: Douglas Hamilton)
                  "Stability of Charged Grains in Planetary Rings"
                 Sarah Miller (Oxford Astrophysics and California Institute of Technology,
                  Advisor: Richard Ellis)
                  "The Assembly History of Disk Galaxies:
                   The Tully-Fisher Relation and Dynamical Mass Estimates to z=1.3"
   43.  2012     Nathaniel Hamlin (University of California, Los Angeles, Advisor: William Newman)
                  "The Role of Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Astrophysical Jets"
                 Erika Nesvold (University Maryland, Baltimore County, Advisor: Marc Kuchner)
                  "A New Method for Modeling Collisions in Debris Disks"
                 Christa Van Laerhoven (University of Arizona, Advisor: Rick Greenberg)
                  "Secular Dynamics of the Kepler-11 System"
   44.  2013     Audrey Compère (University of Namur, Advisor: Anne Lemaitre)
                  "Dynamical explanation for the lack of binary asteroids among the Plutinos"
                 Katherine Deck (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Advisor: Matthew J. Holman CfA)
                  "Rapid Dynamical Chaos in an Exoplanetary System"
                 Cristian Giuppone (IATE-OAC, Cordoba, Argentina, Advisor: Alexandre Correia, 
                  Univ. Aveiro, Aveiro Portugal)
                  "Stability criteria in real planetary systems"
                 Andre Izidoro (UNESP, Guaratingueta, Brazil, Advisor: Othon Winter)
                  "Non-uniform distributions of protoplanetary bodies as a pre-requisite for 
                   the formation of a low-mass Mars"
                 Aaron Rosengren (University of Colorado, Boulder, Advisor: Daniel Scheeres)
                  "The Milankovitch orbital elements and their application to the long-term orbit
                   evolution of planetary satellites subject to radiation and gravitational perturbations"




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