Sean Kelley, SBCC
Title: "Wondrous White Dwarfs"
After our sun has finally spent all its nuclear fuel and blown away all but its core material, the core of the sun will collapse and form a white dwarf. What will it look like? How does it keep gravity from collapsing it and what is the Chandrasekhar Limit? What have we learned in the last 100 years about these strange and wonderful astronomical objects?  Also, what is going on with TCrB? A white dwarf with a red giant companion found in the constellation of Corona Borealis which was expected to Nova by September 2024.
Sean Kelley received a BS - Physics, UCSB, MS - Physics, New York University, and 
PhD - Experimental Solid State Physics, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
"Morphology and Photocatalysis of Titanium Dioxide Aerogels"
Currently professor of astronomy at SBCC. 


Farshad Barman
Title: "Simulations of Near Stars Orbiting Sagittarius A* and Possible Planets". 
I have been working, on and off, on my simulations of the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, and will be ready to do a presentation on December 6th.  
In this presentation I will show the results of my simulations of the orbits of several stars around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and the possibility of any of them hosting any planets.
Farshad Barman received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCSB in 1979.  After working in that field for several years, he received his masters degree in Mathematics and taught math at Portland Community College until his retirement in 2015.  His research has been in the mathematics of astrodynamics.