 including two adorable puppies that we are going to, I think, give away to good loving homes. And this is a model showing the evolution of cell investor things down here. Higher mass things are over here because we're duplicating what happens if you would use stellar color. And so what do we actually learn from plot when we do this? Where this turn-down actually happens gives you an idea of the star formation rate of the galaxy of stellar populations. Let's see what's in the swag bag. Here at WS233, day zero, so the first day. Today, my thoughts are about homecoming. Okay, so I live in Seattle, so the idea of homecoming is pretty obvious here. But this meeting is a sense of homecoming. These are where most of my friends, professionally and personally, can be found each year. This is like my 12th winter WS and my 15th WS period. I've been doing these meetings for a while, so this is part of my work, part of my personal life now. For so many of us, we travel, we move away, we only spend a few years at a given institution. So the people you make friends with, the people you make relationships with, they move on. They move away. And it's only meetings like this that you get to see them. So I'm thinking a lot about homecoming. I'm thinking about belonging and what it means to be part of this group and part of this profession. Also ancillary benefits so far because I've been shooting this vlog for a year. I just got my name tag and I've already had two students approach me saying they've watched my videos and they wanted to meet me. So thank you to the people who have been watching this. And thank you to the people who are coming and seeking me out because I am holding this giant camera. And also this thing is heavier than I remember. Hi, I'm Jacob Palawa. I'm a junior at Colgate University and I studied the low surface brightness outskirts of galaxies in hopes of understanding inside-out disk formation theory. Hi, my name is Katie Chapman. I'm a senior from Colgate University and I modeled the camera emission of the massive star cluster, which was one, to try to learn about its ability to accelerate coffee breaks. As a bonus, the Seattle meeting was actually my first double AS meeting. So it's good to be back in the convention center. I don't come down here very often. Okay, one of my favorite things about the Seattle Convention Center is the way they've built it sort of vertically. So you have this lookout, which is bad for my fear of heights, but it's fun to watch. That's going to be super cool. I'm looking forward to that. I know those guys. All right, so it's like mid-afternoon. So I got here this morning around 10 o'clock and I sat in the NSF symposium. The talks today I went to were part of the NSF Postdoc Fellowship Symposium. That's the postdoc that I had for the last three years. So it's still fun to go and like hang out, talk to the new fellows. What makes that fellowship and that symposium special is that they talk both about the research that the fellows are doing and also the broader impacts, outreach projects or education things they're building. It's really neat. And then I went and got my badge, the undergrad receptions in about an hour. So I got to go back to my car and pick up the box, the UW stuff. The plan today is I got to finish a talk that I'm giving tomorrow. So a few more slides to make and then go to the opening reception. So that'll be fun. Okay, time for the undergrad reception. I have a box of awesome stuff, including two adorable puppies that we are going to, I think, give away to good loving homes. Also, I'm super hungry and all I have is a smashed granola bar in my backpack. So I hope there's food. I said this last year at the undergrad reception. This is the undergrad reception and the opening reception are good places to get food, but only if you're, like, ambitious and get in line. So hopefully the CRI fare a little better because I'm super hungry. I did not eat enough today. Plus, like, you know, this whole thing takes energy. New Mexico, all good schools, but not my school. Here we go. Right behind here, we're doing the undergrad table, meet and greet. We're meeting lots of cool students who are interested in UW as a grad program. And I got a few snacks. Woo! It's time to leave. Well, undergrad reception done. That was a long hour and a half. My voice is very raw now. I need some water and I need a snack. I need a snack real bad. Okay, at the opening reception, there's no place like home. How you been? Bastion. For the cookies, dude. I appreciate that. Hope Sarah likes it. She will. Coffee at 8 p.m. Perfect. What could go wrong? Day zero is over. Undergrad reception. Opening reception. Four cups of coffee. And I got my talk ready for tomorrow, so that's good. A day of homecoming. Friends. My friend. Am I in the shot? That's good. And I'm recording. This is good. Tomorrow, full day of science. I don't get to be a tourist in my own city very much. It's very pretty.