Welcome to the 2000 Summer Student Web Page

Here you will find all sorts of relevant info, such as lists of weekly meetings and activities.

The 2000 Socorro Summer Students

Student Home Institution Email Address Advisor Arrival Date
Approx. Dept. Date
Steven Ball New Mexico Tech sball@nmt.edu Jim Ruff 15 May 2000 ??
Kate Becker Oberlin College kate.becker@oberlin.edu Dale Frail 30 May 2000 08 August 2000
Edo Berger Caltech ejb@astro.caltech.edu Dale Frail 13-17 June 2000 15 August 2000
Melanie Clarke Carleton College clarkem@carleton.edu Jim Ruff 12 June 2000 23 August 2000
Ian Hoffman University of New Mexico ian@as.unm.edu Miller Goss 30 May 2000 11 August 2000
Rick Mellon Penn State University rrm141@psu.edu Geoff Bower 01 June 2000 12/19 August 2000
Emmanuel Momjian University of Kentucky momjian@pa.uky.edu Jon Romney 30 May 2000 ??
Nate Murphy Amherst College nwmurphy@amherst.edu Frazer Owen 05 June 2000 28 August 2000
Therese Ostrowski University of Denver tostrows@du.edu Jim Ulvestad 19 June 2000 23 August 2000
Stacy Teng University of Maryland stacyt@wam.umd.edu Jim Ulvestad 28 May 2000 06 August 2000
Tim Woodruff Southwestern University woodruft@southwestern.edu Mark Claussen 23 May 2000 10 August 2000
Ashley Zauderer Agnes Scott College bzauderer@agnesscott.edu Miller Goss 07 June 2000 10-15 August 2000
Bob Zavala New Mexico State rzavala@nmsu.edu Greg Taylor 01 June 2000 25 Aug 2000

Weekly Activities

Tuesday - Summer Student Lectures (required -- See lecture schedule below)

Wednesday - Wednesday Lunch (required)

Thursday - Summer Student Lectures (required -- See lecture schedule below)

Friday - Colloquium (required, when scheduled)

Saturday & Sunday - Tours at the VLA site

Planned Trips

Kitt Peak/Tucson - 28-30 June

Summer Student Observations

The VLA is in its DnC and D configurations this summer. Some telescope time will be allocated to the summer students to pursue group projects.

Other Stuff

Pictures from the summer.


2000 Summer Student Calendar of Events

June 2000

June 13: 10:00 am. VLA Tour by Dave Finley
June 15: 3:00 pm. "Radio Connections with Other Wavelengths" by Michael Rupen
June 16: 11:00 am. Colloquium -- "Axial, Energetic and Magnetic Field Structure and Particle Acceleration in AGN Jets: Lessons from HST Observations" by Eric Perlman (Johns Hopkins University)
June 20-27: Seventh Summer School in Synthesis Imaging

July 2000

July 4: Holiday
July 6: 11:00 am. "Cosmic Microwave Background Interferometry" by Steve Myers
July 11: 11:00 am. "Star Formation" by Mark Claussen
July 13: 11:00 am. "High Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei" by Greg Taylor
July 18: 11:00 am. "The Galactic Center" by Geoff Bower
July 20: 11:00 am. "Magnetic Fields in the Universe" by Tracy Clarke
July 25: 11:00 am. "Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei and Starbursts" by Jim Ulvestad
July 27: 11:00 am. "Gravitational Lenses" by Chris Fassnacht

August 2000

August 1: 11:00 am. "Star Formation Regions -- Molecular Clouds and Bipolar Outflows" by Debra Shepherd
August 3: 11:00 am. "Supernova Remnants" by Miller Goss
August 3: 12:15 pm. Final presentations by Kate, Stacy, and Steven
August 8: 11:00 am. "Gamma Ray Bursts" by Dale Frail
August 10: 12:00 pm. Final presentations by Tim, Ian, Ashley, Rick, and Edo
August 18: 12:00 pm. Final presentations by Melanie, Therese, Emmanuel, and Bob

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Last modified: Wed Aug 2 16:08:28 MDT 2000