Welcome to the 2001 Summer Student Web Page

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

The 2001 Socorro Summer Students

Student Home Institution Email Address Advisor Arrival Date
Approx. Dept. Date
Jason Adelstein Columbia jma62@columbia.edu Steve Myers May 25
James Anderson NMIMT janderso@aoc.nrao.edu Jim Ulvestad May 29
Aaron Boley Mount Union College boleya@muc.edu Mark Claussen May 15
Katie Devine Carleton devinek@carleton.edu Miller Goss June 12
Jennifer Donley Penn State jld257@psu.edu Henrique Schmitt May 22
Michael Fine Colgate University msfine@mail.colgate.edu Frazer Owen June 3
Marjorie Frankel Wellesley College mfrankel@wellesley.edu Tracy Clarke May 24 Aug. 3
Matthew Kunz University of Virginia mwk2m@virginia.edu Claire Chandler May 26
Laura Lindenmayer UNM laurae@unm.edu David Thilker May 21
Bhasker Moorthy NMSU bmoorthy@nmsu.edu Vivek Dhawan June 2-3
Cristina Murray UNM cmurray@unm.edu Frazer Owen May 21
Daniel Perley Cornell dap29@cornell.edu Athol Kemball May 20 Aug 24
Daniel Stark Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison dpstark@students.wisc.edu Debra Shepherd May 22
Stacy Teng Univ. of Maryland stacyt@wam.umd.edu Jim Ulvestad June 1
Diane Wong Cornell wong@tristan.tn.cornell.edu Greg Taylor & Jim Ulvestad May 26

Weekly Activities

Tuesday - 11:00 am. Summer Student Lectures (required -- See lecture schedule below)

Wednesday - 12:00 pm. Wednesday Lunch (required)

Thursday - 4:00 pm. Summer Student Lectures (required -- See lecture schedule below)

Friday - 11:00 am. Colloquium (required, when scheduled)

Saturday & Sunday - Tours at the VLA site

Planned Trips

Kitt Peak/Tucson - June 20-22


Apache Point - July 28

Summer Student Observations

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

Note that last summer one of the NRAO student projects resulted in an exciting discovery of the first radio emission detected from a brown dwarf star! This discovery resulted in a paper in Nature. More details are available on the NRAO press release web page.

Other Stuff

Pictures from the summer.


Preliminary 2001 Summer Student Calendar of Events

May 2001

May 18: Colloquium by Steve Myers, "Latest Results from the Cosmic Background Imager"
May 25: Colloquium by David Wilner, "Dusty Disks around Young Stars"
May 30: 10:00 am. VLA Tour #1 by Dave Finley & Vivek Dhawan
May 31: 9:00 am. Safety Lecture #1 by Jon Spargo, 3'rd floor conference room
May 31: 4:00 pm. "What is Radio Astronomy?" by Jim Ulvestad

June 2001

June 1: Colloquium by Lincoln Greenhill, "A Pirate's Treasure Map of Orion BN/KL - X Marks the Spot, but is it a Trick?"
June 5: 11:00 am. "Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy" by Rick Perley
June 7: 4:00 pm. "Imaging and Deconvolution" by Tim Cornwell
June 12: 11:00 am. "Basics of Spectral Line" by Claire Chandler
June 14: 10:00 am. VLA Tour #2 by Dave Finley & Vivek Dhawan
June 15: Colloquium by Mark Gurwell, " Millimeterwave Astronomy of Planetary Atmospheres"
June 19: 11:00 am. "Polarimetry" by Greg Taylor
June 19: 3:00 pm. Safety Lecture #2 by Jon Spargo, auditorium
June 20-22: KPNO/Tucson tour
June 22: Colloquium by David Hughes
June 25: VLA observing run
June 26: 11:00 am. "Radio Evidence for Black Holes in Nearby Galactic Nuclei" by Joan Wrobel
June 28: 4:00 pm. "VLBI" by Craig Walker
June 29: Colloquium by Geoff Marcy

July 2001

July 3: VLA observing run
July 3: 3:00 pm. TBA by Henrique Schmitt
July 4: Holiday
July 5: 4:00 pm. TBA by Dale Frail
July 10: 11:00 am. "Molecular Clouds and Star Formation" by Debra Shepherd
July 12: 4:00 pm. "Atronomical Masers" by Mark Claussen
July 17: 11:00 am. "Magnetic Fields in the Universe" by Crystal Brogan
July 19: 4:00 pm. "Cosmic Microwave Background" by Steve Myers
July 24: 11:00 am. Colloquium by Swarup
July 25: 12 pm Summer student talk by Aaron Boley
July 28: TRIP TO APACHE POINT
July 31: 11:00 am. "Planetary Radio Astronomy" by Bryan Butler

August 2001

Aug 1: 12 pm. Summer student talks by Daniel S., Marj, Jason, and Jenn
Aug 2: 4:00 pm. "Microquasars" by Vivek Dhawan
Aug 7: 12 pm. Summer student talks by Diane, Mike, Matt, and Cristina
Aug 7: 4:00 pm. "Properties of HI in Nearby Galaxies" by Dave Thilker
Aug 8: 12 pm. Summer student talk by Bhasker
Aug 15: 12 pm. Summer student talks by Jim, Katie, Daniel P., and Stacy

Last summer's REU web page.

Socorro web pages.

Also try this one on Socorro.

Summer school 2000 local information page.


tclarke@nrao.edu
Last modified on: July 19, 2001