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Who are the NRAO/GBO Summer Students?
The NRAO-CV summer students (and their mentors) are:
Student |
Mentor |
Abigail Harden (grad) |
Eric Murphy |
Austen Fourkas |
Dary Ruiz |
Cheng Huang (CDL) |
Steve Wunduke |
Clive Binu |
Tony Beasley |
Daniel Lopez-Sanders |
Tony Remijan |
Elyse Incha |
Devaky Kunneriath, Loreto Barcos Munoz |
Grace Krahm |
Remy Indebetouw, Molly Finn |
Jackson Taylor |
Scott Ransom |
Jay Frothingham (CDL) |
Bill Shillue |
Jonathan Letai |
Ilsang Yoon |
MarĂa Renee Meza Fajardo |
Shane Davis and Alejandro Saravia |
Matthew Doerner (CDL) |
Steve Wunduke |
Mihika Rao (grad) |
Adele Plunkett |
Nathan Sparks |
Chris De Pree |
Preet Agnihotri (grad) |
Bill Cotton |
Ramisa Rahman |
Allie Costa |
Samantha Adams |
Mark Lacy |
Simon Lowry |
John Tobin |
Spencer Ireland |
Dana Balser |
Zachary Gillis |
Jan-Willem Steeb |
The GBO summer students are:
Student |
Mentor |
Mary Rickel |
Emily Moravec |
Corvus Koithan |
Pedro Salas |
Elizabeth Lowe |
Thomas Chamberlin |
Catalina Zamora |
Anika Schmiedeke |
Alex Seidman |
Kasey Purcell |
Lucy Steffes |
Jesse Bublitz |
Amara Green |
Walter Klahold |
Hugo Negrel |
Will Armentrout |
The NRAO-NM summer students are:
Student |
Mentor |
Morgan Himes |
Preshanth Jagannathan |
Mitchell Hernandez |
Brian Svoboda |
Naomi Fissehaye (virtual) |
Julia Blue Bird |
Isaiah Beauchamp |
Pedro Beaklini |
Bailee Wolfe |
Jay Blanchard |
Trevor McCaffrey |
Amy Kimball |
Kelly Sanderson (grad) |
Anna Kapinska |
Stefania Belvedere (grad) |
Kumar Golap |
Orientation Slides
Bootcamp
- May 30 - June 3 in Green Bank
- Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJSJHUfngan7zdprPjQxl8ksf2YavjQ_g2eE33Tlejk/edit?usp=sharing
- Travel to GB will be done as a group from Charlottesville: May 30 departure, June 3 return
- Dress code is "academic/casual", bring a sweatshirt, it can get cool. Bring close-toed shoes and comfortable walking attire.
- No wifi or cell service in GB. Wired access to email will be available.
- Contact Will/Jim if you have dietary restrictions or questions re: housing (bunkhouse)
Summer Lecture Series
We will have a weekly science lecture delivered by an NRAO/GBO staff member on Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 pm EDT (1:30 pm MDT). All students should attend. The lectures will be held in the following rooms at each site: GB-137 (Green Bank), SO-317 (Socorro), and CV-Auditorium (Charlottesville).
We will also have a number of invited outside speakers presenting a variety of topics for career development.
Schedule:
- 08 June: Urvashi Rao Venkata (NM) "Radio Interferometry - Imaging" Video (mp4), Slides (pdf)
- 15 June: Anna Kapinska (NM) "Radio sky surveys" Video (mp4), Slides (pdf)
- 22 June: Brian Kent (CV) "Python, Data Visualisation, and Astronomy" Video (mp4), Slides and Examples
- 29 June: Emily Moravec (GB) "Radio Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Clusters" Video (mp4) Slides (pdf)
- 06 July: Poonam Chandra (CV) "Energetics, Environment and Evolution of Extreme Explosions"
- 13 July: Brian Svoboda (NM) "Star formation in the Milky Way" Video (mp4)
- 20 July: Jay Lockman (GB) "The wind from the Galactic Center" Video (mp4)
- 27 July: Ryan Loomis (CV) "Complex Chemistry During Planet Formation"
Computing
You will be set up with an NRAO/GBO computer account and access to NRAO/GBO computers and disk space. If you have problems or questions with computing, first try to resolve it with your fellow students or advisor or student coordinator.
IDL Usage Policies
Many summer students use IDL or GBTIDL, especially those working with GBT spectral line data. NRAO/GBO has plenty IDL floating licenses, but we do ask that you close down IDL sessions if you will not be using them in the next day.
The IDL policies for using licenses are described here:
https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Observing/IdlUsagePolicy
Licenses currently bewing used are available here:
http://leo.gb.nrao.edu/idl
End of Summer Presentation (Oral and Written)
Towards the end of the Summer (dates TBD), students will give a short (~15min) talk on their summer research to the scientific staff as part of the NRAO/GBO Summer Student Symposium.
Undergrad students and some grads will also write a report, which should be 4 pages minimum, outlining the summer research. Present your written report in PDF format to your local coordinator (Jim, Will, or Anna) by the end of August. You must hand in your written report
on time to get financial support to attend the January AAS meeting (more info on that later).
NRAO/GBO Slack Channel
Staff at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory have an informal Slack account (nrao.slack.com), and we would like to invite all of our summer students and mentors to join!
Join the channel by following the link provided by Will Armentrout.
The Slack channel will not be used for formal announcements by summer student coordinators -- it's meant as a tool to help us build virtual community amongst the GBO/NRAO summer students and staff. You will automatically be added to the #students2022 and #general channels, but you should feel free to join other channels or create them as you see fit.
Since this is a free Slack account, only the 10,000 most recent messages are saved on the platform. If you have a conversation with your research mentor over Slack and want to keep some information, make sure to write it down elsewhere, too! You'll be able to stay on the Slack channel after you finish the summer student program. We hope it will be a useful networking tool as you continue your studies, prepare for graduate school, or look towards what's next!
Questions?
Don't hesitate to ask your local student coordinators with any questions!
- Jim Braatz (jbraatz at nrao dot edu)
- Anna Kapinska (akapinska at nrao dot edu)
- Will Armentrout (warmentr at nrao dot edu)
- Danielle Rowland (drowland at nrao dot edu)