FALL 2005 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN ASTRONOMY FOR UNDERGRADUATES


Below is the list of staff/faculty members in the UT Astronomy Department who have
exciting opportunities for undergraduate research in astronomy in Fall 2005
You can find their contact info and web pages at 
 	http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html
In addition, you can also find research information, grouped under five categories:
 Planetary Systems, Stars, Extragalactic, Interstellar, and Theory. at
       http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/research/

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Faculty/Staff    Undergraduate skills preferred + Research topics offered
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Allende Prieto : Skills:any
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Barnes         : Skills:reduce and analyze data	
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Bromm          : Skills: any
	         Topics: The James Webb Space Telescope and the first supernovae

Evans          : Skills:advanced undergrad, computer/web experience
	         Topics: Star and planet formation, Spitzer data

Gebhardt       : Skills:any
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Hoeflich       : Skills:some experience in computing and data handling
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Hill           : Skills:must have instrumentation experience
	         Topics: 

Jaffe          : Skills:after instrumentation course
		 Topics: 

Jogee          : Skills:preferably computer/programming experience, or a course on galaxies.
	         Topics:formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes.
Kannapan/Bash  : Skills:course on galaxies & computer experience helpful, but negotiable
	       : Topics: Galaxy Evolution
Komatsu        : Skills:any
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Kumar          : Skills:strong theory preference
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Lacy	       : Skills:computer experience (for data reduction)/instrumentation experience.
	         Topics: spectrograph fabrication, interstellar gas

Robinson       : Skills:reducing and analyzing data
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Scalo          : Skills:some programming experience
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Shields        : Skills:any
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von Hippel     : Skills:some programming or IRAF experience
	         Topics:white dwarfs, open clusters, planets, debris disks

Wheeler          Skills: ROTSE data
	         Topics: Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts
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