Student Name

Affiliation

Title

Research Advisor

Jesus Aguilar-Landaverde

UT Austin

The Predicted Range of Observable Pulsation Periods in Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Stars
[abstract]

Dr. Michael Montgomery

Hans Amende

Texas Lutheran Univ

Observations of Suspected RR Lyrae Variable Stars
[abstract]

Dr. W. Lee Powell, Jr.

Caleb Bahr

Texas Lutheran Univ

Observations of Suspected RR Lyrae Variable Stars
[abstract]

Dr. W. Lee Powell, Jr.

Deepak Bastola

Texas A&M

How Useful Is U-band Photometry of Type Ia Supernova?
[abstract]

Dr. Kevin Krisciunas

Tyler Behm

Texas A&M

Sigmoid: A Twisted Tale of Flux and Fields
[abstract]

Dr. Edward DeLuca

Caroline Caldwell

UT Austin

Detecting Jupiter Analogues
[abstract]

Dr. Mike Endl

James Diekmann, III

UT Austin

The Morphology of Dual Active Galactic Nuclei
[abstract]

Dr. Julie Comerford

David Durke

UT San Antonio

The Temperature Gradient of Diffuse X-Ray Emissions of Edge-on Galaxies
[abstract]

Prof. Eric Schlegel

Michael Eastwood

Rice Univ

Understanding Stellar Birth through the Photometric and Spectroscopic Variability of T Tauri Stars
[abstract]

Prof. Christopher Johns-Krull

Wesley Irons

UT Austin

Ionized Gas in the Inner 2 pc of the Milky Way
[abstract]

Prof. John Lacy

Kelly Jackson

TX Christian Univ

Is This Really a Cluster?: SDSS-III/APOGEE Cluster Target Selection
[abstract]

Prof. Peter Frinchaboy

Andy Liao

UT Austin

AGB Dust and Evolution of the ISM in the Early Universe
[abstract]

Prof. Milos Milosavljevic

Emily Martin

Texas A&M

Production and Alignment of the Visible Integral-Field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS)
[abstract]

Dr. Jennifer Marshall

Connor McKeel

TX Christian Univ

Stellar Kinematics in the Bar of the Milky Way
[abstract]

Prof. Peter Frinchaboy

George Miller

UT Austin

Using the MONET Telescope to Study White Dwarf Pulsations
[abstract]

Prof. Don Winget

Marilyn Moore

UT San Antonio

Observations of the 2010 January Outburst of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpius Using NASA's Swift
[abstract]

Prof. Eric Schlegel

Kathryn Powell

Rice Univ

Composition of the Orion Nebula from Hubble Space Telescope Spectra
[abstract]

Prof. Reginald Dufour

Michelle Rascati

UT Austin

Bolometric Temperature and Luminosity of Embedded Young Stellar Objects
[abstract]

Dr. Joel Green

Jeremy Ritter

UT Austin

The Fate of Metals Synthesized in Population III Stars
[abstract]

Prof. Milos Milosavljevic

Arina Rostopchina

UT Austin

Exploration of Mass-Radius Relation for Low-mass White Dwarfs
[abstract]

Dr. Michael Montgomery

Steven Villanueva, Jr.

Texas A&M

Optimal Resolutions for Optical and IR Spectroscopy through Atmospheric Emission Lines
[abstract]

Dr. Jennifer Marshall

Patrick Williams

Texas A&M

MOSAIC Reductions for z~2.1 Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies
[abstract]

Dr. Steven Finkelstein

Jason Wise

Texas A&M

Automation of Calibration System for Dark Energy Survey
[abstract]

Dr. Jean-Philippe Rheault