2007 Summer Undergraduate REU Program in Astronomy at IU
Version 07/23/2007

 

M  June  4  Prof. Constantine Deliyannis: Welcome; General; tours

T  June  5  Prof. Constantine Deliyannis: Kitt Peak Trip; Observing Exercise

R  June  7  Prof. Caty Pilachowski: about Kitt Peak

 

T  June 12  Prof. Kent Honeycutt: The Magic of CCDs

W  June 13  Informal Project Roundtable #1

F  June 15  Group 1 departs for Kitt Peak

 

M  June 18  Group 2 departs for Kitt Peak

F  June 22  Group 1 returns from Kitt Peak

 

M  June 25  Group 2 returns from Kitt Peak

T  June 26 

W  June 27  Prof. Liese van Zee: Planning for Graduate School

R  June 28  Prof. Stuart Mufson: The SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)
F  June 29  Mr. Aaron Boley: GIs in Disks: The Big Picture

 

T  July  3  Prof. Caty Pilachowski: Citizenship in Astronomy

R  July  5  Prof. Alex Dzierba: The Physics GRE (Graduate Record Exam)

 

T  July 10  Informal Project Roundtable #2

W  July 11  Profs. Andrew Bacher & Liese van Zee: Discussion of Scientific Ethics

R  July 12  Profs. Phyllis Lugger & Haldan Cohn: X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters

 

T  July 17

R  July 19 

 

M  July 23  Prof. Aaron Steinhauer: The Lithium Gap
T  July 24  Prof. John Salzer: Making Hay with ALFALFA - Properties of Radio-Selected Galaxies
R  July 26  Prof. Richard Durisen: Gas Giant Planet Formation

 

T  July 31  Dr. Tom Steiman-Cameron: A Universe of Disks

W  Aug   1  Prof. Katherine Rhode: Globular Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, and Black Holes

R  Aug   2  Final Presentations, Session I, SW 238 10am-12noon

F  Aug   3  Final Presentations, Session II, SW 238 10am-12noon

 

T  Aug   7  Prof. Caty Pilachowski: Mixing It Up In Globular Clusters

R  Aug   9  Prof. Kent Honeycutt: Little Stars With Big Explosions

F  Aug  10  end of program

 

Tuesday/Thursday meetings are in the Swain West 238 at 12noon, except for Aug 9th which will be held in the Astronomy Department Conference room.

   The June 27, July 5, and July 11 meetings (with Physics REU) are in Swain West 238 at 12noon.

Other meetings are tentatively scheduled in the Astronomy Conference room.