REU 2005
Wisconsin's 2005 REU students in Wilson Hall, Fermi Lab. Pictured from left to right are [back row]: Edwin Mierkiewicz (director), Jack Replinger (Rice University), Pia Denzmore (Rice University), Allison Duncan (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), David Fallest (Beloit College), AJ Heroux (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater), Kristen Jones (a University of Wisconsin, Madison student who joined us for a number of events), Daniel Capellupo (University of Rochester), [Front Row]: Kat Barger (Western Washington University), Leah Knapton (Western Washington University), Isobel Ojalvo (Rensselear Polytechnic Institute), Michael Line (another University of Wisconsin, Madison student who joined us for a number of events!). Missing from this photo are: Sylvana Yelda (University of Michigan; Sylvana was on her way to Kitt Peak Observatory!) and Heidi Gneiser (University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Heidi was spending the first part of her summer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); 2005 Program Director: Edwin Mierkiewicz
Projects:
- Blakesley Burkhart: Magnetohydrodynamical Turbulence of the Interstellar Medium
- Kathleen Barger: Calorimeter Impedance Study
- Daniel Capellupo: Color-Color Analysis of GLIMPSE Point Sources
- Pia Denzmore: Characterizing Star Formation in the Giant HII Region RCW 106 using GLIMPSE Data
- Allison Duncan: Mapping the Ionized Component of Complex A
- David Fallest: Using Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy to Observe Diffuse [OII] Emission in the WIM
- AJ Heroux: Calibration of IceCube using the Moon's Shadow
- Leah Knapton: Looking for HI Shells in IC5332
- Isobel Ojalvo: High Velocity Clouds
- Jack Replinger: CMB Polarization and Small Radio Telescopes
- Sylvana Yelda: Tidal Circularization in the Open Cluster NGC 6819