ongoing projects:
- Yuxiang Zhou (UW)
Probing the Stellar Initial Mass Function in IC342
- Emily Geist (Juniata U., REU @ UW in 2019 & 2020)
Measuring bar strength in nearby galaxies
- Malik Bossett (NAU, NAC/REU @ UW 2020)
Surface photometry of galaxies in clusters
- Aliyah Postell (UofA, NAC/REU @ UW 2020)
Understanding star formation in the infalling galaxy in NGC 1275
completed projects – UW students:
- Nikki Noughani (UW Madison, graduated 05/2020, now graduate student at RIT)
Chasing down variable stars from a decade-long dataset
- Guangwei Fu (UW-Madison, now grad school at UMD)
Background study of WFIRST exo-planet host stars
Results so far: AAS poster
- Ian Norwood, UW-Madison:
Galaxy interactions and transformations in the Perseus cluster
completed projects – REU students
- Sara Kostmayer (Mississippi State U, NAC/REU @ UW 2019)
Ultra-diffuse galaxies in galaxy clusters
- Amy Griffin (U. Oklahoma, REU @ UW 2018)
Search for ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Perseus galaxy cluster
- M.K. Gorsuch (Colorado Mesa U, NAC/REU @ UW 2017)
Variable sources in the WIYN/ODI LSST prototype survey
- Travis Stadler – NC A&T – NAC/REU at UW-Madison (summer 2016):
Search for dust in early type galaxies, based on SDSS data and unsharp masking
Results: AAS poster
- Shireen Fikree – REU at UW-Madison (summer 2016):
Search for galaxy groups and sub-clumps in the Perseus galaxy cluster
- Eric Sandberg – REU at NOAO with Jayadev Rajagopal (2015)
Search for active asteroids in DECAM data
Results: AAS poster
- Samantha Brunker – REU at NOAO with Jayadev Rajagopal (2014)
Study of the dusty tail of active asteroid 300163
Results: AAS poster
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