The Ohio State University College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences Department of Astronomy

Summer 2007

Timothy Arnold

Advisor: Dr. Martini

Project: Morphology of AGN Hosts in Clusters

Paper: Arnold et al. (2009), ApJ, submitted

Whereabouts: Graduate school at the University of Arizona

Megan Comins

Advisor: Dr. Peterson

Project: Systematic Errors in Black Hole Mass Measurement using Reverberation Mapping

Whereabouts: Graduate school at Penn State University

Garrett Elliott

Advisor: Dr. Gaudi

Project: Detection of Kuiper Belt Objects via Stellar Occultation

Whereabouts: Graduate school at the University of Hawaii

Nathaniel Ross

Advisor: Dr. Kochanek

Project: Microlensing in SDSS1004+4112

Paper: Ross et al. (2009), ApJ, submitted

Whereabouts: Graduate school at UCLA

Cayman Unterborn

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

Project: Inclination-Based Extinction Effects on Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Paper: Unterborn and Ryden (2009), ApJ, 687, 976

Whereabouts: Teach for America

Christopher Williams

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: The RF Performance of the ANITA Experiment

Whereabouts: Graduate school at the University of Chicago

Summer 2008

Jesse Buxton

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

Project: The Alignment of Binary Spiral Galaxies

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

Julie Djordjevic

Advisor: Dr. Terndrup

Project: Stellar Rotation in Open Clusters

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

Edward Golowacz

Advisor: Dr. Mathur

Project: XMM-Newton Observation of the NLS1 J1430-0011

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2009

Julia Janczak

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Searching for Planets with Gravitational Lensing

Whereabouts: Graduate School at The Ohio State University (Physics Department)

Jacob Mayer

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: MATLAB Model of Electronics for AMBER

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2009

Man-Hong Wong

Advisor: Dr. Martini

Project: OSMOS: Ohio State MultiObject Spectrograph

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

Summer 2009

Dina Drozdov

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

Project: Spin Statistics of Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

James Mertens

Advisor: Dr. Sellgren

Project: Measuring Reddening towards the Galactic Center

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

Cameron Nelson

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Placing Constraints on a Binary Gravitational Microlensing System

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2011

Jacob Parks

Advisor: Drs. Terndrup and Pinsoneault

Project: Distance to Open Clusters from Main Sequence Fitting

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2011

Eric Suchyta

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: AURA Attenuation Length

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2010

Jessica Orwig

Advisor: Dr. Johnson

Project: Metallicity and Luminosity Calibration of M Giants Using Spectral Indices

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2011