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, 707, 1691

Post Graduation: Graduate school at the University of Arizona

Whereabouts: Software Engineer, Aurora

Other: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Megan Comins

Advisor: Dr. Peterson

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

Post Graduation: Graduate school at Cornell

Whereabouts: Data Scientist, Pekin Insurance

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, 702, 472

Post Graduation: Graduate school at UCLA

Whereabouts: Senior Engineer, Northrop Grumman

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

Post Graduation: Teach for America and graduate school in the School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University

Whereabouts: Research Scientist, Arizona State University

Christopher Williams

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: The RF Performance of the ANITA Experiment

Post Graduation: Graduate school in Physics at the University of Chicago

Whereabouts: Specialist Leader, Cyber Risk

Summer 2008

Jesse Buxton

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

Project: The Alignment of Binary Spiral Galaxies

Post Graduation: Graduate school in Physics at The Ohio State University

Whereabouts: Data Scientist, Batelle

Julie Djordjevic

Advisor: Dr. Terndrup

Project: Stellar Rotation in Open Clusters

Whereabouts: Graduate school at Clemson University

Edward Golowacz

Advisor: Dr. Mathur

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

Whereabouts: CPC Processor for Career Education Corporation

Julia Janczak

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Searching for Planets with Gravitational Lensing

Post Graduation: Graduate school in Physics at The Ohio State University

Whereabouts: Actuarial Candidate, Colorado Springs

Jacob Mayer

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: MATLAB Model of Electronics for AMBER

Post Graduation: Graduate school in Education at The Ohio State University

Whereabouts: Software Development Team Lead at Nationwide

Man-Hong Wong

Advisor: Dr. Martini

Project: OSMOS: Ohio State MultiObject Spectrograph

Post Graduation: Graduate school in Physics at the University of Illinois (mwong12 at illinois.edu)

Whereabouts: Hardware Development Engineer at Apple

Summer 2009

Dina Drozdov

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

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

Post Graduation: Graduate school at Clemson University

Whereabouts: Senior Lecturer, UT San Antonio

James Mertens

Advisor: Dr. Sellgren

Project: Measuring Reddening towards the Galactic Center

Whereabouts: Graduate school in Physics at Case Western (OSU email: mertens.11)

Cameron Nelson

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Placing Constraints on a Binary Gravitational Microlensing System

Whereabouts: Graduate school in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona

Jacob Parks

Advisor: Drs. Terndrup and Pinsoneault

Project: Distance to Open Clusters from Main Sequence Fitting

Whereabouts: Graduate school in Physics (B.S./M.S. program) at The Ohio State University (jakecparks at gmail.com)

Eric Suchyta

Advisor: Dr. Beatty

Project: AURA Attenuation Length

Whereabouts: Graduate school in Physics at The Ohio State University (OSU email: suchyta.1)

Summer 2010

Lawrence Capuder

Advisor: Drs. Gaudi and Pinsonneault

Project: Solar Mass Loss and the Faint Young Sun Paradox

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2012

Li-Wei Hung

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Searching for Extrasolar Planets in the Microlensing Event MB10311

Post Graduation: Graduate school at UCLA

Whereabouts: Research Scientist, National Park Service

Other: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Anna Kwa

Advisor: Dr. Johnson

Project: Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars

Post Graduation: Graduate school at UC Irvine

Whereabouts: Machine Learning Scientist, Vulcan Inc.

Mallory Molina

Advisor: Dr. Peterson

Project: Inter-Percentile Velocity widths of spectral lines for AGN Black Hole Masses

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in 2012

Jessica Orwig

Advisor: Dr. Johnson

Project: Metallicities of M Giants in the Galactic halo

Post Graduation: Graduate school in science writing at Texas A and M

Whereabouts: Senior Editor at Business Insider

Summer 2011

Andrew Gallagher

Advisor: Dr. Ryden

Project: Searching for Dark Galaxies via their Distorted Companions in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in Spring 2013

Johnny Greco

Advisor: Drs. Martini and Thompson

Project: Probing the Mass Distribution and Stellar Populations of M82

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in Spring 2013

Daniel McGregor

Advisor: Drs. Gould and Pogge

Project: Testing Microlensing Assumptions in the Event MB11093

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in Spring 2012

Elizabeth Otto

Advisor: Dr. Johnson

Project: Chemical Abundances of CH Stars in Omega Centauri

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in Spring 2012

Ethan Palay

Advisor: Drs. Pradhan and Nahar

Project: Nebular Temperature and Density Diagnostics with Far Infra-Red [O III]�Lin

Whereabouts: Graduation expected in Spring 2013