The Ohio State University
College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Department of Astronomy
2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Projects
Six undergraduates from the Astronomy and Physics departments participated in 2009. Here are their names, projects, and advisors:
Spin Statistics of Spiral Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Dina Drozdov (advisor: Dr. Ryden)
Measuring Reddening towards the Galactic Center
James Mertens (advisor: Dr. Sellgren)
Placing Constraints on a Binary Gravitational Microlensing System
Cameron Nelson (advisors: Drs. Gould and Pogge)
Distance to Open Clusters from Main Sequence Fitting
Jacob Parks (advisors: Drs. Pinsoneault and Terndrup)
Metallicity and Luminosity Calibration of M Giants Using Spectral Indices
Jessica Orwig (advisor: Dr. Johnson)
AURA Attenuation Length
Eric Suchyta (advisor: Dr. Beatty)
Group Photo
On September 4 we held the third annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Below is a group photo of this year's participants:
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