2015 CTIO Summer Student Interns

The 2015 REU/PIA Student Program

 

Student &

Institution

 Mentors Project TItle
 

Scott Carlsten (REU)

Rice University

Alfredo Zenteno and George Hau

Ionized Gas Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Shell Galaxies
 

Samuel Castle (REU)

Davidson College

Bryan Miller

Automated Image Processing to Detect the Shells of Elliptical Galaxies
 

Alexander Gagliano (REU)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 

Juan Madrid

Analysis of Globular Cluster Systems in the Coma Cluster Using HST/ACS Data
 

Brittany Howard (REU)

University of Michigan-Dearborn

 Kathy Vivas

Photometric Calibration of DECam Images in the Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
 

Md. Tanveer Karim (REU)

University of Rochester

 César Briceño

Characterizing the Variability of the 4-10 Myr Old T-Tauri Stars in the Orion OB1 Association
 

Cherish Prickett (REU)

Georgia Perimeter College 

 Catherine Kaleida, Patrick Seitzer, and Amelia Ramírez

Photometry of Orbital Space Debris at the Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
 

Tomas Cassanelli (PIA)

Universidad de La Frontera

Timothy Abbott

 Photometry of Three Cataclysmic Variables
 

Pamela Soto (PIA)

Universidad de Concepción

 David Sanmartim Describing the Gas Kinematics and Excitation of the Inner Kiloparsec of the Post-Starburst Quasar SDSS J170328.95+614109.9