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First Year Projects

By the end of their second year, students must complete one quarter of independent study with a faculty member and give a department talk on that work. Listed below are descriptions of some of the available projects as of Fall 2007.

• "Searching for extended Lya emission from High z galaxies and AGN." Jason X. Prochaska
• "Exploring the metallicity and extinction curve of high redshift galaxies." Jason X. Prochaska
• "Identifying galaxies in the foreground of high z Gamma-Ray Bursts." Jason X. Prochaska
• "Detecting the Secondary Eclipse of Hot Jupiter Planet HD 189733b in L' Band from the IRTF." Jonathan Fortney
• "The Effects of the the Equation of State of Hydrogen, Rocks, and Ices on Calculations of the Radii of Transiting Planets." Jonathan Fortney
• "Modeling Thermal Emission and Reflected Light from the Close-In Hot Jupiter Planets." Jonathan Fortney
• "Tidally crushed white dwarfs as telltales of intermediate mass black holes." Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
• "Infrared Emission from Dust in Elliptical Galaxies." Bill Mathews
• "Extragalactic Globular Clusters and Galaxy Formation." Jean Brodie
• "Environments of red-sequence galaxies of different morphological types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey." Sandra Faber