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UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING BASED
COMPANIES
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Center
for Adaptive Optics
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Overview:
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CfAO Research Internship Program offers community college
students and undergraduates from four-year universities
an opportunity to get involved in CfAO research. Each student
is matched with a research advisor and is employed as a
member of the advisor's research group with daily guidance
by a research supervisor. Every effort is made to match
each student with a compatible research group based on the
student's interest. This program is an intensive eight-week
research experience with an emphasis on adaptive optics
science. The program provides opportunities at various CfAO
sites over the summer. Additional activities and resources
will be available to provide support during the academic
year. The interns will start with a 6-day Short Course at
UC Santa Cruz, then go to work at their internship site,
and finally present their summer project at a student symposium
held at UC Santa Cruz. Participants will also be eligible
to apply to present their summer research at a national
conference in the fall. Upon completion of the internship
program, participants will be better prepared to pursue
their educational and research career goals.
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Internship opportunities are available at the following
sites:
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Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana
- Vision Science - Don Miller
- Analysis of data and/or hardware from retina camera.
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California
- Engineering
- Scot Olivier
- Variety of projects involving astronomy, vision science,
communications, remote sensing and lasers.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California
- Astronomy - Imke de Pater, Franck Marchis
- Exploring the solar system with adaptive optics.
- Simulation and data processing.
UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Astronomy - James Larkin
- Analysis of AO observations of the center of our Galaxy,
and of distant galaxies.
- Assembly and testing of AO instrumentation.
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
- UCO/Lick Shops
- Engineering - Jerry Cabak
- Astronomy
- Julian Christou, David Koo, Scott Severson
- Evaluation of HIRES spectrograph dewar upgrades.
- Improvements to the thermal environment of the Lick 120-inch
telescope.
- Development of AO demonstration tools.
- Point spread function data analysis for adaptive optics
for astronomy.
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
- Vision Science - David Williams (2 Interns)
- Operation of AO camera for the eye, and experiments for
biomedical applications.
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Pay:
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The
CfAO will pay interns a $3000 stipend, plus housing, roundtrip
travel from your home to the internship site, and travel for
other scheduled activities.
- This program is designed to target students who are interested
in pursuing a career in science, engineering or technical
fields.
- All students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents,
and be at least 18 years old on 06-18-04.
- The CfAO is committed to increasing diversity in the sciences.
Underrepresented groups (African American, Native American,
Hispanics, Pacific Islander, women and persons with disabilities)
are strongly encouraged to apply.
Participants are expected to commit the entire eight weeks
to the program. Students who are accepted are not permitted
to work additional outside jobs, take classes or otherwise.
Interns are expected to attend all scheduled activities and
be active participants. At the end of the program each student
is required to give an oral presentation on their summer research.
2005 Applications will be online in November.
For questions please contact Malika Moutawakkil,
831-459-4688,
malika@ucolick.org
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