The
National Solar Observatory (NSO) expects to host a Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program sponsored by
the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the summer of 2004.
The NSO is operated by the Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy, Inc. under cooperative agreement
with the NSF.
The Observatory has two sites - one at Tucson, AZ and the
other at Sunspot, NM - with facilities and on-going research
programs in solar physics, solar-terrestrial physics, solar-stellar
physics and instrumentation. Each summer intern will work
on a specific research project in close collaboration with
a scientific staff mentor at one of the two NSO sites.
Research programs will emphasize data reduction and analysis,
computer programming, instrumentation, or theoretical modeling.
In addition to research experiences, summer activities will
include a number of social events and excursions, and interactions
with other NSO and Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)
summer students and visitors. Participants will present
their research results at a seminar near the end of the
summer, and submit a written report, which will be presented
to the NSF.
