Wisconsin REU in Astrophysics
Summer 2009

Here are Wisconsin's 2009 REU students: Anna Boehle (Smith College), John Chisholm (Boston College), Christina DeBianchi (Howard University), Tyler Engel (Univ of Wisconsin-Whitewater), Nicholas Hunt-Walker (City University of New York - York College), Jonathan Jara-Almonte (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison), Aisha Mahmoud (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Matthew Miller (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tor Ole Odden (St Olaf College), Margaret Swaney (Colgate University), Christopher Witt (Univ of Wisconsin-Whitewater); 2009 Program Director: Edwin Mierkiewicz

Student Research Webpage	Final Talk (title)
Anna Boehle	Circular Polarization of Light Reflected by Aligned Dust Grains
John Chisholm	Transition Probabilities of Rare Earth Elements
Christina DeBianchi	The Digital C-Band Reflectometer on the MST
Tyler Engel	Developing a New Catalog of High Velocity Clouds
Nicholas Hunt-Walker	Identification of X-ray Sources in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal
Jonathan Jara-Almonte	Construction of the Plasma Couette Experiment
Aisha Mahmoud	X-ray sources of the Young Cluster M35
Matthew Miller	Determining the Scale Height of Fe III in the Milky Way
Tor Ole Odden	The EarthCore Project
Margaret Swaney	X-ray Microcalorimetry
Christopher Wit	21 cm Astronomy and How it Relates to Intermediate Velocity Clouds (IVCs) and High Velocity Clouds (HVCs)

last update: Sept 30, 2012